Spider-Man: No Way Home was the multiversal cinematic thrill that shattered the Marvel Cinematic Universe as fans knew it, and one of the MCU's biggest films to date, surpassing Avengers: Infinity War at the global box office and coming in second to Avengers: Endgame. Since the film's release onto digital platforms, fans have been combing every frame of No Way Home, scouring each shot for details they may have missed upon their first (several) viewings in the theaters last year.

One Redditor, user mrhaluko23, pointed out in a blink-and-you'll miss it screen grab from a scene that takes place in Happy Hogan's bachelor pad highlighting an underlying detail mentioned in newer MCU titles like No Way Home and Disney+'s Hawkeye: renovations to the Statue of Liberty to include the shield of the First Avenger, Captain America. The Reddit thread points out that when Electro (Jamie Foxx) turns on the television in Happy's apartment, a news segment about these new additions to the Statue of Liberty showed a poll among New Yorkers had a pretty polarized reaction to these changes, with 33 percent in favor of adding Steve Rogers' shield to the iconic landmark and a whopping 67 percent against it.

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Three versions of Spider-Man crouch together in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

This is a clever detail in No Way Home that helps to propel the narrative of the MCU forward into Phase Five, much like Hawkeye did at the end of 2021. Following The Blip and Tony Stark's valiant sacrifice, the world is now adjusting to half the population being decimated -- and subsequently resurrected -- and also the loss of most of Earth's mightiest heroes. In this new age of the MCU, it definitely seems that the American government, in particular, is trying to honor their fallen heroes, which is most likely where the idea to modify the Statue of Liberty, an iconic American monument, with the shield of another iconic American figure began.

Something interesting to note is the public poll shown briefly in that scene in No Way Home. It's plain to see that the majority of the public does not approve of these changes. It could be chalked up to New Yorkers not wanting to alter one of the most popular landmarks of the city, but it could also be a deeper reflection of similar motifs mentioned in Hawkeye and even The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. While governments around the world are trying to brush these new post-Blip issues under the rug by distracting with huge memorials and tributes to fallen heroes, the people most affected by this post-Blip reality -- the MCU's "average" citizens -- don't buy into this particular fanfare.

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As the MCU moves forward, this conflict between upper class, elitist groups and the lower class, displaced groups will undoubtedly be revisited in future MCU titles, as hints of this opposition of ideas have been made clear already via "Thanos was right" graffiti and the alterations to the Statue of Liberty. Also worth noting, and mentioned in the Reddit thread, is that Steve Rogers himself probably wouldn't have wanted the changes to the Statue of Liberty. Being a traditional, old-fashioned military man, it's safe to say that he probably would not approve of altering a national landmark with his own shield. Luckily for anyone in the MCU against Lady Liberty's makeover, the final battle of No Way Home saw that Captain America's shield didn't take its place on the monument after all.

To see the "new and improved" Statue of Liberty, Spider-Man: No Way Home is now available on digital and VOD.

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