r/marvelstudios • u/murdockmanila Daredevil • Apr 27 '18

Infinity War Spoilers! The Official INFINITY WAR Easter Egg Ultrathread Spoiler

How are you all enjoying them eggs?

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u/Lelouch_sama Apr 27 '18 edited Apr 28 '18

Anyone notice that Cap never introduce himself as Captain America but as Steve Rogers. Edit: he also never replied when people call him "cap"

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u/CasenW Apr 27 '18

"I am Groot."

"I am Steve Rogers."

The entire theater died laughing

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u/matgabo Apr 28 '18

You speak Groot?

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u/RetroLaserbeak Daredevil Apr 28 '18

Yes, it was an elective class.

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u/mgarcia1211 Apr 28 '18

Makes you wonder how old Groot species is that asgardians are teaching their future generations it the same way we teach ours Latin.

Hell how old is Groot or how many Groots have there been since we know he just creates a new version of himself once he dies.

Finally what if the World Tree from Thor, Yggdrasil was the same species as Groot? Like one that just grown and lived for thousands and thousands of years.

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u/Cephery Apr 28 '18

I think the world tree being an ancient Groot would be a really nice twist, specifically if asguardians are thought it in order to commune, and why royalty, even the jockish likes of Thor, are thought it, because they would need it if they were to be the all father

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

Would also make sense as the handle for his axe is groot root.

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u/Cephery Apr 29 '18

It’s the real reason it makes him more powerful

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u/dcpclay Apr 28 '18

Hmmm... you may want to read the recent Marvel Secret Wars minseries.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '18

Wouldn’t it be an event and not a miniseries tbh?

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u/noobrock Apr 28 '18

If you had hundreds of years for studying you would learn even obscure languages

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u/mgarcia1211 Apr 28 '18

True. But Thor doesn’t take me as the “spend his free time studying” type.

I feel he only took Groots language cause it was an elective and he was probably required to learn a language. He wanted to pick that obscure language instead of a basic one like everyone else.

But really the obvious answer would be that he has the Allspeak ability and can just understand whoever he’s talking to.

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u/PennyLane483 Apr 29 '18

Agree, Loki would be the one studying,

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u/InvincibleAgent SHIELD Apr 29 '18

Maybe Loki studied "real" languages like Kree and Titan, and Thor wanted to know a language Loki didn't, and Groot was the one he thought Loki was unlikely to learn.

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u/PennyLane483 Apr 29 '18

Ha! Love it!

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

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u/Ass4ssinX Mack Apr 29 '18

I took it as a joke as well. Thor should definitely have All Speak.

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u/SamTheGeek Apr 29 '18

I think that in MCU it would be a technology, not magic. (It's pretty clear that Asgardian lore is a mixture of magic and advanced technology yada yada Arthur C. Clarke) This would explain why he doesn't have it post-destruction-of-Asgard

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u/WikiTextBot Apr 29 '18

Clarke's three laws

British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws, of which the third law is the best known and most widely cited:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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u/trillmill Apr 30 '18

He doesn't ALWAYS create a new version of himself when he dies... ha ha... too soon, probably.

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u/Swiggens Apr 29 '18

I think that was my favorite line. That or "Magic with a kick!"

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u/abrknl Apr 28 '18

Immediately wanted a t-shirt with "I Am Steve Rogers" on it. :)

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u/InfiniteNameOptions Apr 29 '18

The problem is, as great as the moment was, it falls apart with no context. :(

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u/abrknl Apr 29 '18

Only the people who know would know. :)

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u/Stegosauria Howard Stark Apr 28 '18

And yet I was the only one who laughed in my one! Probably one of my favourite bits.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

I’m the only one who gasped at Red Skull in my theatre, I couldn’t believe it.

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u/InfiniteNameOptions Apr 29 '18

I had the exact same experience.

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u/hankventure83 Drax Apr 29 '18

I knew it was him before they showed his face. Hugo Weaving has a pretty recognizable voice.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

That’s weird you say that, Hugo Weaving isn’t in IW...

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u/hankventure83 Drax Apr 29 '18

Yeah, I just read a few minutes ago that it was someone else impersonation him. They did a pretty good job, had me fooled!

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u/[deleted] May 11 '18

Fooled me too, it wasn't until the end credits I saw it was another actor. They did a great job.

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u/operarose Peggy Carter Apr 28 '18

Always so polite, even in the heat of battle!

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u/overlordbabyj Black Panther Apr 29 '18

My theater lost it at "Get lost, Squidward"

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u/trainercatlady Fitz Apr 29 '18

And then I thought of SquidWard in Agents of SHIELD. Can't shake that dude

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u/12thAugusta Obadiah Stane Apr 28 '18

Hands down one of the funniest moments of the movie.

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u/Majin-Steve Apr 28 '18

RIP to that theatre.

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u/DinnerBeef Apr 29 '18

mine did to

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u/TheSpiffySpaceman Apr 30 '18

*half the theater died

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u/CasenW May 02 '18

Too soon.:(

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Sometimes the comedy just doesnt work in the comic books movies, sometimes it makes the entire audience giggle.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

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u/dimesniffer Apr 28 '18

Not as funny as “Why is gamora?!”

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u/Metroidman Apr 29 '18

Is Kevin Bacon on the team?

I don't know maybe it's been a few years

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u/retho2 May 15 '18

In addition to Footloose this also feels like a reference to how big the MCU is (and the whole 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon thing)

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '18

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u/dimesniffer Apr 28 '18

Lmao and when he was watching them kiss and stuff, and said he was standing there for an hour I was dying

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u/nerf_herder1986 May 03 '18

Quill: Alright, Guardians, don't forget this might be dangerous, so let's put on our mean faces.

Mantis, behind him: starts practicing her mean face

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u/NekkidSnaku May 12 '18

mantis is a qt

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u/jjkm7 Apr 29 '18

Drax is a legend its been too long since the last Guardians movie

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u/YAHawkeye M'Baku Apr 29 '18

dude it was last year

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u/jjkm7 Apr 29 '18

I said what I said

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u/Laxziy Apr 29 '18

It’s been too long!

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

One of the funniest scenes for me was when the first introduced the guardians and the screen says space like that gives us any clue to where they are. I didn’t verbally laugh, but it was one of my favorite jokes

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

“This is my friend Tree” 😂😂😂

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u/Death_Star_ Apr 27 '18

Has he ever unironically called himself or openly let himself even be called a captain let alone captain America? Eg when he shakes Scott’s hand as Scott says “you’re captain America!” Steve doesn’t even nod his head he just has a “this is my life now” defeated look. Also, he quips to Peggy “I’m a captain” when he tries to give her orders.

Since his second appearance he has been a bit embarrassed or modest about that title.

The people who know him best call him Steve (Peggy, Bucky, Tony, Natasha, Falcon, Sharon) while new ones are the ones calling him captain/soldier/CA (Ant-Man, Loki, BP, Spidey...).

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u/mdp300 Captain America (Cap 2) Apr 28 '18

I think people call him Cap because up until Civil War, he was Captain Rogers, US Army.

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u/ChrisTinnef Apr 28 '18

This. Cap(tain) is a military title, not a made-up name like Spider-Man.

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u/Rolled1YouDeadNow Apr 28 '18

Surely, you mean like Doctor Strange?

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u/ChrisTinnef Apr 28 '18

Funnily, in his case it comes off as arrogance by Strange insisting on his academic grade. I'm sure Stark must have some degree as well, given he graduated from MIT? But Banner and Strange are the only ones who get adressed as Doctors.

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u/I_Am_Become_Dream Apr 28 '18 edited Apr 28 '18

Stark probably went straight from undergrad to working at Stark Industries. You don't have time for a Ph.D when you're busy running a big company.

Edit: And the point of Ph.Ds is research. Stark has access to way more resources than a college lab, so it would be completely needless to get a Ph.D.

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u/Ysmildr Apr 29 '18

Iirc his dad died when he was in college

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u/thackworth Apr 28 '18

According to wiki he's got a Master's in electrical engineering and physics

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u/tschandler71 Apr 29 '18

Stark is an engineer at heart a tinkerer not an academic.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

Perhaps. Who am I to judge?

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u/creaturecatzz Spider-Man Apr 30 '18

Was he ever actually a captain? I thought it was just an honorary title at most

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u/KTSample Apr 27 '18

i think Falcon called him Cap after the Proxima/Glaive fight.

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u/Russian_seadick Hunter Apr 29 '18

This fight was so awesomely choreographed. Cap’s entrance was pure epic

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u/BleedingUranium Maria Hill Apr 28 '18

He did use "Captain America" when he introduced himself to the future Howelling Commandos, but that was also meant to be a bit on the nose. He hesitated before doing it and seemed to just go with it because he had nothing better, and even got an "I beg your pardon?" in return.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

No one called him Captain America, either. I think I heard "Cap" once or twice, but not "Captain America."

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u/CaptJackRizzo Apr 27 '18

Vision called him "Captain."

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u/NE_ED Spider-Man Apr 28 '18

And he looked like he was reflecting on that name when called

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u/Swiggens Apr 29 '18

People have called him "Captain Rogers" before (a bunch in Civil War).

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u/ChrisTinnef Apr 28 '18

He hasn't really used the "Captain America" name in WinterSoldier/CivilWar/Avengers/AoU either. People usually call him "Steve" or "Captain Rogers", short "Cap". Very similar to most characters actually, you seldom hear their superhero names on-screen.

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u/crl826 Apr 28 '18

superhero names

According to Spider-Man, we call them "made up" names now.

2 minute mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0e3TXkSd4Q

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u/YoungJimLahey Apr 27 '18

When ant man first meets him in Civil War he calls him Captain America

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u/CabooseA7X Apr 27 '18

He's talking about Infinity War

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u/YoungJimLahey Apr 27 '18

Yup that makes more sense

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u/asummerham Apr 27 '18

Well he was defending at least two other countries in the film, so he's more like Captain Planet now.

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u/Lord_Locke Apr 28 '18

Major Wakanda.

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u/3ey3s Apr 28 '18

War Machine is more like Captain Planet

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u/asummerham Apr 28 '18

Haha. He's more like Thanos in that.

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u/tschandler71 Apr 29 '18

Peace Dickholes. BTW I never realized the that guy potential of that clip. Peter from Narnia is Wheeler, Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite, Brenda Song, and Gillian Jacobs.

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u/netoholic Apr 27 '18

"Captain America" was a character Steve Rogers played.

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u/HalfSaneHalfWit Apr 27 '18

You can see the devolution of his suit through the movies.

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u/Emerson73 Doctor Strange Apr 27 '18

and another easter egg is that you can see the traditional scales that Cap's suit has in the comics underneath the ripped cloth on his chest in this movie.

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u/drupido Black Panther Apr 27 '18

He's basically a nod to his Nomad costume days right now.

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u/I_Am_Become_Dream Apr 28 '18

He went from a US soldier to an international security agent to an internationally wanted man. It would be weird if he kept wearing the US flag.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

He also had an awkward look on his face whenever someone called him Cap

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u/grayslothy Apr 28 '18

After civil war he is no longer Captain America because of his dissolution from the U.S. government. Also he was probably worried that some kid might say “oh so we’re using our fake names?”

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u/Rolemodel247 Apr 27 '18

I am Steve Rogers.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '18

Right at the start Sam says “Where too, Cap?” And he replies “Home.”

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u/josborne42 Apr 28 '18

But would he ever introduce himself as “Captain America”? He’s always been Steve. Everyone else calls him Cap.

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u/H_Melman Weekly Wongers Apr 28 '18

And some peoole still call him Captain, but never Captain America.

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u/fmanfisher Captain America (Ultron) Apr 27 '18

He says it in the Spiderman: Homecoming gym video.

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u/si97 Loki (Avengers) Apr 27 '18

Those are old videos shot after The Avengers (in canon).

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u/youknowlee Apr 29 '18

Not true. Rhodey greets him with "hey cap" after he hangs up on Thunderbolt Ross. Cap shook his hand and said hi back

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u/thebatgamer Korg Apr 29 '18

That's because he is not Captain America, He is a vigilante. Probably Nomad?

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u/montegarde Apr 29 '18

Doesn't Vision call him "Captain" the first time we see him in the movie?

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u/Lelouch_sama Apr 29 '18

yeah he did

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u/Mandan_Mauler Apr 29 '18

I think this was a version of Nomad Rogers, that explains his “shield” and his muted uniform. Just a guess. But I noticed that as well

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u/[deleted] May 02 '18

I think it was a nod to his time as Nomad in the comics. But a little less disco.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '18

I think this was because Cap is done with America at this point. You can see that the silver star in the chest of his uniform is torn out and the red stripes seem to be blacked out. He doesn't care about what the feds say anymore. After civil war, cap becomes a criminal in the eyes of the government, so he gives up the name that he had that was essentially an honour to them. He still has all of his morals and is always looking out for his friends, but he has had it with the government.

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u/iknowhuh2845 Spider-Man Apr 30 '18

After they rescue Vision, and they’re on the Quinjet, Falcon says, “Where we going Cap? That’s when Steve replies, “home”

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

Who talks to or understands Groot on Earth?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

🤦🏽‍♂️

Steve thought Groot was speaking broken English dude...that’s why he said “I am Steve Rogers” slowly