For anyone who’s a sucker for small details.
During the intro to Watchmen, a young Night Owl foils an armed robbery outside of the Gotham Opera House. Can you think of a notable Gotham City resident who loses his parents to an armed robbery after seeing the opera?
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The dead pool board from Deadpool is made up of mostly celebrities, from Amanda Bynes to Vladimir Putin.
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Tony and Pepper pose for a photo in Iron Man 2 that appears in a background shot in The Avengers.
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In Thor, Thor’s fake license is made out to a Dr. Donald J. Blake. In the comic books, Blake was created by Odin to serve as a human host for Thor’s spirit.
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The joker card that Jim Gordon hands to Batman at the end of Batman Begins was recovered by an officer named “J. Kerr,” a common alias used by the Joker.
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And speaking of the Joker, the mask he wears during the bank robbery at the beginning of The Dark Knight is a nod to Cesar Romero’s Joker, who wears an almost identical mask during his first appearance in Batman, the 1960s television series.
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There’s also a reference to Heath Ledger’s Joker in the 2016 animated adaptation of The Killing Joke.
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In Spider-Man 2, Peter does deliveries for Joe’s Pizza. In Spider-Man 3, the Joe’s Pizza sticker is still visible on his helmet.
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In Spider-Man: Homecoming, we get a glimpse of Aaron Davis’s license plate (UCS-M01). It’s a reference to Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #01 — AKA Miles Morales’s introduction as Spider-Man.
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Bruce Wayne’s car in The Dark Knight is a Lamborghini Murciélago. Murciélago is the Spanish word for “bat.”
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A wound that Bruce Wayne is stitching up in The Dark Knight is visible as a scar in The Dark Knight Rises.
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The portals in Agents of Shield are identical to those that are opened up by Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange.
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The shadow cast by Selina Kyle’s glasses in Batman Returns foreshadows her transformation into Catwoman.
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This news report from The Incredible Hulk appears on one of Tony Stark’s screens in Iron Man 2.
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In Spider-Man 2, Peter said he needs “strong focus” before falling and landing on a Ford Focus.
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Ego’s car in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 shares the same color scheme as Peter’s ship.
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In X-Men: First Class, Mystique attempts to seduce Magneto. He tells her, “maybe in a few years.” She responds by shapeshifting into Rebecca Romijn (her older self), who plays Mystique in the first three movies.
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In Captain America: Winter Soldier, Steven Rogers’ to-do list will slightly differ depending on which regional release you’re watching.
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This tank filled with alien slugs located in the Collector’s Museum in Guardians of the Galaxy looks suspiciously similar to the alien slugs from Director James Gunn’s first film, Slither.
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These two scenes of Alfred approaching a mourning Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, respectively, mirror one another. In both scenes, Bruce blames himself, and in both scenes Alfred comforts him.
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In Spider-Man, when Peter goes to the Osborn’s for Thanksgiving dinner, Peter and Norman are wearing each other’s alter-ego’s colors.
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During this scene in Guardians of the Galaxy, a translator implant is listed as an enhancement under Peter Quill’s profile. This would explain why he’s able to communicate with every alien in the universe.
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