According to Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts and writer Christopher Ford, there’s still one undiscovered easter egg in Tom Holland’s third solo MCU movie. Spider-Man: No Way Home was packed with references to previous Marvel movies and the source material. After all, the Phase 4 multiversal movie is a love letter to Spider-Man’s twenty-year movie history. As such, it offers plenty of details that die-hard fans can pick up on every rewatch.
More than three years after its release, Spider-Man: No Way Home still offers one more mystery to crack. During an interview with ScreenRant about their 2025 Star Wars show Skeleton Crew, director Jon Watts and writer Christopher Ford confess that fans haven’t identified a Spider-Man: No Way Home easter egg. Watts drops a clue, saying, “there’s some very, very deep-cut references to dumb videos that Ford and I made on YouTube a long time ago.” Read Watts and Ford’s full comments below:
Jon Watts: I will preface this by saying there is an Easter egg in No Way Home that no one has found.
It’s a hard one, but people found a lot of our intentionally placed Easter eggs. There was also a thing where people find Easter eggs that we didn’t put there. We’re like, “Yeah, great.” And then there’s some very, very deep-cut references to dumb videos that Ford and I made on YouTube a long time ago.
Christopher Ford: Yeah, it’s like people pick up the ones that are from super famous movies. And then the ones that are references to our own short films, somehow people don’t know those ones.
What Jon Watts & Christopher Ford’s Easter Egg Reveal Means For Spider-Man No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Undiscovered Easter Egg Is Different From All Other References
Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s easter eggs were some of the movie’s most anticipated reveals in 2021. Naturally, fans have examined every frame to find every possible reference to MCU and non-MCU movies and shows. However, the reason the reference hasn’t been found may be that it isn’t a nod to any Marvel property. Instead, as Jon Watts and Christopher Ford suggest, Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s undiscovered easter egg is probably a niche nod to Watts and Ford’s short films and videos.
Before Spider-Man: No Way Home, Watts and Ford worked together on the 2014 horror movie Clown, the 2015 thriller Cop Car, and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Before their feature film collaborations, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford made short films alongside other Brooklyn-based filmmakers (including Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier) for their YouTube channel waverlyflams. So, if fans are interested in finding the missing Spider-Man: No Way Home easter egg, that should be the place to start.
Our Take On Jon Watts & Christopher Ford’s Spider-Man No Way Home Easter Egg Reveal
Not All MCU Easter Eggs Are Marvel References
It’s easy to get carried away in the search for Marvel easter eggs and nods every time an MCU тιтle comes out. But many MCU movies and shows have included subtle nods to other properties. For example, Guardians of the Galaxy features a nod to Arrested Development‘s Tobias Funke in the Collector’s den, and Nick Fury’s epitaph in Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a reference to Pulp Fiction‘s Jules Winnfield. Like Spider-Man: No Way Home, other hidden details like Guardians of the Galaxy‘s long-undiscovered easter eggs, are so contrived that they take many years to find.
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