Agent Carter: 10 Easter Eggs, In-Jokes And References

10. Hugh Jones And The Serpent Squad

When investigating the mysterious Leviathan - the first season's big bad - in episode two Bridge And Tunnel, Peggy meets Hugh Jones, the President of the Roxxon Oil Company.

This is actually a two-fold easter egg for comic fans here. The most noticeable is the use of Roxxon, the sinister corporation whose tentacles reach right across the MCU (with appearances in Iron Man 2, Agents Of SHIELD and the One Shot A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor’s Hammer) to the extent that we might well expect them to come to the fore sometime in the future.

The second easter egg is that Hugh Jones (as played by Ray WIse) is the head of Roxxon from the comics. In a Captain America storyline, he became a fully-fledged supervillain when he was kidnapped by the Serpent Squad and possessed by the evil deity Set. Elsewhere, he gave the order to have Howard and Maria Stark (Tony's parents) killed. In Agent Carter, Jones was once a friend of Stark's until they had a fight over the woman who would become Jones' wife...