Spider-Man 2: Pause at 20 minutes and 43 seconds and check out this photo of Mary-Jane

A wallpaper with patterns reminiscent of the spoons in Peter’s room, a playful allusion to Doctor Strange (years before the official launch of the Multiverse) in John Jonah Jameson’s office, a heroic cameo from Stan Lee during the Green Goblin sequence or many references to the original comics…

Like almost all the movies adapted from Marvel comics, director Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man trilogy in the early 2000s is a veritable bunch of hidden details. If you know where to look for them or manage to develop your “spider-sense”, you can have fun finding most of them by rediscovering famous feature films.

In 20 minutes and 43 seconds…

Today, let’s focus on the second opus, which was released in 2004 and in which Spidey meets the rampant Doctor Octopus. When re-watching the movie, if you press the pause button on your remote control at exactly 20 minutes and 43 seconds, you’ll be able to see a reference to the first installment that was released two years earlier.

Indeed, in the short sequence where Peter Parker returns to his dorm room, overwhelmed by a long day of doing odd jobs while fighting crime, take a good look at his nightstand, and especially the photos on it, in the lower left corner. screen.

…this photo of Mary-Jane was taken in the first film

We can see the faces of Aunt May and Uncle Ben, of course, but also the faces of Mary-Jane, with whom Peter has always been secretly in love and from whom he is forced to hide his feelings to protect her.

If we look a little closer at the photo, and especially the outfit of the young woman, it is easy to see that this is the exact photo that Peter himself took at the beginning of the first movie when they visited their class. Scientific laboratory.

Peter, before being bitten by the super-spider that gave him his powers, then pretended to write an article for the school newspaper in order to impersonate Mary-Jane.

This little easter egg shows that she has carefully preserved the photo all these years.

(Re)discover all the hidden details in ‘Spider-Man 2’…