10 Incredible Movie Easter Eggs That Went Totally Over Your Head

1. Tony Stark Rethinks His Life After Eating A Burger In Iron Man - Just Like Robert Downey Jr. Did For Real

Here's an incredibly dense and somewhat insane easter egg that will probably blow your mind in eight or nine ways (though probably just one, to be fair). Think back to the first Iron Man movie, when Tony Stark manages to break free from that terrorist-filled cave and gets rescued. You'll remember that the first thing that Tony wants having survived such an ordeal is an American cheeseburger. Nothing strange about that, right? It's at this point, though, cheeseburger on his mind, that Tony decides to change his ways and re-evaluate his life.

Without the right context, you could be forgiven for thinking that this is just another scene in another movie. But when I tell you that it was a Burger King which made a real-life Robert Downey Jr. change his own life in the pre-Iron Man days, things start to get a little bit meta.

Yes, according to Downey, it was a Burger King that gave him the inspiration to re-think his position (he was a drug addict at the time) and start afresh. This isn't some strange coincidence by the way - it was implemented purposely by Downey Jr. as a reference to the bad times. "I have to thank Burger King," Downey Jr. said of his recovery. "It was such a disgusting burger I ordered. I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen."

The burger caused him to throw all of his drugs into the ocean and start anew. This led to him revitalising his career and eventually playing Iron Man. In the movie, having a cheeseburger also leads to him becoming Iron Man. Two burgers. Two identical results. Now c'mon, everyone... let's go grab a Starbucks and a Burger King, shall we?