Shout Out / Avengers: Age of Ultron

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• Ultron sinisterly sings "I've Got No Strings" in one scene. At the end of the scene, a snippet of the song from the original 1940 Walt Disney animated classic with Pinocchio voice Dickie Jones can be heard.
• There's also an allusion to a Theme Song of another well-known work of Joss Whedon.
  Ultron: People have looked to the sky and seen hope. I'll take that from them first.
• Tony Stark's Hulkbuster delivery system is named Veronica. This references it being the opposite of Betty, the name of both Archie and Bruce Banner's love interests.
• The Hulkbuster also looks awfully similar to Adeptus Astartes Power Armor, specifically the Centurion.
• Natasha's placement of Steve's shield in the motorcycle chase evokes the old Captain America TV Movie with his transparent shield mounted on the front of his motorcycle.
• The scene where Natasha is being dragged through a hospital gurney before she gets sterilized. The camera angles, Body Horror, and the sped-up frame rate in that scene will remind some viewers of a certain psychological thriller.
• An assassin in training is forced to shoot a restrained person with a bag over their head.
• An artificial life form is struck by lightning to bring him to life.
• Tony Stark says to Steve Rogers, "Isn't that Why We Fight?" in reference to the famous propaganda film series of Steve's era.
• The Scarlet Witch's Mind Rape attack of The Avengers includes her walking around on Overcrank for a split second and looking like a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl... Ring any bells?
• When Natasha asks him about the new Avengers lineup, Steve says "they're not the '27 Yankees." The 1927 Yankees team is considered one of the best in Major League Baseball history, and included both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig (they're the "Murderer's Row" referenced in The Sandlot.) Steve would have been about nine years old at the time.
• The way the Avengers defeated Ultron, first by cutting him off the internet and then blast his main body with energy was very similar to how Buffy and friends beat Moloch in an early episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There's also a very stark parallel to how they defeat Adam: both Buffy and Scarlet Witch telekinetically tear out their opponent's power source/heart.
• At one point, Steve stands in the doorway of a farmhouse, surrounded by shadow, before thinking better of going inside and walking away instead. It's almost a pitch-perfect recreation of the final scene of The Searchers.
• Not for the first time in a Joss Whedon movie, the villain comforts someone while killing them in their introductory scene.
• A rather obscure Freeze-Frame Bonus, but if you look closely at the scene in Thor's first hallucination, you can see three men dressed as a wolf, a ram, and a hart.
• A deleted scene has Tony calling the Maximoff twins "Flowers in the Attic."
• Likely not intentional, but the cute Cuttlefish are well known for being the inspiration to the terrifying Reapers. Would explain why Klaue might be afraid of them.
• The big band in Steve's flashback is "The Roy Thomas Players," in reference to the longtime Marvel writer, editor, and co-creator of Ultron and Vision.
• Bruce asks Tony, "What's the rumpus?"
• Vision's initial coming to life has him naked and crouched over, looking more like a time traveling Terminator.

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