61 Easter Eggs In Marvel What If Episode 2 Breakdown + Thanos Explained & ALL MARVEL REFERENCES
12The star lord scene in the beginning of the episode is different from where in the movie, star lord, the legendary outlaw is not a name that is recognized, but in this one he is known universe wide.
Ronan gets a name drop in this episode, Ronan being the big bad of Guardians 1, and I’m honestly shocked we didn’t see him in any capacity in this episode, like wouldn’t he come looking for djimon hounsou’s character after he didn’t return with the power stone?
Yondu
Not to mention the highest bidder would usually be the broker from guardians 1
T’Challa says to yondu, wouldn’t you rather use it, the power stone, to power a krylorian
Yondu says to t'challa that's my boy, and we know it's not until the second movie that star lord and yondu acknowledge their father son relationship, and this episode of what if is a riff on the first guardians film
The ravager ship says Mandela on it,
Wakanda 1988
T’Challa’s father is wearing the same costume he did in black panther
T’Challa’s dad talks about how Wakanda is better off being cut off from the world
For a brief moment you can see the watcher
Ego
Taserface and Kraglin
Young peter quill we
The meteorite of vibranium
Tarnax IV is the homeworld of the skrulls, and that gets a reference
Ankara, like Turkey’s capital on earth, gets a reference
We get a surprising cameo from thanos in this where T’Challa talked him out of his evil ways
Drax is in this episode with a cameo himself
Apparently, T’Challa stopped the Kree invasion on his homeworld, which means that his wife and daughter are alive and drax was never thrown in prison
Nebula looks like how normal nebula would look minus the robotic parts and I don’t know if the reason is that Thanos never implanted robotics in her because T’Challa talked him out of his evil ways early, or it was that Nebula bested gamora in combat and it is gamora who is the robotic one, I have no idea
T’Challa says Thanos gardens now, we know that Thanos retreats to The Garden at the end of infinity war where he does just that, gardening
The collector is looking ripped in this episode, aside from his short self in the guardians film
Robin hood is what Yondu attempts to compare Star Lord to in this episode, robin hood stealing from the rich and giving to the poor like T’Challa
The Gamora and starlord scene where the camera pans around them as they discuss the plan is the same shot seen in this what if episode with nebula and t'challa
Knowhere we visit in the episode, same deal from guardians
The black order is featured in the episode heavily, each one of them
Carina from guardians 1 is back, but her rebellion works in her favor this time around instead of dying
Cosmo the dog we see in this in the same shot from the guardians film
We see a dark elf from the dark world
Howard the duck is shown too
Kronans get a reference, like korg
Frost giants get a reference
When your out of luck always go duck, is the same thing that howard the duck
We have a ravager ship that looks the closest to the Milano in this shot
Next to it is a nova corps ship
The grandmasters ship from ragnarok
The kree armada ship too
A quinjet
And one of those mining orbs from knowhere
When t’challa runs by the wakandan ship, his necklace glows blue, just like how the wakandan inscription on the inside of their lips glow blue
When Yondu yells at t’challa you’re just like me! That is taken directly from guardians 2 where yondu sympathizes with rocket, telling him that they are exactly like each other
The rock hand that the collector has he says he got it off the corpse of a terribly chatty kronan which he is talking about our terribly chatty kronan korg, who is dead in this universe
The weapons that The Collector has are cap’s shield
The dagger here is Melkith’s from the dark world
Helas crown is used heavily in the final fight
Necrosword is the name of helas swords, the necrosword even being the weapon that Knull makes, and gorr the godbutcher uses, Gorr being the big bad of Thor 4, so we could see that
Guardians main theme song plays when yondu joins the fight against the collector
When escaping the collection some of the black panther music plays briefly
Space Age Love Song, an 80s pop song, plays as we see peter quill in the last scene of the episode
Which of course we see Ego
And Ego’s egg ship, but not accompanied by mantis which is weird
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