Marvel's Spider-Man's opening mission has players assisting the NYPD as they execute a siege on Fisk Tower to apprehend Wilson Fisk. Marvel's Spider-Man hurls a comprehensive combat tutorial at players in these first sequences, with different types of armed enemies firing pistols and rocket launchers. This results in Fisk Tower being reduced to fiery rubble in explosions that destroy each floor throughout the atrium that Spider-Man ascends.
During this sequence, players rescue two civilians who are pinned beneath rubble in a collapsed hallway. In order to rescue them, players mash the square input button to have Spider-Man lift the debris, which crumbles further on top of him. The civilians are released and flee before Spider-Man leaps out of the way and the debris crashes where he stood. However, the use of a specific Marvel's Spider-Man suit cosmetic in this specific sequence has let a fan recreate a moment from one of the newer Spider-Man films.
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The fan, ynSection, has shared gameplay footage from Marvel's Spider-Man's introduction mission with a conscious homage to a particular scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). In the film, Adrian Toomes remotely sends his mechanical Vulture wings through support pillars that, once destroyed, collapse the roof onto an oblivious Peter Parker. Peter is trapped beneath a mound of rubble, and he then must psychologically empower himself so that he can lift it and be free. But ynSection goes a step further in recreating the scene, as they adorn the Homemade suit cosmetic.
Marvel's Spider-Man's reference is much more altruistic in nature, rather than Spider-Man: Homecoming's reference being a lesson in blind overconfidence. But fans of the web-slinger's original source material will have recognized this scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming as a larger reference to panels of Spider-Man's "If This Be My Destiny…!" story arc from Stan Lee's The Amazing Spider-Man comic book continuity.
Spider-Man: Homecoming captures the psychological warfare Peter endures as he is seemingly buried and is afraid that he may not escape. But both Spider-Man: Homecoming and Marvel's Spider-Man capture Steve Ditko's iconic imagery of Spider-Man pressing upward against the debris. Many other references to alternate source material are included in Marvel's Spider-Man, such as Spider-Man hilariously attempting to slow a train to a halt with webs attached to external surfaces.
Any fan can recreate this scene and imagery if they have Marvel's Spider-Man's Homemade suit equipped, which makes it a fun easter egg that players have further evolved to make it adapt to both The Amazing Spider-Man comic as well as the Spider-Man: Homecoming film.
Marvel's Spider-Man is available now on PS4 and PS5.
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