Captain Marvel: 20 Easter Eggs And References Explained
17. Remember Blockbuster?
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Although this is less an Easter Egg and more an essential historical element, given Captain Marvel's nineties setting, Carol Danvers arriving on Earth by crashing into a Blockbuster is still perhaps the most nineties entrance ever conceived.
The film itself is set in 1995, and the tapes on display in Blockbuster fit that date too. Carol mistakenly blasts a cardboard cutout for 1994's True Lies, but there's another, potentially more significant interaction that occurs in this scene too.
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As she's about to exit the store, Danvers pauses and picks up a VHS tape of The Right Stuff, a 1983 movie that told the real-life story of the American Air Force pilots who would go onto become the nation's first astronauts.
Given Carol's history as a test pilot for the USAF, along with the fact she eventually makes it into space, the fact she dwells on the film for as long as she does makes for a pretty fantastic piece of foreshadowing.
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.
