"Fasten Your Seatbeat" samples a line from Spider-Man 2 where Dr. Otto Octavius (Doc Ock) is firing up the fusion reactor for the first time ("Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts.").
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Reyes has taken part in three Smashing Pumpkins music videos: "Tarantula", "That's the Way (My Love Is)" and "G.L.O.W."
"I Am One" features a doubled guitar solo - a technique later used on Pumpkins songs like "Ava Adore", "Tarantula", and "Bring the Light".
Schroeder toured with the band throughout 2007 and 2008 and appeared in the music videos for "Tarantula", "That's the Way (My Love Is)" and G.L.O.W..
Wade also starred in other low-budget films during the decade including Tarantula (1955), and Teenage Monster (1958).
In March, 2010, Perseverance Records released the soundtrack album with music by David Newman which its score was a reminiscent of the 50s B-movie scores composed by Henry Mancini such as The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Tarantula.
A modern-day version of the character stars in the five-issue ensemble miniseries Six Guns (#1-4 cover-dated Jan.-March 2012), by writer Andy Diggle and artist Davide Gianfelice, and also starring the extant female mercenary Tarantula and new contemporary versions of the Marvel Old West heroes the Black Rider; Matt Slade; and the Two-Gun Kid.