(Warning: Contains spoilers for Captain America: Civil War.)
What is a Marvel movie without a ton of Easter eggs to satisfy us fanpeeps? Well, Captain America: Civil War isn't your average superhero film, so the usually rules don't apply.
That is to say, don't expect to spot the Infinity Gauntlet, a Cosmic Cube and the Inhuman royal family lying about in the background. But that doesn't mean that directors Antony and Joe Russo didn't sneak in a few sly (and one giant) references into their movie.
1. The Giant-Man cometh
Superfans may have suspected this was coming already thanks to Funko's spoilerific vinyl figure, but Ant-Man's sudden switch to giant mode will still have come as a surprise for most of us.
While Scott Lang has never technically gone by the 'Giant-Man' codename in the comics, it originated with the first Ant-Man Hank Pym, and Lang does have the power to go supersize.
2. Spider-Man's heavy lifting
When Spider-Man is left struggling under the weight of a plane boarding gate during the big airport showdown, it brings to mind this classic scene from 1966's Amazing Spider-Man #33.
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All that was missing was the water pouring down on Tom Holland's head.
3. Vision and Scarlet Witch romance
They didn't really get any time on screen together in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but Civil War is quick to establish a rapport between Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany's Vision – and to make it a complex one, with Vision playing both Wanda's friend and jailer.
In the comics, the pair eventually got married, though things fell apart in one of the darkest and most bizarre stories in superhero comics. In a nutshell: he loses his emotions, she creates magical children out of pieces of the soul of the demon Mephisto and eventually goes insane. Hopefully Marvel Studios will spare them that.
4. Spider-banter
Spider-Man is famous for his in-fight banter, and the Russo brothers don't skimp on it here. Anthony Mackie's Falcon is less impressed when they go toe-to-toe. "There's not normally this much talking," he tells the newbie superhero.
5. The Secret Warriors connection
For a relatively obscure, standalone story about Nick Fury, Marvel Studios do seem keen on drawing from Jonathan Hickman's Secret Warriors comic. Captain America: The Winter Soldier adopted the idea of SHIELD being infiltrated by Hydra, and Agents of SHIELD introduced its own Secret Warriors team in season three.
It's less overt here, but the Hydra connection and the lost Siberian base with its supersoldiers preserved in jars say that the Russos haven't forgotten the comic – though they take the story somewhere more subtle than Secret Warriors' exploding Russian insect men climax.
(Comic book Zemo would have made a fine stand-in for fellow aristocratic fascist terrorist Baron Strucker in Secret Warriors, although as we saw Daniel Bruhl's take on the character strays very, very far from his namesake.)
6. "Homecoming"
One of the string of words used to trigger Bucky's brainwashing is 'homecoming', which we recently learned is the subtitle of Tom Holland's first solo film, Spider-Man: Homecoming.
7. A prison for superheroes
The imprisoning of superheroes was a controversial part of the original Civil War comic and one of the most out-of-character actions of Tony Stark and his allies. The use of an interdimensional prison in the Negative Zone made the whole thing even more extreme.
In the film, the rogue Avengers are locked up in the Raft – an Alcatraz-style jail for superhumans in New York's East River in the comics – and while Tony may not be the man in charge, the grim implications are the same.
8. Nomad
Steve Rogers has quit as Captain America more than once – and it's pretty clear that his abandonment of his shield marks a new, underground era for the supersoldier.
Here's hoping that we're spared the costume that went along with his most famous non-Cap identity, Nomad.
9. Avengers schism
The New Avengers comic book series was launched after an event which shattered the original Avengers team, but they really came in their own during the Civil War event as a group of superheroes opposed to registration – as compared to Iron Man's pro-registration Mighty Avengers team.
And it looks like that's just what we've ended up with, now the Steve has broken his friends out of the raft and is hiding with them in Wakanda. This might just be the beginning of an Avenger vs Avenger world.
10. Wakanda retreat
Cap's team aren't the first Avengers to hide out in Black Panther's home nation Wakanda.
As readers of Hickman's recent New Avengers series will remember, it was also the home base of Iron Man's team of alternate-reality Earth destroying Illuminati – whose members also included Black Panther and the star of Marvel's next movie, Doctor Strange.
