The 24-year-old Marvel star became a viral sensation in 2017 for lip-syncing against co-star Zendaya to Rihanna’s Umbrella in a corset, heels and fishnets similar to the music video.
Since then, the joyous routine has been viewed more than 77million times on YouTube alone, and has triggered an ‘Umbrella Rule’ on Twitter, where anyone who sees it has to retweet it to shed some good spirits to their timeline.
But Tom has now revealed that the biggest thing to come from it was helping a child deal with bullies – because if Spider-Man can wear dresses, why couldn’t he?
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Tom said: ‘Lip Sync Battle is one of those things that’s kind of come back to haunt me a little bit.