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October 28, 2024

Today, we’re pouring one out, kissing our fingers and pointing to our ol’ pal Stan in the sky. What a gem. How can one man bring so many great characters to life?

He truly inspired us to bring these facts to life here today. We’re sadly unable to drum up well-rounded, world-renowned heroes and villains that garner billions of dollars, but we’re content with drumming up facts about said heroes and villains. And a few about Stan himself. So, like the movies, he makes a little cameo here on this list.

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A Big Helping Of Little-Known About Movies (And Other Stuff)There's a deleted -credits scene from Guardians of the Galaxy 2. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The alien UI in Guardians of the Galaxy recognizes a legendary Earth creator. GR tCIS AREL5ICM ascushzc 1H 73r 10oo MA When Rocket Raccoon him, zooms

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Stan Lee

CRACKED MARVEL SCREWED OVER STAN LEE Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-Man, had to take Marvel Comics to court and eventually won a huge victory. Не was awarded 10% of the profits from any movies or TV shows based on his Marvel Comics superheroes. — The Guardian / Looper

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Deadpool breaking Cerebro wasn't in the Deadpool 2 script -- it was an accident, and they used that take. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Deadpool 2

The neon Chinese sign on the rooftop in Deadpool 2 literally translates to deadpool. THIS SKEE LIS Flipped image II II Deadpool CRACKED.COM the the — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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DEADPOOL In Deadpool 2, the Hawaiian shirt Deadpool wears in the tiny legs scene is a nod to Chunk's shirt from The Goonies. That film also featured

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Avengers: Infinity War was partly based on 1990s heist movies, it turns out. Co-director Joe Russo said that Structurally, with this first film, Avengers 3, we've been using the smash-n-grab '90s heist films, so there's a real urgency to the film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MARVEL STUDIOS GUARDIANS OF GALAXY THE VOl. 2 SEAAE BFE4 The text on Chris Pratt's T-shirt in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 reads Gear Shift, which

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Easter eggs in Marvel deleted scenes Avengers: Endgame silver surfer There's a rumored deleted Silver Surfer scene that's being kept under wraps, as it may be reused in the future. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Easter Eggs in Marvel Deleted Scenes

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Avengers: Endgame now seems like an iconic name, but it wasn't Plan А. And what actually was Plan A? It was Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet, which is kind of as literal as you can get. CRACKED COM — Source

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Vin Diesel Has A Special Groot Script For Guardians Of The Galaxy. OF GUARDIANS GALAXY THE by Written Gunn James Diesel Despite his character only eve

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The Hulk

It's a wonder we didn't have an Avengers TV show in the '80S. The Incredible Hulk was the most successful, but Captain America, Thor, and Doctor Strange all had their own abortive TV attempts. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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A CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS THE AVENGERS AND THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN The Oscorp tower was to be put into The Avengers, but time ran out and no references remain. OSCORP CRACKED.COM — Source: IGN

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THE AVENGERS HAVE MATCHING TATTOOS. K DE INK CRACKED c COM After finishing Avengers: Endgame, Scarlett Johansson got the idea for all six original Avengers to get matching tattoos. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and Jeremy Renner got inked but Mark Ruffalo chickened out due to his fear of — Entertainment Weekly

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When Captain America says, Avengers Assemble, he means Howard the Duck EVERYONE, damn it. MARVEL AVENGERS ENDGAME STUDIOS CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Avengers

Stan Lee created the Avengers because that was the easiest way to get a comic book out in time. AVENGERS The art on Daredevil #1 was running't late, a

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CHARACTERS TURNING INTO MONSTERS SPIDER-MAN BECOMES A MAN-SPIDER In Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Peter's initial radioactive spider bite evolves into him becoming more spider and less man. (Не gets better, though.) CRACKED.COM — Marvel Entertainment Group
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SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME EASTER EGGS GO WEB GO Web block. In the famous leaked shot of Garfield, he asks Maguire if he ever gets web block-a reference to the erectile dysfunction- esque plot of Spider-Man 2 in which Maguire! Peter loses his powers because... he's sad? CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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n EASTER EGGSTRA! INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE The Times Square images. The screens show that the movie doesn't take place in our version of Earth. HOLD DUSx Sa PLA IG YOUR HORSES D Shaun of the Dead has become From Dusk 'Till THE GOLDE: BOY Shaun, Blue Man Group STEPHEN CURRY — Vanity Fair

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The X-Men (Again)

The X-Men almost ended up not being called X-Men at all. Stan Lee wanted to call them The Mutants, but his publisher nixed the idea, claiming that readers just wouldn't be smart enough for that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Boys Professor x and Magneto met at the Vought Building. That scene early in the first X-Men movie in which the old frenemies meet? It was shot in Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, which doubles as Vought International's headquarters. CRACKED.COM — Source: The FilmTripper

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There are plenty of miniskirts in X-Men: First Class, set in 1962. They were invented two years later. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History

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DuckTales

The DUCKTALES reboot was influenced by X-MEN. Showrunners Matt Youngberg and Francisco Angones have said they took cues from Chris Claremont's X-Men comics, with their self- contained stories that feed an ongoing narrative. CRACKED.COM — Source

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X-Men: The Last Stand

X-MEN: THE LAST STAND CRACKED.COM The first 2 X-Men films were critical and financial successes, and gave us Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. The 3rd was rushed, and scheduling conflicts lead to strange character rewrites, tanking what could have been a solid trilogy. X-Men: First Class got X-Men back on track 5 years later. — Source: Looper

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Ultimate Comics

The Green Goblin from Into the Spider-Verse is based on the Ultimate comics. In that comic book series, the Green Goblin is a literal gigantic green goblin rather than a regular human (Norman Osborn) in supervillain get-up. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Comic Book Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Their Source Material

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The Avengers guested on Late Night. CRACKED.COM Letterman gets to interview the team, and even knock out a villain - a substantially better outcome than that time Frank Miller's Joker gassed him and his audience to death. — Source

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Black Panther YOUR DESC WITH YOU NOTH EVE CRACKED.COM THE COMIC THE MOVIE In both the comic and the movie, Killmonger hucks T'Challa over Warrior falls. But in 1973's Jungle Action #6, he has his trained leopard, Preyy, do his dirty work first. — Source: 15 Iconic MCU Scenes Lifted Directly From The Comics

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Tim Gunn

Tim Gunn makes the Iron Man Armor work. GRAGKED.COM Gunn helped solve a murder and save the New York Fashion Museum (by flexing and biting his lip, apparently). — Source

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Princess Diana was (briefly) a zombie mutant. CRACKED.COM Marvel brought her back from the dead to join the X-Statix. They eventually made the character a generic pop star instead, after pushback from the royal family. — Source

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STANLEE is king of the cameos SPACE issues Card % MEN CRACKED.com Bart's attempt at a new comic book hero sets off Stan's stinky sense. The boy is crestfallen, but the Marvel icon encourages Bart to keep trying. If you fail, you can always open a comic book store. — Time

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The Daily Bugle

MCU Phase One Easter Eggs Iron Man The Daily Bugle Christine Everhart, Tony Stark's antagonistic, UST-filled reporter friend, works for The Daily Bugle in the comics. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Easter Eggs in Phase One of the MCU

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The Avengers

CRACKED.COM MCU Blunders Jon Favreau After almost single-handedly launching the MCU, Jon Favreau asked for a raise to direct The Avengers. The notoriously stingy Ike Perlmutter said no, and hired someone else. — Source: Collider

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CRACKED.COM e R-MAN AN UNITED Home AIRLINE AME com SPIDER-MAN SPIDER Far From Ha From H TUDIOS MCU Blunders W-C Kevin Feige Не almost quit the MCU over Ike Perlmutter (head of Marvel Comics and MAGA stan) insisting that no one would want to see female heroes (or even villains). MAN Hame — Source: SYFY WIRE

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Captain America

What if Spider-man was in the MCU? Captain America's sidekick? Andrew Garfield almost stayed as Spider-Man, crossing over into the MCU and meeting Captain America. CRACKED.COM

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Marvel Stars from the Multiverse Saoirse Ronan was considered for the Scarlet Witch. Ronan, Sasha Pieterse-Sheaffer, and Lindsay Lohan were all considered for the role - with early concept design being partially inspired by Ronan. — Source: Screen Rant

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Wesley Snipes

Marvel Stars from the Multiverse Marvel never stopped wanting Wesley Snipes. Snipes is Blade. That was the consensus at Marvel for a long-time, trying to bring the original Blade back, before recasting as Mahershala Ali. — Source: Giant Freakin Robot

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Thor: The Dark World

Marvel Stars from the Multiverse A different Korg appeared in Thor: The Dark World. Despite Korg appearing as an enemy that Thor takes out in one hit in The Dark World, a somewhat more comic-accurate Korg appeared in Ragnarok, played by director Taika Waititi. — Source: Screen Rant

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CRACKED.COM MCU Blunders Marvel creative committee This group of writers, creators, and (mostly) toy makers weighed in and vetoed decisions throughout the first two and a half phases of the MCU - before Kevin Fiege got tired of them and threatened to walk. — Source: Cinemablend

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Black Widow

Emily Blunt could have been Black Widow if it wasn't for scheduling issues. And, for the same reason, she ended up not playing Peggy Carter in the MCU either. CRACKED COM — Source

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Marvel Cinematic Universe Michael В. Jordan auditioned for the Falcon. Black Panther's Killmonger wasn't Jordan's first attempt at the MCU. Years earlier he read for the part of Sam Wilson, which eventually went to Anthony Mackie. — Source: The Daily Beast

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Morbius

MORBIUS EASTER EGGS THE BLIP Spider-Man's Vulture enters the MCU (Morbius Cinematic Universe) the same way Venom left the mainstream MCU- as a result of Doctor Strange's spell. CRACKED.COM

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MCU ACTORS AND DIRECTORS WATCH THEIR MOVIES WITH FANS. QUARAN WATCH PARTY comicbook MARVEL GUARDIANS OF FGALAXY THE VOlo 2 JOIN BY USING: WITH DIRECTO

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The MCU created a gut-wrenching connection between two fan favorites in Captain America: Civil War, by revealing that Bucky Barnes killed Tony Stark

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