In 2008’s Iron Man, Marvel Studios dropped in a brief post-credits scene featuring Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, who teased the existence of something called “the Avenger initiative.” The rest, as they say, is history, and cinema was forever changed. However, it turns out that a different draft of Fury’s monologue teased the existence of X-Men and Spider-Man, almost a decade before Disney would acquire Marvel and subsequently acquire the film rights to the X-Men franchise, as well as share film rights with Sony.
At this year’s Saturn Awards, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige introduced a previously never-before-seen deleted scene from 2008’s Iron Man. The clip will be included on a box set that contains the entire Infinity Saga, coming later this year. In the clip, Jackson’s Fury can be seen tacking on a little bit of additional info to his now-familiar spiel.
Source: IGN.com Iron Man Stinger Had a Version Where Nick Fury References Spider-Man and X-Men