It seems just about everyone missed this one as Kevin Feige has let it be known he included the same Star Wars Easter Egg in each of the Marvel Phase 2 movies.
Speaking with CinemaBlend, Feige said he is a big Star Wars fan and offered:
So is this a spoiler for Ant-Man⌠not really. Iâm obsessed with Star Wars. Whoâs not? Iâm 40 years old. Iâm in the movie business. I went to USC. So Iâm obsessed with Star Wars â and it didnât start out as intentional, but it became intentional, including that beat that you referenced. It sort of happens in every Star Wars movie, but I was sort of looking at it, âOkay, is Phase Two our Empire Strikes Back?â Not really, but tonally things are a little different. Somebody gets their arm cut off in every Phase Two movie. Every single one.
Marvel Phase 2 Star Wars Easter Eggs:
⢠Iron Man 3 featured Guy Pearceâs character, Aldrich Killian, getting his arm cut off by Tony Stark when he heats up Iron Manâs suit and the end of the movie.
⢠Thor 2 features Thor getting his arm âcut offâ by Loki.
⢠Captain America 2 features a flashback where Bucky had his own arm cut off when he fell from the train in Captain America: The First Avenger.
⢠James Gunnâs Guardians of the Galaxy also had a similar Star Wars Easter Egg with Gamora cutting Grootâs arm off (this might be the enigmatic Easter Egg Gunn keeps referring to that he says everyone missed).
Those are the Star Wars Easter Eggs known to date as The Avengers 2 is yet to be released â so be on the lookout for someone getting their arm cut off just like Luke Skywalker from Empire Strikes Back.
Update: In The Avengers 2, Ultron cuts off the arm of Ulysses Klaue.
Update #2: Ant-Man sees Yellowjacket Darren Crossâ arm get severed as he gets thrown into the Quantum Realm.
