Hawk-eyed fans of the Marvel cinematic world have landed a mind-blowing Easter egg at the 2008 movie The unbelievable Hulk. It has a Steve Rogers-turning-into-Captain America connection. The movie released three years before Captain America made his silver screen debut through Marvel’s superhero franchise at Captain America: The First Avenger. However, it’s an extremely minute detail in the Edward Norton starrer movie that joins Steve Roger’s past and Bruce banner’s future.
In The Incredible Hulk, Bruce Banner fights a dangerous adversary called Emil Blonsky, who absorbs a”super tan” to change to the superpowered villain known in Marvel comics as”Abomination.” In the movie, the container with all the serum that is injected in Blonsky has a label that reads”Dr.Reinstein”- the programmer of this formulation. Now, in the comic books,” Reinstein” is the codename for Dr.Abraham Erskine, the scientist whose”super serum” turned into the lanky boy Steve Rogers into Captain America. Coincidence?
Another thread links the ferocious X-Men, Wolverine, but also to Captain America and Abomination. The concept suggests that in the film, the army program which resisted the testing of the serum on Blonsky, giving birth to Abomination, is referred to as”Weapon Plus.” In Marvel comics, the first iteration of this”Weapon Plus” program made Captain America, and the tenth created Wolverine, the X-Men enthusiast who was called”Weapon X.”
Lately, a screenshot from one of those scenes from the first Captain America film in 2011 went viral as lovers believed that the film called COVID-19. It’s concealed in Captain America: The First Avenger if Steve Rogers wakes up after being frozen for 70 years’ scene. In the scene, Chris Evans can be seen operating up to Times Square in New York and waking in Modern-day America.
Some hints pointing to the pandemic in the kind of advertisements could be seen from the framework, as he looks around. Behind the right shoulder of Chris, a bottle of Corona beer could be viewed, whereas the other hand features an illustration of the virus itself.