movies with shared continuity are all therage these days, and you've got one movie franchise to thank: iron man. when the robertdowney jr.-starring action flick debuted in 2008, no one could've predicted the effectit would have on movies for years afterwards. marvel studios and director jon favreau laidthe early groundwork for the marvel cinematic universe by stuffing in as many easter eggsand hidden references as they could, so for
iron man 3d print files, obsessive comic fans, the iron man franchisecan be summed up in one word: marvelous. the dude survives jeff bridges' performance as bad guy obadiahstane in the original iron man may have been just fine, but everyone knows it wasn't therole for which he'll always be known. no,
that distinction belongs to the dude fromthe big lebowski. as it turns out, the effects guys on iron man agreed, and added small tributesto the dude in stane's secret computer files, which feature fine-print dialogue from thebig lebowski. additionally, the weapons stane sent to the bad guys went on a ship called"lebowski." those details really tied the scene together, man. urdu, or don't in the beginning of iron man, tony stark iskidnapped by a terrorist group known as the ten rings. stark's captors discuss their plan,and their secret partnership with tony's friend, stane, right in front of him, spoiling thewhole movie before it can even really begin…but
only if you speak urdu, the national languageof pakistan. most western audiences were none the wiser. speaking of the ten rings… ten rings to rule them all the first iron man flick would eventuallyspawn a franchise, but the filmmakers didn't know that at the time. there was no way toknow when, or if, we'd ever really get to see longtime magic- ring-wearing iron manvillain mandarin make it to the big screen. so instead of featuring the bad guy with handfulsof bling, the filmmakers instead decided to pay tribute to the mandarin by naming theterrorists after him. which is way less cool than having a street named after you or something.
that song rings a bell... still on the subject of rings, when tony'spal rhodey gets a call from him on his cell phone, we can hear a very unique ringtone.that little tune is actually the theme song from the 1966 iron man cartoon. black sabbath's"iron man" probably would've been a little more badass... ...but maybe a little too on-the-nose. o captain! my captain! fans saw the first big hints at a larger marvelcinematic universe when they spotted a familiar sight on tony stark's work bench. sittingalong with unfinished projects and other junk
is none other than captain america's famouspatriotic shield. the shield shows up again in iron man 2, while a couple of captain americacomic books also make an appearance in howard stark's trunk. both movies predate the legendarysuperhero's first cinematic appearance in 2011's captain america: the first avenger. bambi arbogast in the comics, bambina "bambi" arbogast hasbeen a valued stark employee for decades. during her first appearance in 1979, she helpsiron man defeat whirlwind in the middle of her own job interview, before going on toplay a key role in a number of other storylines. you can spot bambi, played by margy moore,in iron man 2, when she’s seen working for
pepper potts, the new ceo of stark industries.bambi's also the one who ends up unwittingly hiring black widow, for which we can all begrateful. she's also heard offscreen in iron man 3, reminding pepper of her appointmentwith ultra-creep aldrich killian. say hello, stan spotting stan lee's cameos has become a favoritepastime for marvel movie fans, and his appearances in the iron man movies are some of the best.in the first film, he shows up as "hugh hefner," with a beautiful woman on each arm. in ironman 2, he can be glimpsed as a pretty uncanny stand-in for legendary talk show host larryking. and in iron man 3, it's back to the babes, as lee pops up for a moment as a very,uh, enthusiastic beauty pageant judge. those
were probably all way better for his healththan some of his other marvel movie cameos...y'know, like all those times he almost got killed. lady man-thing in iron man 3, ellen brandt is a war veteranrecruited into aldrich killian's army of extremis soldiers, and, spoiler alert, she’s killedin an explosion after attempting to get some sensitive documents from tony stark. it'sa fairly minor role, but hardcore marvel fans might have recognized brandt's name from thecomics, where she's the ex-wife of ted sallis, better known as the man-thing. in the originalstory, the duplicitous brandt is actually responsible for sallis' swampy transformation,who attacks and disfigures her in retaliation,
a detail nodded to in the movie with the scarson her cheek. most marvel fans would agree, though, that ellen brandt is a pretty obscurereference. but it's still probably a good thing iron man 3's screenwriters didn't justcall her mrs. man-thing. mapping the future of marvel when tony meets with nick fury at the endof iron man 2 to discuss the emerging avengers initiative, viewers can see a map markings.h.i.e.l.d.’s locations of interest in the background. it's the kind of thing youneed to pause and zoom to really get a good look at, but it's loaded with pretty obviousreferences to the comics. these spots include...
...a location in africa near the fictionalwakanda, home of the black panther... ...one near norway where the tesseract isfound by the red skull in captain america: the first avenger... ...another near greenland where cap crashesthe skull's ship… ...and one in new mexico, where thor's hammerhad just turned up. all of this was way back in 2010, before marvelreally started rolling out its marvel cinematic universe phases, so it proves that marvel’splanning has been tighter than black widow’s outfit all along. hulking out
during the same meeting between stark andfury in iron man 2, particularly observant viewers can see a television in the background,tuned to a news report being delivered live from the campus at culver university. notcoincidentally, culver is where the hulk faced off against thunderbolt ross and emil blonskyin the incredible hulk, which puts the events of that film as happening in the same timeframe as iron man 2 in the marvel movie timeline...
but still a few years before tony would deliverthe ol’ hulkbuster jackhammer to hulk’s face. thanks for watching! subscribe to our youtubechannel to see more videos like the one you just saw. and leave us a comment to let usknow which hidden iron man secret was your favorite...
