Hey everyone!
Welcome back to Top 10 Nerd for our second part of our Avengers Infinity War easter egg
list!
The film is loaded with a ton of easter eggs and references, and our part one really dived
into the big ones that most of you comic fans may have picked up on while watching the film.
This time around, some of the references are a little less well known, or lines that were
borrowed from other classic films, so get ready to get your culture fix!
And of course, this list has SO MANY SPOILERS.
You have been warned, friends.
So with that in mind, let’s get into our picks for the top 10 Easter Eggs you missed
in Avengers Infinity War part 2.
10 Silver Surfer reference The MCU has yet to grace us with the Silver
Surfer’s presence – let’s pretend that Fox’s Fantastic Four film never happened,
please.
But, there is a reference to the character early on in Infinity War, after Thanos interrupts
the Asagaridan refugee ship’s voyage to Earth.
One certain hero manages to make it off the ship in time to warn Earth of Thanos’ approach
– the Hulk.
In a scene that references Silver Surfer’s own Thanos warning in the comics, Banner crash
lands into Doctor Strange’s Sanctum, muttering the words “Thanos is coming”, and matching
up with the comic’s panels pretty closely.
9 Ebony Maw & Doctor Strange When the Infinity War trailer came out, many
a fan of the comics noted that the shot of Doctor Strange being tortured by Ebony Maw
looked a whole hell of a lot like the way that scene goes down in the panels.
The scene itself proved to be further inspired by the comic, despite using a bit of a different
aesthetic, but Maw’s methods are very much the same.
But, unlike in the comics, Strange doesn’t turn against the Avengers, and we get that
scene we mentioned in our part 1 with Peter getting rid of Ebony Maw in an Alien-inspired
scene.
8 Grimace Do you guys remember the cast of McDonalds
characters that would grace your happy meals when there wasn’t any other specific toy
promotions going on?
Aside from Ronald McDonald and the Hamburgler, there was one big purple pal who Tony Stark
saw a little bit of in Thanos during their first face to face encounter.
Iron Man mocks Thanos, quipping about how he and Grimace look alike, which is also an
insult to his intelligence – Grimace was the slow, dense character of the group.
Poor Grimace isn’t the only character to get a mocking reference in the film – when
Ebony Maw arrives in New York and begins to give a big ol speech, he’s interrupted with
“Get lost, Squidward!”
Yeah, I see it.
7 Die Hard reference Speaking of pop culture references, there’s
a moment in the film when Tony Stark sends Peter Parker away for his own safety, unwillingly
inside of the Iron Spider suit.
Peter isn’t down with this, and manages to accidentally activate another of the shoot’s
features – its parachute.
This results in Peter gently floating back down to Earth, and quoting another famous
parachute scene – Bruce Willis’ John McClane in Die Hard, when he says “happy trails!”
6 The Cauldron of the Cosmos The dynamic between Tony Stark and Doctor
Strange is an enjoyable one.
At first, the two don’t really get along – surprise surprise there – and one of
their first moments interacting definitely doesn’t help in that department.
There’s a scene where Tony stretches his legs and holds onto a particular artifact
of Strange’s – the cauldron of the cosmos – which is a pretty dangerous move, despite
Stark having no clue what the object is.
In the comics, the cauldron is what Strange uses to look through time, space and alternate
realities, which he states that he can often sit in front of for hours and dwell upon the
immutable mysteries of the universe.
So yeah, kind of a big deal.
5 Crimson bands of Cyttorak From one cool Doctor Strange adaptation to
another, let’s take a closer look at that move he pulls against Thanos – the crimson
bands of cyttorak.
On Titan, the Avengers and the Guardians team up to try to remove the Infinity Gauntlet
from Thanos’ hand.
In order to do so, Doctor Strange busts out a spell you may recognize from the comics,
called the Crimson bands of Cyttorak, that causes long red ribbon like bands of energy
to appear and bind an individual or object.
The bands are indestructible, and the spell is dependent on the entity Cyttorak who has
enormous magical power.
4 Vision’s Colour When Thanos removes the Mind Stone from Vision’s
forehead, all of the colour in his body completely disappears, leaving him in shades of grey.
This is a throwback to a story from the West Coast Avengers when Vision was disassembled
by their enemies back in West Coast Avengers Vol 2 issue 44 from 1989.
The character is reassembled into a ‘new vision’, with new threatening powers.
Looks like the MCU Vision wasn’t allotted the same kind of fate.
The character’s death also shares similarities to how Thanos kills him in the comics – with
his fist ripping out an handful of wires.
3 White Wolf Some of you may remember the post credit scene
from Black Panther that featured Shuri referencing Bucky Barnes as another white boy to fix.
This scene hinted at the possibility that Bucky would return in Avengers 4 under the
mantle of the White Wolf – a character who appears in T’Challa’s world as an adopted
brother who was eventually exiled after constantly butting heads with T’Challa about how Wakanda
should be reigned.
Turns out that prediction was spot on, with Bucky being referred to as the White Wolf,
and with a brand new vibranium arm.
To what extent this reference may play out, who knows, but it seems unlikely that Bucky
will share a similar arc with the original White Wolf.
2 Morgan Stark One of the smaller yet potent speculations
for Iron Man’s character was that with the return of Pepper Potts, the two may have a
child.
And hey, at least they have a discussion about it – in a scene where Doctor Strange, after
Hulk’s arrival, visits Iron Man to recruit him in the upcoming fight with Thanos, Tony
is having a chat with Pepper about a vivid dream he had.
In it, the two had a child, a son named after Pepper’s uncle Morgan.
In the comics, Morgan is a real character, but instead of Pepper, he’s related to Tony
– a cousin who had a vendetta against him due to a belief that Howard Stark cheated
his dad Edward Stark out of the family’s fortune.
1 The Final Theme At the end of the film, after the immensely
impactful Thanos scene, music begins to play after a moment of silence.
It’s a much more morbid theme than we’re used to with the MCU films, but there’s
something eerily familiar about it.
If you listen closely, you’ll realize that it’s the same Avengers theme that we all
know and love, but with a much more solemn take on it, by composer Alan Silvestri, which
critics are already hailing as one of the best pieces of music in the entire franchise.
There we have it friends!
Which of these easter eggs did you spot in the film?
Are you excited for what all of this could mean for the fourth avengers film, and subsequent
MCU films?
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