With so much attention given to the cast, costumes, action and special effects of a
superhero blockbuster, movie fans have a hard enough time taking in the movie as a whole.
That means it's almost impossible to catch all of the tiny details, nods to the fans,
and comic book easter eggs slipped in by the cast and crew.
But not anymore.
Here are Screen Rant's 10 Hidden Details in Superhero Movies.
Batman V Superman When Zack Snyder announced that his Superman
sequel would pit the Man of Steel against Batman, he did it with a speech pulled right
out of Frank Miller's famous comic, The Dark Knight Returns.
The influences run deep, as the first trailers for the Justice League lead-in showed Ben
Affleck's Batman lit up by lightning while firing a grapple gun - perfectly recreating
the iconic cover art of the graphic novel.
After planting a nod to his previous comic book movie, 300, in Man of Steel, Zack Snyder
went even bigger for the sequel.
The sequence involving Superman saving a Russian rocket from an explosive launch shows the
numbers 003 on its side - flip them around, and it's literally the biggest 300 easter
egg he could probably fit into the picture.
Guardians of the Galaxy Audiences never find out exactly how Peter
Quill came to pick his own spaceship, but the orange and blue Milano is destroyed and
completely rebuilt over the course of the movie.
In case fans were wondering where the name came from, director James Gunn has confirmed
that Quill named his ship after actress Alyssa Milano - his childhood crush when he was whisked
away from Earth in 1988.
It isn't just 80s icons that get referenced in Marvel's space team-up, but their Earthbound
heroes, too.
Even though Iron Man never makes an appearance in the movie, one of his best lines does.
When the new Stark Tower is revealed in The Avengers, Tony gives Pepper Potts "12% of
the credit."
It doesn't go over well, and it's the Guardians of the Galaxy who actually explained why a
few years later.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron When the villain of the movie goes looking
to build a new body out of Vibranium, he finds a massive batch aboard a beached transport
ship in Africa, called the Churchill.
The name isn't just a nod to the former Prime Minister, but to Marvel mythology.
In the comics, it was Churchill who sent the famous explorer Shackleton to find Vibranium
in the first place.
Making this one nod to the comics all but the hardcore will miss.
Ant-Man After Scott Lang loses his job at Baskin Robbins,
he heads home to the apartment he shares with the rest of his gang.
The room is shown to be inside The Milgrom Hotel - a name that carries serious weight
for comic fans.
The building is a clear nod to comic book writer, artist, inker and editor Al Milgrom,
who lent his talents to a number of Marvel titles before taking over as publisher, including
“The West Coast Avengers”.
X-Men: Days of Future Past The movie version of Wolverine may be a different
one than comic fans are used to, but the crew on the movie are obviously big fans of the
comic book Logan - and some of his most iconic stories.
When Logan first wakes up in his 1970s apartment, it's shown that his love for a brown and yellow
costume is because those are two of his favorite colors, judging by the interior.
Fans can also spot samurai swords and a painting of Mount Fuji - all a nod to his famous Japan
Saga storyline.
Deadpool These days, Kevin Feige is best known as the
man in charge at Marvel Studios, but he didn't start out building the MCU alone.
the producer cut his teeth on other comic book adaptations like Daredevil, Blade Trinity,
The Punisher, and X-Men.
It earned him some fans in the crew of the Deadpool movie, too - the pizza that Wade
Wilson eats in one of his first scenes is delivered from Famous Feige's Pizzeria.
To confirm that Deadpool's solo movie would officially be given an R-Rating, the studio
came up with an amazing way to make the announcement: arrange an April Fool's Day PG-13 announcement
in an interview with Extra's Mario Lopez.
The host played along, getting killed by the movie's star.
But it wasn't his only gag.
In the actual movie Ryan Reynold's hero can be seen intently reading from Lopez's memoir,
"Just Between Us."
The worlds of Fox's X-Men and Marvel's Avengers are completely divided, but that doesn't stop
a guy like Deadpool from referencing his MCU friends.
The biggest example is the movie's final fight, taking place on a massive, dry-docked aircraft
carrier.
But it's only in the final shots where audiences can see that it's actually a heli-carrier,
but just different enough from the version used by SHIELD in the Avengers movies.
Those are just a handful of details that prove the people working behind the scenes are often
even bigger fans than the ones watching the finish movies.
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