When Peter attends his first day of school after the world learns his identity, his classmate Betty Brant reports on his arrival during a Midtown High News segment. As he walks into the building, her character pays homage to MJ's favourite nickname for Peter in the comics by saying, "Go get 'em, tiger!" Of course, fans of Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy would also know that MJ says the same thing to Peter at the end of Spider-Man 2.