Tom Hollandmay have arrived on the scene as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in last year’sCaptain America: Civil Warbut apparently everyone’s favorite wall-crawler was living under our very noses in the MCU for years before that.
During his press rounds for the upcoming release ofSpider-Man: Homecoming, in which the newly minted superhero defends New York City from the Vulture (Michael Keaton) and his thugs, Holland inadvertently confirmed a fan theory, one that reaches all the way back to 2010 and Marvel’sIron Man 2.
Huffington Postgot confirmation from Holland about a fan theory that theorized that a young Peter Parker was actually inIron Man 2as the Iron Man fan who was brave enough to stand up to one of the rogue Hammer Drones while at the Queens' Stark Expo.
Holland not only confirmed that this is in fact the case, but he double-confirmed it by saying he’d just talked about it with Marvel Studios' bossKevin Feigea few minutes earlier.
Check out the moment fromIron Man 2that served to cook up this fan theory:
Here’s what Holland had to say about the kid hero in question:
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