10 MCU Moments More Important Than You Realised

With the MCU set to introduce the Illuminati in the upcoming Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, there's been a ton of speculation about who might be on the team, with predictions ranging from Captain Carter to Black Bolt to Reed Richards.

But if this moment in Iron Man 2 is more than just a fun easter egg, then Marvel Studios might've confirmed a future Illuminati member in one of its very first movies.

During the court sequence in that film, Tony Stark pulls out his ridiculously advanced smartphone and uses it to hack the TV screens in the courtroom, and in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of his home screen, we can see an app called "Illuminati" in the right-hand corner.

Without having a zoom-and-enhance function built into your eyeballs, it's virtually impossible to notice this detail, but given what we know about Doctor Strange 2, the implications of it are huge.

Again, it could've just been a fun easter egg, but what if it wasn't? What if Marvel Studios was thinking about the Illuminati all the way back in 2010, and Tony Stark is going to be one of those people sat at that table in Doctor Strange 2? The filmmakers could even retroactively say that this app was a clue, even if that wasn't their intent at the time.

The buzz on opening night would be insane if Robert Downey Jr makes a triumphant return, and this throwaway moment could've been setting those seeds from the very beginning of the franchise.