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Trivia: Director Taika Waititi has said he had no desire to direct this movie or work for Marvel. He did so because he needed money.

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I Was a Teenage Spy - S3-E19

Trivia: The shoes Danielle Fishel wore in this episode used to belong to Lucille Ball. She said they were a half-size too small for her.

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Trivia: Maya Hansen was originally supposed to be the film's main villain. She was eventually downgraded to a disposable accomplice, as it was felt that she wouldn't help generate toy sales.

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Glorious Purpose - S2-E6

Trivia: Towards the end of the episode, Mobius mentions that a He Who Remains variant was defeated in an Earth 616-adjacent realm. This is a reference to the events of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

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Trivia: This is the first series produced for Disney+ to have a TV-MA rating.

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Trivia: This is the only film in the franchise to not have an official poster illustrated by Drew Struzan as he had retired.

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Life Lessons - S3-E18

Trivia: Aaron Metchik, who plays one of the bullies in this episode, was previously a pen pal to Rider Strong when both actors played the role of Gavroche in stage productions of Les Miserables on opposite ends of the country (Strong in San Francisco and Metchik in Washington DC).

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Life Lessons - S3-E18

Trivia: This episode's B-plot sees Eric dating an older woman. Will Friedle believes this was the writers deliberately writing for his life, as he similarly dated older women.

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Trivia: Stephen King has said that this is his favourite TV adaptation of one of his works.

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The Pink Flamingo Kid - S3-E17

Trivia: When Alan asks Eric why he has a box full of junk, Eric responds with an over-the-top cackle. This cackle was originally meant to be a recurring thing for Eric, but Will Friedle and Michael Jacobs agreed it shouldn't be a thing.

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Hit and Run - S6-E4

Trivia: When Kim is sitting down to eat with Clifford Main, she mentions the place gives Java Joe's a run for its money. Java Joe's is actually the name of the real-life coffee shop whose building exterior was used as Tuco's headquarters in Breaking Bad.

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Trivia: This film will actually have the shortest amount of time elapsed between installments, releasing around 2 years and 4 months after Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Ghostbusters 2 released 5 years after the original film, the 2016 film released 27 years after Ghostbusters 2, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife released 5 years after the 2016 film.

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Science/Fiction - S2-E5

Trivia: We learn in this episode that prior to being abducted by the TVA, Casey was an inmate at Alcatraz named Frank. This is Frank Morris, whose story was the subject of the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood. He and two of his fellow inmates managed to escape the prison, but were never seen again, with one accepted theory being that they drowned in San Francisco Bay. His TVA abduction here provides an in-universe explanation for his disappearance.

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Trivia: SPOILER: The mid-credits scene sees Kelsey Grammer reprising his role as Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy/Beast for the first time since 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. His remarks that Monica Rambeau has entered a parallel universe, along with the set design, suggest that the Fox X-Men films are now canonically part of the MCU multiverse (Patrick Stewart's appearance as Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness never really touched on this).

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Trivia: Portrayed as a woman in the film, in the comics, Dar-Benn is male.

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Trivia: One of the code names Kamala suggests for Monica is Spectrum, which is one of the code names she has gone by in the comics.

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Trivia: Selene is based on a Marvel Comics character of the same name, who is also sometimes known as the Black Queen. She is also a vampire of sorts, having the ability to drain the life force from others.

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Stormy Weather - S3-E16

Trivia: Will Friedle was forced by the network to cut his hair ahead of filming this episode, as they felt it was getting too long. Director Jeff McCracken knew how upset Friedle was about this, so he went home and cut his own hair to make him feel better.

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Trivia: An Iron Man film was in development at Fox in the mid-90s with Tom Cruise eyed for the lead role. The film never came to fruition, partly because the technology required to adapt the character to screen wasn't there yet, but also because Cruise's asking fee to star in it was not a price the studio was willing to risk on a largely unknown character.

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Trivia: Zawe Ashton, who plays Dar-Benn, the film's main antagonist, actually dressed up as Captain Marvel for Halloween in 2019. Her fiancé, Tom Hiddleston, best known for playing Loki in the MCU, dressed up as Daredevil, while Daredevil actor Charlie Cox dressed up as Loki.

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