Ant-Man
Nick Fury ’s top-notch - spy trick to take to the woods the groundwork at Project Pegasus inCaptain Marvelshould have been familiar to fans ofAnt - valet de chambre . localize in 1995 , the MCU prequel sees a younger and less mysterious wildness than audience are used to . Two - eyed and fabulously fond of cats ( two character trait that are reversed in a spry scratch ) , he ’s yet to become Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. or gestate of theAvengers Initiative ( nee Protector ) .
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Although perhaps notasimpressive as Scott Lang ’s version of the trick . In 2015’sAnt - Man , when break into Hank Pym ’s vault , the ex-husband - con gets past a fingerprint scanner in a similar , albeit more complex manner than Fury did 20 sanctioned year originally ; he too pulls a print from Hank ’s plate , but then constructs a right replica by melt and forming gum in a ring .
Taking fingerprints using adhesive tape is a well - known whoremaster ( there are many on-line video about how to take reward of it to " hack " into a smartphone " ) regard as spy - like , so it ’s hardly surprising to see it reference in the espionage - focused MCU . What is surprising , though , is for two movies in the same enfranchisement four long time asunder to both use it as a means to show their hoagie ’s intelligence and adaptability . Indeed , there ’s no meter reading of any connection between the two , either in - world - Scott Lang and Nick Fury are yet to spoil paths in the MCU - nor doesCaptain Marvelhave a winkthat audience should have experience this before .
While nothing about the share Fury and Lang conjuration breaks MCU canon , it ’s an odd rhymic option in the connect shared universe that feels a trivial repetitious . weigh howCaptain Marvelendswith Carol defeating Yon - Rogg in a second evocative ofThe Avengers ' " Puny God " moment ( albeit with stronger thematic reasoning ) , it risks leaving the moving picture feeling derivative ( at least to obsessive MCU devotee who can recall every plot beat ) . Of course , the truth is the contrary ; Marvel always prioritise the pic at hand , meaning this must be write off as something of a coincidence , withCaptain Marveldirectors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck wanting the minute ( so as to set up the Carol photon gust joke ) .
In the destruction , whatCaptain Marvel ’s incognizant echoing ofAnt - Manreally does is provide fuel for an unexpected fan debate : deal the greater complexity of his fingerprint method , is Scott Lang a better infiltrator than Nick Fury ?