Spider-Man: Homecoming was a welcome breath of fresh air, being the first widely considered “good” Spider-Man movie in over a decade. Using clever story elements, an emotionally relatable villain, and the brilliant acting of Tom Holland, Spider-Man: Homecoming became a truly beloved Marvel movie, but that’s not to say it was necessarily perfect. Many fans were irritated by certain elements of the film, with certain problems becoming a little more irritating than others. One of the bigger issues that fans had with Homecoming had to do with the casting (and revelation) of Peter Parker’s ultimate love interest, Mary Jane, while others were disappointed by how Spider-Man’s relationship with Tony Stark was treated, feeling like this version of Peter Parker had become more of an Iron Man Jr. than a Spider-Man.
While those issues may have been inconsistent with previous iterations of the character, they weren’t really mistakes either, and instead, were just story related decisions. Despite this, Spider-Man: Homecoming still had some actual mistakes in it, with the most prevalent being the confusing timeline. The movie started with flashbacks to The Avengers before skipping ahead “eight years later,” despite the events of the movie only taking place about five years later in the MCU timeline. Even when ignoring the timeline error, there were still a number of mistakes, such as some continuity errors, physical impossibilities, and simple inconsistencies that could’ve been avoided had the crew put in a bit more research. With this in mind, here are 30 Mistakes Fans Completely Missed In Spider-Man: Homecoming.
The Thor Mask Has A Helmet
In one of the earlier scenes in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man confronts a group of robbers wearing Avengers masks to cover their faces. This was a clever scene that inspired quite a bit of humorous quipping between Spider-Man and his assailants. This fight scene made one continuity mistake, though.
The Thor mask had Thor’s helmet from the comics on it, despite Thor never appearing with his helmet on Earth at any prior point in the MCU. Thor had worn this helmet briefly in the movies before this point, but that occurred in Asgard with no one from Earth being present, leaving us wondering who designed that Thor mask in the first place.
Apparently, Peter’s School Has Class On Saturdays
Toward the beginning of the movie, many of the characters at Peter’s school brought up Liz’s upcoming house party, which they said was happening on a Friday. This would be a believable day for a high school student to throw a party, except for one major detail.
After the party ended, Peter and Ned told each other, “See you tomorrow.” The next day, they are back in class, meaning that either Peter’s school now has class on Saturdays or the writers kind of messed up their timeline. Either way, this was one mistake that probably took a few audience members out of the moment if they were paying close enough attention to the chronology.
Happy Drives A Limo In Park
Typically, in a high budget movie like Spider-Man: Homecoming, the actors driving cars aren’t actually driving the cars. Instead, they are pretending to drive a motionless car in front of a green screen, which was the case for Jon Favreau’s character, Happy Hogan, when he was driving Peter around in his limo.
While this is usually a seamless movie trick, realistically looking like a car is being driven down the road, Spider-Man: Homecoming made one little mistake: they kept the car’s shifter, located behind the wheel, in park. Typically, movies will keep the shifter out of the camera’s view, or at least find a way to move the shifter into “Drive” without having the car move.
The Staten Island Ferry Hasn’t Transported Cars Since 2001
Here’s one mistake that some New York residents most likely caught onto: when Spider-Man is aboard the Staten Island Ferry about halfway through the movie, the famous Ferry is transporting its passengers’ cars, many of whom fall into the water when the ship is cut in half. While this is something that the Staten Island Ferry used to do, it hasn’t transported vehicles since 2001. Like many other transportation systems in New York City, the Staten Island Ferry changed a number of its transportation policies after 9/11. Prohibiting vehicles on the Ferry was one of those changes, just in case people wanted to transport a number of weapons to sell inside the cars on the ferry, like exactly what happened in the movie.
This is actually a mistake that director Jon Watts later acknowledged, saying: “The only real flaw is that [in our movie] there are cars on the ferry, and there haven’t been cars allowed since the ’90s. So I’ll declare that in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they never had these rules.”
The Academic Decathlon Changed Dates
The Academic Decathlon that Peter and his friends attend occurs about halfway through September and most of the posters hung around the school outline that the date of the event is “September 14th.” However, one particular poster said something completely different.
Immediately following the scene in the lunchroom early on in the movie, one of the Decathlon posters, which received its own close-up shot, labelled the date as “October 13-15th.” However, as confusing as these dates are, the idea of the Decathlon occurring on the 13-15th in October makes more sense, as that was actually a weekend in 2017, as opposed to September 14th, which was on a Thursday. Regardless, the event still occurs in September.
Peter Can’t Figure Out How To Turn On The Headlights In Flash’s Car, Which Are Already On
When Peter takes Flash’s car in order to pursue the escaping Vulture, he calls Ned in order to figure out how to turn on the car’s headlights, which takes a bit of time for them to figure out. However, while most of the shots in this scene feature the car with its headlights off, it’s not always consistent.
All of the shots of the car from behind show the car with its backlights on, in addition to its brake lights. Based on that particular model car, it would be impossible for the headlights to be off with the backlights still on unless the headlights were blown out. While this error went over most people’s heads, it more than likely took a few mechanics in the audience out of the moment.
Peter’s Civil War “Hey Everyone” Line Was Misused
In one of the opening segments of Spider-Man: Homecoming, audience members received the chance to watch a home video made by Peter Parker, showing his trip with Tony Stark during the events of Captain America: Civil War. In one of the video clips, Spider-Man sets down his phone and swings over to the rest of the heroes at the airport, saying: “Hey everyone.”
The issue is, that’s not actually what happened in Civil War. While Spider-Man did swing in during the trailer and immediately spoke his line, that’s not what happened in the movie. Instead, he flipped in and had a bit of banter with Iron Man about his new suit before saying “Hey everyone” about 30 seconds later, which was a bit of a continuity error for people who had watched Captain America: Civil War right before.
Peter’s Spanish Teacher Didn’t Speak Correct Spanish
High school Spanish classes aren’t always the best experience for students, with many kids only remembering how to speak improper Spanish. Unfortunately, in the case of the Spanish class at Peter’s high school, not even the Spanish teacher himself could speak proper Spanish.
At one point, the teacher compliments Peter by saying “Muy bueno,” which many people would immediately recognize as meaning “very good.” However, the grammatically correct way to say “very good” in Spanish is “Muy bien,” making us wonder how that man got a job as a Spanish teacher at a high school in the first place.
The Military Student At Peter’s School Doesn’t Follow Proper Uniform Regulations
One of the students at Peter’s school appears to be a member of the military, with the student wearing his complete uniform indoors. Unfortunately, this uniform includes his cap, even though it’s against regulation for any member of the Armed Forces to wear their cap indoors.
According to the Navy Personnel Command General Uniform Regulations segment regarding headgear, “Indoors, personnel shall remain uncovered at all times unless directed otherwise by higher authority for a special situation/event.” More than likely, that particular student did not receive permission from higher authority to wear his cap to school.
A Camera Was Reflected In Happy’s Glasses
During Peter’s home movie towards the beginning of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter has a bit of fun recording stuff aboard the private jet using his phone. One particular shot aboard the jet, however, includes the reflection of what should be Peter with his phone, but actually shows something different.
When Peter got right in Happy’s face while Happy was sleeping, Happy’s aviators show one of the crew members with a shoulder rigged camera rather than Peter with his phone. This mistake could have been easily avoided had the crew members simply asked Tom Holland to use a phone with a good camera to record Jon Favreau’s face, which was a method they had used less than a minute earlier.
The Washington Monument Backstory
In one of Zendaya’s more comedic scenes, she informed the teacher that she did not want to tour the Washington Monument and would rather stay outside because it was built by slaves. One of the security guards silently backed up her claim.
However, this claim isn’t exactly true. While the Monument was built during that era, there is no historical evidence to back up the accusation. Instead, all evidence shows that the Monument was designed by professional architects and stone-cutters, which were typically detail-oriented jobs that they were not involved with.
Peter’s Reaction To Giant-Man In Civil War Changed
The Captain America: Civil War fight scene had yet another continuity error with Peter’s home movie in Spider-Man: Homecoming. In Homecoming, after Ant-Man turns into the towering Giant-Man, Peter finishes up his vlog by saying: “What the… he’s big now” (he is hiding between some boxes when this happens).
In Captain America: Civil War, however, Peter’s reaction is quite different. After Ant-Man turns into Giant-Man, Peter is noticeably standing out in the open and loudly shouts, “Holy [Smackers]!” While it’s technically possible that Peter could’ve set down his phone after seeing Giant-Man, run to a completely different position, and then shout, the timeline doesn’t really make sense. Also, it wouldn’t make sense for Peter to have two completely different dramatic reactions to the same occurrence.
An Atlanta Bus Appears In Queens
Towards the beginning of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter stops by Mr. Delmar’s sandwich shop to grab some lunch before he went crime fighting. In the background of this scene, however, a blue MARTA bus can be seen in the background.
For those who don’t know, Marta stands for “Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority,” which means that this bus is from Atlanta, GA. Either this city bus from Atlanta drove all the way to New York City for some reason, or the crew didn’t clear the set when they were shooting this scene in Atlanta, which is where most Marvel movies are shot now. While most people likely didn’t catch this, it probably caught the eye of a few Atlanta residents.
Peter’s YouTube Video Isn’t Actually Playing When He’s Watching It
Peter is called out by his teacher early on in Spider-Man: Homecoming for paying more attention to his computer than to the class itself. During this scene, Peter is actually watching a YouTube video of himself as Spider-Man stopping a car from hitting a bus.
The only problem is, even though this video is definitely playing, the bar at the bottom of the YouTube video says otherwise. Rather than showing a pause button to pause the video, the bottom bar has the play button visible, which is only ever shown if a video is paused. Additionally, the red bar was motionless as the video was playing. Clearly, someone forgot to animate the bar at the bottom of his computer, which really isn’t too difficult of a task.
The LEGO Death Star Is A Combination Of Two Different LEGO Death Star Sets
One of the running gags in Spider-Man: Homecoming is Ned’s LEGO Death Star, which he teases to Peter towards the beginning of the movie and then breaks when he learns that Peter is Spider-Man. However, the set itself is a bit inconsistent, as it is a combination of two different models of the same set.
In 2008, LEGO released the first model of the playable LEGO Death Star. In 2016, they re-released the set, with a few minor updates, with most of the updates having to do with minifigures. When Ned showed off his LEGO Emperor Palpatine to Peter early on in the movie, it was the Palpatine from the 2016 model. However, the LEGO Death Star that he actually built was the 2008 model. In fairness, the 2008 model was sold for $100 cheaper, so the art department was probably just trying to save a bit of money with this inconsistency.
At The Party, Peter’s Suit Is Both Under And Not Under His Clothes
While Peter is attending Liz’s party, we are meant to believe that he is wearing his Spider-Man suit under his party outfit the entire time. This is shown when Peter is taking off his clothes atop the roof of Liz’s shed, but not all of these details really add up.
If you look at the area around Peter’s neck, you’ll notice that the collar of his Spider-Man suit should have been clearly visible above the collar of his T-shirt, not to mention his gloves. Either Peter undressed completely on top of Liz’s shed, put on his Spider-Man suit, put his shirt back on, and then took his shirt back off, or someone needs to have a talk with the costume department about consistency.
Peter Never Came Back To Pick Up The Clothes He Left On Liz’s Roof
While at Liz’s party, Peter snuck out to undress on top of Liz’s shed (or garage?) in order to swing in as Spider-Man to surprise the guests. However, Peter got sidetracked by some nearby bad guy activity, causing him to leave his clothes on top of Liz’s shed.
When Peter called Ned after fighting the criminals, Ned told him not to come back because the partygoers were starting to mock Peter. Peter seemingly went home after this, leaving his clothes on top of Liz’s house with no intention of coming back to get them.
Captain America’s Educational Videos Should’ve Been Discontinued
In some of the funnier parts of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Captain America was shown in some educational videos to the students at Peter’s high school, including gym class and detention. However, these educational videos should have been discontinued at the beginning of the year, considering Captain America was now an international fugitive.
While this was briefly addressed in the gym class, it’s rather inexcusable that one of Cap’s videos was still played during detention. The last thing a government-funded school would want to do is show a video of a fugitive giving advice to the students who were in trouble for breaking the rules in the first place. That just seems like a slippery slope.
Many Of Peter’s Webs Dissolve A Lot Faster Than They Should
When Peter confronts Aaron Davis to interrogate him, he mentions that his webs are able to dissolve after just two hours. However, this isn’t entirely consistent for all of the webs in the movie, as many times, Spider-Man will shoot a web at a wall and the webbing will immediately disappear.
The prime example of this was when Peter shot a web at his door in order to close it. When Peter dropped down, there was no webbing on the door whatsoever. Whether this is a dissolving consistency issue or an art department error remains to be seen.
The Shocker Showed Up At Peter’s School A Little Too Quickly
During the third act of Spider-Man: Homecoming, after being confronted by Adrian Toomes, Peter quickly decided to ditch homecoming and try to stop the Vulture’s plan. Peter was almost immediately confronted by Shocker, who had appeared in an unrealistic amount of time.
After getting out of Toomes’ car, Peter walked inside, apologized to Liz, sprinted down the hallway, threw on his outfit quickly, and ran outside. We are meant to believe that during this time, Toomes called Shocker, explained the situation, and then Shocker was able to gear up in full costume and arrive at the school. Something’s a little buggy about that timeline.
