Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my complete breakdown in
hidden Marvel phase 4 Connections video for the marvel infinity saga of movies
starting with Iron Man 1 what better way to spend the quarantine period than
re-watching the MCU movies looking for all the hidden clues and connections to
avengers endgame in the upcoming Marvel phase 4 movies that we missed the first
time we saw these I'm doing two special Infinity Saga box set giveaways for all
those blu-rays as part of this all you have to do to enter is be a subscriber
and I'll be picking from the best comments I'll also add details about
this in the video description careful for spoilers for all the Marvel movies
so far all number of these different details and Easter eggs just to keep
track as we go along the first Iron Man movie is probably the most important
Marvel movie ever because it's literally the bedrock of the Marvel Cinematic
Universe the present-day incarnation of the MCU Kevin Feige literally said that
they took out a bank loan to make their first couple of films including
Incredible Hulk but if this first Iron Man pick didn't make enough money they
wouldn't been able to pay back their loan to the bank and they wouldn't have
been able to make any more Marvel movies so it was so important that Iron Man
work out Kevin Feige said he also had to fight for Robert Downey jr. as the Iron
Man character because at the time in his career he was viewed as a risk to
traditional studio people but look what's happened since then in the last
10 years Kevin Feige now calls Iron Man the heart of The Avengers which is
obviously a clever wink at his arc reactor which Pepper Potts gave back to
him later in the movie as quote-unquote proof Tony Stark really does have a
heart later seen during Avengers endgame at his funeral and when the Avengers are
assembling on the time-travel platform raising their fists to form the same
pattern as his original arc reactor the opening scene of the movie is Iron Man
being driven to their test site while they're listening to a CD C's back in
black ac/dc kind of became his signature music throughout the Iron Man movies and
because so much of Iron Man influences Tom hones spider-man character they
brought that song back during spider-man far from home when spider-man is making
his new suit mimicking Iron Man's movements when Iron Man was making the
mark 3 suit
probably one of the best callbacks during spider-man far from home even if
he doesn't know who a CDC is the biggest change that they made to Iron Man's
origin story was making it contemporary a lot of the movie referenced the war in
Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s and this version of Tony Stark Iron Man
led a version of Stark Industries that developed weapons for the highest bidder
a job that put him in the same social circles as Ulysses Klaw as he said
during Avengers age of Ultron Tony Stark used to say that to me this it's still a
great Marvel movie today it still holds up one of the only things that dates it
though is the myspace reference in the car right at the beginning myspace was
still a thing when this movie was being made and Facebook was still taking off
they brought that social media joke back around though during Avengers end game
at the beginning when Ironman is recording that message thinking he's
about to die telling Pepper Potts please don't post this on social media he
starts out saying that piece is bad for business as he's trying to sell all
these weapons the most selfish he could have possibly been by avengers endgame
in the culmination of his arc he makes the ultimate sacrifice to save the
universe by snapping his nano infinity gun to erase Stannis and his army so he
starts out making and selling weapons but then slowly through the course of
the first Iron Man movie and through the rest of his movies he winds up
destroying a lot of weapons to get rid of them when he's captured by the
terrorists in the scene you immediately noticed the symbol of the ten rings
behind him a reference to the Mandarin from the Iron Man comics were finally
going to see the real Mandarin of the MCU during Marvel phase 4 in shang-chi
in the legend of the ten rings in this movie the ten rings are just a clever
reference to the cell based structure of their terrorist organization at the time
it was Marvel's way of playing it safe with the character they didn't think
they could pull off in an actual movie but they brought the ten rings
organization back several times through the future Iron Man movies and then
during the ant-man movie it wasn't until Iron Man 3 that they
actually tried to do a version of the Mandarin who obviously turned out to be
a front for Aldrich killing in an aim aldrich killian claimed he was just
playing on legends and myths to scare people but fans were so upset with what
they did with the Mandarin character fake out that Marvel produced a one-shot
short all held the king during which they
revealed there actually was a real Mandarin and he was very very pissed
about what aim and Trevor had done with his name
that's the Mandarin that we're going to meet during shang-chi in the legend of
the ten rings and while the ten rings up to this point
in the MCU has just been an organization full of people Shang Chi and the legend
of the ten rings will also introduce the comic book alien ten rings that the
Mandarin wears we meet Rhodey played by Terrence Howard Iron Man's longtime
comic-book friend and Ally the reason Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle when
we got to Iron Man 2 is just because of a contract dispute that he got into
Marvel with the song playing in the background when he's trying to introduce
Tony is actually a new version of the Iron Man theme song from the classic
1960s Iron Man cartoon it becomes a running gag during the movie and we find
out that Iron Man even hacked Rhodey phone later to make the song his
ringtone when he was revealing himself as the man in the suit while they were
trying to shoot him down we meet Obadiah Stane played wonderfully by Jeff Bridges
the dude abides his arc is a lot like Salieri with Mozart being jealous of his
genius and accomplishments later in the movie when he brings Ironman the pizza
he starts playing one of the real-life piano pieces written by Salieri on
Tony's piano we meet happy Hogan who's played by the director of Iron Man 1 and
2 Jon Favreau even though his role was relatively minor in these first couple
of Iron Man movies once Favreau passed on directing duties to other directors
he got way more screentime as happy Hogan during Iron Man 3 spider-man
homecoming spider-man far from home and he will be back again during spider-man
3 are you dating yes what next up they
introduced Christine Everhart the reporter who shows up a couple more
times as a foil for Pepper Potts throughout the Marvel movies within the
context of the MCU she works for the news organization Wagh they did some
viral teasers for Captain America Civil War bringing her back while she was
interviewing some of the other Avengers characters in the comics she was a
reporter for The Daily Bugle which we recently learned in the MCU has become a
website instead of a traditional print publication she hears Jarvis voiced by
Paul Bettany for the first time Jarvis was an actual Butler to his father
Howard Stark the actor who played Jarvis is one of the few people
in the MCU to debut on a TV show then cross over into the Marvel movies
because he debuted on the agent Carter TV series Tony grew up with a real
Jarvis is a little kid when he passed away and Tony got older he named his AI
Jarvis as a way to honor him he then went on to become half of the vision in
combination with Ultron's programming Pepper Potts reminds Tony that he's
supposed to speak at his alma mater MIT which he decides to blow off because
he's still a little bit selfish at this point in the movie until later in
Captain America Civil War when he's been through all the events of the first
Avengers movie all the trauma of Avengers age of Ultron he speaks there
freely and establishes a multi-million dollar Education Fund to benefit the
students and we'll talk about this later but that obviously connects now to
Spider Man far from home through Mysterio's character he's tinkering with
his hotrod car here which is a bit of a classic throwback to the same era from
the classic Iron Man comics and it becomes the inspiration for his new
trademark colors of red and gold when he creates the Iron Man mark 3 armor his
trademark workshop were they filmed all these scenes for Iron Man one was in the
old Howard Hughes aircraft hangar where he built the Spruce Goose plane this is
especially meaningful because Stan Lee in real life said that he took
inspiration from Howard Hughes when he was creating the Iron Man character in
the comics we see the dummy robot for the first time that he created it shows
up during all the Iron Man movies they brought it back during spider-man
homecoming in the Avengers tower when happy was packing everything up to head
to the New Avengers base they also brought the robot back during Avengers
endgame as another callback to the first Iron Man film in the flashbacks when
they board the plane there's a Ghostface Killah music video
playing on the screen behind them when the poll comes out
Ghostface Killah is a huge Iron Man comic book fan he was supposed to have a
cameo scene in the movie they even filmed it but it wound up on the cutting
room floor when he wakes up in the cave Yinsen tells him that they met once at a
tech conference in Bern that was later paid off in the Iron Man 3 opening scene
in the flash back to the 90s Yensen was a part of Iron Man's original comic book
story but that was when his origin story was taking place during the Vietnam War
not during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan we meet the leader of the
ten rings Raza he is a comic book character but he's
very different he's a bit of a cyborg they put some goggles on him later in
the burns on his face to make him look a little bit more like his comic book self
but when Tony catches him villain monologuing he talks about conquering
the Far East he starts playing with his special ring it's another subtle
reference to the comic book Mandarin in his 10 rings of power but this ring that
Raza is wearing is not one of the actual ten rings of power
Iron Man starts tearing down his weapons of war to create his first arc reactor
in the Ironman Marth one suit it's another metaphor for the path of his
character like I said not wanting to profit from war anymore and trying to
get rid of weapons of war Marvel has used this iconic sound of him banging
his hammer in their different movie trailers all over the promos for all the
Avengers movies and even non Avengers movies they even brought it back at the
end of Avengers end game playing it after the credits as a way to bookend
the Infinity Saga of movies they open with him banging they end with him
banging the actual Iron Man theme that synced up with his hammer banging was
composed by Ramin Djawadi who most of you know is the person who did the theme
music for Game of Thrones he also does a lot of other HBO series and big movies
him being stuck in the cave is an allegory for Joseph Campbell's hero's
journey in the trial of the innermost cape the time in a hero's journey when
they're given their greatest challenge and only when they overcome that
challenge can they exit the cave and continue on their path there's a bit of
a celebrity cameo when Ironman starts his run out the cave tearing through all
the terrorists this is Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine Ironman Dodgers
a missile from Raza that he later also executes when he's saving the villagers
in the Ironman mark 3 suit dodging another missile then there's the iconic
Burger King scene which is a big deal for several reasons in the movie it's a
little product integration and meant to be a funny moment to deflate some of the
tension of him just having escaped a near-death experience then later they
referenced the scene at Iron Man's funeral when his daughter Morgan Stark
asked happy for a cheeseburger and he remembers the original moment saying
your dad loved cheeseburgers too oh my gosh I love cheeseburgers you want but
going one more inception layer deeper when they filmed this original Burger
King scene it was actually referencing a very personal real-life moment Robert
Downey jr. had in the early 2000s when he was still having a lot of drug
problems he said that one day he was sitting in
his car in Los Angeles with a bunch of drugs in a Burger King burger and it was
all just so gross that it made him completely rethink his life and how he'd
arrived at this moment he went and dumped all his drugs in the ocean which
they later reference during Ironman 3 when he dumps his arc reactor in the
ocean a nice metaphor about the path his life has taken in real life and in the
movies but then we meet Coulson for the first time and we get our first big
shield reference the shield acronym strategic homeland intervention
enforcement and logistics division they make a joke about the title being really
hard to pronounce Coulson makes a couple different name
jokes which are references to the original meaning of the shield acronym
which has changed a couple times in the comics it used to be supreme
headquarters international espionage Law Enforcement Division also a bit of a
mouthful Iron Man pisses off Obadiah Stane when he announces stark tech won't
be making weapons anymore Obadiah Stane references his comic book name Iron
Monger then we move on to Pepper Potts helping
Ironman remove his first arc reactor and switching to the new one saves it later
gives it back to him as a gift proof the Tony Stark has a heart as I said they
bring it back around when Ironman uses it to save his life after Obadiah Stane
steals the new arc reactor and then again during his funeral during Avengers
endgame just tying things back to the beginning it's a great visual metaphor
for his arrow arc across the Infinity saga of movies and becoming the
metaphorical heart of The Avengers when he's making the Iron Man mark 3 armor
and Jarvis almost paints it all gold that's a reference to the golden variant
mark 1 armor from the classic comics Stan Lee has a funny cameo scene with
Iron Man mistaking him as Hugh Hefner at the party he was playing himself he was
playing Stan Lee in the movie there was even a deleted scene later when Ironman
realizes that Stan Lee and apologizes Stan Lee says don't worry this happens
all the time I get mistaken for Hugh Hefner a lot when Ironman learns about
the crisis in the Middle Eastern town wants to help out he finds out that it's
actually yen's ins hometown Gomorrah that he told him about in the cave when
those Jets are chasing him they make a couple of whiplash references about the
comic book villain who would eventually go on to be the villain of Iron Man 2
Ivan Vanko aka whiplash the pilots call out the name whiplash on the comms then
later Iron Man is making fun of Rhodey the other men he says he hooked up with
a dude named Ivan while this is all happening Obadiah Stane is in his house
getting pissed off watching the news you see a chessboard in the background
that's actually a clever reference to the villain group he created in the
comics called the chess men when iron man comes back to his lab you see the
prototype Captain America shield for the first time laying on the table when
Pepper Potts goes to steal the files off of Stan's computer one of the files
actually says Lebowski because Jeff Bridges is the dude they
also reference Lebowski during avengers endgame when iron man shouts to thor to
get out of the way we get that famous scene of stayin yelling at william
Ginter Reva for not being a smartest Tony Stark which would later inspire him
to join forces with Mysterio another disgruntled stark Tech employee and try
to steal his orbital weapons platform technology he also steals all of
Mysterio's files and Technology at the end of that movie so they're still
technically could be a Mysterio in future movies as part of a sinister six
team he's played by Peter Billingsley who in real life most people know is the
little kid Ralphie from Christmas story he's a longtime friend of John Favreau
so that's why he showed up during the Iron Man movies when Obadiah Stane goes
to steal Tony Stark's arc reactor he paralyzes him briefly which Iron Man
later borrowed the technique when he was trying to steal the Infinity Gauntlet
off thanos using mantas to temporarily paralyze him we start to get a whole
bunch of rocks and easter eggs during the big final fight against Iron Monger
you notice in the background there's a Roxxon building Roxxon shows up all over
the MCU movies and TV shows agent Carter Iron Man 3 Thor
cloak-and-dagger daredevil Netflix then the movies subverts the long-standing
trope of the superhero identity when Iron Man just cast the doors wide open
revealing himself I am Iron Man one of the most iconic lines in a movie in the
last 15 years Kevin Feige himself revealed that it wasn't in the original
script it was an improv from Robert Downey jr. on the day they filmed it
they then brought the line back in his final defeat of Thanos when he snapped
his nano Infinity Gauntlet a perfect line to go out on
we get our very iconic post-credit scene with Nick Fury coming to tell Iron Man
about the Avengers and set that movie up but in an alternate deleted version of
this scene he also references the x-men spider-man in The Hulk because at the
time Kevin Feige had always hoped that they'd be able to cross over all those
characters with the Avengers movies Kevin Feige himself having worked on the
original Bryan Singer x-men movie at Fox but my next breakdown in Easter eggs
video is going to be four Incredible Hulk because we're going in release
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