MCU: 10 Fascinating Facts Behind The Incredible Hulk (2008)

3. General Ross' Cocktail

Some of the most pleasing Easter Eggs in the MCU are the ones that are barely even noticeable. Like the missing ones James Gunn is still insisting haven't been found in Guardians Of The Galaxy, for instance.

The Incredible Hulk's best Easter Egg is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it one, but one that also has DEEP subtext to it. In the post-credits sequence, General Ross is seen drinking a cocktail as he drowns his sorrows. It turns out that cocktail is an Incredible Hulk, made of equal parts Hennessy cognac and Hpnotiq liqueur (hence the lurid green colour).

It's not just a gag either: it represents Ross' dependancy on Hulk as well as the dangerous dynamic it causes. He says in Civil War that the stress basically almost killed him, and if there's a better metaphor for that than him self-medicating with a cocktail named after the thing causing his pain, it must be pretty special.