Have we found the source of Baron Strucker's "Age of Miracles" reference in the Captain America: The Winter Soldier after credits stinger?
*MILD SPOILERS* If you have not seen the after-credits or mid-credit stingers in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, you may not want to view this article, which may contain spoilers for that film and the coming Avengers 2: Age of Ultron.
Hi guys, I hope you're enjoying your weekend so far. I was recently re-reading Marvel's 1985/86 mini-series Vision and the Scarlet Witch, and I stumbled upon these long-forgotten panels from issue #4 (Jan. 1986) in which Doctor Stephen Strange (soon to have his own MCU film, but still without a lead actor) counsels Wanda on her suprise pregnancy. As comic readers know, Wanda married the synthezoid Vision in Giant-size Avengers #4 (June 1975).
The relevant material here is found in the centre panel of the below sequence, where Dr. Strange muses to himself, thinking "Yes, I'm a magician now, and what others would call "miracles" are commonplace to me--"
This reminded me of the Wanda and Pietro reveal contained in the mid-credit stinger of last summer's Winter Soldier instalment, where the twins were shown in captivity, under the watchful eye of Baron Strucker. Here Strucker warns "It's not a world of spies anymore, not even a world of heroes -- this is the Age of Miracles..."
Seems like Joss Whedon and the other powers-that-be at Marvel Studios are incorporating minor variations of language from the comics to explain the emergence of exceptional powers in otherwise normal human beings. The presence of Loki's sceptre seems to hint at what the genesis of these powers would be ie: extra-terrestrial influence, but with Marvel unofficially making Mutant a four-letter word in their upcoming film and comics material, it will be interesting to see if "Miracles" becomes the buzzword of the next era; and how does this tie in to the increased promotion of Marvel's Inhuman line of comics, or has that initiative already been a disappointment?
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