In the film, Gwen Stacy dies at 1:21 (in the morning I guess?). There’s no doubting the time, the gears and the hands of the clock are all very integral to this sequence. In the comics, Gwen Stacy dies in issue 121.

The Snap Heard ’Round the World

Of course, if we’re talking about Gwen Stacy’s death, we have to discuss the fact that Emma Stone is wearing the same kicky boots, purple skirt, and mint green coat combo in the film that Stacy wears when she dies in the comics. This tipped comic book readers off months ago that this would be Emma Stone’s last Spider-Man film. But the truly heartbreaking element in this scene was the sound effect homage. When Gwen dies in the comics, there is a “snap” that accompanies her death. There is a similarly gruesome crunching noise when Peter’s webbing snares Gwen in the films. I don’t know about your theater, but mine went absolutely silent.

Name That Tune

Peter Parker’s ringtone was, you guessed it, the old school Spider-Man theme song. That’s not really an Easter Egg so much as it’s an excuse to re-post the video of Andrew Garfield doing an acoustic version of the song. Harry Osborn’s line “He can do whatever a spider can! Like self-heal!” is another reference to the old Spider-Man theme. The other, slightly subtler, spider-themed song of note is The Itsy-Bitsy Spider which plays when Electro is messing with the power grid. For more information on that, check out our exclusive video with Marc Webb.