10 Obscure Background Movie Clues That Explain Everything

10. Electro Knew Who Spider-Man Was - Spider-Man: No Way Home

One of the criticisms that have been made of Spider-Man: No Way Home since its release in 2021 is that there were too many villains - and there were. The story could have done without any one of Lizard (Rhys Ifans), Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), or Electro (Jamie Foxx), particularly when it seemed as though the latter had no right being there anyway.

The way that Doctor Strange's (Benedict Cumberbatch) spell worked was that it brought villains from across the multiverse who knew Spider-Man's true identity to Earth-616. Four of the villains in No Way Home learned that Peter Parker was Spider-Man before their deaths in their respective franchises, but not Electro.

Max Dillon died in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 before learning his rival's secret, but there is one line of dialogue that arguably explains why he was brought over by the spell. As he told it, he was stuck in the grid absorbing data when he was pulled to a different universe, which could have come in the form of just about anything.

Within the unlimited realms of the internet, there could have been the slightest bit of proof that Spider-Man's name was Peter Parker, whether it was a snippet of footage, or maybe the fact that Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone) called Spider-Man Peter pretty damn loudly during the final battle with Electro. He didn't need to know who Peter Parker was, which is why he could still be surprised when Peter took his mask off, all he needed to know was Spider-Man's name. If Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) could figure it out, so could a guy living in the grid.