![]() ![]() ![]() – Even though Hitler’s real life obsession with the occult is well documented, I’d like to think that Skull’s line about how “the Fuhrer digs for trinkets in the desert” is a reference to the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The tesseract is stashed in a wall sculpture of Yggdrasil, “the world tree,” and the serpent (whose eye holds the key to unlocking the tesseract’s hiding place) is Jormungandr, the serpent that Thor does battle with during the Asgardian end of days. You can see the seeds of Thor: Ragnarok hinted at here. – The ties to the Thormovies don’t end with that line about Odin’s treasure room, however. It’s general, all-purpose ability to “warp reality” is more or less in place throughout its comic book history, though, and the Red Skull has shown a fondness for it on more than one occasion…always to his undoing. …the Tesseract was something known as “The Cosmic Cube” (it was the ’60s, yo), and it was a purely technological, not magical or alien piece of superhero headache inducingness. – The Tesseract is not only “the jewel of Odin’s treasure room” (and that connection to Thorand Thor: The Dark World really doesn’t need any additional explanation, does it?), it’s one of the Infinity Stones (specifically, the space gem), the series of Maguffins that has linked the Marvel Cinematic Universe together. We’ll talk a little more about ol’ Johann Schmidt/The Red Skull in a few minutes… But the idea of Johann Schmidt as the founder of Hydra is an invention strictly for the movies. It was, however, always a post-Nazi one, led by Wolfgang Von Strucker ( remember him from the opening moments of Avengers: Age of Ultron?) and it did get some support from the Red Skull. The thing is, the Hydra of the comics was never really a WWII-era organization. Hydra first appeared in Strange Tales #135 in 1965, and like most awesome things in these movies, was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. – This film also marks the first official appearance of Hydra in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. ![]() I’d like to think this was an intentional nod, but it probably wasn’t. In the infamous 1990 Cannon Films movie (a flick that I kind of have a soft spot for, but that’s an article for another time), where there was absolutely no such thing as a “Marvel Cinematic Universe,” it was a German oil team who found the Capcicle. – The crash site being found by a “Russian oil team” however, kind of mirrors a less celebrated piece of Captain America history. Here, it’s SHIELD who are tasked with reviving Captain America, which makes sense, as they’re the ones who end up forming the Avengers in the first place. ![]()
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