Captain Marvel: Hidden Details of the Marvel Movie

photon

Maria Rambo is nicknamed “Photon” in the pilot, a reference to her daughter Monica Rambo, whom we see as a child in the film (in the guise of Akira Akbar) and whom we meet as an adult in WandaVision, which she plays. Teyonah Parris. In this series, he develops the comic book-like powers of the superhero Photon, also known as Pulsar, and… Captain Marvel II.

Cameos and drama

The two men in the foreground are two consultants for the film’s aviation scenes: Stephen Del Bano, aka Cajun, and Matthew Kimmel, aka Spider, two real pilots. Del Bano died on the set of Captain Marvel in April 2018 after crashing a camera during a training mission, the film was made for him.

Lieutenant Trouble

In a flashback, Carol Danvers nicknames Monica (in the original version) “Lieutenant Trouble”, a reference to the comics where Carol calls her friend Marina’s daughter Kit Renner. In the French version, this nickname is translated as “Lieutenant Rebel”.

Schwarz’s head was cut off!

Thinking he heard a commotion, Captain Marvel fired one of his powerful beams into the store window, shattering an advertisement for the action film True Lies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, which was released a year before the events of the film in 1994.

Toy story

Carol then calls for help from “Star Command” with her built-in radio, a reference to the organization Buzz Lightyear works for in Toy Story, the animated film released in 1995, the year the Marvel feature film takes place.

cinephile

At a Blockbuster store, Carol picks up a box containing The Right Stuff in VO, a film about the first seven astronauts whose fates were closely tied to the conquest of space.

Translated by Deja Vu

Carol Danvers has a universal translation implant that allows her to understand all beings she may encounter in the galaxy. This tool is also owned by Peter Quill, aka Guardians of the Galaxy star. For reference, the man the superhero talks to is played by Barry Curtis, the head of security in every Marvel movie since Iron Man 2.

A literary cameo

The actress judging Captain Marvel’s appearance in the subway scene is none other than Kelly Sue DeConnick, the author of many comics, including several dedicated to the superheroine. He worked as a consultant on a feature film.

big mistake

On this computer screen, Carol Danvers searched for the word “Pegasus” and among the results it said that Pegasus “appeared in the Disney film Hercules.” Fun chronology, unless it was a chronological error, as Hercules came out in 1997, two years before the Captain Marvel plot.

Stan Lee’s (moving) cameo

This is Stan Lee’s first film to air since his death in 2018. He will appear again in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Avengers: Endgame. He is reading the script for Mallrats (Les Glandeurs en VF), the Kevin Smith film in which Stan Lee made a cameo in 1995. Very meta!

Face already seen

Most observant fans will recognize that actor Nelson Franklin previously appeared in Season 3 of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, in which he portrayed Steve Wilson, a member of the Threat Containment Unit when a corpse is dealt with by the Inhumans.

Skrull Fiction

When Talos breaks into the Rambous farm, he drinks a straw from a cup reminiscent of Jules Winfield’s famous “Big Kahuna Burger” scene in Pulp Fiction. And of course, Samuel L. Jackson is in both movies!

When Carol tries out the suit’s colors, the first try results in a mix of red and gold that resembles the DC Comics hero Shazam’s costume, originally named…Captain Marvel!

Kata

This cat that isn’t is hiding a flerken, an alien species with the appearance of an earth cat. Their mouths are full of tentacle-sized pouches, which explains how Nick Fury’s cat was able to pick up and swallow the Tesseract.