11 Hidden Meanings in Marvel Movie Clothing and Accessories That You May Have Missed

The Marvel Cinematic Universe movies have more detail than we can imagine. Even having seen the productions countless times, certain details go unnoticed, such as, for example, what is the meaning of the necklace worn by Black Widow, or how Captain America manages to carry his shield on his back, without the help of a visible support?

That’s why the awesome.club brings 11 costume details and accessories from the Marvel movies, with countless meanings and curiosities.

One of the last appearances of Stan Lee, the creator of many of these characters, was in captain marvel🇧🇷 However, we barely notice him when he appears reading a script entitled Mallrats (or Barred in the Mall, in Brazil), a film in which Stan himself was involved. As if this coincidence wasn’t enough, mallrats was released in 1995, the same year as the setting of Captain Marvel.

New Zealand director and actor Taika Waititi brought the character of Korg to life in the film Thor Ragnarok. Already in Avengers: Endgame We saw him wearing a pineapple print shirt and shorts set. In fact, Waititi himself wore the same outfit during a Comic-Con to promote Thor: Ragnarok🇧🇷

In the movie Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier, we see Black Widow sporting a necklace with a small silver arrow. The Russo brothers and Scarlett Johansson herself, in the role of the spy, confirmed the use of the necklace by the character, a tribute to Hawkeye, thus demonstrating her deep connection with him.

When Nick Fury addresses the Captain to tell him his first mission, we see the latter training, but we possibly don’t notice his shoes: Converse sneakers. According to a Reddit user’s explanation, this might seem like an insignificant detail, but the brand, he recalled, has been around since 1908 and made shoes for soldiers during World War II. So, probably his choice was made out of pure nostalgia.

In the second film of the friendly Spider-Man of the MCU, we can see Peter Parker wearing the uniform already used in Spider-Man: Homecoming is at Avengers: Infinity Waras well as the Iron Spider exoskeleton, as well as sporting two new ones: one stealthy and one made by Peter himself.

Few noticed the newest acquisition made by Rocket in Avengers: Endgame, that red scarf. After the events in Avengers: Infinity War, Rocket starts using this accessory to honor the memory of Peter Quill, with whom he strengthens his bond in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. two.

All Kree warriors wear uniforms of the same colors, the difference is in the symbol they wear on their chests. Captain Marvel’s has an eight-pointed star. In fact, it’s the only one with that detail. Additionally, the mohawk helmet, a reference to his popular appearance in the 2012 comics, uses the same technology as Star-Lord, in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Captain America’s emblematic shield was not always round, it once had a triangular shape, as we could see in Captain America: The First Avenger and how he appeared in the character’s early comics. On the other hand, in the movie Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier, we see the Captain using his round shield on his back, not needing an apparent support. The creators explained that there is a magnet, responsible for fixing it to the back. What ingenuity!

Tony Stark, Iron Man, loves perfecting his armor, so he’s always testing new prototypes. But maybe we overlooked the fact that there is a hidden meaning behind each one, other than the reference to the iconic Iron Man armors in the comics. For example, the Mark I, built by him in prison, is a reference to the character’s first appearance in the comics🇧🇷 and the Mark III, gold, is an allusion to the Golden Avenger.

Since Tony Stark’s creation of his first ARC reactor in prison, with the help of Ho Yinsen, this artifact has been central to the workings of his heart. However, in Iron Man 3, Tony decides to remove it from his body and we see him for the first time without that glowing triangle on his chest. Despite this, he came back to surprise us later and appeared again with the ARC reactor, especially in The Avengers: Infinity War.

The explanation is very simple: Iron Man’s armor needs the ARC reactor to work, so Tony brings a kind of chest plate.

Many have wondered why the Hulk didn’t want to transform, when his teammates in Avengers: Infinity War they needed him most, especially after seeing him fight in Wakanda over the course of the film. The directors, the Russo brothers, explained that they did this on purpose to deceive fans, as they did not intend to show Hulk in this film, but rather to give more prominence to his alter ego, Bruce Banner.

What other detail have you noticed in the Marvel movies that we have completely missed?