While Kevin Feige might’ve found the “joke” funny, it goes without saying that the joke caused major waves across the internet, as fans scrambled to uncover the identity of the person Paul Bettany was referring to.
While White Vision was a pleasant surprise, he simply wasn’t the MCU surprise fans were hoping for.
Thankfully, for fans and Marvel Studios itself, things worked out better on the surprise front when it came to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Everyone from Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange and the X-Men to the Fantastic Four and Mephisto were drawn into the fan speculation.