OK, so ever since the confirmation of Spider-Man being allowed to be in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the question was, “What movie would he appear in first?”
Well, there were rumors he could be tacked on to Age of Ultron (later spurred on by a fake ending sequence), but later it was confirmed he would be in Civil War in some capacity. However, according to Joss Whedon in an interview with the Empire Film Podcast (via Slash Film), he was really meant to be in the end scene of Age of Ultron (the “Avengers assemble” scene), along with another Phase 3 hero.
“I said, it would be great if we could just add a few more, if we could have a Captain Marvel there, that you’ve made a deal for. And they talked about it. I was like, ‘And Spider-Man, we could do that too, cause Sony had approached us during the first movie about a little integration,” said Whedon. “So I would have put both of them in, but neither of the deals were made. And then they were like, ‘We’re making a Captain Marvel movie and we’ve got Spider-Man as a property,’ and I’m like, ‘I’ve already locked my film, you [expletive]! Thanks for nothing.'”
Ugh, TIMING!!! Man, that would’ve been cool and totally exploded the internet. Oh well, we’ll just have to wait a little longer for Spidey to appear in the MCU.
