(at around 22 mins) In an interview with Wired, Marvel Entertainment's visual effects producer Jen Underdahl revealed that the rat wasn't actually, as you might expect, a digital effect: it was a real, professionally trained rat. According to Underdahl, visual effects supervisor Dan DeLeeuw made a bet with a line producer that they could find a trained rat to perform the sequence, and the line producer kept insisting the rat would have to be digitally replaced. Guess who won. "For those of you who are curious, that is not a digital rat," Underdahl said. "For all the things that we do and for all the things that we replace, that is actually a practical acting rat. I don't have his name, but he's really there." The rat emerged as the surprise hero of Avengers: Endgame, one that director Joe Russo and writer Christopher Markus even joked about on the film's commentary track as being "the hero of the Infinity Saga." It was a fluke moment, but one that set in motion a chain of events that led to the Avengers bringing half the universe back from extinction. There's even a fan theory that the rat was Loki in disguise, because no one could believe that some dumb rat walking on a remote was part of Doctor Strange's "1-in-14 million" chance of them actually beating Thanos.

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