Joss Whedon Snuck A Buffy Easter Egg Into Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Director Joss Whedon warned fans ahead of the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron that the film [...]

Director Joss Whedon warned fans ahead of the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron that the film wouldn't have a ton of Easter eggs, but the director did manage to sneak at least one in, and it harkens back to Whedon's own Buffyverse.

As Whedon reveals on the director's commentary included in the Age of Ultron Blu-ray and DVD release, the Easter egg can be spotted during Thor's trippy vision of Asgard. During the vision, there's a point where three masked figures appear under three archways. One is wearing a wolf mask, another a ram mask, and the third a hart (stag) mask. This should set off some bells for anyone who watched the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff series, Angel.

The Wolf, the Ram, and the Hart are a trio of "true demons" who founded the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart, which was in constant conflict with Buffy's ex-boyfriend Angel during the spinoff's five seasons. The firm tended to represent the most repulsive members of human society.

Whedon nearly did something similar while he was writing Astonishing X-Men for Marvel Comics. Having named Buffy Summers after the X-Men's Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops, Whedon revealed at San Diego Comic Con in 2013 that he considered including a scene in Astonishing that would have revealed Scott has a cousin in California who was committed to an asylum because she believed she was a "demon hunter," a clear reference to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Normal Again." In the end, Whedon decided against including the reference, but Scott and Buffy are still cousins in my head canon.

Avengers: Age of Ultron is available now on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD.

(via Screen Crush)

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