10 Brilliant Details You Completely Missed In Superhero Movies
4. Traffic Lights Signal A Revelation - Spider-Man: Homecoming
When Spider-Man Homecoming swung onto the scene in 2017, it finally felt as though the wall-crawling hero was being handled in exactly the right way. Instead of casting a mature looking adult as Peter Parker, the MCU opted to bring in the child-like Tom Holland to play the adolescent version of the character.
Parker's age is what made his first real on-screen nemesis, Michael Keaton's Vulture/Adrian Toomes, such a formidable foe. With Toomes being a fully grown adult, involved in the arms trafficking trade, this head-to-head genuinely felt like a men against boys scenario.
This was never more evident than in the scene where Toomes realises that Parker, the boy taking his daughter to homecoming, is in fact Spider-Man. However, most fans missed a brilliant visual marker that further highlighted Toomes' new found discovery.
With the car halted at a red light, Parker admits that he wasn't present when Spider-Man saved Peter's classmates in Washington D.C. In this moment, the red light beaming onto Toomes' face flashes to green as he eerily decrees, 'good ol' Spider-Man' and all but confirms he knows Parker's secret.
It's a small touch, but it definitely makes an already legendarily tense MCU scene that tiny bit more memorable and enriches Keaton's already stellar performance throughout the scene.