We already know about the revealing post-end-credits scenes in the Iron Man and The Incredible films that tie these two properties of the Marvel Universe together (Spoilers: see Iron Man and Incredible Hulk scenes).
Now it’s been discovered that the two films also include nods to another Marvel property — Captain America.
/Film points out a blue serum in one of the latest photos from The Incredible Hulk, which is supposed to be the serum used to turn Steve Rogers into the super-soldier Captain America. I remembered something being brought up about this at the panel for The Incredible Hulk at the New York Comic Con last month. So, I went through my notes and sure enough, producer Kevin Feige confirms to the crowd, which had just been shown footage of the film, that the serum is a Captain America reference.
“Did you guys see the color of the serum? It’s Captain America’s color. So there you go.”
Holding the blue serum in the photo is Tim Nelson Blake as Samuel Sterns in human form. In the comics, Sterns is a janitor at the lab where Dr. Banner works, which is where he too is exposed to gamma radiation and becomes the Hulk’s nemesis, The Leader.
On the unconfirmed side, FirstShowing cleverly spotted a scene in Iron Man about an hour and 30 minutes into the film in which we see what looks like Captain America’s red, white, and blue shield in the background of Tony Stark’s workshop. (See photo below from FS, the shield’s at bottom left.)
In the comics, Tony Stark does not create the iconic shield, but he does make modifications to it for Captain America at one point.
Marvel announced last week the release date for First Avenger: Captain America (working title) as May 6, 2011, as well as a second Avengers movie due in July 2011.
[...] Leterrier is referring a scene in Iron Man in Tony Stark’s workshop where Captain America’s red, white, and blue shield can be seen in the background. Regarding the Captain America cameo in The Incredible Hulk, there’s been no reports from people who attended preview screenings to confirm this. What we do know is that the blue serum that is used to turn Steve Rogers into the super-soldier Captain America is scene in the Incredible Hulk (see ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Incredible Hulk’ Tip Hat to ‘Captain America’). [...]
Okay, this is the deal. I saw both movies. In Ironman, you see the shield, and Samuel L. Jackson plays Nick Fury at the end. In The Incredible Hulk, our U.S. army has the super-soldier serum that was made for Captain America. The serum is cryogetically frozen. The scientist Sterns, in the movie, makes hulk serums from Banner’s blood. Tim Roth’s character takes the Super-soldier Serum, and then takes the scientist’s hulk serum later. This causes him to become the “Abomination.” He gets angry, and knocks Sterns to the floor. When the camera shows Sterns’ face, his head starts to swell quite a bit. The comic’s villain the leader was green with a swollen brain shaped head. They intertwined these aspects into the hulk movie, and made it work out great.
Oh and I forgot, at the end of Hulk, General Ross is taking shots of alcohol in a bar. In walks Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr. of course. They talk, and Tony tells the General to stop worrying about the Hulk. He is going to assemble a team, and they need the Hulk. It ends the scene with a puzzled look in the General’s eye.
[...] America’s shield we see in the background of Tony Stark’s workshop in Iron Man (see ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Incredible Hulk’ Tip Hat to ‘Captain America’). Feige was also the one that confirmed at the New York Comic Con that the blue serum seen in The [...]
i think that tony is building the sheild for captain america!!!!