half spider man

many phenomena are happening around us.
Back in 2010, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was still an ambitious experiment somehow surviving the dire Iron Man 2 and Spider-Man was caught in a limbo between Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man. Despite their shared origins, these two franchises were never going to intersect. Sony owned Spidey and Marvel Studios was its own thing. The deal that would bring both companies together was still years, and a few poorly received Spider-Man movies, away.

That didn’t stop fans from fantasizing, though. Surely Spider-Man was somewhere to be found in the burgeoning MCU. One fan theory even suggested that a young Peter Parker showed up in the climax of Iron Man 2. And now, with Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man now a full-fledged member of the MCU, that theory has been confirmed! With a caveat.

Here’s how it all fits together. In the climax of Iron Man 2, Tony Stark does battle with an army of killer robotic drones across the Stark Expo. On the ground, a young kid wearing an Iron Man costume stares down a drone, facing certain death, only to be rescued at the last moment by Tony himself. He even gives his young buddy credit for scene, quipping “Nice work, kid!” before flying away. And despite there being no evidence to actually suggest it, people starting wondering if this kid was Peter Parker. After all, the expo is held in Queens (the New York City borough Spidey calls home) and this kid is obviously science-obsessed enough to attend. Of course a young, brainy denizen of Queens named Peter Parker would attend the Stark Expo, right?.