
- Disney/Marvel and Sony Pictures agreed to incorporate OsCorp Tower into The Avengers. Unfortunately, last minute timing constraints kept this from happening.
- Disney owns the merchandising rights to the Spider-Man franchise, and it's widely believed that part of Disney/Marvel and Sony's contract stipulates that Spider-Man can be used by Marvel Studios.
- Marc Webb responded to a tweet claiming that he was mapping out a massive Spider-Man universe with "Think bigger...".
- An Empire State University T-Shirt is worn by Benny in Marvel Studios' short film Item 47. Columbia Pictures/Sony owns the rights to ESU, and a deleted scene from TASM features Dr. Connors mentioning ESU.
- Rhys Ifans name appears on a bus in Thor: The Dark World (a little strange).
- Iron Man and Spider-Man both appeared in a Target commercial. This was the first time two Marvel characters owned under separate studios appeared in any form of media together.
- Marc Webb, Andrew Garfield, and even producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach has expressed interest, and we all know Disney/Marvel would like for Spider-Man to join the MCU fold.
I'm just saying, there are things going on that does signal that Spider-Man is likely set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Colm Feore may be in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as the head of Ravencroft, and he also played Laufey in Thor, but that doesn't disallow Disney/Marvel and Sony to move forward. So, let's discuss the possibilities of Spider-Man being in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.