Hidden Details You Missed In The Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer

When Tom Holland made his debut as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, part of the plot found Tony Stark deliberately keeping Peter Parker's powers—and his very existence—something of a secret from the superhero world at large. This allowed him to call Peter in to help fight Captain America and the others, which clearly gave Peter the inspiration to fight bad guys on a larger scale. By the end of that movie, the Sokovia Accords had been signed, forcing heroes to work with world governments rather than acting unilaterally. In the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer, audiences can see police forces taking aim at Spider-Man while he clings to the Washington Monument.

There are any number of reasons why the police might think Spider-Man is an enemy, but the most likely is that, partly through Stark's efforts, they don't know who or what he is. Stark's secrecy was probably meant as a courtesy, an effort to allow Parker to enjoy his youth and a normal life (something Stark comes out and says in the trailer), but that means when Spider-Man shows up in Washington, he's an unregistered person with superpowers who's just a hop, thwip, and jump away from the President. In this scenario, it's understandable that the police would have no way of knowing he's a hero.

Long before the trailer came out, fans speculated about who Peter's love interest in the movie might be. Since this was a return to Peter's roots, many assumed that Spider-Man would hit the jackpot with a new portrayal of Mary Jane. Others wondered if Gwen Stacy would return in this rebooted universe. When Marvel cast Zendaya, fans wondered if she would be playing either Mary Jane or Stacey, which caused its own internet uproar when certain fans freaked out that a black actress might be portraying a white character.

Now that the trailer's here, though, it's apparent Marvel was throwing curveballs at audiences: Zendaya, who has only been identified by Marvel as "Michelle," primarily serves to throw shade at Peter while our hero's attention is on Liz Allan. In the comics, she was someone Peter liked in school, but she was busy dating jocks like Flash Thompson. Later, she figured out she did like Peter, but he'd moved on to Gwen Stacy and, later, Mary Jane. Liz eventually ended up marrying Norman Osborn's son Harry. In the trailer, it's likely that the focus on Liz is a bit of a misdirect and Michelle will end up being the true love interest, but it's interesting that Marvel's throwing a few extra romantic sparks in the air.

In a blink-and-you-miss-it moment as Peter walks through the hallways of his school, two fellow students seem to be carrying large, colorful scientific equipment. It doesn't seem like anything they'd have for a normal class, and it may point to some kind of scientific competition in the movie.

This isn't much of a stretch, as the teenage Peter Parker of the Marvel comics won awards at various science fairs. More recently, Miles Morales—a dimensionally displaced Spider-Man settling into the original Spider-Man's universe—showed his competitive streak at a science fair where he ran into fellow teen hero Ms. Marvel. While such a science fair will likely not be a huge part of Homecoming (if, indeed, there is a fair at all), it'll help to underscore Peter's scientific genius. Those smarts, much more than his fancy acrobatics, are likely at the center of his bond with Tony Stark.

Aside from their mutual love of pop culture, Spider-heroics, and Liz Allan's top, very few details are given in the trailer about Peter's friend, but longtime readers already understand just how sharply he's being reimagined.

The Ned Leeds of the comics was a reporter at the Daily Bugle who, through a complex web of brainwashing and tortured plots, became the villain Hobgoblin...or, depending on who was writing that day, simply someone who thought he was the Hobgoblin. While he seems unlikely to be part of any similarly dramatic plot twists in this movie, it'll be interesting to see if Ned's knowledge of Peter and his Spider-abilities is ever used for evil in future installments. Alternately, he may simply continue to play the role of friend and confidante, helping to separate Spider-Man from brooding loner heroes like Batman.

While Peter may have lost his geek cred in Civil War by not knowing some basic Star Wars names, the trailer goes out of its way to establish his nerdy bona fides through a series of dorky science t-shirts. When he's speaking to Tony Stark in Stark's car, Peter wears a t-shirt that reads "The physics is theoretical." While the rest of the shirt is cut off by the framing of the scene, the rest of the shirt's saying is "but the fun is real."

Peter's penchant for nerd humor continues in a later scene with Tony, during which Peter wears a shirt with two atoms having a conversation. "I lost an electron," the first one says. The second one asks, "Are you positive?" Interestingly, Peter seems to only wear these shirts when he's with Stark, which is an absolutely adorable way of trying to bond with the older scientific genius...or just suck up in order to get that Avengers job.

In one quick scene, Spider-Man escapes some trigger-happy police by gliding away using his "armpit webs." Casual fans of Spider-Man movies might wonder if this is some brand-new power added for the movie, or simply a tweak to his costume made by Tony Stark. And while the jury is still out about whether the webs are supposed to have been Tony Stark's idea, this design is nothing new.

In fact, having those armpit webs was a major part of Spider-Man's design in his very first comics, starting with his debut in Amazing Fantasy #15. The fact that Spider-Man is using them to glide in this movie may point towards a return to another classic trope of early Spider-Man comics: one of the problems he often encountered is that he would run out of webbing at the worst times, and on a poor teenager's budget, that stuff was hard to replace. The ability to glide from building to building means he'll have to use less of that precious stuff for transport, and can save it for webbing up bad guys.

Much of the audience's attention goes to Tony Stark in this trailer, but another Avenger makes an appearance—albeit one that's really easy to miss. In Peter Parker's science class, he's busy watching footage of himself kicking ass during Civil War (did the guy from Luke Cage sell him a Blu-ray?) when his teacher calls him out for not paying attention. Above her are pictures of some of the greatest scientists in history, ranging from Albert Einstein and Nikolai Tesla to female science pioneer Marie Curie...and Bruce Banner.

It's actually very interesting to see Banner on the wall because it would imply that the rest of the world acknowledges him as a brilliant scientist rather than as the rampaging Hulk. This seems to either be a soft reboot of Hulk's story or a subtle revelation about a change in status quo, because as far as the world knows, Banner's science experiment on himself ended in tragedy, and he was very publicly confronted by the Army on a college campus before destroying half of Harlem in his dramatic fight with the Abomination. While it's true that he's gone on to save the world on multiple occasions, it seems a little weird that he'd be honored for his failed science rather than his superheroism.