Into the Spider-Verse Easter Eggs: Sam Raimi's Green Goblin Scream, a Wolverine Snikt and the Spider Cave Suits Explained

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse hides a reused scream from Sam Raimi's Green Goblin, a Wolverine sound effect on the Prowler's claws, and a whole spider cave full of suits worth cataloguing. This is one of my favorite movies ever, so any excuse to return to it is good enough for me, and since our last breakdown a lot more tidbits have been pointed out that I wanted to go through.

The Green Goblin's scream is lifted straight from Sam Raimi's films

The composer for The Winter Soldier famously took Bucky's screams from Captain America: The First Avenger, slowed them down, and turned them into the Winter Soldier's theme. Something very similar happens in Into the Spider-Verse, where the Green Goblin's scream from the Raimi movies is used to build the Green Goblin's theme in this film.

On top of that musical callback, there are nods to other Marvel characters woven through the sound design. When the Prowler chases Miles through the subway and opens his claws, the sound effect given is a snikt snikt, the same onomatopoeia used for Wolverine's claws coming out. It is a cool little touch that also gives you a brief idea of just how sharp the Prowler's claws are, and yeah, you do not want to bump into this guy ever.

Earth-42 is full of small wrongness, from a sign that says wrong to a renamed Snapchat

The film lets us know that the Spider-Verse contains several versions of Peter Parker, and the first one we meet tells us he is the only Spider-Man. If you pay close attention to the signs in the background though, you will see one that literally says wrong, subtly letting us know that this version of the character is, well, wrong. This universe is Earth-42, and that number is dotted throughout the film.

I already went through some of this in my last breakdown, covering signs that things were off in this world, like movies that had not been released and Chance the Rapper's hat carrying the number four instead of three. Adding to that, in Times Square you can spot that Snapchat is called Picabo in this world. There is also a moment where Miles hands in a test and the date at the top reads a slightly different month setup, showing that even the calendar in their world does not quite match ours.

Language, lip sync and a lyric change all point to how much thought went into the details

The film is full of subtle little details, including language and the use of on-screen text to show what a character is thinking or doing. There is a brilliant bit where the Japanese text for I'm scared appears on Peni Parker's spider robot, which shows just how much thinking the creative team put into the movie. Penny is also dubbed rather than subbed, so when she talks her lips are slightly out of sync with what she is actually saying.

There is also a genuinely funny workaround the producers used with Miles to help keep the film at a PG rating. When we are first introduced to the character he sings Sunflower by Post Malone, and instead of the actual line, Miles mumbles through the song and says "she want to drive me" rather than the original lyric. So yeah, they kept it PG, there would be no talk of riding here.

Doc Ock's octagonal motif runs from her glasses into her entire room

In our last video we talked about how Doc Ock had octagonal glasses, which ties directly into her name. That same shape choice carries over into the design of the furniture around her room. The lights that hang from the ceiling are also octagonal, meaning eight sided, matching everything else tied to her.

It is a small thing, but it is the kind of detail that shows just how much the animators were tying everything together across a single character's space rather than just her costume design.

Every suit hidden in the spider cave, from the PS4 costume to Peter's stealth suit

Finally, I wanted to break down all of the suits we see in the spider cave. Everyone spotted the PS4 suit in our last video, which appears in the background of the cave and also turns up again at the end of the movie in the credits scene, making for a cool Easter egg both times. Alongside it is the rubber suit, the one Spider-Man used to fight Electro in the comics.

There is also a costume with a cape, and it is possible this is a callback to the start of the movie, where we see a picture of a superhero with a cape hanging above the easel in Miles's room. You can also spot what looks like the Iron Spider suit from the Civil War comic run, which was later referenced at the end of Homecoming, our first look at it before it appeared properly in Avengers: Infinity War.

We can also see what looks like the stealth suit, introduced as a way to avoid the Spider-Slayers, and since then used whenever the character needs to go incognito. There is also the Mark II suit, which Peter ended up making after he lost his spider sense and needed more protection for his body. It is covered in a very fine layer of armor that makes it bulletproof, though once his spider sense came back he mostly stopped using it. There is also an empty mannequin with a noose hanging on it, because as we know from the character, he never came back that night.

What other hidden details in Into the Spider-Verse do you think are worth digging into?