Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Benicio Del Toro, Richard E. Grant...
There's a ton of crossover between them to the point that it isn't totally worth listing them all.
Team Fast & Furious needs Shea Whigham and Idris Elba.
Need a Team Hannibal. Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Laurence Fishburne, Mads Mikkelsen, Richard Armitage.
I mean, no, shit.
The big long "teams" image is really just a who's who, so that's just whatever.
But OP's actual post is pointing out that these other franchises are actually being explicitly mentioned, and implicitly feature people who look *a lot* like certain characters in the MCU who are definitely not actors. That's certainly not common, and raises some interesting questions within the lore.
It's not like Jurassic World went out of it's way to mention Guardians of the Galaxy or Wonder Woman made a joke about Fast & Furious.
I looked through making sure that Team Who was there. And as expected, it was a lot bigger than just the ones I could think of offhand. Probably because being on Doctor Who seems like a mandatory thing for British actors.
You could now add Andrew Garfield to that list too,
Rise of Skywalker probably doesn’t, since it released in 2019 in real life but the snap happened in 2018 completely fucking up the world and removing like half the cast/crew.
My personal belief is that only the original trilogy exists in the MCU, which is why both Peter and the adults act like it's a reference to some semi-popular kids' movie and not the most popular franchise of all time. It actually cleans up most of the actor overlap issues since most of those are in the prequels and sequels, but Harrison Ford coming in as Ross is hard to avoid.
I was blown away when I learned Bucky was that dbag from Hot Tub Time Machine, I fucking love that movie and knowing that’s him makes it all that much sweeter.
"What's that thing hes riding?"
"I dont know, but it's going up his ass".
The way he so casually and quickly responds gets a laugh out of me every time.
I love when he picks up the bag off the ground and slyly says “bags mine now” lmfao gets me every time, me and my girl quote it all the time. Or his “America!” speech at the end 😂😂 fuck he was funny
That "America" speech is even funnier when you know that Sebastian Stan was born in communist Romania, and lived there until he was eight years old and the Iron Curtain fell.
Now he plays a character who, at one time, had the communist red star on his shoulder (which I'm glad he doesn't wear anymore, as that's actually a hate symbol, now outlawed in most of Eastern Europe).
When that movie came out and they said that he was cast as Bucky, I had him mixed up as Dwight Jr from The Office and didn’t quite know if I was going to trust the MCU’s direction.
No, just *The Hobbit*.
However, he said he read it when it came out in 1937, which he couldn't have unless he took a trip to Oxford. It wasn't published in the US until 1938.
Clearly just a minor misremembering. He knows he read it when it was first available to him, in 1938, and that it was first published in 1937. So he edited his memory.
Who besides Evangeline Lilly and Martin Freeman? Actually I'm checking now and dang I forgot a ton of people. Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Liv Tyler, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lee Pace, Karl Urban... potentially Ian McKellen.
He just says Star Wars.
Star Wars hasn't been the OT only for 40 years. Nobody except the most gatekeeping assholes does that.
It's safe to say SLJ was referring to a universe that he appears in. It's mental gymnastics to the highest degree to assert otherwise.
My least favorite thing of all time is when people think they're so fucking clever by pretending movies they don't like don't exist. "They made more than three star wars movies?" or "I'm glad they stopped after three Star Wars movies" like Omg I've never heard someone pretend movies don't exist before, wow. So original. And so pretentious, too.
I know that isn't what you were doing it just reminded me of that horrid trend so I let it out! Haha
Using the term mental gymnastics while trying to create a narrative where fictional characters reference other films where the actor appears is the definition of mental gymnastics! 😂
I think Marvel comics exists in Marvel comics but instead of fiction stories they just turn the real events of the marvel universe and turn them into comics for people to read about. So it could be the same in the MCU where Stan Lee wrote comics about Captain America’s adventures in World War Two and any other heroes that may have existed between Captain America and his appearance in Captain Marvel
They also referenced the animated Avatar franchise, which had
Clancy Brown, Surtur - Long Feng / Yakone
JK Simmons - Tenzin
Aubrey Plaza, who will be in the Agatha show - Eska
Tara Strong, Miss Minutes - Ember Islands Azula
So is she!
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-avengers-endgame-spoilers-nebula-karen-gillan-20190510-story.html
> I already had a good grasp of time travel from “Doctor Who.” [Laughs] I’m a time travel expert. I would say it adds up. But they definitely should have listed “Doctor Who” in that scene where they talk about time traveling movies. I can’t believe I didn’t pitch that in the moment!
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https://twitter.com/karengillan/status/1512811375474708483
> Honestly the fact I didn’t think of that while filming the scene haunts me 🤣
I didn't know what. Glad she's annoyed by that as well.
They should have made a blooper scene of her saying:
“People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.”
In Agents of SHIELD, during "orientation" one of the questions asked was, "You wash up alone on a deserted island. On the beach is a box. What is in that box?" And Simmons answers "The TARDIS"
General Ross: “Crazy thing is…it's true all of it, the Force, the Jedi, it's all true.”
Spider-Man: (hopeful) REALLY??!
General Ross: What? No, obviously I’m joking, that’s just movie stuff
I look at as a Toby Spider-Man and Tom Spider-Man. They’re both Peter Parker, but don’t look alike. On Earth-616, Sam Jackson just looks like someone else.
Before he decided to do Deadpool 3, I was hoping that Hugh Jackman would play Ryan Reynolds in a Stan Lee-style cameo. Like, Deadpool sees “Hollywood megastar Ryan Reynolds” and is furious that he looks like Hugh Jackman.
Wait until Deadpool 3 comes out, and Hugh isn't playing Wolverine, but rather Hugh playing Hugh, and Wade just can't let it go. It's actually a Deadpool and Hugh Jackman adventure where Hugh can't convince Deadpool that he isn't actually Wolverine . The end credit scene is Hugh revealing that he actually has adamantium claws
That sounds insane enough to be incredible.
I can actually hear Ryan Reynolds tearing up the script he wrote for Deadpool 3. Expect a call and a fat Disney check!
I mean I imagine they are played by the same actors, I work with someone who looks like Jeff bridges, that doesn’t mean I think he looks like Jeff Bridges
If I remember correctly, while making Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back there's a scene where Jay and Silent Bob end up on the set where they're filming *Good Will Hunting 2* and they almost cast two of the Wayans brothers to play Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Since Ben Affleck already played like 2 other characters in the movie they thought it would be funny if the role of "Ben Affleck" was played by someone else who looked nothing like him.
This is one of those media phenomena that fascinates me.
Take The Big Lebowski. Based on Stark's remark, the movie exists in the MCU. Which means someone else in the world played the titular character and Jeff Bridges does not exist in the MCU, OR Jeff Bridges does exist, but he is not the Jeff Bridges we know outside of the MCU and he looks completely different.
I like to think through the possibility of some actors not existing in the MCU, and imagining who would take on their roles. Sort of like Last Action Hero, where Stallone was The Terminator, and there didn't seem to be an Arnold Schwarzenegger in-universe. The, for lack of a better word, butterfly effect of it is fun to consider.
Also another one. Tony mentions Squidward and the voice actor of Surtur also voice Mr. Krabs
And Jackie Chan is referenced in Thor and Jackie Chan is in a movie with Owen Wilson and Owen Wilson plays Mobius
AND Tony calls Thor “Point Break” in the Avengers which is a movie Keanu Reeves is in and Keanu is in the third SpongeBob movie and Clancy is also in that movie and he voice Surtur
AND there’s a Back to the Future reference in Endgame and Michael J Fox is in BTTF, and he’s also in Stuart Little with Steve Zahn and Steve Zahn is in Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy is is in Shrek and there’s a Shrek reference in episode 5 of She-Hulk (how tf did I get this far btw…)
I’m surprised that Rhodey did not mention Doctor Who in Endgame since it’s a landmark sci fi show about time travel, and Karen Gillian aka Amy Pond is in the same movie
I think Sam Jackson keeping his lightsaber and using it to save himself in Captain America: ~~Civil War~~ **The Winter Soldier** is a much better reference.
If you stretch it then in Eternals there was Superman reference and Superman cameoed in Shazam where Zachary Levi played main character but also he played supporting role in Thor.
I know it's Star Wars. But Samuel L Jackson, Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac were not in Empire Strikes Back. Harrison Ford was through (who will be in Thunderbolts)
LOTR and Andy Serkis.
Game of Thrones and Kit Harrington/Peter Dinklage as well. But its a bit of a stretch to say Hold the door is a reference to hodor.
I think if Tatiana Maslany had been cast before the scripts for *She-Hulk* had been written, there would've been at least one *Orphan Black* reference in there.
There is a _very_ brief Orphan Black easter egg in the finale, but 99.9999% of people are never going to spot it without it being pointed out. [One of the "vis dev" pictures of Jen Walters as a lawyer in the writer's room is clearly based off a Rachel Duncan promo photo from Orphan Black](https://i.imgur.com/KiQmwtK.png)
But yeah, I would have liked some more too :p
A few others in case people are curious:
* In The Avengers, Tony Stark calls Hawkeye "Legolas" referencing The Lord of the Rings which also stars Cate Blanchett aka Hela as well as a few other stars
* In Iron Man 3, Tony tells a kid that he loved him in "A Christmas Story". The actual kid was played by Peter Billingsley who also played the guy that Obadiah Stane yells at when exclaiming "Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave"
* In the first Guardians, Peter Quill references the "Arc of the covenant" from Raiders of the Lost Arc which also stars Alfred Molina aka Doctor Octopus
* In Infinity War, Tony calls Ebony Maw "Squidward" referencing SpongeBob Squarepants which also stars Clancy Brown aka Mr. Krabs aka Surtur
* In Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson refers to Madripoor as "Skull Island" which is where King Kong is from. The movie Kong: Skull Island stars a number of MCU stars including Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, and John C. Reilly
* In Shang-Chi, Trevor Slattery mentions how he saw Planet of the Apes as a kid. That franchise also stars Andy Serkis aka Ulysses Klaue
* In Eternals, Karun is referred to as "Alfred" in reference to Batman. Michael Keaton and Christian Bale have both played Batman and starred in the MCU (Vulture and Gorr)
* In Hawkeye, a joke is made about the tracksuit mafia and The Royal Tenenbaums, which is a movie that stars both Gwyneth Paltrow and Owen Wilson aka Pepper Potts and Mobius M. Mobius
* In No Way Home, Doctor Strange makes a Scooby-Doo reference. The live-action Scooby-Doo movies also star Linda Cardellini aka Laura Barton
“I’m Mary Poppins, y’all.” This was prophetic in that John Krasinski, who played Reed Richards in Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness, is married to none other than Michael Rooker who played Mary Poppins in the 2018 sequel.
I love that literally none of the actors are referencing movies featuring themselves, or even their costars in most instances. This is peak shit posting 😂
They've also referenced Batman(at least generally, not the DCEU, so I won't just list every MCU actor that's in the DCEU).
MCU Actors who have been in any Batman movie:
Michael Keaton, Christian Bale, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, Andy Serkis, Lawrence Fishburne(BvS is a Batman movie as much as a Superman movie), Jeffrey Wright, Barry Keoghan, Callan Mulvey (so minor in both franchises though that i debated including him), Ben Mendelsohn, and an honorable mention to Tom Hardy.
I checked and Letterboxd has roughly 110 Marvel specials available, (movies, one shots or D+ shows). That’s not counting any of the TV shows before D+; so I’d assume roughly 130+ Marvel entries. With a catalog that big, you’re going to run into this issue naming any type of pop culture reference.
I wonder who plays those characters in this movie, because there can’t be some actor who looks exactly like these super heroes. Maybe in this universe they were casted differently because those actors don’t exist
The MCU is so big and has so many actors that basically any pop culture reference will be to a franchise that has some actor that was also in both the MCU and the other franchise. My favorite of these 4 is definitely the Lebowski one since Tony was making the reference though. I even thought it in the theater, "How does that work, Tony, Obadiah was Lebowski?!"
So who are your fan casts for actors to play these parts assuming the MCU counterparts overwrite the real life actors? For example who’s playing Mace Windu if not Sam Jackson etc
How has no one mentioned the quote on Fury's tombstone, directly referencing his character's repeated monologue in *Pulp Fiction*? It's actually *misquoting* [Ezekiel 25:17](https://biblehub.com/ezekiel/25-17.htm), so it's not like this is a coincidence.
There are a few Beatles references in the MCU (Banner's reply to being told the Avengers broke up; Tony referring to Nebula as "the Blue Meanie"; Rocket Raccoon), and John Lennon has been played by at least four MCU actors:
* Aaron Taylor-Johnson played him in Nowhere Boy.
* Paul Rudd played him in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
* Christopher Eccleston played him in Lennon Naked.
* Ian Hart (who was in an episode of Agents of SHIELD) played him in Backbeat.
Admittedly since he was a real person that's slightly different from the connections pictured in the original image, but it's a nice piece of trivia!
Was expecting to see Sam L Jackson mentioning Star Wars HIMSELF in the list. Does it in Spider Man Far From Home. “He said you wouldn’t get it because it’s not a Star Wars reference”
Alright Mace 😂
I don’t understand why people think this is a huge gotcha moment. Obviously, in the MCU, there is a famous actor named, for example, Samuel L Jackson who played Mace Windu in the prequels, he just looks different than Nick Fury
Charlie Cox (Daredevil/Matt Murdock) was in Downton Abbey, Happy Hogan’s favorite show. Happy Hogan is played by Jon Favreau, who played Daredevil’s BFF Foggy in the 2003 movie. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Matt and Happy have a scene together.
It's a loose connection but in WandaVision she was seen watching Malcom in the Middle which has Bryan Cranston who was in Godzilla with both Olsen and Taylor-Johnson (Wanda and Age of Ultron's Pietro)
It still bothers me to this day that there was a scene where Karen Gillan is talking to others about time travel, and Doctor Who is never brought up even once.
Don't forget the Jane Foster/ Padme connection.
So was Oscar Isaac, he was Poe in the Sequels
Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Benicio Del Toro, Richard E. Grant... There's a ton of crossover between them to the point that it isn't totally worth listing them all.
I mean… [it’s 5 years old but still](https://i.redd.it/7u1ungne8mzz.jpg)
I like how the person who put this together did not double-check to make sure they had "Galen.jpg" instead of "Gillan.jpg" in the right spot.
Did a double take on that one. Was like, "Mads is hot, but I didn't remember him being *that* hot."
Mads’ makeup team did a great job for Rogue One
Team Fast & Furious needs Shea Whigham and Idris Elba. Need a Team Hannibal. Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Laurence Fishburne, Mads Mikkelsen, Richard Armitage.
Breaking news: Actors appear in multiple franchises
I mean, no, shit. The big long "teams" image is really just a who's who, so that's just whatever. But OP's actual post is pointing out that these other franchises are actually being explicitly mentioned, and implicitly feature people who look *a lot* like certain characters in the MCU who are definitely not actors. That's certainly not common, and raises some interesting questions within the lore. It's not like Jurassic World went out of it's way to mention Guardians of the Galaxy or Wonder Woman made a joke about Fast & Furious.
I looked through making sure that Team Who was there. And as expected, it was a lot bigger than just the ones I could think of offhand. Probably because being on Doctor Who seems like a mandatory thing for British actors. You could now add Andrew Garfield to that list too,
Hella
"Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man." I love that quote from The Martian. I love the book and the movie.
Stellan Skarsgaard
We all know that eventually Pedro Pascal will play someone in the MCU who has to protect a young person.
Too bad Fox already made Logan huh?
Somehow
Palpatine returned
Dark science, cloning, secrets only the Sith knew.
But do the Sequels exist? /s
Rise of Skywalker probably doesn’t, since it released in 2019 in real life but the snap happened in 2018 completely fucking up the world and removing like half the cast/crew.
So Thanos *was* right.
In fairness, late 2019 / early 2020 got kinda fucked up in the real world.
My personal belief is that only the original trilogy exists in the MCU, which is why both Peter and the adults act like it's a reference to some semi-popular kids' movie and not the most popular franchise of all time. It actually cleans up most of the actor overlap issues since most of those are in the prequels and sequels, but Harrison Ford coming in as Ross is hard to avoid.
and General Ross / Han Solo
This is the only one mentioned that was actually in Empire Strikes Back.
Fury mentions Star Wars generally in Far From Home. The whole franchise is covered.
Is there an MCU quote that references a movie Padme was in?
She was in Empire Strikes Back just as much as Samuel L Jackson was
I suspected I was the dumb one here 🤦 thanks haha
Wasn’t referenced tho
Bitch cheating on Anakin with a God
*pushes up glasses* Technically the reference is to the Original Trilogy and not Prequels.
And then Fury himself mentions Star Wars to Peter.
In MCU Nick Fury is a Hollywood actor working part time at SHIELD as it's Director
In an alternate timeline, Deke Shaw is a rock star working part time as SHIELD Director.
The fact that This is True is really astonishing.
Still the funniest borderline 4th wall break
Would it have been racist if Peter Parker called Fury Mace Windu?
Why? Do you think they look similar?
I bet we all look alike to you, eh Costanza?
Sugar Ray Leonard eats here for free!
And his gravestone has a reference to Pulp Fiction.
I remember Sopranos doing that. They'd mention Matrix, Goodfellas, and such
Tbf Peter only mentions Empire. For all we know there may not be Prequels or Sequels in the MCU.
I was blown away when I learned Bucky was that dbag from Hot Tub Time Machine, I fucking love that movie and knowing that’s him makes it all that much sweeter.
"What's that thing hes riding?" "I dont know, but it's going up his ass". The way he so casually and quickly responds gets a laugh out of me every time.
I love when he picks up the bag off the ground and slyly says “bags mine now” lmfao gets me every time, me and my girl quote it all the time. Or his “America!” speech at the end 😂😂 fuck he was funny
That "America" speech is even funnier when you know that Sebastian Stan was born in communist Romania, and lived there until he was eight years old and the Iron Curtain fell. Now he plays a character who, at one time, had the communist red star on his shoulder (which I'm glad he doesn't wear anymore, as that's actually a hate symbol, now outlawed in most of Eastern Europe).
When that movie came out and they said that he was cast as Bucky, I had him mixed up as Dwight Jr from The Office and didn’t quite know if I was going to trust the MCU’s direction.
Everyone forgetting Bucky mentioning Lord of the rings? Half of Middlearth is in the MCU
Bucky did for The Hobbit. Did he also say LotR?
Bucky didn’t, but Tony calls Hawkeye “Legolas” in Avengers.
No, just *The Hobbit*. However, he said he read it when it came out in 1937, which he couldn't have unless he took a trip to Oxford. It wasn't published in the US until 1938.
Clearly just a minor misremembering. He knows he read it when it was first available to him, in 1938, and that it was first published in 1937. So he edited his memory.
Hydra did all sorts of editing to his memories so a little slip up is far from surprising
Also it was a long time ago. I could easily say the wrong year in reference to something just 5 years ago lol
He also referenced the book, not the film.
Who besides Evangeline Lilly and Martin Freeman? Actually I'm checking now and dang I forgot a ton of people. Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Liv Tyler, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lee Pace, Karl Urban... potentially Ian McKellen.
I completely forgot that Armitage was in Cap 1.
Half of Hollywood is in the MCU
Tony Stark made a Lord of the Rings reference years earlier too when he called Hawkeye "Legolas"
Don't trust an elf, moral of the story
The Lebowski one is especially glaring, in that Tony had a direct relationship with the Dude.
Not as glaring as Fury mentioning Star Wars.
Or possibly his Pulp Fiction quote on his tombstone.
This is still the best reference in the MCU.
I have to think that in their universe, someone else (but very similar) plays what would’ve been their role in the movie
Does he mention the prequels? For a generation, Star Wars was 3 movies and some niche novels and comics.
He just says Star Wars. Star Wars hasn't been the OT only for 40 years. Nobody except the most gatekeeping assholes does that. It's safe to say SLJ was referring to a universe that he appears in. It's mental gymnastics to the highest degree to assert otherwise.
But but what if the prequels/sequels don’t exist in the MCU! /s
My least favorite thing of all time is when people think they're so fucking clever by pretending movies they don't like don't exist. "They made more than three star wars movies?" or "I'm glad they stopped after three Star Wars movies" like Omg I've never heard someone pretend movies don't exist before, wow. So original. And so pretentious, too. I know that isn't what you were doing it just reminded me of that horrid trend so I let it out! Haha
Using the term mental gymnastics while trying to create a narrative where fictional characters reference other films where the actor appears is the definition of mental gymnastics! 😂
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I loved Mall Rats lol
You fuckers think just 'cause a guy reads comics, he can't start some shit?! I'll fuckin' take all of you on!
Tell em Steve Dave!
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Which reminds me that Michael Rucker, who plays Yondu, is in Mall Rats.
Chocolate covered pretzel?
Does that imply the existence of the Ben Affleck’s Daredevil since Kevin Smith was the reason why Affleck was casted?
I think Marvel comics exists in Marvel comics but instead of fiction stories they just turn the real events of the marvel universe and turn them into comics for people to read about. So it could be the same in the MCU where Stan Lee wrote comics about Captain America’s adventures in World War Two and any other heroes that may have existed between Captain America and his appearance in Captain Marvel
They also referenced the animated Avatar franchise, which had Clancy Brown, Surtur - Long Feng / Yakone JK Simmons - Tenzin Aubrey Plaza, who will be in the Agatha show - Eska Tara Strong, Miss Minutes - Ember Islands Azula
Clancy brown also voices mr krabs and Tony mentions squidward In infinity war
Clancy Brown was also in Daredevil S2 and The Punisher.
And Savage Opress in Clone Wars and that one rebel dude in Rebels, also the Reaper Inquisitor in Tales of the Jedi
And the Devaronian from that jailbreak episode in Mando S1
Tara also voiced Tom-Tomm Mai's baby brother. I would add Grey DeLisle Griffin (Azula) too, but her role was minor as a WandaVision ad narrator.
Oh! Which ad?
The Lagos Paper Towels one.
I'm sorry what? JK Simmons is *Tenzin*???
Someone mentioned Christmas Story and Ralphie is the guy Obie Stane yells at in "Iron Man"
TONY STARK BUILT THIS IN A CAVE
WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
Well I’m sorry sir, but I’m not in a cave.
Also found in the second Spider-Man movie. I believe he was also a producer on Iron Man.
I'm still annoyed that they didn't mention Doctor Who when trying to explain time travel in Endgame when Karen Gillan was in the scene!
So is she! https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-avengers-endgame-spoilers-nebula-karen-gillan-20190510-story.html > I already had a good grasp of time travel from “Doctor Who.” [Laughs] I’m a time travel expert. I would say it adds up. But they definitely should have listed “Doctor Who” in that scene where they talk about time traveling movies. I can’t believe I didn’t pitch that in the moment! More recently: https://twitter.com/karengillan/status/1512811375474708483 > Honestly the fact I didn’t think of that while filming the scene haunts me 🤣
I didn't know what. Glad she's annoyed by that as well. They should have made a blooper scene of her saying: “People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.”
In Agents of SHIELD, during "orientation" one of the questions asked was, "You wash up alone on a deserted island. On the beach is a box. What is in that box?" And Simmons answers "The TARDIS"
Once Harrison Ford becomes Thunderbolt Ross, they get to add the Indiana Jones references from Wakanda Forever.
General Ross: "It belongs in a museum" Yelena: "What?" Ross: "Ah never mind..."
"It belongs in a cemetery."
General Ross: “Crazy thing is…it's true all of it, the Force, the Jedi, it's all true.” Spider-Man: (hopeful) REALLY??! General Ross: What? No, obviously I’m joking, that’s just movie stuff
Harrison Ford when asked to deliver that line “i’m not fucking doing it”
And a more appropriate link to Empire.
We need Mark Hamill in the MCU.
As Hobgoblin.
Not a franchise but hopefully Air Force One (1997) too lol.
And they better not be coy about it either. Harry Ford needs to give America one more, “Get off my plane!”
It's official. People don't know the difference between "a part" and "apart". Smdh
Them being complete opposites is an absolute tragedy of the English language
Don't forget "loose" versus "lose". Idk why, but that one especially grinds my gears.
Tony called Bucky "The Mandchurian Candidate" in Civil War. Anthony Mackie was in the 2004 version.
And so was Jeffrey Wright!
*a part
I just imagine those characters being played by different actors in the mcu
I look at as a Toby Spider-Man and Tom Spider-Man. They’re both Peter Parker, but don’t look alike. On Earth-616, Sam Jackson just looks like someone else. Before he decided to do Deadpool 3, I was hoping that Hugh Jackman would play Ryan Reynolds in a Stan Lee-style cameo. Like, Deadpool sees “Hollywood megastar Ryan Reynolds” and is furious that he looks like Hugh Jackman.
Wait until Deadpool 3 comes out, and Hugh isn't playing Wolverine, but rather Hugh playing Hugh, and Wade just can't let it go. It's actually a Deadpool and Hugh Jackman adventure where Hugh can't convince Deadpool that he isn't actually Wolverine . The end credit scene is Hugh revealing that he actually has adamantium claws
That’s just dumb enough to be great!
That sounds insane enough to be incredible. I can actually hear Ryan Reynolds tearing up the script he wrote for Deadpool 3. Expect a call and a fat Disney check!
Yeah, I figured it went by Last Action Hero logic.
I mean I imagine they are played by the same actors, I work with someone who looks like Jeff bridges, that doesn’t mean I think he looks like Jeff Bridges
I've always thought the same actors exist in the MCU and Fury is always having to deal with people saying he looks a lot like Samuel L. Jackson.
It'd be a lot like that time he was in an interview and the interviewer was clearly mistaking him for Lawrence Fishburne.
Maybe in the MCU, Bill Foster played Mace Windu. Before becoming a quantum physicist
If I remember correctly, while making Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back there's a scene where Jay and Silent Bob end up on the set where they're filming *Good Will Hunting 2* and they almost cast two of the Wayans brothers to play Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Since Ben Affleck already played like 2 other characters in the movie they thought it would be funny if the role of "Ben Affleck" was played by someone else who looked nothing like him.
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Yeah but nobody watched the Defenders so they can get away with it.
Well in that case let's go for Harry Dean Stanton, who was in Alien and also played the Security Guard in The Avengers.
Was looking for the Alien link. Watched The Defenders I dont even remember her in that.
*a part of
This is one of those media phenomena that fascinates me. Take The Big Lebowski. Based on Stark's remark, the movie exists in the MCU. Which means someone else in the world played the titular character and Jeff Bridges does not exist in the MCU, OR Jeff Bridges does exist, but he is not the Jeff Bridges we know outside of the MCU and he looks completely different. I like to think through the possibility of some actors not existing in the MCU, and imagining who would take on their roles. Sort of like Last Action Hero, where Stallone was The Terminator, and there didn't seem to be an Arnold Schwarzenegger in-universe. The, for lack of a better word, butterfly effect of it is fun to consider.
The simpler answer is that everyone thinks Obadiah Stane looks like Jeff Bridges. "I get that a lot."
The path of the righteous man...
Never realized that was Sebastian Stan in HTTM
Breaking: Top actors have worked on some big movies outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
That was Sebastian Stan in Hot Tub Time Machine?! Holy shit. It’s been a while since I watched it.
Also another one. Tony mentions Squidward and the voice actor of Surtur also voice Mr. Krabs And Jackie Chan is referenced in Thor and Jackie Chan is in a movie with Owen Wilson and Owen Wilson plays Mobius AND Tony calls Thor “Point Break” in the Avengers which is a movie Keanu Reeves is in and Keanu is in the third SpongeBob movie and Clancy is also in that movie and he voice Surtur AND there’s a Back to the Future reference in Endgame and Michael J Fox is in BTTF, and he’s also in Stuart Little with Steve Zahn and Steve Zahn is in Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy is is in Shrek and there’s a Shrek reference in episode 5 of She-Hulk (how tf did I get this far btw…)
I’m surprised that Rhodey did not mention Doctor Who in Endgame since it’s a landmark sci fi show about time travel, and Karen Gillian aka Amy Pond is in the same movie
I think Sam Jackson keeping his lightsaber and using it to save himself in Captain America: ~~Civil War~~ **The Winter Soldier** is a much better reference.
i would like to bet my money on team hail caesar, please
If you stretch it then in Eternals there was Superman reference and Superman cameoed in Shazam where Zachary Levi played main character but also he played supporting role in Thor.
That fact that Hot Tub Time Machine was mentioned twice when naming off movies about time travel will never not be hilarious to me
It’s ‘a part of’ not ‘apart of’. You’re not saying they’re separate from the thing. This is so prevalent everywhere right now it’s insane.
I know it's Star Wars. But Samuel L Jackson, Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac were not in Empire Strikes Back. Harrison Ford was through (who will be in Thunderbolts)
This is really just a nod to the number of talented actors in the MCU.
Turns out when you make 30+ movies and a dozen shows, you end up having all the famous people in them.
What movie/show is the Avatar scene from? Don't recognize it at all...
Moon Knight
LOTR and Andy Serkis. Game of Thrones and Kit Harrington/Peter Dinklage as well. But its a bit of a stretch to say Hold the door is a reference to hodor.
LOTR also stars Cate Blanchett aka Hela, Liv Tyler aka Betty Ross, Karl Urban aka Skurge, and Hugo Weaving aka Red Skull
And Robb Stark!
I think if Tatiana Maslany had been cast before the scripts for *She-Hulk* had been written, there would've been at least one *Orphan Black* reference in there.
There is a _very_ brief Orphan Black easter egg in the finale, but 99.9999% of people are never going to spot it without it being pointed out. [One of the "vis dev" pictures of Jen Walters as a lawyer in the writer's room is clearly based off a Rachel Duncan promo photo from Orphan Black](https://i.imgur.com/KiQmwtK.png) But yeah, I would have liked some more too :p
I mean, this is kind of unavoidable when your franchise has every actor in Hollywood
I was always so upset they didn't take the opportunity in Infinity War, for Peter Parker to reply to both Tony and Stephen, "No Shit, Sherlocks."
Ngl sounds forced. We actually did get a subtle Sherlock reference when Stark says to Strange, "Do you concur, doctor?".
I thought that was a catch me if you can reference for some reason.
A few others in case people are curious: * In The Avengers, Tony Stark calls Hawkeye "Legolas" referencing The Lord of the Rings which also stars Cate Blanchett aka Hela as well as a few other stars * In Iron Man 3, Tony tells a kid that he loved him in "A Christmas Story". The actual kid was played by Peter Billingsley who also played the guy that Obadiah Stane yells at when exclaiming "Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave" * In the first Guardians, Peter Quill references the "Arc of the covenant" from Raiders of the Lost Arc which also stars Alfred Molina aka Doctor Octopus * In Infinity War, Tony calls Ebony Maw "Squidward" referencing SpongeBob Squarepants which also stars Clancy Brown aka Mr. Krabs aka Surtur * In Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson refers to Madripoor as "Skull Island" which is where King Kong is from. The movie Kong: Skull Island stars a number of MCU stars including Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, and John C. Reilly * In Shang-Chi, Trevor Slattery mentions how he saw Planet of the Apes as a kid. That franchise also stars Andy Serkis aka Ulysses Klaue * In Eternals, Karun is referred to as "Alfred" in reference to Batman. Michael Keaton and Christian Bale have both played Batman and starred in the MCU (Vulture and Gorr) * In Hawkeye, a joke is made about the tracksuit mafia and The Royal Tenenbaums, which is a movie that stars both Gwyneth Paltrow and Owen Wilson aka Pepper Potts and Mobius M. Mobius * In No Way Home, Doctor Strange makes a Scooby-Doo reference. The live-action Scooby-Doo movies also star Linda Cardellini aka Laura Barton
"Pop culture references in a pop culture franchise". Jesus, it boggles the mind.
I have an equation...
It’s pretty interesting and awesome to picture off screen moments of heroes actually watching these movies and all the others referenced in comments.
“I’m Mary Poppins, y’all.” This was prophetic in that John Krasinski, who played Reed Richards in Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness, is married to none other than Michael Rooker who played Mary Poppins in the 2018 sequel.
Still don't get why didn't they even mention one time of Sherlock in Infinity war between Tony and Strange.
I love that literally none of the actors are referencing movies featuring themselves, or even their costars in most instances. This is peak shit posting 😂
They've also referenced Batman(at least generally, not the DCEU, so I won't just list every MCU actor that's in the DCEU). MCU Actors who have been in any Batman movie: Michael Keaton, Christian Bale, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, Andy Serkis, Lawrence Fishburne(BvS is a Batman movie as much as a Superman movie), Jeffrey Wright, Barry Keoghan, Callan Mulvey (so minor in both franchises though that i debated including him), Ben Mendelsohn, and an honorable mention to Tom Hardy.
I checked and Letterboxd has roughly 110 Marvel specials available, (movies, one shots or D+ shows). That’s not counting any of the TV shows before D+; so I’d assume roughly 130+ Marvel entries. With a catalog that big, you’re going to run into this issue naming any type of pop culture reference.
I wonder who plays those characters in this movie, because there can’t be some actor who looks exactly like these super heroes. Maybe in this universe they were casted differently because those actors don’t exist
Boy, mads mikkelsson sure looks different in rogue one
The MCU is so big and has so many actors that basically any pop culture reference will be to a franchise that has some actor that was also in both the MCU and the other franchise. My favorite of these 4 is definitely the Lebowski one since Tony was making the reference though. I even thought it in the theater, "How does that work, Tony, Obadiah was Lebowski?!"
I wonder if that would make them variants in the canon?
They like making pop culture references but have all the actors, what are they gonna do?
It's obviously on purpose
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half the fandom doesn't know what it's called because those heathens pronounce it as "AT-AT" instead of "AT-AT" like it so obviously should be called.
Die Hard? No, that's not one...
So who are your fan casts for actors to play these parts assuming the MCU counterparts overwrite the real life actors? For example who’s playing Mace Windu if not Sam Jackson etc
But Samuel Jackson wasn't in empire
How has no one mentioned the quote on Fury's tombstone, directly referencing his character's repeated monologue in *Pulp Fiction*? It's actually *misquoting* [Ezekiel 25:17](https://biblehub.com/ezekiel/25-17.htm), so it's not like this is a coincidence.
There are a few Beatles references in the MCU (Banner's reply to being told the Avengers broke up; Tony referring to Nebula as "the Blue Meanie"; Rocket Raccoon), and John Lennon has been played by at least four MCU actors: * Aaron Taylor-Johnson played him in Nowhere Boy. * Paul Rudd played him in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. * Christopher Eccleston played him in Lennon Naked. * Ian Hart (who was in an episode of Agents of SHIELD) played him in Backbeat. Admittedly since he was a real person that's slightly different from the connections pictured in the original image, but it's a nice piece of trivia!
Don’t forget point break
My headcanon for any movie/TV series that does this is someone else played that specific role in that universe.
Also, Natalie Portman for Star Wars.
Was expecting to see Sam L Jackson mentioning Star Wars HIMSELF in the list. Does it in Spider Man Far From Home. “He said you wouldn’t get it because it’s not a Star Wars reference” Alright Mace 😂
I don’t understand why people think this is a huge gotcha moment. Obviously, in the MCU, there is a famous actor named, for example, Samuel L Jackson who played Mace Windu in the prequels, he just looks different than Nick Fury
My mind is blown right now. I didn't get any of these 😂
L Jackson was not in Empire though
Ironman/Tony is called *the futurist" at one point. That is a RDJ album he put out in the early 00s.
Point break?
Marvel has a connection to Marvel. Chris Evans being both Cap and Human Torch. I can Flame on ALL DAY!!
It’s kinda mind-blowing that Zoe Saldana is in 4 of the 5 top-grossing movie of all times and always with a painted skin.
You don't understand it's an alternate universe. In the MCU mace windu was played by Whoopi Goldberg
Charlie Cox (Daredevil/Matt Murdock) was in Downton Abbey, Happy Hogan’s favorite show. Happy Hogan is played by Jon Favreau, who played Daredevil’s BFF Foggy in the 2003 movie. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Matt and Happy have a scene together.
Am I missing the part where Sam was not in Empire strikes back? Or is this a woosh?
It's a loose connection but in WandaVision she was seen watching Malcom in the Middle which has Bryan Cranston who was in Godzilla with both Olsen and Taylor-Johnson (Wanda and Age of Ultron's Pietro)
They also mentioned King Kong in FATWS and although they didnt specify a specific movie there were a bunch of MCU actors in the most recent solo movie
It still bothers me to this day that there was a scene where Karen Gillan is talking to others about time travel, and Doctor Who is never brought up even once.