9 WTF Moments In Captain America: Civil War

8) The Dean Makes A Cameo

Civil War is packed with so many surprise appearances that it’s hard to keep up. There’s Hope Davis as Tony Stark’s mother; Martin Freeman as Everett Ross, Joint Counter Terrorism Center big shot and Black Panther ally; and Marisa Tomei as Peter Parker’s “surprisingly attractive” (Tony Stark’s words) Aunt May. Oh, and there’s also Jim Rash, aka the Dean from Community, showing up as an MIT faculty member that pesters Stark for grant money.

Anthony and Joe Russo – former producers and directors on Community – appear to be making their Community/MCU crossover cameos into a regular thing, with Rash’s appearance following Danny Pudi’s brief turn in Winter Soldier as a S.H.I.E.L.D. technician. Rash’s appearance in Civil War is just as bizarre: both feel like inside-joke cameos and almost as though the Russos have allowed characters from their old universe to spill over into their new one.