Agents Of SHIELD: 20 Easter Eggs And In-Jokes You Probably Missed
9. Escape Of The Man-Thing!
In Nothing Personal, its cool enough that Maria Hill guest stars in the episode, and even cooler that shes chatting on the phone with Iron Man alum Pepper Potts about the hearings shes having to sit through in the wake of The Winter Soldier and her future work prospects at Stark Industries. However, once Man-Thing got a mention the comics rumour mill tripled its output. A not-so-subtle ripoff of DCs somewhat better-known Swamp Thing, Man-Thing belongs to the more horror and occultish side of the Marvel Universe thats most famously occupied by Doctor Strange, a character who was namedropped in The Winter Soldier and who Man-Thing has ties to in the comics, along with his MU wife Ellen Brandt who made an appearance in Iron Man 3 as one of Aldrich Killians Extremis soldiers. Its starting to seem like the MCUs eager to start reaching out to the more unusual corners of itself, isnt it? Man-Thing even got his own low-budget horror movie in the 1980s, a little-seen picture starring Ray Wise as the titular Thing, so Marvel are clearly gearing up for a multi-million dollar reboot of said franchise.
