okay so i’ve been diving into marvel easter eggs lately and i keep hitting this wall where i feel like i’m using the wrong lens for the whole thing. my background is in literary analysis mostly old manuscripts and textual variants, so every time i watch a marvel movie i’m hunting for narrative callbacks or symbolic foreshadowing, and that’s fine as far as it goes but then i see people online pointing out stuff like a specific brand of coffee cup in the background that connects to a deleted scene from a franchise i’ve never seen, and i’m just standing there thinking wait that’s not how clues work in literature. like in a novel an object matters because the author deliberately placed it in the text and the text is fixed, but marvel movies have reshoots and vfx changes and marvel has a whole editorial team who might be planting these for the fans or they might just be set dressers having fun. so i guess my framework is wrong? what i’m trying to figure out is whether i need to stop thinking of these as intentional authorial signals and start thinking of them as a kind of ambient worldbuilding that only gets connected retroactively by the fanbase, or if there’s actually a secret layer of genuine breadcrumbs that the filmmakers all agree on across different directors and writers. i keep catching obvious ones like stan lee cameos or the tesseract but the deep stuff like a number on a building that matches a comic issue number feels accidental to me, but everyone else treats it like proof of a master plan. am i overthinking the intentionality part or is my whole approach here just fundamentally misaligned with how this medium works
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Returning to fan theories and Easter eggs after two years off
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