History ShoutOut / MarvelCinematicUniverse

** Thanos's flagship Sanctuary II looks quite a bit like a [[Series/BattlestarGalatica2003 Cylon basestar]].

** In the 1992 Oakland prologue, James, [[spoiler:Zuri's undercover persona]], describes the Dora Milaje as looking like Grace Jones.

** The climactic CarChase through the streets of San Francisco can be seen as one to TropeCodifier ''Film/{{Bullitt}}'', especially Luis's SloMoBigAir jump. It does verge into AffectionateParody territory.
** The name of the Wombats' security company, X-CON, is an obvious play on the ''VideoGame/XCom'' video game series. Their logo even resembles the tile for the 2012 ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' expansion "Enemy Within".

** The cast mentions multiple TimeTravel works while planning the Time Heist, including ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/{{Timecop}}'', ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'' (specifically the sequel books, but that's not mentioned), ''Film/SomewhereInTime'', ''Series/QuantumLeap'', ''Film/TimeBandits'', ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'' and ''Film/DieHard'', only for Scott to remember that the last one isn't actually a time-travel movie.
*** Furthermore, whilst the movie goes to great lengths to lampshade that time travel does not work in the same way, the plot of the movie (particularly during the second act) borrows elements liberally from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': both films revolve around the heroes having to go back to events and locations from the past that are connected to them, to retrieve one or more {{MacGuffin}}s, encountering and avoiding their past selves or (in Thor and Tony's cases) their parents, in order to thwart a BadFuture caused by said {{MacGuffin}}(s) falling into the hands of the BigBad, and a younger iteration of said BigBad acting as a SpannerInTheWorks in the finale.

** When people are trying to pull out Mjölnir from the boulder, it is reminiscent of Excalibur from the [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian Romances]].

* ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome:''
** Nick Fury quotes ''Theatre/HenryIV'' to Peter Parker: "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown." He then adds that Peter may not get that reference since it isn't from ''Franchise/StarWars''.
** Peter [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure confuses]] Music/{{ACDC}} with Music/LedZeppelin.
** Peter's teachers, Harrington and Dell, argue about whether the monsters combining into one even nastier monster is more like ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' or ''Anime/{{Voltron}}''.
** In the mid-credits stinger, [[spoiler:the MCU version of J. Jonah Jameson is introduced, and he is clearly a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Alex Jones -- a loud, under-informed internet pundit.]]

** In an interview with [=SModcast=], writers Markus and [=McFeely=] revealed that the credits with the signatures of the original five Avengers is a shout-out to the credits of ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''.

*** Furthermore, whilst the movie goes to great lengths to lampshade that time travel does not work in the same way, the plot of the movie (particularly during the second act) borrows elements liberally from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': both films revolve around the heroes having to go back to events and locations from the past that are connected to them, to retrieve one or more {{MacGuffins}}, encountering and avoiding their past selves or (in Thor and Tony's cases) their parents, in order to thwart a BadFuture caused by said {{MacGuffin}}(s) falling into the hands of the BigBad, and a younger iteration of said BigBad acting as a SpannerInTheWorks in the finale.

*** Furthermore, whilst the movie goes to great lengths to lampshade that time travel does not work in the same way, the plot of the movie (particularly during the second act) borrows elements liberally from Film/BackToTheFuturePartII: both films revolve around the heroes having to go back to events and locations from the past that are connected to them, to retrieve one or more {{MacGuffins}}, encountering and avoiding their past selves or (in Thor and Tony's cases) their parents, in order to thwart a BadFuture caused by said {{MacGuffin}}(s) falling into the hands of the BigBad, and a younger iteration of said BigBad acting as a SpannerInTheWorks in the finale.

*** Furthermore, whilst the movie goes to great lengths to lampshade that time travel does not work in the same way, the plot of the movie (particularly during the second act) borrows elements liberally from [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII]]: both films revolve around the heroes having to go back to events and locations from the past that are connected to them, to retrieve one or more {{MacGuffins}}, encountering and avoiding their past selves or (in Thor and Tony's cases) their parents, in order to thwart a BadFuture caused by said {{MacGuffin}}(s) falling into the hands of the BigBad, and a younger iteration of said BigBad acting as a SpannerInTheWorks in the finale.

*** Furthermore, whilst the movie goes to great lengths to lampshade that time travel does not work in the same way, the plot of the movie (particularly during the second act) borrows elements liberally from [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Part II]]: both films revolve around the heroes having to go back to events and locations from the past that are connected to them, to retrieve one or more {{MacGuffins}}, in order to thwart a BadFuture caused by said MacGuffin(s) falling into the hands of the BigBad, and a younger iteration of said BigBad acting as a SpannerInTheWorks in the finale.

** Soundtrack-wise, two of the tracks on the Recording Sessions are titled [[Theater/{{Hamilton}} "You Gotta Get Your Right Hand Man Back" and "You Are the Worst, Burr"]].

** ''ShoutOut/IronMan''

** ''ShoutOut/IronManFilms''

** Peter calls the Vulture [[Series/SesameStreet "Big Bird]]".

** [[TheNicknamer Tony]] cheekily compares Nebula to a "Blue Meanie" from Music/TheBeatles Animated Movie ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' in his recorded will to Pepper. In the French version, he calls her [[Franchise/TheSmurfs the Smurfette]] instead. He referred to Ant-Man as ''Literature/Thumbelina'' and ''Film/StuartLittle''. He also snarkily calls Thor (after five years of letting himself go and drinking like crazy) "[[Film/TheBigLebowski Lebowski]]" and refers to Rocket as "[[Franchise/RatchetAndClank Ratchet]]".

** The grand plan to jump back in time and snatch the Infinity Stones is referred to as a "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist Time Heist]]".

** Mjolnir slowly shuddering in the dirt before flying past Thor and [[WhamShot into Cap's hand]] is framed, timed, and shot almost identically to the climax of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', where the exact same thing happens with Luke Skywalker's lightsaber between Rey and Kylo Ren.