10 Movie Franchises With Recurring Easter Eggs

3. The Stan Lee Cameo (MCU)

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One of the most famous easter eggs of all time is easily the Stan Lee cameo, found in pretty much every marvel related movie up to now. While this trend is, unfortunately, over with, Stan the man made sure that we'd never forget him.

Whether it was Marvel Studios related or not, every marvel centered movie featured an official cameo by Stan Lee, like an official endorsement of the film. Sometimes he would walk up and speak to the heroes, sometimes he would just be off in the background, as seen in by far his most subtle cameo in the Ang Lee Hulk movie, where he simply walked out of a factory talking with former Hulk Lou Ferrigno.

Some of his best appearances, though, are when he's front and center. Such as the best scene in Amazing Spider-Man, where he played a librarian unaware of a fight taking place literally right behind him.

It got to a point where people began theorizing that Stan was playing Uwatu, the watcher of Earth.

But regardless of how or when he showed up, it was always a treat to find Stan Lee in our favorite superhero movies.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?