Captain Marvel: 20 Easter Eggs And References Explained
11. Pulp Fiction
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Everyone's favourite Flerken Goose may have stolen every scene he was in, but Ben Mendelsohn's Talos was equally as brilliant.
A through and through villain in the comics, Talos is reimagined in Captain Marvel as a rebel determined to free his people from the boot of Kree oppression, and he's incredibly charismatic while doing so. However, when Carol and Fury arrive at Maria Rambeau's home, Talos arrives as a villain, and his intimidation tactics are remarkably similar to those deployed by Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction, which was released in 1994.
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Entering the house, Talos can be seen sipping on a paper cup in a way not all that dissimilar to the way Jules does it in Quentin Tarantino's nineties opus. Tenuous? Perhaps, but the way in which Mendelsohn's alien sips on his cool, refreshing beverage was always going to draw comparisons.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
