When did Spider-Man join the MCU?
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Spider-Man famously made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in 2016's Captain America: Civil War, but an odd and complicated retcon makes it unclear if this is actually true. Having sold the film rights for Spider-Man to Sony in 1999, the MCU was stuck without one of Marvel's most famous heroes for the first eight years of its shared universe.
Peter Parker's Iron Man 2 Cameo Retcon Explained Late in Iron Man 2, Ivan Vanko reveals that he's programmed Hammer's Iron Man-like drones to follow his command, and he uses them to launch an all-out assault on Tony at the Stark Expo. This, of course, puts the civilians attending the event at risk, including a kid wearing a toy Iron Man helmet. The child, whose face isn't shown, takes an Iron Man stance in a show of bravery, however misguided.
However, the story's legacy doesn't end there. The story was also given credence by MCU Spider-Man trilogy director Jon Watts. Also touched on in an interview leading up to the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Watts spoke with Uproxx about the theory and how he mentally worked in other elements of his movie into the MCU's past. He explained, "I was watching all these other movies and being like, ‘What if that little kid at the Stark Expo was Peter Parker? In the Iron Man mask.
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