10 MCU Moments More Important Than You Realised
The Illuminati has been under our noses this entire time...
One of the best things about the Marvel Cinematic Universe is how all these different projects - across movies, TV, and one-shot short films - speak to each other.
A throwaway line in an older flick might take on a whole new meaning five years down the line (like The Winter Soldier's "on your left" creating an emotional punch in Endgame's portal scene), and it's this type of deep connective tissue that makes the MCU feel rewarding for those who keep up with it.
But not all of these connective threads or world-building details are glaringly obvious, and there are certain moments, lines, and characters in the MCU that are way more important than you might've realised.
Whether these moments simply have more depth than is apparent on the surface - or whether they have bigger implications for the wider MCU that you didn't even think about - there's more going on in Marvel's big-screen universe than first meets the eye, and to borrow an analogy from a certain ogre, some scenes have hidden, onion-like layers of importance that even hardcore fans could easily miss.
10. Proxima Midnight's Relationship With Corvus Glaive (Avengers: Endgame)
The members of Thanos' Black Order weren't fleshed out very much during Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, with their backstories being removed from early drafts of the Infinity War script due to the movie being too crowded.
Still, there are various moments throughout both movies where we can glean more information about their personalities, histories, and relationships, like this one shot in Endgame where Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive hold each other shortly after Tony's snap (on the right-hand side of the image above), when Thanos and his forces are disintegrating.
It's an easy-to-miss detail that you might simply assume is a display of friendship as the two face their deaths, but it's actually much more than that.
As confirmed by Endgame co-director Joe Russo, Proxima and Corvus are in fact married in the MCU (a detail lifted straight from the comic-books, and one that was supposed to be shown in that aforementioned cut backstory), making this a tragic moment of two lovers sharing one final embrace.