10 Best Times Star Wars Appeared In Other Movies

5. Captain America: Civil War

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With Marvel Studios kingpin Kevin Feige being such a huge fan of Star Wars (he's even working on a Star Wars movie of his own), it's little surprise that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is littered with nods to the empire that Lucas built.

Many movies in the franchise include a scene where a character loses a limb (such as Thor's arm being lopped off in Thor: The Dark World), all of which were intended as a wink to Vader chopping off Luke Skywalker's arm in The Empire Strikes Back.

Ongoing gags aside though, arguably the best singular Star Wars reference in the MCU is delivered by Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, who uses his knowledge of the sci-fi franchise to help Team Tony take down Giant-Man.

Asking his fellow Avengers if they've "ever seen that really old movie - Empire Strikes Back?" Spidey proceeds to reference the scene where the Rebels use a cable to topple the AT-ATs on Hoth, before using the same technique on Giant-Man.

Civil War was chock-full of crowd-pleasing moments, but the pop in the theatre when Spidey mentions Star Wars was one of the biggest of the lot.

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