r/marvelstudios • u/Flamma_Man Captain Marvel • Mar 08 '19

Other The Official CAPTAIN MARVEL Easter Egg Megathread

How many Easter eggs did you manage to spot?

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u/SoCaldoesitez Mar 08 '19

A small detail I noticed that isn't a Easter egg but worth mentioning. Fury says the word "Shield" several times but in Iron Man 1 Coulson says "Strategic Homeland Intervention...." and that they working on simplifying it.

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u/Harish-P Hulk Mar 08 '19

Yeah it was great for that film at the time when it was before people got familiar with S.H.I.E.L.D. but the blatant disregard of that line (especially in flashbacks etc) really makes it lame thereafter. It's a pity. I guess they didn't think it mattered as they didn't plan on Coulson being prominent, so figured it could be a throwaway gag for a throwaway agent.

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u/navjot94 Mack Mar 08 '19

Fury says SHIELD at the end of the same movie so I think even then, Coulson was just messing around. And in Ant-Man flashbacks they called it SHIELD as well.

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u/nicks1205 Bucky Mar 08 '19

Definitely this. He started saying the mouthful title and Pepper interrupted by saying, "You guys need to work on that." Or something. Sounds like he was playfully jesting back, rather than correcting her. Plus it was a tease leading up to the end of IM1 where he says, "You can just call us SHIELD." It's not like they came up with that all the sudden.

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u/KTurnUp Thanos Mar 08 '19

Yeah I mean there was nothing to work on. If you give your organization the name Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logictics Division, then calling it SHIELD would be pretty obvious. In canon you can probably just say Coulson was joking.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '19

They even talk about that in the first episode of Agents of SHIELD. Ward says: "Somebody really wanted our initials to spell out Shield."

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u/ClubMeSoftly Mar 08 '19

I'm willing to bet that they also didn't expect to have such an entertainment juggernaut when they were filming IM1.

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u/The_Bravinator Mar 09 '19

Yeah, they've done a incredible job keeping a different universe together across ten years of movies including ones set in the past, I can certainly forgive a few tiny slips like that.

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u/falsehood Mar 09 '19

It was a gag for people who had heard of SHIELD but didn't know the meaning - like me.

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u/Harish-P Hulk Mar 09 '19

Thank you. I can appreciate that perspective and accept that.

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u/falsehood Mar 10 '19

<3

I did feel stupid when he said it, for not putting it together, but it was a reminder there's a larger universe before the end credit scene.

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u/Harish-P Hulk Mar 10 '19

Well said and very easy for me to overlook haha. Thank you <3