After what felt like ages, the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer has finally been released. The trailer opens up with MJ reading an article questioning if Peter has the power to hypnotize women like some male spiders can. Although the two joke about the power, it may actually be a reference to something Peter experienced in the comics.
Similar to Batman's Batfamily, the Spider-Family has grown in size over the years. One addition came in the form of Cindy Moon, a young woman who was bitten by the same radioactive spider that bit Peter. She was taken into custody by the Spider-Totem Ezekiel to protect her from the Inheritors, powerful hunters who targeted Spider-Totems across the multiverse. Peter later released Cindy from her bunker after revealing to her that he killed the Inheritor targeting their world, Morlun. Peter and Cindy soon had to fight off a threat even greater than the Inheritors: hormones.
Due to them being bitten by the same spider, Peter and Cindy share a rather intimate chemical connection when they are in close proximity to each other. The two ended their first meeting by passionately making out on the ceiling of Peter's apartment. The two essentially became "spider bunnies" with a deep-seated instinct to reproduce with one another. It got to the point that Peter's roommate Anna kept a spray bottle on her to spray both of them whenever their spider hormones overtook them.
Over time, Peter and Cindy managed to get their urges under control. Good thing too, otherwise those Spider-Verse team-ups would get real awkward real quick. Cindy actually tested her "hormones" out during the original Spider-Verse event and found out that of all the other versions of Spider-Man, she only felt an attraction to Kaine, a clone of Peter. Obviously, the MCU's version of Peter Parker has shown no signs of him feeling intense spider hormones and likely never will. The joke featured in the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer was probably just a clever nod to Peter and Cindy's awkwardly intimate relationship.
On the other hand, with a Silk series in development at Sony, it is actually possible this "superpower" might make the jump to live-action. Sony could also take Silk in a direction away from Spider-Man similar to what it did with Venom, giving the company an easy way out of the spider hormones conundrum. Though the reference may fly over people's heads, the clever nod will definitely give Spider-Man comic fans something to laugh about.
Jon Watts' Spider-Man: No Way Home arrives in theaters on Dec. 17.