Kevin Smith Posts Tearful Response To ‘Mallrats’ Easter Egg In ‘Captain Marvel’

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel opened in theaters this week and it features quite a bit of references, whether it be to nineties pop culture or the expansive Marvel Cinematic Universe. One of these references comes at a moment in the film that is very bittersweet, Stan Lee’s cameo. In 1995, Stan Lee made an appearance in Kevin Smith’s film Mallrats that was brief, though very integral to the story.

Captain Marvel takes place in 1995, the same year that Mallrats was released. During a scene in the Brie Larson-led MCU adventure, Carol Danvers stalks up the aisle of a train in her green Kree suit in search of a runaway Skrull. Before finding her target, Carol spots Stan Lee reading Kevin Smith’s Mallrats script. The writer/director took to Instagram to share his emotional reaction to the cameo. Check out the reaction in the post below.

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The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, “Captain Marvel” is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Directed by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 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.

Captain Marvel will be released in theaters on March 8, 2019.

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