According toSpider-Man: No Way Homedirector Jon Watts and writer Christopher Ford, there’s still one undiscovered easter egg in Tom Holland’s third soloMCUmovie.Spider-Man: No Way Homewas packed with referencesto previous Marvel movies and the source material. After all, the Phase 4 multiversal movie is a love letter to Spider-Man’s twenty-year movie history. As such, it offers plenty of details that die-hard fans can pick up on every rewatch.
More than three years after its release,Spider-Man: No Way Homestill offers one more mystery to crack. During an interview withScreenRantabout their 2025Star WarsshowSkeleton Crew,director Jon Watts and writer Christopher Ford confess that fans haven’t identified aSpider-Man: No Way Homeeaster egg. Watts drops a clue, saying,“there’s some very,very deep-cut references to dumb videos that Ford and I made on YouTube a long time ago.“Read Watts and Ford’s full comments below:
Jon Watts:I will preface this by saying there is an Easter egg in No Way Home that no one has found.
It’s a hard one, but people found a lot of our intentionally placed Easter eggs. There was also a thing where people find Easter eggs that we didn’t put there. We’re like, “Yeah, great.” And then there’s some very, very deep-cut references to dumb videos that Ford and I made on YouTube a long time ago.
Christopher Ford:Yeah, it’s like people pick up the ones that are from super famous movies. And then the ones that are references to our own short films, somehow people don’t know those ones.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Undiscovered Easter Egg Is Different From All Other References
Spider-Man: No Way Home’s easter eggs were some of the movie’s most anticipated reveals in 2021. Naturally, fans have examined every frame to find every possible reference to MCU andnon-MCU movies and shows. However, the reason the reference hasn’t been found may be that it isn’t a nod to any Marvel property. Instead, as Jon Watts and Christopher Ford suggest,Spider-Man: No Way Home’s undiscovered easter egg is probably a niche nod to Watts and Ford’s short filmsand videos.
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BeforeSpider-Man: No Way Home, Watts and Ford worked together on the 2014 horror movieClown, the 2015 thrillerCop Car, andSpider-Man: Homecoming.Before their feature film collaborations, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford made short films alongside other Brooklyn-based filmmakers (includingThunderbolts*director Jake Schreier) for their YouTube channelwaverlyflams.So, if fans are interested in finding the missingSpider-Man: No Way Homeeaster egg, that should be the place to start.
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Not All MCU Easter Eggs Are Marvel References
It’s easy to get carried away in the search for Marvel easter eggs and nods every time an MCU title comes out. But many MCU movies and shows have included subtle nods to other properties. For example,Guardians of the Galaxyfeatures a nod toArrested Development’s Tobias Funke in the Collector’s den, and Nick Fury’s epitaph inCaptain America: The Winter Soldieris a reference toPulp Fiction’s Jules Winnfield. LikeSpider-Man: No Way Home, other hidden details likeGuardians of the Galaxy’s long-undiscovered easter eggs, are so contrived that they take many years to find.
