Explanation of How Tony Stark Knew About Spider-Man in CIVIL WAR
Just in case you’ve been wondering how exactly Tony Stark knew about Peter Parker being Spider-Man, we have some information from writer Christopher Markus, who worked on Captain America: Civil War.
SPOILERS ahead if you haven’t seen in the movie yet:
In the story, Tony Stark makes a surprising visit to Spider-Man’s home in Queens and recruits him to fight on his side against Team Cap. This leads to one of the greatest and most action-packed superhero battle scenes ever put on film.
So how exactly did Stark know about Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man? During an interview with ComicBook.com Markus offered a pretty cool explanation.
"I think he's been keeping tabs. I think he might know about everybody."
I imagine when he says “everybody” it also means the characters in the Netflix series like Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Punisher. I mean, how can he not know about those guys, right? He continued:
"Tony has A.I. somewhere running crime statistics. He can see where it's going up and heroes might be needed and where it's going down and there might be heroes. It's why he built Ultron in the first place."
It’s not hard to imagine that Stark is going to be the one who brings all of these heroes together for the epic battle in the upcoming Infinity War films. The one thing about this explanation is that Stark didn’t know about Scott Lang, a.k.a. Ant-Man. If he had been keeping tabs on superheroes he would have definitely heard about him, especially with the kind of technology involved with Ant-Man.
We know Iron Man is going to show up again in Spider-Man, and maybe, just maybe, he’ll make an appearance in some of the other Marvel films leading up to Infinity War. That would definitely be a pleasant surprise.