Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse - 28 Easter Eggs & References Explained
3. Spider-Ham
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Contrary to popular belief, Spider-Ham was not made as a reply to The Simpsons' Movie's notorious Spider-Pig. He was actually created in 1983 by Tom DeFalco and Mark Armstrong, and really, what you see in Into the Spider-Verse is what the character is actually like in the comics.
His name's Peter Porker, he's a spider who gets bitten by a radioactive pig, and hey-presto, he became the titular Spider-Ham. There's... not that much else to him.
Porker stole the show in so many of his scenes, and as far as alternate Spider-Men go, he may actually be one of the most prolific, with countless appearances in TV and video games to his name.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
