What was the Easter egg?
Spoilers Marvel Cinematic Universe spoiler-heavy speculation thread
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Oh, damn. How did I miss that? 
I know it's not really news, but I think it's still worth posting.
Gina Rodriguez wants to play America Chavez.
Gina Rodriguez wants to play America Chavez.
Freeform has picked up New Warrirors, Marvel's first half-hour comedy series. Scrubs writer and Cougar Town Kevin Bielgel is close to signing on as showrunner for the series, which will feature fan favorite character Squirrel Girl. The IGN article doesn't specifically say that it will be in the MCU, but they do reference the Avengers in the official description, and so far (almost?) everything Marvel Studios has done has been set in the MCU, so it's pretty likely that it will be.
If they get Squirrel Girl right, this could be awesome. I like what the article says about her confidence, her faith in people, and teaching them to believe in themselves, but what about her uncanny ability to fight crime using computer science?
Although it's hard for me to imagine a Squirrel Girl story without hilarious text captions at the bottom of almost every page. Also, they'd better license the rights to the Spider-Man cartoon theme song that coincidentally has the exact same melody as Squirrel Girl's theme song and similar lyrics too, because it would be a shame to have Squirrel Girl without her theme song.
Although it's hard for me to imagine a Squirrel Girl story without hilarious text captions at the bottom of almost every page. Also, they'd better license the rights to the Spider-Man cartoon theme song that coincidentally has the exact same melody as Squirrel Girl's theme song and similar lyrics too, because it would be a shame to have Squirrel Girl without her theme song.
So, they're stealing the New Warriors name for a show to star a character that was ruined by her latest solo comic run (which this will probably take stuff from),and all for a comedy on a channel known for predominately lame YA shows? Yeah, I'm betting this will just end up being Marvel's version of Powerless (different premise/style obviously, but similar in being a complete failure as a comedy and a property connected to the comics). At least DC's show didn't steal the name of a (fairly interesting) superhero team.
We haven't heard anything official but I'm sure they're involved. Marketing just isn't ready to release that information. I wouldn't sweat that yet.
It's the same thing Warner Bros. did with their two Justice League films -- announced them as "Part 1" and "Part 2" and then dropped those. I think the use of those working titles had more to do with production logistics than anything else -- they were announced before the films were even plotted or written, when they were just slots on the development schedule, so I figure the studio slated and budgeted them as 2-part films because they would be sharing the same production crew and resources and be shot back-to-back. Once they actually got around to plotting, writing, and pre-producing those films, all that logistical stuff remained true, but they became more distinct storywise, so their titles were changed in response.
From what I gathered, it's still basicly a two-parter, but not like Deathly Hallows Part 1 & 2 for example, or Star Trek two-parters. The movies will be connected, but from what I gathered in interviews, when a part 2 is released a year later, a year will also have passed storywise.
I might be totally wrong here ofcourse, but this is from what I gathered from articles sofar.
I don't know if we can call it "basically a two-parter" when it's a separate story (particularly given the two films in between). At least, we don't know much for certain. What we do know for certain is it'll involve the same heroes and the same villain. That alone will make it much more interconnected than anything else we've seen. But it seems like one of those two parters where the second part is a radical change from the first. I'm trying to think of a good analogy. The only one coming to mind is in DS9, The Search pt. 1 and The Search pt. 2 are very different stories or maybe TNG's Chain of Command. But I also think it's very fair to say that we don't even have enough information for that.
Like I said, the Part 1/2 labels for both Infinity War and Justice League were assigned when these were just slots in the production slate, before they even had scripts written. I take that to mean that they're 2-parters from a production standpoint, back-to-back shoots with the same cast and crew and so forth, which would be the case regardless of whether their scripts turned out to be two halves of a single story arc or two consecutive, linked story arcs. So we're talking about two different ways of defining parts of a whole, logistics-based vs. content-based. The fact that both studios did the exact same thing with their "2-part" epics is what makes me think it's not about specific story content so much as the more general logistics of the filmmaking process.