Spider-Man: No Way Home recreated the classic pointing Spider-Man meme not once, but twice – here’s where to spot to movie’s meme references.

Here’s how Spider-Man: No Way Home recreated the classic Spider-Man pointing meme not once, but twice. In the lead-up to the much-anticipated release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, rumors were flying around that former Spider-Man movie actors Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire were both set to appear in the sequel. Despite the cast and crew adamantly dismissing those rumors as fake, they soon turned out to be true and while Garfield and Maguire’s roles might’ve been Hollywood’s worst-kept secret the actors were a highlight, nonetheless.

Spider-Man: No Way Home follows Peter Parker after he enlists Doctor Strange to cast a spell to make the world forget his civilian identity. Unfortunately, the spell inadvertently unleashes the multiverse and several supervillains along with it which results in Peter losing a loved one at the hands of Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin. After this, Peter flees and his friends try to summon him via a portal but end up summoning the Peter Parkers from Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man films (AKA Andrew Garfield) and Tobey Maguire from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy and they eventually team up with Holland’s Peter to save the day.

The powers that be at Marvel and Sony might not have been able to keep Garfield and Maguire’s roles totally under wraps, but they did surprise audiences by recreating the iconic Spider-Man pointing meme during the movie. For those not familiar with the meme in question, it’s based on a scene from an episode of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon titled “Double Identity” in which the real Spidey comes face-to-face with a villain impersonating him. In meme culture, it’s used to describe a situation in which very similar people meet and Spider-Man: No Way Home employed the meme perfectly not once, but twice during the story.

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The first time Spider-Man: No Way Home referenced the Spider-Man pointing meme came when the three Peter Parkers retreated to a laboratory to try and find a way to heal the No Way Home supervillains unleashed during Doctor Strange’s spell-gone-wrong. The second nod to the meme was during the trio’s final battle atop the Statue of Liberty. A Twitter user named Shahir Hameed captured the moments in a tweet which can be viewed above.

In case anybody missed those subtle references in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the meme was recreated once again by Holland, Garfield and Maguire in a picture of the actors pointing at each other that was shared via the movie’s social channels to announce its home media release. The Spider-Man pointing meme isn’t the only meme that Spider-Man: No Way Home referenced either. Diehard fans of the web-slinging wonder boy may have noticed Willem Dafoe’s Norman Osborn/Green Goblin character utters the line “I’m something of a scientist myself” during the movie which is both a reference to his memorable quote from Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man movie and the popular meme it spawned.

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