Spider-Man: Homecoming - 45 Easter Eggs & References You Probably Missed

3. Pepper Potts

Pepper Potts Gwyneth Paltrow
Marvel Studios

If you were keeping up with all of the marketing material ahead of Homecoming's release, you will have seen that Gwyneth Paltrow was revealed to be on the cast officially released cast-list.

She appears after Peter Parker turns down Tony's Avengers offer (and after Tony pretends the suggestion of a press conference was no more than a test of his mettle) to wonder - annoyed - why Tony and Happy let him leave.

In response to her questions about what they're supposed to tell the press, Hogan takes an engagement ring he's been keeping in his pocket "since 2008" (when Iron Man came out) and suggests Tony proposes. It's a funny gag (particularly as Happy and Pepper were engaged in the comics), even if she laughs it off.

From the kiss she then plants on Tony, it's clear they've mended their differences and are back together.

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