Trivia

Tenoch Huerta, who plays the ruler of an underwater kingdom, didn't know how to swim. When Ryan Coogler offered him the role and asked about his swimming skills, Huerta simply replied, "I've never drowned before." He took swimming lessons afterwards in preparation for the role.

Goofs

Cambridge police are depicted responding in both standard sedan cruisers and SUVs. The real Cambridge police vehicle fleet is composed entirely of SUVs.

Quotes

Ramonda: I am Queen of the most powerful nation in the world! And my entire family is gone! Have I not given everything?

Trivia

At the time of auditioning, Sam Worthington was living in his car.

James Cameron originally planned to have the film completed for release in 1999. At the time, the special effects he wanted increased the budget to $400 million. No studio would fund the film, and it was shelved for eight years.

Quotes

Jake Sully: [Narrating] Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

Trivia

Christian Bale had initially turned down the possibility of appearing in any more comic book or superhero films after The Dark Knight Rises (2012), seeing the genre as uninteresting from an acting perspective, and especially finding the experience of donning the Batman costume to be a miserable one. He agreed to take part in this film however, having been impressed by Taika Waititi's previous works and after his kids begged him to take the role.

Goofs

In the opening scene, when Gorr is in the garden, notice that Christian Bale's eye mole switches sides - some shots were obviously flipped.

Quotes

Thor: Once we bring the children back, we shall feast!

[everyone cheers]

Thor: ...Not on them!

[everyone goes quiet]

Thor: We don't do that any more. That is a dark part of our history.

Trivia

The actors playing pilots not only had to film themselves, turning the camera on and off, they also had to touch up their own makeup, adjust their lighting, and handle their own sound. Sometimes the director had to wait on the ground for hours for the actors to return with the footage. Adjustments would be made after viewing the footage, and the actors would have to go back up for another take.

Goofs

In the early bar scene, Bob is supposed to rack a game of nine ball. But the 14 ball is clearly in play, which would not be a part of nine ball game.

Quotes

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw: Please don't tell me we lost an engine.

Maverick: Alright, I won't tell you that.

Trivia

Nicolas Cage thought Javi was the best written character in the movie, so much so he even asked to trade parts, as he thought playing his own biggest fan was more meta than playing himself. It wasn't until Pedro Pascal was cast that Cage eventually relented.

Goofs

Javi loads the shotgun with an empty shell.

Quotes

Nick Cage: Paddington 2 is incredible.

Javi Gutierrez: I fucking told you.

Trivia

Ryan Reynolds was originally sought after for the lead male role, marking this a reunion with Sandra Bullock after The Proposal (2009) but a deal couldn't be reached.

Goofs

Shortly after Loretta is abducted, one of the characters says the police won't file a missing person report on an adult until after 24 hours have passed. This is a common misconception and has no basis in fact. Police will follow any legitimate lead and an eyewitness to the abduction would be more than enough to begin an immediate search.

Quotes

Loretta: Why are you so handsome?

Jack Trainer: My father was a weatherman.

Trivia

Robert Pattinson's audition/screentest took place while he was in rehearsals for shooting Tenet (2020) in Los Angeles in May 2019. Pattinson had to lie to Christopher Nolan about it, but Nolan, who was no stranger to Batman and Warner Bros., immediately figured it out. Pattinson: "I said I had a family emergency. And as soon as I said it, he goes: 'You're doing the Batman audition, aren't you?'" When Pattinson was told that he won the role of Batman a day before principal photography for Tenet began, he was surprised that Nolan also knew and congratulated him, although Pattinson hadn't told anybody about it yet.

Colin Farrell stated that he went to Starbucks to try out his prosthetics and makeup for the Penguin for the first time. Nobody recognized him despite getting a couple of stares from people.

Quotes

Batman: I'm vengeance!

Trivia

As shown in the film, the real King George V did change his last name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor as a result of anti-German public sentiment. He was the father of King George VI and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.

Goofs

There is a brief flashback showing the death of Tsar Nicholas and his family, and while the scene has been painstakingly reconstructed down to the wallpaper of the basement, the family is shown being quickly killed with a single discharge of what appears to be a machine pistol by one person pretending to be a photographer. The real execution was far messier and cruel: the assassins tricked the family into posing for a photograph, but no camera was brought. Instead, the chief of the guards read a makeshift death sentence and then an entire squad entered the room. After the shooting, the Tsar, his wife and son had been killed, but the four daughters were still alive, due to the fact they had sewn jewels in their clothes, so the troops finished them off with bayonets and the butts of their rifles. Due to the gruesome nature of this, it is possible this is a deliberate alteration by the director.

Quotes

Duke of Oxford: Reputation is what people think of you. Character is what you are.

Trivia

Benedict Cumberbatch has admitted to not reading the full script, wanting to surprise himself with the final product.

Goofs

In Spider-Man 2 (2004), Doctor Octopus' tentacles are stated to be immune to heat and magnetism. They do not have an immunity to electricity and, in fact, the two times that Doctor Octopus is knocked out is because his tentacles got hit with electricity. So in in this film, he realistically could not hold Electro to administer the cure without Electro shocking him and knocking him out.

Quotes

Matt Murdock: You may have dodged your legal troubles but things will get much worse. There's still the court of public opinion.

[Matt catches a brick thrown through the window]

Peter Parker: How did you just do that?

Matt Murdock: I'm a really good lawyer.

Trivia

Raya means "great" in Indonesian. Raya means Hibiscus in Malay and also the National Flower for Malaysia.

Goofs

In South East Asian cultures in particular and Asian cultures in general, it's considered very rude to address people who are older or in higher status than you with only their names, such as when Raya calls Tong or Boun calls Raya or Raya calls Sisu (a deity-like figure) with their names only. In Asian cultures usually you would address people using familial relationship: you would call a person who is around your age or slightly older than you with "brother/sister", person who is in the range of your parent's age with "uncle/auntie", person who is older than that with "grandpa/granny", and revered/high status/deity figure with something like "master/lord/lady". So Raya would call Tong "Uncle Tong", Boun would call Raya "Sister Raya", and Raya would address deity-ish Sisu as "Master Sisu" or "Lady Sisu".

Quotes

Sisu: I'm going to be real with you, alright? I'm not like the best dragon, you know?

Raya: But you saved the world.

Sisu: I did do that. That's true. But have you ever done like a group project, but there's like that one kid who didn't pitch in as much, but still ended up with the same grade? Yeah, I wasn't the one who actually made the gem. I just turned it in.

Trivia

Lauren Ridloff had difficulty in reacting in scenes where she is required to interact with a digital character or in action scenes due to her deafness. She credited Angelina Jolie who helped her by using a laser pointer pen to guide her in the direction she would be required to look at.

Goofs

One scene shows Earth from space, 7000 years ago. The view shows Northern Africa with the Sahara desert. However, 7000 years ago the Sahara was not a desert but covered in grass, trees, and lakes. The 'African humid period' ended 6000-5000 years ago.

Quotes

Druig: I've watched humans destroy each other when I could stop it all in a heartbeat. Do you know what that does to someone after centuries? Could our mission have been a mistake? Are we really helping these people build a better world? We're just like the soldiers down there: pawns to their leaders, blinded by loyalty.

Trivia

Simu Liu, when cast as Shang-Chi, was knowledgeable in taekwondo, gymnastics, and Wing Chun. For his role as the Master of Kung Fu, Liu trained in tai chi, wushu, Muay Thai, pencak silat, Krav Maga, jiu-jitsu, boxing, and street fighting.

Goofs

It's nearly impossible for a bus to run away with its (air)brake lines cut. Instant air pressure in the brake system is the only thing keeping the massive springs in each wheel from locking the brakes. If there's still enough pressure to keep the brakes from "dynamiting", then there's enough pressure for the brake pedal to work.

Quotes

[Morris discovers Trevor's still body, and mourns]

Trevor Slattery: Calm down, mate! I'm not dead, it's just a performance! Now get down here and play along!

[Morris rolls over and plays dead]

Trivia

According to writer Eric Pearson, Florence Pugh teased Scarlett Johansson about Black Widow's iconic pose during filming, so Pearson put it in the film.

Goofs

The bulk of the movie takes place immediately after Captain America: Civil War (2016), which takes place after Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Tony Stark, who is established to be incredibly paranoid about alien invasion, has satellites in space, and invents futuristic technology, doesn't detect the Red Room, a flying base the size of several skyscrapers taped together. Neither does S.H.I.E.L.D., or any government that regularly looks for alien or even terrestrial unknown craft in the sky.

Quotes

Yelena Belova: [about Natasha] Such a poser.

Trivia

On The Big Picture Podcast, John Krasinski stated that he originally did not want to be involved in this sequel, but the producer convinced him to come over and pitch his ideas to the studio. After three weeks, they asked him to write the story, with the idea that directorial duties would be handed over to other filmmakers. Krasinski finally offered to come back as director, jokingly suggesting that he was "Jedi mind tricked into signing on to the sequel."

Goofs

The turntable playing "Beyond The Sea" is equipment accurate for a radio station - a Technics SP-10 MKII. However, as part of the major plot point of a months long broadcast of a repeated song/signal, this model of turntable could not have been used as it is a manual turntable and has no automatic repeat function.

Quotes

Evelyn Abbott: RUN!