Nebula And Rocket Hold Hands
But it’s not just Tony who’s back. Nebula makes her first trip to Earth – or Terra, as it’s known in space – in this trailer, too. She’s mostly surrounded by strangers, but there is one old friend there: Rocket. Truth be told, the pair are actually more like enemies/situational allies but the promo does tease that the last of the Guardians will form a bond.
In one brief scene that’s sure to break any Guardians’ fan’s heart, a devastated Rocket and a stoic Nebula sit on the steps of the Benatar and hold hands. It really tugs at the heartstrings to see these two characters, who have previously shied away from showing their feelings, so broken that they need some comfort. It really shouldn’t be this emotional to watch a CGI raccoon and a blue cyborg connect, but it is.
It’s easy to work out what’s happened here, too. As Tony and Nebula have made it to Earth, the latter has had to inform Rocket that not only did Groot perish in the Decimation but that Star-Lord, Drax and Mantis did as well. Plus, Gamora was killed by Thanos in the hunt for the Soul Stone. Rocket must be crushed by the loss of his family, just as Nebula is by the death of her sister. But at least there’s two of them left.
Iron Man Back In Action
With the previous trailers having held back on giving too much away about Tony’s role in Avengers: Endgame, we hadn’t been allowed to see him in action, but one brief shot in this preview finally reveals Iron Man, decked out in his new Mark 85 armor.
In contrast to the nighttime scene where he reunites with Pepper, this clip features Tony flying around New York in the daylight. It’s a sequence that could come out of any of the previous Avengers movies, too – which is actually why I suspect it might be deliberately planted in the trailer and not part of the film.
I could be wrong here but, as we all know, that shot of Iron Man and Spidey flying through Manhattan in the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer was engineered to give the promo a big team-up shot. With that in mind, it’s possible that Tony’s action scenes are too spoiler-y to include in a trailer so this generic-looking shot was created instead.
Either that, or we’re missing a key ingredient here. Given that we know time travel is involved, what if this isn’t actually a post-IWÂ New York Tony’s flying through and is really some point in the MCU’s past?
