Spider-Man PS1’s Lost Thor Cameo Cutscene Resurfaces After 24 Years

A piece of Spider-Man gaming history once thought lost forever has finally been recovered. After more than two decades of speculation, the long-rumored Thor cameo cutscene from Spider-Man 2: Enter: Electro on the PlayStation 1 has resurfaced online. The discovery ends years of debate among fans over whether the cutscene ever truly existed.

Spider-Man 2: Enter: Electro launched in 2001 as the follow-up to Neversoft’s well-received 2000 Spider-Man game. Developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Activision, it was exclusive to the PS1 at a time when the gaming landscape was shifting to the next console generation with titles like Halo and Grand Theft Auto 3. While it never reached the acclaim of its predecessor, the game gained a peculiar place in history because of the timing of its release.

The original version of Enter: Electro included a climactic boss fight set on top of the World Trade Center. Following the September 11 attacks, Activision delayed the game to scrub any references to the towers, eventually releasing a censored version on October 18, 2001. This led to years of confusion and rumors about what had been altered, cut, or lost in the process.

Among the most persistent rumors was the existence of a hidden ending featuring a cameo by Thor. For years, no evidence surfaced in pre-9/11 versions of the game, leading many to assume it was nothing more than myth. That changed in 2023, when fans searching through archived versions of Activision’s website found an image linked to the Thor cutscene and a download prompt. Unfortunately, the actual file was not preserved, leaving the mystery unresolved.

That changed thanks to an unlikely stroke of luck. A Reddit user, known as Bobbyfan85, stumbled across the Lost Media Wiki entry about the missing cutscene and realized they had downloaded it from Activision’s website back in 2001.

“I knew I had downloaded it years ago when it was released,” Bobbyfan85 explained on r/LostMedia. “So I dug out my old hard drives and found it! It says I downloaded it on October 16, 2001.” — Bobbyfan85

Bobbyfan85 uploaded the video to Instagram, and shortly after, a clean version was archived on the Internet Archive for preservation. With that, a piece of gaming folklore shifted from speculation to reality. Fans can now view the cameo that had eluded the community for more than two decades.

Even with the video now secured, questions remain. Why wasn’t the cutscene ever present in the game itself, even in pre-9/11 builds? If it was removed as part of the post-9/11 changes, why was it still hosted on Activision’s site a month later? Was it cut for reasons unrelated to the attacks, perhaps because developers felt Thor’s appearance didn’t fit the ending? Without direct confirmation from the team behind Enter: Electro, these questions may never be answered.

Still, the rediscovery highlights the importance of preservation in gaming. Without the foresight of one player who held onto an old download across decades and hard drive swaps, the cutscene may have remained a rumor. Instead, it now stands as a fascinating glimpse at what might have been in one of Spider-Man’s lesser-remembered games.

Spider-Man’s modern games may dominate today’s conversations with Insomniac’s acclaimed titles, but moments like this show how even the smaller, forgotten entries in the character’s long history can hold surprises. After 24 years, the legendary Thor cameo is no longer lost media, but a tangible artifact of an era when superheroes and video games were finding their place in a rapidly changing world.