

Io9 spoke with Holland after the HuffPost interview went up, and he backtracked just a little, saying that Feige didn’t come out and confirm the cameo as much as he was open to it. I like the idea that Peter Parker has been in the universe since the beginning.” “Maybe I’ve just done a big, old spoiler, but it’s out there now. I literally had a conversation with Kevin Feige only 20 minutes ago,” Holland said. And, this isn’t just a young actor making some off-the-dome retroactive changes to the canon - this got the blessing of Marvel Studios’s top brass, Kevin Feige. “I can confirm that, that is Peter Parker,” Holland told HuffPost when they asked the 21-year-old star about the theory. One brave little kid, wearing a toy Iron Man masked, stands up to a drone, only for the real Tony to swoop down and take the baddie out.

During the climax of Iron Man 2, a hijacked fleet of drones attacks civilians at the Stark Expo (which was held in Queens, where Peter lives). Holland confirmed the longstanding fan theory while speaking to The Huffington Post ahead of Homecoming’s release. That’s right, Spider-Man: Homecoming star Tom Holland has confirmed that the future web-slinger did indeed make an appearance in 2010’s Iron Man 2. But, it turns out that Peter Parker actually made his MCU debut much earlier. When Spider-Man swung into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, it was a huge deal.
