Ant-Man was released this last Friday. And while it failed to impress at the US box-office (when compared to other Marvel movies), it actually made a heap of cash worldwide. In this way, the movie fell short of the estimates (which saw it released to around $60 million – $65 million) with $58 million in US, thus marking the lowest opening weekend for Marvel since The Incredible Hulk. Still, it won the weekend and made about $115 million worldwide. To be noted, it is also one of the cheapest Marvel movies, at around $130 million.
But this isn't the point. Even if it is a rather small superhero movie (there is a joke in here somewhere), Ant-Man connects the dots and easily installs itself in the larger MCU. Check out the most relevant Easter-Eggs below!
Of course, these are spoilers "“ so consider yourself warned! Oh, and here are also the credits scenes"¦ So, again: HUGE SPOILERS!
Ant-Man and Spider-Man
Let's get this out of the way: Ant-Man is the first Marvel movie to make a reference about the web-crawler. Which is exactly how Spider-Man is referred: the one that crawls. It is Michael Pena who mentions Peter Parker's alter-ego, in a scene in which Thor (the one that swings) and Hulk (the one that jumps) are also mentioned. So Age of Ultron was already wrapped and that is why they couldn't insert the Oscorp building in the New York skyline.
No problem for Ant-Man!
On the next page, more Avengers references!
