Easter Eggs
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Easter Eggs are hidden messages, images or references in fanworks. The term comes from the Christian practice of hiding eggs to celebrate spring during the Easter holiday. The term it was first used in the Atari video game Adventure, where the programmer inserted his name, obscured to avoid breaking a company policy against giving credit. [1]
Canon Easter Eggs
Indiana Jones films include Star Wars easter eggs, such as images of the robots among the hieroglyphics found in a tomb.[2]
There are easter eggs in many Marvel movies, from Captain America's shield first seen in the second Iron Man movie on Tony Stark's workbench [3] to the Endgame reference to Sebastian Stan's role in "Hot Tub Time Machine"[4].
In Voltron: Legendary Defender, the Shiro/Keith pairing was referenced in a flashback by Executive Producer Lauren Montgomery, who said
I put that sh** in there! [...] Shiro was still his [Keith's] guiding light. It was good.[5]
Fanwork Easter Eggs
In fandom, an example is a Vividcon llama joke on the 2011 version of the website [6]
JeanMarco was a popular ship in the Attack on Titan fandom, and many fanworks included Easter Egg details—references to other popular JeanMarco fanworks
References
- ^ Wikipedia:Easter egg (media)
- ^ When Star Wars and Indiana Jones Collide: Attack of the Easter Eggs
- ^ Easter Egg #1: Captain America’s Shield In Iron Man
- ^ Avengers: Endgame Star Sebastian Stan Weighs in on Hot Tub Time Machine Paradox Complex.com, 2019-05-17, accessed 2020-08-07
- ^ Voltron Season 4 Episodes 1 & 2 Review w/ Joaquim Dos Santos, Lauren Montgomery, & Jeremy Shada Oct 16, 2017
- ^ easteregg.txt, accessed March 30, 2011; reference link