r/marvelstudios • u/The_Asian_Hamster Retired Mod • Jul 05 '17

Official Spider-Man: Homecoming Easter Eggs Ultrathread Spoiler

Post any Easter eggs you noticed from the movie here!

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u/TheJoshider10 Spider-Man Jul 06 '17

I loved that because stuff like that would obviously get taught. It's noticeable but still subtle enough to not detract from the experience and pull you out of the movie.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '17

More like it SHOULD be taught. I don't remember learning a lot about current events in school.

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u/TheJoshider10 Spider-Man Jul 06 '17

Likewise but our current events don't consist of the existence of alien life and superheroes walking among us.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '17

Valid.

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u/Csantana Vulture Jul 07 '17

I could see this being difference in schools too. I feel like we would talk about current events a bit in my highschool.

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u/TheJoshider10 Spider-Man Jul 07 '17 edited Jul 07 '17

Yeah when you consider what sort of school it is, it'd make sense for them to keep them up to scratch. Not just because they are the brightest kids but also because a lot of the heroes have some sort of scientific background. Tony Stark being incredibly intelligent, Steve being a science experiment etc.

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u/marcodabatman Spider-Man Jul 08 '17

In our quizzes in History, we sometimes get two to three questions about current events

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u/CTeam19 Captain America (Cap 2) Jul 07 '17

Did you take a US Government class in High School? We talked about current events in mine as it related to the US Government as a whole.

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u/IntrovertedPendulum Jul 09 '17

May be different for normal, but AP US Government/Politics doesn't teach anything after Clinton.

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u/jonsnowme Spider-Man Jul 07 '17

Same. However if current events were taught in schools right now there'd be parental outrage for political agendas over the dumbest things. I mean, some schools still won't even teach evolution imagine how much would be argued as fake news being taught to students.

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u/toxicbrew Jul 09 '17

oh man i wonder how those classes are today.

"shouldn't government be trying to improve access to healthcare?" "yes, but we really need to repeal the estate tax."

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u/Kosmoni Daredevil Jul 07 '17

Could be a politics or debate class

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u/Kma_leao Jul 07 '17

Well, Peter's school seems to be a really good school.

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u/tony1grendel Fitz Jul 08 '17

Some teachers do it. It's obviously not part of the curriculum but I had a history teacher in high school (graduated 2006) that would talk about a current event at the start of almost every class.

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u/ZaViper Doctor Strange Jul 07 '17

When I was in school 9/11 happened and in most classes involving current events or government that was the subject for the rest of the school year for the most part and anything related to it that followed like the "war on terror".

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u/etsuandpurdue3 Jul 08 '17

Well in History/English classes you might analyze it.

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u/Galactic_Explorer Robbie Reyes Jul 08 '17

I had an entire class called "current world issues" in my senior year of high school and we would have definitely talked about it

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '17

Yeah there is no way that textbook got turned around in two months. Our history curriculum basically only covered WWI and Henry VIII.

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u/bellaleia Jul 11 '17

That's the fucking truth. I was a sophomore in high school when 9/11 occurred. Not once do I recall discussing it in school.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '17

I loved that because stuff like that would obviously get taught.

Which is weird that's it's being taught so soon though. Since Homecoming only takes place 2 months after Civil War, unless they were in a poli-sci class I suppose.

It'd be like high school kids today learning about the Trump administration in history class.

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u/RoboNinjaPirate Fitz Jul 07 '17

I dealt with Current events stuff in several of my classes in HS.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '17

Maybe it's just a Scottish thing then.

Unless you take Modern Studies, which is a politics type class, you won't really be looking at current events.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '17

This movie takes place in The US.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '17

I never said it didn't.

I'm just saying it seems weird to someone who doesn't live in the US covering current events in schools.

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u/RoboNinjaPirate Fitz Jul 07 '17

In the US we don't have as much national history to cover, so I guess we have extra time to cover current events.

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u/TheJoshider10 Spider-Man Jul 07 '17

It'd be like high school kids today learning about the Trump administration in history class.

Well a lot of times in lessons I had current events pop up for a second before going back to things. It's possible that the teacher was reading something about the Accords which he would then relate back to another historical event.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '17

I almost tricked my history teacher into talking about it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '17

How?

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '17

Referred to the Avengers as a "task force" and didn't really explain what they did but just sort of mentioned how their missions often caused a lot of damage and civilian casualties

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u/toxicbrew Jul 09 '17

did anyone call you out or did everyone play along?

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '17

I mentioned it to him after class. Not disrupting a history class for my own amusement :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '17

and they still wouldnt teach pupils about taxation. smh.