Easter Eggs You Missed In Bloodshot

With its focus on technology, low-stakes storyline, and relatively graphic PG-13 violence, Bloodshot is a very different superhero flick. But there's one area in which director Dave Wilson was clearly inspired by Bloodshot's higher-profile peers: the Easter eggs.

In Bloodshot, the namesake hero comes by his name rather simply. The top-secret program that created him is simply called... Project Bloodshot. Hey, it fits.

Not only has Ray Garrison's blood been replaced by an army of nanites, giving him superpowers, but he really likes to shoot people. That's also simple, but it works.

In the comics, however, the organization that gives Ray his powers goes by a different name. While one reboot calls the clandestine organization Project Lazarus, it's usually known as Project Rising Spirit. In the first volume of Bloodshot, Project Rising Spirit was a secret group based in Japan. In more recent interpretations, it's a contracting group that often works with the U.S. military and has ties to the Sect, a secret society so big that includes almost every other secret society on Earth.

Well, you know how, in the movie, the company behind Bloodshot is called RST? That's short for Rising Spirit Tech. Sure, Bloodshot the movie made a few adjustments to the setup - the company is now run by Guy Pearce's Emil Harting, for example, and it does a lot more work with prosthetics than it used to - but this is still the Rising Spirit fans know and love.

Early in Bloodshot, before he realizes that everything he knows is a lie, Ray Garrison is dead set on taking down Martin Axe, the man who he thinks killed his wife.

If you heard that name and thought it sounded like something straight out of a '90s comic book, well, you were right: Martin Axe (or, often, just "Ax") has been around since 1992, making him even older than Bloodshot himself.

In the comics, Ax isn't a sadistic terrorist or a former RST employee. He's actually more of a computer nerd. Originally, Ax was a psiot - an evolved human with psychic powers - who could communicate with machines. On his debut, Ax was a straight-up villain who was obsessed with getting his hands on all the groundbreaking tech he could find, including Bloodshot's nanites, which he briefly stole. Keep watching the video to see all the Easter eggs you missed in Bloodshot!

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RST 101 | 0:15
Bloodshot's first victim | 1:13
The big red circle | 2:17
Remember Memento? | 3:14
The Prince of Zamunda | 3:59

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