After the success of Iron Man,Iron Man 2was quickly green lit and came out in 2010, 2 years after the first movie. A lot has happened in the 8 years sinceIron Man 2, but fans are just now noticing that the movie contains aBlack PantherEaster Egg, which is 6 years before the character made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut inCivil War. In addition to setting upBlack Panther,Civil Waralso set fans up forSpider-Man: HomecomingandInfinity War. However, the MCU would not exist today if it were not for the early foreshadowing in the Iron Man movies.
When most fans think ofEaster EggsinIron Man 2, they think of Thor’s hammer popping in the post-credit scene. As far as other foreshadowing, Captain America is teased as is the location of the Hulk in Nevada during the scene with the S.H.I.E.L.D. screens towards the end of the movie with Nick Fury and Tony Stark.Eagle-eyed viewersof the Blu-ray edition of the movie also spotted East Africa on the map, which is whereBlack Panther’s fictional country of Wakanda is. At that point in time,Black Pantherhad not been connected to the MCU and it would be 6 years until fans were shown Chadwick Boseman’s epic T’Challa inCivil War.
In otherMCU news, it was revealed that a War Machine movie was considered afterIron Man 2.Black Pantherscreenwriter Joe Robert Cole recently said that the War Machine movie was pitched to Kevin Feige and was nearly green lit until pre-production on Iron Man 3 began, taking the MCU in a different direction. Though Cole didn’t get to make the War Machine movie, he was asked to join the MCU writer’s program and we now haveBlack Panther, thanks to him.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently celebrating its10-year anniversary, which will culminate with the release ofInfinity Warin May. But before then, we haveBlack Pantherto look forward to, which comes out this week. The movie is already poised to be a monster at the box office and has already broken presale records for the first quarter of the year and it will be one of the biggest openings for an MCU movie released thus far.
The MCU is packed with Easter Eggs, so fans will have to keep their eyes open while checking outBlack Pantherthis weekend to see what kind of teases we are in for. Wakanda was teased 8 years ago, so we might see some nods to the future of the MCU’s second decade this year withBlack PantherandInfinity Warbefore the whole thing gets blown to bits withAvengers 4in 2019. You can check out the original report of theBlack PantherEaster Egg inIron Man 2comes to us fromScreenrant.
