Trainspotting Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

When Mark returns home to speak with his father, even though his mother is dead, she is still represented.

There's a boy playing with a blue (Obi-Wan) lightsaber outside Renton's (Ewan MacGregor's) old home

T2 Trainspotting - The fictional company IGS's logo is a carefully designed nod to G4S, a much-hated UK security firm (info in comment)

Sick Boy puts on a Sean Connery accent whilst stealing from an ATM as a throwback to his obsession to SC in the original film

Wallpaper is *similar* to the carpet in The Shining; note that Spud is trying to write, & tempted when Mark/Simon (the twins) shoot up (play)

During the singing scene it's shown by accident the camera used to get the "mic shots".

When Renton sits at the table with his dad, it looks like a shadow sits in the mother's spot, who has waited for him to return, until she died.

The novel Trainspotting takes place during an AIDS epidemic in Scotland exacerbated by heroin users sharing needles; the character Renton explains to a dying Tommy that he "never shared," and in the movie adaptation you see him refusing a needle and looking for his own.

this scene of Trainspotting 2, Mark's shadow is shown as his dead mother while they talk about her

It is a Sony film. In flashback, Fergus plays a PS3; present day, he has a PS4

Trainspotting Renton steps over sick boy but walks around Spud despite them lying next to each other symbolysing his regret of stealing from Spud but not sick boy

: After Renton and the boys mug the American tourist, the barkeep is seen putting on his jacket, showing that he's part of the crimes as well.

Begbie walks past the hospital's "zero tolerance" poster about violence, after mugging a staff member to get a disguise

Spud's bag of memories, collected from Gail, is where he got his old shades for some scenes in the 2nd film.

Begbie reads one of Spud's stories on the wall; "The sweat was lashing offay Sick Boy." This is the opening line of the original Trainspotting novel.

The writing on the wall of the nightclub in Trainspotting (1996) is the same as the writing on the walls of the moloko bar in A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Intro to "Trainspotting": Rents falls and stays on the floor with no change of shot. He's "Trainspotting" life. End to T2: Rents keeps his balance and "Tunnel" vision occurs. He's now "on" the train, riding life and not "Spotting" it anymore.

The opening words in Spud's writings are the same as in Irvine Welsh's novel the films are based on.

Ewan Mcgregor gets cut by a glass thrown during a bar fight.

Sickboy (the serial chancer/scammer) has multiple charity collection tins in his flat, but not his bar, surely for getting free ?s in the street

The end credits show Spud's flat now has a SAFEDEM banner like it's neighbour's, and both towers are being demolished

Spud/Renton/Sickboy's walk (to remember Tommy) mirrors both a T1 scene with Tommy & promo-only T2 shots including Begbie

Sickboy's Bar Snacks menu realistically had some letters pulled off by bored/drunk customers, e.g. to make it say "sand iches" [itches]

After the American is robbed in the washroom ,the bartender is seen trying on the American Guy's jacket.