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The opening minute of Spider-Man: No Way Home connects to the Hawkeye series by showing a Captain America-inspired Easter egg.
WARNING: The following contains potential spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home, in theaters on Dec. 17th.
Marvel and Sony have released the first minute of the highly anticipated Spider-Man: No Way Home, and it features a certain fictional Broadway musical that Clint Barton didn’t exactly take a liking to. With so much else happening, it may not seem like a detail worth noticing in No Way Home, but it majorly connects to the Hawkeye series on Disney+.
The short clip shows Peter and MJ swinging through Manhattan after he is revealed as Spider-Man, and although it’s brief, they pass several billboards advertising Rogers: The Musical. The parody of the hit musical Hamilton is showcased in the first episode of Hawkeye, with Clint taking his kids to see it during the Christmas holiday. While it has some catchy tunes reenacting the 2012 Battle of New York, Clint seems to find the musical distasteful and even turns off his hearing aid to avoid listening to it. As someone who lived through the battle, there’s no doubt Clint is traumatized by the show capitalizing off of the horror of that day, but how would Peter Parker feel about it?
There’s no telling if Spider-Man: No Way Home will make any more references to the musical, but the timing of the film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe shows that the musical isn’t exactly new. The third Spider-Man film picks up in the summer, immediately after the events of Far From Home, whereas Hawkeye takes place during the winter of the same year. There’s a likely chance that Peter saw the musical — or may see it, depending on the events of No Way Home — as he’s been a big fan of the Avengers ever since he was a kid. To keep the humor alive, Peter may make a joke or two in the third film either in support or against the Broadway show. And given that Doctor Strange wasn’t a stranger to making jokes about Avengers-themed merchandise in Avengers: Infinity War, he may join in on the fun.
But if Hawkeye takes place just months after the events of No Way Home, the inclusion of the Captain America-inspired musical may have given away how the film will wrap up. While there’s no definite answer on what will happen, given that rumors are still flying about Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s appearances as alternate Spider-Men, the timing does imply that the unraveling of the multiverse hasn’t affected New York City that much. All appears to be normal in Hawkeye, as there has been no mention of Spider-Man’s identity being revealed or of his villains from other universes terrorizing the city.
This brings up the age-old question that fans of the MCU have been asking after the release of every installment — what are other superheroes doing while another is dealing with catastrophic events? With Clint dealing with the Tracksuit Mafia, Peter Parker and Doctor Strange are nowhere to be found. The scale of the conflict may be small for them, but it does bring up a valid point that other superheroes seem to disappear at the most inconvenient times. Clint and Kate also don’t seem too concerned about calling for the backup Avengers stationed in New York City, so that might shed some light on what may happen in No Way Home.
Maybe Doctor Strange’s delicate spell actually worked and erased everyone’s memory of Peter Parker being Spider-Man, but it still doesn’t explain the lack of acknowledgment of Dr. Otto Octavius, the Green Goblin, Sand-Man, Lizard and Electro suddenly appearing in a universe that isn’t where they originated from. Enough time might have passed for everyone in New York to have moved on from the incidents of No Way Home, as many battles from the Marvel universe seem to take place in the Big Apple. Either way, the MCU has once again managed to seamlessly connect its projects just by using factors of its environment. Even with universes falling apart and colliding with each other, at least Rogers: The Musical seems to have survived the fallout.
Spider-Man: No Way Home arrives in theaters on Dec. 17th. New episodes of Hawkeye air Wednesdays on Disney+.
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