Avengers: Easter Eggs, Reminders and Endgame Cameos, from Agent Carter to Iron Man

By Jim Vejvoda

Full SPOILERS forward for Avengers: Endgame!

Avengers: Endgame, the last chapter of the Infinity saga, has finally arrived and includes a ton of Easter eggs, cameos and reminders of the previous 21 Marvel Cinematic Universe films. We have reduced our findings to larger ones.

To learn more about Avengers: Endgame, here's how time travel works in the MCU. In addition, we have details of how Captain America lifted Thor's hammer, Mjolnir; the status of Gamora after the final phase; and what the death of Black Widow means for his independent film.

Endgame recreates a series of memorable moments from the first Avengers movie, Thor: The Dark World and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 1, while addressing elements of Infinity War, Age of Ultron, Civil War, Strange Doctor and Ant-Man and the Wasp. Most of these scenes take place during the Avengers' "time heist" to recover the Infinity Stones and cancel the effects of the Thanos Slam. The most notable facet of these reminder scenes is the many cameos of the old players.

This includes Tom Hiddleston, who recaptures his role as Loki in scenes taking place during the events of Avengers and Thor: The Dark World. Loki even started using Tesseract at some point, and we have a theory that could allow Loki to return to the main MCU timeline.

The time heist sequences also see the return of Red Skull; Natalie Portman as Jane Foster; René Russo in the role of Thor's mother, Frigga; Tilda Swinton as an old; John Slattery as Iron Man's father, Howard Stark; Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce related to Hydra; Rumlow, Jasper Sitwell and Jack Rollins of the Winter Soldier; and Hayley Atwell of Constable Carter and James D'Arcy as Peggy Carter and Edwin Jarvis, respectively.

We also see a curly-haired Michael Douglas incarnated by Hank Pym, who became digitally aged when he was working for SHIELD in 1970. The classic Ant-Man Silver Age Marvel Comics helmet is visible on Pym's desk.

The 1970s flight sequence also includes the latest MCU cameo from the late Marvel Comics icon, Stan Lee. Stan the Man plays a long-haired hippie whose car carries a 420 plate and a "Nuff Said" bumper sticker. Stan shouts to soldiers to make love, not war.

Chronicles of Time are not the only parts of Endgame that see familiar faces making cameos. Peter Parker finds his school friend Ned at the end (and we understand why they are still the same age). The directors of the Russo brothers' finale had the habit of directing Community. Look for two of the show's actors, Ken Jeong and Yvette Nicole Brown, in minor roles. Final director Joe Russo and Thanos creator Jim Starlin play members of the Cap Lead support group. Joe Russo is not the only Russo to play Endgame. His daughter Ava Russo plays Hawkeye's daughter, Lila Barton.

Tony Stark's funeral includes appearances by Michelle Pfeiffer's Janet Van Dyne, Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury, Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill, Aunt May by Marisa Tomei, William Hurt's Thunderbolt Ross and a particularly noteworthy teenager. A source from Marvel Studios confirmed to IGN that it was Harley Keener, who was the little boy of Iron Man 3 (and again played by Ty Simpkins).

The funeral sequence also includes a moving reminder of the first Iron Man movie. In Endgame, Morgan, the daughter of Tony and Pepper, tells Happy Hogan that she wants a cheeseburger. In Iron Man, after Tony escaped from the Ten Rings and returned home, he made a happy stop for hamburgers and made the decision to eat Burger King's takeaway at his press conference. Of course, this is not the only reference to the first Iron Man movie in Endgame. Tony's last words before putting Thanos to death are a nod to his last sentence in Iron Man 1: "I'm Iron Man".

As for Pepper Potts, she dresses again for the first time since Iron Man 3, wearing armor for the final battle against Thanos and his army. In the Marvel comics, Pepper donned the superhero title armor, Rescue, although in the comics, the armor is designed to save people, hence its name, and do not pack all the firepower we see in the movie.

Endgame's late 1970s took place at Camp Lehigh, New Jersey's secret military base, which in The First Avenger served as "birthplace" for Captain America. Then, in The Winter Soldier, Cape and Black Widow travel to Camp Lehigh where they discover that the evil Hydra Arnim Zola has transferred his mind to a super computer. Zola is mentioned by Howard Stark in the finals. And Falcon "on your left" when the Vanished Avengers reappear is also a reminder to Winter Soldier, when Steve met Sam after having fired several times during a morning jog.

There is a bittersweet reminder to Captain America: The First Avenger when Cape, while he's about to go back in time to restore the Infinity Stones, tells Bucky: "Do not do anything stupid before my return." To which Bucky replies, "How can I, you take all stupid with you." It's basically the same exchange as a pre-super solder serum that Steve Rogers had with Bucky at Stark Expo in 1943, with the difference that their lines were reversed.

When Steve Rogers comes to visit Natasha Romanova at the beginning of Endgame, while she's preparing her peanut butter sandwich, her dance shoes are lying on a chair near her, reminding her of her story. 39; origin. Later, when she and the group visit Tony Stark's house in the woods, she wears an arrow-shaped collar, which can be considered a reference to her close relationship with Hawkeye.

Elsewhere, the Asgardians who survived both Ragnarok and Infinity War have found a new home on Earth – and this is a place already seen in the MCU. Their community of New Asgard was at the origin of the Norwegian village of Tønsberg, place of the battle between the army of Odin and the giants of the cold in the first film Thor. He also appeared in Captain America: The first avenger when Red Skull arrived in town to steal the Tesseract. Norway is also where Odin died at Thor: Ragnarok. "New Asgard" has a precedent at Marvel Comics. In the comics, Asgard moves to Earth as a floating city above Broxton, Oklahoma, while the name "New Asgard" comes from an alternative universe, Asgard, which merged with New York.

Endgame has a particularly fun reminder of Captain America: The Winter Soldier when Cape enters the elevator with all Hydra agents. The audience is on the verge of believing that she can see a replay of the film's incredible fight between lifts, but Cape instead announces "Hail Hydra" and takes off with Loki's scepter without having to throw a single punch. . Cape's "Hail Hydra" moment is also a timid reference to the controversial story of the Secret Empire comics, in which a diabolical version of Cape is a sleeping agent of the hydra.

The reminder of Winter Soldier, more moving, at the very end of the Endgame. The song in which Steve and Peggy are dancing is an interpretation of Harry James of "It's Been a Long, Long Time", which was also featured in The Winter Soldier.

Endgame was also recalled several times to Age of Ultron, the most notable being Tony who wanted to create armor around the world and Cap able to lift Thor's hammer. But you may have also noticed in the final battle that the Cape Shield was broken as it was in Tony's Ultron apocalyptic vision.

Akihiko – the boss of Yakuza (played by Hiroyuki Sanada of Wolverine) that Clint Barton, under his appearance Ronin, hunt and kill in Japan – is based on a character by the same name Marvel Comics. In comics, Akihiko was a member of Shogun Reapers, the scientific clan of the Yakuza, who clashed with S.H.I.E.L.D. and build a cannon on the moon.

And what about the new hairstyle of Captain Marvel? When the film takes five years to go, Carol Danvers sports the shorter hairstyle that is the signature of the modern Captain Marvel.

Finally, Avengers: Endgame does not have a mid-credit or post-credit scene, but it has … something. As with all MCU movies, the last image visible after the end credits in Endgame is the Marvel Studios logo. But this time, rather than a score or just a silence, you can hear the sound of the resounding metal. This is probably a reminder when Tony Stark forged his first Iron Man armor in the 2008 film that launched the entire Marvel film universe.

These are the biggest Easter eggs and callbacks we took in Avengers: Endgame. Tell us in the comments what were your favorites or if you caught those we missed!

To learn more about Avengers: Endgame, check out our review of the end of the film, find out what Kevin Feige has to say about Marvel's future plans and Disney's decision to rehire James Gunn for Guardians Vol. 3, and watch our discussion with the directors of Endgame.