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The old woman with the gun in the shop is directly from the comics
Except wasn't she Peggy in the comics or something?
Yeah.
I thought The way Cap found Bucky strapped to that table and the state he was in was major foreshadowing for the Winter Soldier.
X-13 was what she was called in the original comics
Wasn't she first introduced somewhere between issues 30-40?? I'm trying to think off the top of my head which exact issue, but I know it was in those early Stan Lee runs.
Also the weapons used by Hydra have the same sound effect as Iron Man's repulsors. Considering Howard finds the tesserect, that must also somehow tie to the ARC reactor.
**PLEASE NOTE THIS THREAD CONTAINS HEAVY SPOILERS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK**
Here are the ones I found. Let me know if I missed any. I divided them up by franchise to make it easier.
Iron Man
-Howard Stark helped created the tech to create him and was directly involved in much operational planning and even missions
-Stark Industries responsible for most of the tech in the film
-Rogers attends a Stark Expo
-Shield made of Vibranium- what Tony is able to reproduce with his fathers clues in IM2
-Howard Stark finds the lost Tesseract at the end
Thor
-Tesseract a weapon left on earth by Odin during his battle with the Frost Giants in 965 AD in Norway (as shown in Thor)
-Yggdrasil wall art hides the Tesseract
-Asgardians were the "Gods" referenced throughout the film
-When the Tesseract reveals its true powers to Red Skull (before consuming him) the heavens are shown much like in Thor
Hulk
-Red Skulls deformed appearance is explained by his body's rejection of the serum because he was not worthy. It also drives him even madder. This is exactly what happens to Blonsky/Abomination in The Incredible Hulk.
-Super Soldier Serum is administered in a very similar way as it is to Blonsky in Hulk.
SHIELD
-Set up elaborate attempt to confuse Steve Rogers that it's still the 1940s in order to ease him into the present.
-Nick Fury appears at the end to tell him the truth.
General
-Stan Lee cameoed as a military officer at a Medal of Valor presentation for Steve, that he decides not to attend in order to keep fighting.
-Arnim Zola is first introduced as a giant distorted face on a screen
-Red Skull mentions that "the Fuhrer is too busy digging for trinkets in the desert" to look for a much more powerful item like the Tesseract. A direct reference to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (which Johnston worked on- and borrowed from heavily in this film)
-Red Skull's death at the hands of the Tesseract was very similar to how the Lost Ark killed the Nazis in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
I saw the Torch scene but at the time couldn't quite place who he was. I would've liked to have seen Dr Phineas Horton mentioned or even appearing in person.
Another "Easter Egg" I would've liked would've been some actual Nazis with swastikas, and a swastika flag. That was sadly missing from the movie.