Avengers Infinity War is by far the most anticipated film of 2018.
It’s been 10 years since the start of the MCU with Iron Man’s first film, which arguably
marks the start of great superhero films, with each of their story’s events leading
up to this one film.
It’s a pretty big deal.
And, it’s to be expected that the film is loaded with Easter Eggs, just like all the
ones prior to it!
So today we’re breaking down those Easter Eggs and reference for you right here on top
10 nerd.
And of course, THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS VIDEO.
Major spoilers.
Including one about the end of the film.
You’ve been warned!
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Alright!
Now, onto the easter eggs, with our list of the top 10 Easter Eggs You Missed in Avengers
Infinity War!
And, one last reminder, THERE ARE SO MANY SPOILERS I AM SO SORRY YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
10 Vormir Leading up to the film, there was a whole
lot of speculation about where the Soul Stone – the last of the infinity stones – was
hiding.
From Wakanda to Titan, there was no shortage of theories.
Turns out, none of them were right.
The soul stone was actually located on Vormir – the 6th planet in the Helgentar system
that in the comics, is part of the Kree Empire and creatures called Vorms – lizard worms,
who have made a few appearances in the comics, interacting with the likes of Thor.
They don’t appear in the film when Thanos pays the planet a visit, but someone else
does – Red Skull.
After his death in 1945, he was transported there – or rather, his spirit was – to
become the guardian of the Soul Stone.
9 Stan Lee!
Of course Stan Lee makes a cameo in the film!
It’s expected!
This time around, Stan appears as a school bus driver, driving the bus that Peter Parker
and his classmates.
Upon seeing the alien ship in the air, everyone one the bus freaks out, except Lee, who merely
states “What’s the matter with you, you never seen a spaceship before?”
8 Arrested Development The Russo brothers initial claim to fame wasn’t
the Avengers films – rather, it was Arrested Development.
The duo had directed multiple episodes of the cult hit, and they even slipped a little
easter egg referencing the show in Captain America Civil War – the staircase car that
Cap runs on in the airport battle!
This time around, they’ve snuck another one in.
But this one is much harder to spot.
In a glass case of the Collector’s – a character whose collections have already given
us a few great Easter Eggs in the past.
This time around, you may notice there is a blue figurine wearing cut off shorts in
a glass case – this is a reference to arrested development character Tobias Funke when he
attempts to join the blue man group.
7 Defender Throughout the film, you may notice that teenage
Groot is carrying around a handheld video game.
Aside from being the cutest thing ever, turns out the game that he’s playing has an interesting
and fitting story.
The game is Defender, a 1981 horizontally scrolling shoot em up arcade game that was
later ported to the Atari 2600 and other consoles.
Turns out Defender has a very similar story line to that of Infinity War’s – you must
destroy alien invaders, and protect astronauts from being hurt and abducted.
6 We Have a hulk throwback Towards the beginning of the film, as the
Asgardian refugee ship makes its way to a new settlement on Earth, Thanos shows up.
Loki makes a stand against the mad titan, and utters a line that you’ll all remember
from The Avengers that came from Tony Stark – “we have a hulk.”
5 Reality Stone throwback Being adapted from a massive comic franchise,
it makes perfect sense that certain sequences, actions or behaviours of characters depicted
in the panels would make their way onto the big screen.
4 Alien Reference Who doesn’t love a good horrific Alien reference?
When Spider-Man and Iron Man attempt to free Doctor Strange from Ebony Maw’s control,
there’s a moment where Peter pulls inspiration from the Alien franchise, and sucks the character
out of a breach in the ship’s hull, tossing him into outer space and to his death.
Peter also makes another reference later on in a bit of dialogue when he mentions that
if any aliens appear and try to lay eggs in his chest, he won’t be having any of that.
3 Thanos & Spider-Man Speaking of Peter Parker, in another panel
to frame adaptation, Spider-Man takes a shot at Thanos in the film as he does in the comics.
And what we see on the screen is almost identical to what happened in the panels.
During the Titan sequence, Peter flings his web into Thanos’ eye like he does in the
comics.
Thanos also tosses the web slinger down on the ground in a very similar way that his
illustrated self did.
2 The Snap One of the most devastating moments in the
comics concerning Thanos is when the character, once he has assembled all of the Infinity
Gems into the Infinity Gauntlet, snaps his fingers.
By snapping, he eliminates half of humanity, causing people to fade away and disappear.
It’s a tremendous and horrific show of power.
And the moment makes it into Infinity War as one of the final moments of the film, having
dire consequences just as it does in the comics.
But, fear not friends – those of you familiar with that story arc may know what happens
to reverse those events.
While we don’t get that saving grace moment in the film, our next number hints that not
all hope is lost.
1 Post Credit Sequence If all that wasn’t enough for you, the post
credit scene is a bit of a whopper.
While everyone is fading away, Nick Fury aka Samuel L Jackson makes his last moments count.
He busts out a beeper-looking device and sends a distress call.
For starts, in classic Samuel L Jackson snakes on a plane behavior, he shouts out an incomplete
word that rhymes with mother bucker.
So who was he calling?
Well, the screen on his device flashes a logo of a certain hero we had high hopes of having
a cameo in Infinity War – none other than Captain Marvel.
It’s safe to say that Avengers 4 will definitely include Brie Larson’s upcoming character.
There we have it friends!
Did you see any of these coming?
Which Easter Eggs surprised you the most?
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