Thor 048: So Erik Knows Bruce Banner and Hank Pym?

<h2>Minute Forty-Eight: From Three Scientists on a Roof to Three Warriors (and Sif!) on a Mission</h2> <p><img src="https://codaio.imgix.net/docs/zwz-7CIJk6/blobs/bl-5nmfBfaRk4/0e67b61f949bfe55668a1f13d211f56ef2e8023be365c469138d88de5172530a4a5874c4d1bff5ee8cb7057b70cc97fc09c954b6eecafe6bd5eb94f4ac6309c10d3c4cee46af6a3b09e3752a6bfe101586debb6a35127ecd47434e070cca8806d3a82fb0?auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;fit=max" alt="Matt Carroll"/></p> <p>Joining us to discuss iPods, Erik’s connections to Bruce Banner and Hank Pym, and the horny shadow in the throne room is Matt Carroll, one of the two co-hosts of the award-winning MCUCast and founder of the Stranded Panda Podcast Network.</p> <h3>In the forty-eighth minute of <a href="https://trustory.fm/director/kenneth-branagh/">Kenneth Branagh</a>’s 2011 film <em>Thor</em>...</h3> <ul><li>The rooftop location wasn’t in the script, which makes us think there’s more of a connection to the moment in <em>Iron Man 2</em>. But perhaps it was just a location Branagh wanted to use to give the scene a bit more flavor.</li> <li>Remember iPods? Those were the days...</li> <li>Darcy’s moment about her iPod does feel very much like the Darcy we see later in <em>WandaVision</em> where she gets distracted from the big thing by her smaller personal thing.</li> <li>It’s amazing how well the writers created Darcy in this script and how hard a time they had developing the Warriors Three. Could it simply be that those characters are based on the comics?</li> <li>By the time the Warriors Three die in <em>Thor: Ragnarok</em>, we just don’t care. That’s frustrating because we should have cared.</li> <li>At this point in time, however, did Kevin Feige have enough of a handle on everything?</li></ul> <h3>And then Erik drops a hint about Bruce Banner. Or is it Samuel Sterns?</h3> <ul><li>On top of Darcy’s concern about her iPod, Erik drops the Easter Egg that he knew Bruce Banner. There’s some debate if it may be Samuel Sterns instead but we end up locking in on Banner.</li> <li>To that end, it’s crazy