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10 Awesome Moments Of Foreshadowing In Marvel Movies

With such an ardent fanbase as they have, ready to pore over every scene with a fine toothcomb, Marvel loves to tease future plotlines and characters within their movies. These are often featured in the post-credits stingers - Thanos picking up his Infinity Gauntlet at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron being a pretty obvious one. However, there are a lot of much subtler ones out there, too.
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6) Crossbones – Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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Over the course of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve Roger’s apparent ally, STRIKE commander Brock Rumlow, turns into an enemy as it is revealed he is a HYDRA agent. By the end of the film, he has suffered terrible burns, though he is still alive.

Fans will instantly recognize this as a set-up for the character becoming Crossbones, one of Captain America’s most fearsome foes in the comics. A very clever bit of foreshadowing to this is the position of the straps over his chest in his final scenes. They resemble the shape of a crossbones, as per the character’s name and the symbol he wears across his chest.

Of course, as we all know, Crossbones is set to appear in Captain America: Civil War and may well play a very important role, if the film plans to stay close to the comics…


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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'