20 Avengers Easter Eggs And Things You Missed In The MCU’s First Team-Up Movie

The Avengers is a great crossover film, celebrating its individual protagonists’ eccentricities, melding those unique personalities under a single banner, and setting up bigger stakes and conflicts moving forward. That it manages to do all this without once slowing down or dragging in the middle is a feat.

It’s also an extremely quippy movie. There are lots of one-liners that juxtapose with the movie’s end-of-the-world stakes. Compared to the DCEU films that followed, Avengers has a relatively light tone, as opposed to the dark, self-serious, and angst-ridden nature of Zack Snyder’s DC films. But today, one could make a somewhat similar comparison between the MCU Phase 1 and Phase 4.

The current movies are so loaded with backstory and self-referential allusions and clues that it’s almost a relief to go back to a time before all that–before there was an afterlife in Moon Knight, or a literal Zeus character in Thor: Love and Thunder–before half of all life disappeared and then reappeared. Back in 2012, a simpler time, The Avengers were just six individuals–not all of whom had superpowers)–and the biggest threat was a single portal over NYC rather than the destruction of the universe ad infinitum.

Here are 20 Easter Eggs and trivia facts about Marvel’s The Avengers, which is now streaming on Disney Plus. The next Avengers film, Avengers: Kang Dynasty, won’t be out until 2025, and its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars, won’t be out until 2026.