TOP 10 AVENGERS END GAME EASTER EGGS YOU MISSED – PART 2
There’s few things we can rely on it life.
But one of those things is that movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe will always
ALWAYS contain Easter Eggs.
And a ton of them, to boot.
The latest addition to the MCU is no exception; Avengers Endgame, the culmination of eleven
years of Marvel movies, is chalk full of references, to the point where it’s borderline self-reflexive.
So we’re coming back at you today with a part two of our Easter eggs list for the top
10 Avengers End Game Easter Eggs you missed.
Some of these are easter eggs, while others are references to past MCU movies that you
might not have caught the first time around.
Also, keep in mind that this video contains some major spoilers for Avengers End Game,
including one that discusses a key plot point for the film’s outcome.
So with that in mind, let’s get to it.
10 Vintage Ant-Man Helmet In the film, Captain America aka Steve Rogers
and Iron Man aka Tony Stark travel back to the 70s after their first attempt at obtaining
the Tesseract failed.
Going back to get more Pym particles along with the stone, Steve has to find a way of
distracting a younger Hank Pym (a brilliantly de-aged Michael Douglas), who then runs out
of his lab so Steve can slink in to grab the particles.
When we first see Pym, the camera pans across his lab, and you can spot a vintage ant-man
helmet sitting on a counter.
This is the helmet that ant-Man initially wore in the comics when he first debuted,
and perhaps in the world of the MCU, this was a prototype that Hank was working on.
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After Fortnite and Marvel’s successful cross over in the battle royale game back when Avengers
Infinity War came out, it should be no surprise that Marvel and Fortnite would collaborate
again.
While the news of a new in game cross over event broke a few days prior to the film’s
release, it may have been a surprise for fans of the game to see the game actually being
played in the MCU – by Thor and his pals Korg and Meek.
When Hulk and Rocket go to see Thor at new Asgard, Thor is chugging back beers and playing
online, and even threatens an annoying kid over their headset.
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8 Budapest Black Widow and Hawkeye have had a hell of
a long ride together working for SHIELD.
Long before the Avengers initiative began, these two were out working field missions
together, and forged a really close bond.
As they head out to retrieve the soul stone on Vormir, they’re flying through space,
and Hawkeye makes a comment about Budapest, noting how much more wild this mission is
in comparison.
This is a reference to a line that Hawkeye says in the first Avengers film.
In that movie, Natasha says the battle of new York reminds her of Budapest, and Clint
says you and I remember Budapest very differently.
While we still don’t know what went down in Budapest, it was clearly a memorable mission
for these two.
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7 Faint Clanging While there aren’t any post credit scenes
in Endgame minus a mid-credit montage of all of the MCU characters who appeared in the
films, there is one little surprise at the very end of the credits when the Marvel title
card appears.
If you listen closely, you can hear a faint clanging noise that sounds like metal being
worked with.
This is actually the sound effect from 2008’s Iron Man film, back when Tony was building
his Mark 1 Iron Man suit inside of that cave.
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6 Stan Lee We all knew that Stan Lee had filmed multiple
cameos in advance prior to his death, so it should be no surprise that he had a little
cameo in Endgame.
You can catch him at the start of the scene that takes place in the 1970’s when Captain
America and Tony Stark time travel back to the SHIELD camp Lehigh.
There’s an establishing shot of the camp, and a car drives by it, featuring Stan shouting
out “make love not war, youngster!”
His car has a bumper sticker that reads “nuff said” which was one of his common catchphrases
in his Stan’s Soapbox column in Marvel comics.
5 I Can do this All Day One of the many lines that are throwbacks
to other MCU movies include one of the lines that Captain America says when he’s fighting
his past self in 2012.
This is actually a line that Steve has said twice in the past – the first being in the
First Avenger in the 40s when he was getting beaten up in an alley way pre-super solider
serum, and the second in Captain America Civil War to Tony Stark.
This time, his 2012 version says it to Cap, believing that he’s Loki.
Cap retaliates with an exhausted “I know”.
Another great moment in this scene is when 2012 Cap has him in a headlock and he gets
out of it by saying “Bucky is alive”.
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4 Cheeseburgers – his daughter wanting a cheeseburger
One of the more bittersweet moments of the film at this number!
After Tony’s funeral, we see Happy sitting with Tony’s daughter, Morgan.
He asks Morgan if she’s hungry, to which the young girl says yes, and says that she
wants a cheeseburger.
Happy smiles, noting that her father liked cheeseburgers as well.
This is a reference to 2008’s Iron Man, at the end of the film when Tony returns to
the US and requests that he gets an American cheeseburger.
You might remember the burger king product placement.
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3 Cap’s Shattered Shield In the final battle scene, prior to all of
the dusted heroes showing up, Captain America, Thor and Iron Man take on the mad titan.
When things start to look bleak, and it looks like Thanos might kill Thor, Captain America
picks up Mjolnir and interjects.
But his solo fight with Thanos ends badly – Thanos knocks him to the ground, and literally
smashes his shield to bits.
This is something that happened in the Infinity Gauntlet comic, too.
While the circumstances are quite different, when Thanos and Cap duke it out in the comic,
Thanos smashes his shield, and knocks Cap to the ground.
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While this one might be one of the most obvious references in the film, considering it happened
at the penultimate moment of the climax, it’s one that had to make it on our list.
Oh boy, the impact it had.
So back in 2008’s Iron Man, the very first MCU film, at the end of the movie, Tony Stark
declares to the press “I am Iron Man”.
He decides against keeping his identity a secret, and in that one moment, the whole
future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe changed – he started it all by introducing the world
to superheroes publically.
Tony repeats this line at the end of the battle with Thanos, when he gets the upper hand on
the Mad titan and steals the stones from him, using them to snap and destroy all of Thanos’
army, and Thanos himself.
That moment is especially poignant and important considering it leads to Tony’s own death-
it’s the moment Doctor Strange had seen, hence why he sacrificed the time stone for
Stark initially.
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1 Jim Starlin In our previous part one of this list, we
mentioned that one of the Russo brothers, Joe Russo, appeared in the group therapy scene
with Captain America.
He wasn’t the only person behind the scenes to have made a cameo in that particular moment.
The group also contains Jim Starlin – Jim Starlin is the creator of Thanos, and also
the mind behind the Infinity Gauntlet comic.
His work back in the 90s and late 80s is largely responsible for the stories we now watch play
out on the big screen.
He doesn’t have any lines, but that’s still pretty darn neat.
There we have it friends!
What other easter eggs did you notice?
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