Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse - 28 Easter Eggs & References Explained
27. THOSE Callbacks To The Raimi Films
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We'd already gotten a glimpse of these sequences in one of the few trailers for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but there's no way we could omit them here.
Although the first Spider-Man of the film most definitely isn't the same wall-crawler from Sam Raimi's trilogy (Toby Maguire's casting wouldn't have made it so either, by the way), Spider-Verse does include several key throwbacks to those films. There's the infamous upside-down kiss in the rain from Spider-Man (2002); Spidey stopping the train in Spider-Man 2, and even - in the most hilarious callback of the lot - Spider-Man 3's jazzy dance sequence.
They're all equally brilliant, and though the film refrained from poking fun at those other Spider-Man films that've released, it was still great to see Raimi's trilogy get a nod.
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.
