Right now, the MCU talk is all about the long-awaited first teaser for Avengers: Endgame, but at the start of this week, the focus was on Captain Marvel, as the MCU’s most powerful superhero got a brand new trailer all to herself.
The long-awaited Avengers: Endgame trailer has given us a lot to process, from Tony Stark’s space-based predicament, to the introduction of Clint Barton's Ronin persona, not to mention the all-important title reveal. But as a new tweet from Chris Evans hammers in, we still have much to learn about the upcoming conclusion to Marvel’s Phase 3.
Marvel trailers are known to sometimes be deliberately deceptive, with the fake Hulk scene from the Avengers: Infinity War teaser perhaps being the most obvious example. So while the new footage for Avengers: Endgame may appear to neither confirm nor deny the use of time travel in the film, it’s understandable that some fans are suspecting a cunning effort to hide this development in plain sight.
Avengers: Infinity War left the MCU in a dire state, but offered hope in its last-minute tease that Captain Marvel will be coming to the rescue in Avengers: Endgame. And now that the sequel's first trailer has left us on a mini-cliffhanger of its own regarding our old friend Iron Man, some fans are suggesting once more that Carol Danvers is the solution.
Every piece of promotional material for next year’s Avengers: Endgame is going to be the subject of heavy scrutiny from the fans, and Marvel Studios was presumably well aware of this when they shared the film’s long-awaited first trailer this morning. With that in mind, it's possible that the teaser has a few intentional secrets buried in its two-and-a-half minutes, but more specifically, when Tony Stark makes his claim that there’s “zero promise of rescue,” you can bet that the studio knows exactly what they’re doing.
Unless this is literally the only page on the internet that you’ve visited today, you’re probably well aware that the first trailer for Avengers 4 – or as we’re calling it now, Avengers: Endgame – has finally dropped, putting an end to an exhausting few weeks of speculation and uncertainty. Of course, since Marvel Studios was never going to give the whole game away in this two-minute teaser, it’s inevitable that the new footage will raise at least as many questions as it answers, with one particular image leading some fans to theorize that the death of Captain America has been foreshadowed.
If you look back at the history of Sequel Trilogy reveals, you’ll see there’s a chance that we’re no more than a month or two away from learning the official title of Star Wars: Episode IX, and in light of the recent rumor that the film’s first trailer will be arriving before Christmas, that possibility has become just a little more distinct.
Kevin Smith recently took a trip to the set of Star Wars: Episode IX in the UK, and he’s returned ecstatic about what’s to come, singing his spoiler-free praises for the things he witnessed in a recent appearance on Lights Camera Barstool.
Before the first Avengers 4 trailer revealed the film’s proper title to be Avengers: Endgame, you may recall that the most popular prediction for the movie's name was “Avengers: Annihilation,” and as fans scrambled for clues to back up this rumor, online theorists would jump a little too eagerly on any use of the word ‘Annihilation’ in prior MCU outings. Now we’re seeing a similar search unfold for mentions of ‘Endgame,’ but with the subtitle officially confirmed, these alleged connection to the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War sequel no longer seem quite so tenuous.
The first trailer for Avengers 4 – or as we now know to call it, Avengers: Endgame – has become the stuff of legends in these last couple of months as fans had their hopes repeatedly built up and dashed in a continuous stream of rumor and speculation. The footage had a lot of hype to live up to, but at the same time, the teaser could’ve been nothing more than a wordless clip of the surviving heroes eating shawarma together and viewers would’ve likely been relieved to finally to see this promotion drop.
