SPOILERS: ‘Captain Marvel’ Features A Major Connection To ‘Iron Man 2’

There’s a connection between Captain Marvel and Iron Man 2, which opened in theaters all the way back in 2010.

Brie Larson’s first cinematic solo outing as Carol Danvers hit theaters this past week but it appears that the people behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been setting up her movie since 2010. Fans who have seen Captain Marvel know about the importance of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. but the joint operation between NASA and the United States Air Force was first mentioned in another Marvel movie: Iron Man 2.

In Captain Marvel, P.E.G.A.S.U.S. is a top secret joint NASA-USAF project run by Doctor Wendy Lawson, an undercover Kree scientist played by Annette Bening. The words “Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.” can be seen on a crate featured in Iron Man 2 but there’s also another reference to it when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) instructs J.A.R.V.I.S. with the following order:

“Tap the Oracle grid. I need some things out of storage. Give me everything from Projects P.E.G.A.S.U.S., E.X.O.D.U.S. and G.O.L.I.A.T.H.”

The Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. facility was also featured in The Avengers. However, Loki trashed it at the beginning of the movie when he arrived on Earth to retrieve the Tesseract for the Mad Titan Thanos.

Captain Marvel marks the big screen debut of Carol Danvers, played in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Academy Award winner Brie Larson. In the comics, Danvers was a test pilot who gained super strength and the ability to fly after being caught in an explosion with a Kree device.

The Brie Larson starrer takes place in the ’90s and introduces the Skrulls to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Larson is set to reprise the role of Carol Danvers in Avengers: Endgame, which opens in theaters just over a month after Captain Marvel.

Mississipi Grind helmers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are directing from a script written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve. Here’s the official synopsis:

Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.

Captain Marvel stars Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Algenis Perez Soto, Rune Temte, McKenna Grace, Clark Gregg and Jude Law.