Avengers: Infinity War - 23 WTF Moments

19. Lucky Strike Adverts In A Disney Film

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When Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian arrive in New York looking for Doctor Strange and the Time Stone, they wreak havoc on the streets in battle with Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Wong and Spider-Man including flagrantly disregarding the city's fleet of yellow taxi cabs. Seriously, this sequence hates taxis as much as Suicide Squad hates helicopters.

As a weird little quirk of there being so many cabs, for a couple of seconds, one shot in the sequence has a giant advert for cIgarette brand Lucky Strike in the foreground on top of one of the cabs, as the action happens behind it. Given the rules about tobacco advertising this is already strange, but it's a bloody Disney film, aimed at families and thanks to the 3D technology used in the scene, it's actually in focus right at the front of the screen.

Captain America would never approve.

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