Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse secrets and easter eggs you missed

3. Rio’s eyes tell a disturbing secret

The ending of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse featured a huge twist that saw Miles trapped in a different dimension from his own. Miles starts to suspect he’s not in his world when he tries to tell his mother, Rio, that he was Spider-Man all along, and she doesn’t know what he’s talking about. After all, the wall crawler doesn’t exist in that dimension.

However, eagle-eyed viewers might have spotted that twist from the moment Rio came into Miles’ room before their discussion, and it was all thanks to Rio’s eyes. While Miles’ original mom had brown eyes, this version of Rio had green eyes, giving away that their discussion was taking place in a completely different world. Even the evil version of Miles Morales has a yellowish eye color, while the Miles we all know and love has dark brown eyes. It’s a small but important detail that shows how every iteration of the same character might be slightly different across the multiverse.

2. Everything Everywhere All at Once and Coca-Cola advertisements

New York is filled with many different billboards, so it doesn’t come as a surprise that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse used them to hide little secrets and references. One example of this is a billboard above The Spot’s apartment that reads “All of it, Always, All over the Place,” which is a reference to the (amazing) movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.

Another example comes in the form of a big red billboard with a white font that reads “Soda: It’s a generic brand.” That billboard is meant to represent a Coca-Cola advertisement without, you know, actually using the Coca-Cola brand. Finally, multiple delivery trucks have a “RedEx” logo on their side (I wonder what brand is that referencing in such a subtle manner?).

1. Do the credits foreshadow what’s about to come?

Okay, this isn’t such a clear reference, but it might be the coolest one of them all. At the beginning of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, we see Gwen playing the drums while a montage of events from the previous movie flashes through the screen. However, not every scene of that montage is meant to represent something that happened in the past. Some of the things we see are events that will occur throughout the movie’s runtime. And just like the introduction has lots of foreshadowing, the credits sequence does the same by teasing what might happen in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.

One example of this comes in the form of Miguel O’Hara using the white Spider-Man 2099 suit. As we previously discussed, Miguel was building that suit throughout Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, so it doesn’t come as a surprise that the credits suggest that he’ll use it in the sequel. Aside from that, we also get glimpses of Miles Morales fighting his evil version of Earth-42 and what appears to be a persecution between Miles and a much stronger version of the Spot.

Granted, these hints are pretty vague and don’t reveal too much (at least not as much as we’d like). But it’s pretty exciting to know we don’t have to wait until the premiere of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse to piece together some of the events that will unfold for Miles and his enemies. Better yet, when Across the Spider-Verse comes out digitally, we’ll further dissect its credits sequence to see what else we can find.