How A Spider-Man Movie Easter Egg Teased Michelle Obama’s Presidential Candidacy

Years before Michelle Obama scored a shout-out in «Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,» Barack Obama landed a cameo appearance alongside the web-slinger on the pages of Marvel Comics. As an add-on to 2009’s «Amazing Spider-Man» #583, readers were given the «Spidey Meets the President!» short story. The plot sees Peter Parker working as a photographer at President Obama’s inauguration when he spots what’s effectively a clone of the new commander-in-chief. He suits up as Spider-Man and gets to the bottom of this odd mystery.

«It was really, really cool to see that we had a geek in the White House. We’re all thrilled with that,» said Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada at the time of the story’s publication (via WickedLocal.com). For those unaware, President Obama is a massive Spider-Man fan, having collected Spidey comics for years prior to his inclusion in «Amazing Spider-Man» #538. He has also appeared in various other Marvel Comics issues, from «Secret Invasion» #8 from 2008 to «Thunderbolts» #128 and #129 from 2009.

It’s far from uncommon for political figures to make their way into movies and comics, so it should come as no surprise that high-profile names like Michelle and Barack Obama have featured in Spider-Man projects over the years. In the aforementioned cases, their inclusions were nothing short of good fun.