Avengers: Easter eggs, reminders and end-game cameos, from Agent Carter to Iron Man

From Jim Vejvoda

Full SPOILERS forth 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 to the previous 21 films from the Marvel film universe. We have reduced our findings to the most important.

To learn more about Avengers: Endgame, here's how time travel works in the MCU, as well as failures on 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 many 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 remarkable facet of these reminder scenes is the many images of previous players.

Includes Tom Hiddleston, who returns to his role as Loki in scenes taking place during the Avengers and Thor events: The Dark World. Loki even takes off with the Tesseract at one point, and we have a theory that could allow Loki to return to the MCU's main timeline.

Sequences of time stories 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's agent 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 numerically aged, when he was working for SHIELD in 1970. The Silver Age Ant-Man helmet, Marvel Comics, can be seen on Pym's office.

The 1970's hold-up sequence also includes the latest MCU cameo from the latest 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 at soldiers to make love, not war.

Flight time is not the only part of Endgame that sees 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 of Michelle Pfeiffer's Janet Van Dyne, Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury, Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill, and Marisa Tomei's Aunt May, William Hurt's Thunderbolt Ross particularly outstanding teenager there all alone. A source from Marvel Studios confirmed to IGN that it was Harley Keener, who was the little boy of Iron Man 3 (and again interpreted by Ty Simpkins).

The funeral sequence also includes a poignant 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 killing Thanos to death are a nod to his last sentence in Iron Man 1: "I'm Iron Man."

As for Pepper Potts, she has to dress again for the first time since Iron Man. 3, donning 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 n & rsquo; Not pack all the firepower of the movie.

The hour of Endgame, 1970 heist is held at Camp Lehigh, the secret military base in New Jersey which, in The First Avenger, served as "birthplace" to 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 beating him 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 make the Infinity Stones, says to Bucky: "Do not do anything stupid before my return. " To which Bucky replies, "How can I, you take all stupid with you." That's about the same exchange as a pre-super soldier serum that Steve Rogers had with Bucky at the Stark Expo in 1943, with the exception of the reverse of their aftershocks .

When Steve Rogers visits Natasha Romanova at the beginning of Endgame, she makes her a peanut butter sandwich, her ballet slippers are laid on a chair near her, a reminder of her story from the beginning. origin. Later, when she and the group visit Tony Stark's house in the woods, she wears an arrow collar, which can be considered a reference to her close relationship with Hawkeye.

Elsewhere, the Asgardians who survived both Ragnarok and Infinity The war 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 comic books, Asgard moved to Earth as a floating city above Broxton, Oklahoma, while the name "New Asgard" came from an alternative Asgard universe that had merged with New York City.

Endgame recalls in a particularly entertaining way 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 Town's "Hail Hydra" moment is also a timid reference to the controversial comics scenario of The Secret Empire, in which a diabolical version of Cap is a Hydra sleeping agent.

There is a more emotional reminder to The Winter Soldier at the end of Endgame. The song in which Steve and Peggy are dancing is Harry James' rendition of "It's a Long Time", which was also featured in The Winter Soldier.

There are also several reminders to Age of Ultron throughout Endgame, the most notable being Tony saying that he wanted to build armor around the world and that Cape was able to lift Thor's hammer. But you may have also noticed during the last battle that the Cape Shield had been shattered as in Tony's apocalyptic vision of Ultron.

Akihiko – the boss of Yakuza (played by Hiroyuki Sanada of The Wolverine), Clint Barton, under his Ronin appearance, hunt and kill in Japan – is based on a Marvel Comics character of the same name. 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 advances five years, Carol Danvers sports the shorter hairstyle that is the signature of 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 most likely a visual reminder when Tony Stark forged his first Iron Man armor in the 2008 film that launched the entire Marvel Cinematic universe.

These are the biggest Easter eggs and recalls 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, the distribution of the end of the movie, find out what Kevin Feige had to say about Marvel's future plans and Disney's decision to rehire James Gunn in Guardians Vol. 3, and watch our conversation with the directors of Endgame.