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Movies & TV: 13 Subtle Tributes To Iconic Creators In Major Movies

Every creator probably deserves at least a nod.

Movies & TV: 13 Subtle Tributes To Iconic Creators In Major Movies

January 06, 2022

Sometimes, minor on-screen details hide Easter eggs that are actually homages to the person who made the thing you're watching (or something closely related). For example ...

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse pays homage to Steve Ditko. There's a contact on Miles' phone that's labeled S. Ditko, which is pretty clearly an homage to the Spider-Man co-creator. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Trek: Voyager

Gene Roddenberry's name appears on Star Trek: Voyager. U.S.S. VOYAGER NCC-WWW INTERTID CLASS STARSHIP LAUNCHED STARDIATE ABUSI EARTH! STATION McKINLEY SEX SECTOR- UNITED FEDERATION DI PLANETS - - - | - I - - Seather - Alau - - - - Card high - Smiles Mobile - / Le - - - between سعة Balls - - Bote - - - - - - - I - - The be - ينمو - Town جسم - . - - Your - Les - - - Eige - PM John Sun - I toronca SHE The N - all the Wind — Source

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Batman v Superman

Batman V Superman has a really, really well-hidden homage to Joe Shuster. Shuster is the co-creator of Superman, and was born in Ontario - and, at one point in the movie, there's a broken window and the hole in the window looks like Ontario. This was confirmed to be an intentional Easter CRAegg.OM — Source

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Ant-Man

Ant-Man kind of paid tribute to legendary Marvel artist Jack Kirby. Kurby When Ant-Man is shrunk down to tiny size, he gets sucked into a vacuum with Kirby branding (and also featuring an Omega symbol - Kirby's creation Darkseid is a character that often uses the Omega symbol).OM — Source

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Joker

Joker has kind of an obscure homage to Batman co-creator Bob Kane. DEPARTMENT - MEALTH MON - - سبيع - - JAPE The social worker we meet at the start of the movie is called Debra Kane - clearly, that name wasn't chosen by accident. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Clone Wars

They basically stuck a fictional version of George Lucas in The Clone Wars. The character in question was Baron Papanoida-who was played by Lucas himself in Revenge of the Sith in a cameo, but got a much bigger role in The Clone Wars. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home has an homage to Spider-Man's co-creator. Artist Steve Ditko co-created both Spider Man and Doctor Strange, plus all the villains in the movie - and, when Peter and MJ are chilling on the roof of the school, a graffiti behind them says DITKO. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Green Lantern

Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern movie had an homage to the original creator. e NOTIC - - / - NICE LAND NCR MAL ... - - NEXT ... BRASIL THE | f John Broome came up with Green Lantern - so they named the bar in the movie Broome's Bar. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Loki

The Ren Faire in Oshkosh, WI in Loki S1E2 wasn't chosen at random. St DRAGONELL ARMUL OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN Oshkosh is the birthplace of Mark Gruenwald, a Marvel Comics writer who spent decades at the company and kept a close eye on comics continuity. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Suicide Squad

The original Suicide Squad movie paid homage to one of its creators. John F. Ostrander FEDERAL BUILDING NORTON ST. ENTRANCE DC writer John Ostrander kind of popularized the Suicide Squad in '80s and '90s comics, and the movie features a John F. Ostrander Federal Building. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Westworld

Westworld featured an homage to the creators of another HBO show. In the third season, we get to see the repair shop for a new park - and it includes the head of Drogon, from Game of Thrones, being worked on by GoT creators Dan Weiss and David Benioff. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Justice League

There's a nod to an old-school DC writer in Zack Snyder's Justice League. IF - - - : B Gard ner Fex IS Ford WHEN When a truck almost kills Iris, it says Gard'ner Fox on the side of that truck- which is a nod to DC writer Gardner Fox, who co-created Flash and the Justice League. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cobra Kai

The Kamen Estates Wines in Cobra Kai season 4 is kind of an homage. KAMEN Silver kicks a bottle from Kamen Estates in his cellar at the end of the season's first episode - and that's a real vineyard, that happens to be owned by The Karate Kid screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. CRACKED.COM — Source

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