10 Subtle Movie Easter Eggs Only Hardcore Fans Will Catch
6. The Thanos-Copter - Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame introduced a new weapon for Mad Titan Thanos (Josh Brolin) - a double-edged sword which, appropriately enough, was perfect balanced, as all things should be.
But the weapon's appearance is also a sly nod to one of the more infamous aspects of Thanos' comic book lore - the Thanos-Copter. The Thanos-Copter was a chopper used by Thanos in Larry Lieber's 1970s comic book series Spidey Super Stories.
The blade in Endgame resembles the rotor blade of the Thanos-Copter, and this was confirmed to have been an intentional Easter egg by none other than Thanos creator Jim Starlin:
"The one thing they did and I will never forgive the Russos and [writers] Markus and McFeely was they brought that weapon he had in, which is inspired from the Thanos helicopter which most everybody had almost forgot all about...Originally, the Thanos-Copter was created by Larry Lieber for some kids' books called Spidey Super Stories.
Thanos was running around robbing banks with the name Thanos written on the side of his copter which always struck me as a little strange all by itself. But I tried to ignore it and I thought people had forgot about it, but they stuck it in the movie. I had a couple of writers credit me with creating it and I'm like, 'No, it wasn't me.'"
