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The Marvel Universe has exploded into the mainstream in recent years with the Avengers/Thor/Hulk franchises blowing up in theatres.
Here are 24 facts about the Marvel Universe many fans don't know.
3/24. After Thor takes Loki off the Quinjet down on the mountain side, two large ravens fly by them as they are talking. In Norse mythology, their father, Odin, had two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, who would bring Odin information from Midgard (Earth).
4/24. Iron Man was the first Marvel film to make 1 billion dollars (muahaha).
5/24. The shocked expression of Loki after being slammed by Hulk was created by animation director Marc Chu shaking Tom Hiddleston violently and repeatedly.
6/24. When Natasha Romanoff and Bruce Banner are blasted to a lower deck of the Helicarrier, it triggers Banner's transformation into the Hulk. As he is transforming, he falls from a platform to the floor. On the floor is painted "WARNING CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE" with small arrows, which happen to be pointing to Banner.
7/24. The laboratory scene where Bruce Banner explains how he once attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the mouth is a direct reference to a deleted scene from "The Incredible Hulk" where Edward Norton's Bruce Banner tried to commit suicide in this manner out in the middle of Alaska's wilderness only to be stopped by his transformation into the Hulk.
8/24. Mark Ruffalo states it was an honour to take over as Bruce Banner from his friend Edward Norton: "Ed has bequeathed this part to me, I look at it as my generation's Hamlet." Norton was originally going to reprise his role, but negotiations fell through.
9/24. Hulk is roaring, growling etc it's Ferrigno, but it's Ruffalo who speaks the Hulk's only four words in the film, "Your life" (after falling through the floor of the flying fortress) and "Puny GOD" (after beating Loki in the Stark Tower).
10/24. Chris Hemsworth had to increase and expand his dietary/food intake in order to maintain the physique he built up for "Thor", consisting of chicken breasts, fish, steak and eggs every day (Hemsworth said he had to consume "his body weight in protein.").
11/24. According to Joss Whedon, the film is strongly influenced by the early 1960s Avengers comics, which he was a fan of while growing up: "In those comics these people shouldn't be in the same room let alone on the same team - and that is the definition of family."
12/24. Tony Stark tells Bruce Banner that he admires his work on anti-electron collisions. When electrons and anti-electrons (also known as positrons) collide, they annihilate each other and high-energy photons or gamma rays (the fictional means by which Bruce Banner became The Hulk) are produced in their place.
13/24. The filmmakers secured the rights from Columbia Pictures to feature OsCorp Tower from The Amazing Spider-Man in New York. Unfortunately, by then digital rendering of the skyline was already complete and it could not appear.
14/24. Joss Whedon's code name for Avengers was Group Hug.
15/24. Thor has been knocked off screen three times.
16/24. In the movie, Captain America is a founding member. In the comics, Captain America was unfrozen in Avengers #4 when he was accidentally discovered when the team was looking for Namor the Sub Mariner. Sub Mariner is to Marvel as Aquaman is to DC.
17/24. The name "chitauri" originates from Zulu mythology and is used to describe a "serpent race from the sky".
18/24. Joaquin Phoenix was once rumored to play the hulk.
19/24. In order to create a total extraterrestrial look for the Chitauri, they have four thumbs, two on each hand. This can be seen when Loki is talking with The Other.
20/24. The outdoor scenes which were supposed to take place in Germany, but were filmed in downtown Cleveland, contained numerous Cleveland Historical landmarks including; Tower City, Higbee Building & Casino, Renaissance Building, and the Soldiers & Sailors Monument.
21 Altough SHIELD possesses future technology such as the Helecarrier or the futuristic shuttles, some outdated aircraft can still be seen on the carrier. There is a huge number of Alpha-Jets, a German-French co-production that were put out of service by the German air forces in 1993. And we see some AV-8B Harrier II+, the night attack variant of the Sea Harrier, that is recognizable by its stretched nose and is still in service with the US Marine Corps. Finally there is the latest and most capable aircraft on board: the F-35 Lightning II that is about to be put in service by many air forces throughout the world
22 The character the minion is talking to in the credits is Thanos the Mad Titan, a major supervillain in the Marvel Universe. He is a cosmic mass murderer who is literally in love with the personification of Death (like, literally Death. They have a thing. And it's beyond creepy but also slightly endearing), which is why he is smiling at the phrase, "To court death." Thanos' powers include: super human strength, durability, super intelligence, energy manipulation, telekinesis and teleportation.
23/24. Loki's staff which has a glowing blue gem in the spear head that allows him to control the minds of others. This is a possible reference to the Mind Gem, one of the six Infinity Gems used by Thanos the Mad Titan, shown in the post-credits scene.
24. These are the aforementioned Infinity Gems. Whoever holds all six gems in the Infinity Gauntlet gains omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, God-like power, and absolute dominion over all realities. The Gauntlet was a little Easter egg in "Thor" and at the end of "Thor 2", Lady Sif and Volstagg take the Aether to The Collector (which brings us to Guardians of the Galaxy). They say that it would be "unwise" to keep the Aether with the Tesseract. This leads us to believe that the Tesseract is also an Infinity Stone. These little easter eggs help set up for a much larger story line in the works.
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