CONSPIRACY AMERICAN

Stumbling through the wreckage of Youtube the other day I came across this interesting assortment of conspiracy videos. No, these were not about how "bush knocked down the towers", they were about how Marvel Comics legend, Captain America, had been cleverly and very subtly implanted in the first to releases from Marvel Studios last summer, Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. Now for those who don't know (most of you I suspect), the Captain was a hero in WWII and was thought dead after his plane was shot down. He was found three decades later frozen in a block of ice in Antarctica and returned to action shortly afterward with superhero superteam, The Avengers.



The one in Iron Man is pretty easy to spot, right behind Tony Stark as Pepper Pots catches him trying to get out of his suit. It's the famous shield Captain America uses apparently contracted to Stark Industries for production. The clip from the alternate beginning to The Incredible Hulk however, comes a bit faster and is much harder to pick up. After Bruce Banner transforms and crushes and ice cliff, you can see a blurry red and blue figure in the ice with a circular red blue object, complete with a white star in the middle lying next to him.

Both clips only last for a couple seconds, but they're real and for a nerds like me everywhere seeing it for the first time it's quite a treat. You know that Christmas gift you got one year? The one that that ruined all the following Christmases because it was so damn good and set the bar so high that every other gift was just a pathetic disappointment? This is that gift. Hopefully Marvel Studios won't turn into my friends and family and let me down year after year too.


This of course is just another tease at the planned Captain America and Avengers films by Marvel. This cameo just isn't as easily spotted as Nick Fury and Tony Stark in Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, respectively. I'm really looking forward to what Marvel has in store 2010, onward. Wolverine however, I might just have sit out on for now after -ahem- previewing it last month. After all, the script's by the same guy that managed to ruin the Hitman movie.

The video below is the best I found to sum up this delicious easter egg. It features stills of both clips and makes them pretty easy to see. If you want to see the actual clips you can do your own research. With things on Youtube the way they are I figured posting them here would lead to a "this video has been removed due to blah blah blah" anyway and didn't bother.


Anyway, enough lollygagging. Here it is, Captain America as featured in Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. Enjoy!





VS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4H2OqymsXw


-Brien







If you're any kind of comic book fan you'd know that Captain America didn't have a circular sheild until AFTER he was unfrozen, but I suppose comic book adaptations pride themselves on how inaccurate they are these days. Unless you're Zack Snyder of course.