The 8 Biggest Reveals From The New Avengers: Endgame Trailer

Well played, Marvel. Well played. Sometimes we can be desperate for a trailer and nothing comes our way, but this time we were well fed after Captain Marvel, not expecting anything more. But then - wham! - Marvel drops a brand new, full-length third trailer for Avengers: Endgame in our laps early this morning. Now that we've calmed down a bit after the shock, let's take a closer look at this latest preview for what's sure to be the biggest movie of the year (sorry, Star Wars: Episode IX). You wouldn't exactly say the past two teasers had been strolls in the park, but this one really rams home the drama and pain that's coming in the film. At the same time, though, there's also a renewed sense of purpose from the leftover heroes as we see them getting back into action. Marvel's still holding a lot back, but this preview does serve up a few bits and pieces that we've been waiting to see, and here are all the most important things we learned from this latest look at Avengers: Endgame. Back To The Beginning Previous teasers have dropped us into the bleak post-Decimation world, but this trailer opens by going back in time to MCU days past. Specifically, we begin with a monochrome flashback to Tony Stark's first test flight of the Iron Man armor from all the way back in 2008. "God, it seems like a thousand years ago," we hear him say in a voiceover, which is probably part of his message to Pepper that we've seen him record in the first trailer. "I fought my way out of that cave, became Iron Man... realized I loved you." The same trick is played as we revisit Captain America: The First Avenger and see tiny Steve Rogers dreaming of becoming a soldier. This time, Peggy Carter's stirring speech from The Winter Soldier is heard over the top. "None of us can go back. All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best we can do is to start over." It's then Thor's time to reminisce as a scene from his origins movie is played, featuring him with his now deceased father Odin. What this tells us is that Endgame won't be afraid to look back over how far the franchise has come over the past 10 years. Given that we're pretty sure past films will be revisited via time travel, this seems like as far as the trailers will go to confirming this fact. Hawkeye's Loss After being absent entirely in Avengers: Infinity War, Clint Barton is back in Endgame - but he's a much darker man than we've previously seen him. The first trailer unveiled his new haircut and all-black outfit, as part of his new Ronin alter ego, but there was only the vaguest hint as to why he was back in the superhero game. This trailer doesn't spell it out, but it makes the reason much clearer. During Peggy's voiceover, we see a new clip of Clint teaching his daughter how to shoot an arrow on his farm. It looks like she's a chip off the old block, as we see her land a bullseye and her proud father give her a high five. We then cut to Ronin in Japan. Black Widow is with him and, with an emotional look on her face, she takes his hand in the rain. We'd all figured it out already, of course, but this makes it clear that Clint's family were likely taken from him in the Snap. He's been happily retired for years now, with only the Sokovia Accords conflict getting him back in action, so this is why he's compelled to help the rest of the Avengers find Thanos and reverse the devastation he's wrought. "Whatever it takes," as the heroes say later in the trailer. Red-Headed Natasha We've known for a while, thanks to concept art, that both Captain America and Black Widow - the last of the Secret Avengers team that have operated in the shadows since Civil War - will return to their classic looks in Endgame. The previous trailers gave us a clean-shaven Cap and a Natasha who had grown out her blonde hair, but she still hadn't returned to her natural hair color. This trailer shows us that she'll be a redhead again for most of the film, though. So let's try and put the timeline together. Nat's hair has grown out by the time she meets Clint in Japan but she's still blonde. The same is true of the scene where she's doing some target practice. However, by the time the Avengers actually go back into the fray, the classic agent Romanoff is back. Going by this, we can also say that Cap's "Not us" speech, first glimpsed in the TV spot, happens just before they decide to take action. Here we get to hear the whole of it. "I keep telling everybody they should move on, someday," he tells his team. "But not us." It seems he's had enough of holding those group therapy meetings and has made up his mind that something needs to be done. Presumably, Nat speaks for everyone when she says: "Even if there's just a small chance, we owe this to everyone who's not in this room to try." Scott Returns To A Changed World In the first Endgame trailer, Ant-Man's return to the world after being trapped in the Quantum Realm - in the Ant-Man and the Wasp post-credits scene, keep up! - was portrayed as a bit of comic relief. A brief clip in this trailer, however, shows how horrifying it must have been for Scott Lang to find himself in a much changed universe. A dialogue-free scene shows him in a very overgrown patch of his native San Francisco, as he stares incredulously at a lamppost covered with "missing" posters. We're guessing this is how he finds out that half of the planet's population has gone missing since he's been in another dimension. We know from the first trailer that he soon heads to the Avengers facility to find out what's going on. Scott stars in another fascinating moment later on, too, as we see him shrunk down to ant-size and leaping into action. It's hard to tell where he is, but the pencil he uses as a pole-vault suggests it's a domestic environment, even though it's on fire and appears to be flooded. If anyone's got any ideas what's happening here, feel free to share your thoughts. Nebula, Rocket And War Machine Karen Gillan has teased that Nebula makes a new best pal in Endgame, which must be Iron Man given that they're both stuck on the Benatar together at the start of the movie. However, we haven't seen too much to suggest that the unlikely duo get close in the film, apart from a clip of Nebula helping Tony doing some engineering on the ship in the TV spot. It looks like a different pair will rise up to become our new favorite friendship, though, as one shot shows Rocket loading his gun while perched on War Machine's shoulder. We look forward to the ever-practical Rhodey becoming pals with a wisecracking space raccoon. Also note that Rocket's wearing the comics-accurate Guardians uniform seen in the TV spot, as well as a pair of goggles that complete the look. Going back to Nebula, Gamora's sister is seen going into battle as we see a quick glimpse of her arming herself, screaming a war cry and charging at someone off-screen. Who's she fighting, though? Well, with that intensity, it could be her evil father Thanos. And where is she? Well, the debris behind her suggests Titan, but the sky doesn't appear to be orange, so it could be a hitherto unvisited planet. The Quantum Suits Revealed The Avengers have never been one for a uniform team look, but Endgame will belatedly give them all matching costumes: those white, black and red suits that we've seen in leaked concept art and merchandise for a while now. At last, this trailer reveals the assembled heroes wearing them in all their glory. And, in doing so, they give us the first official hints that the Quantum Realm will play a key role in the movie. Fans long ago worked out that the design of the suits was similar to that worn by Hank Pym when he fetched his wife Janet from the Quantum Realm in AMATW, leading to them to be called Quantum suits. It's widely theorized that the Avengers will work out that the key to stopping Thanos is to use the Quantum Realm to go back in time and retrieve the Infinity Stones before the Mad Titan collects them. This isn't confirmed in the trailer, but clearly the heroes have enough of a plan for even those who aren't big on uniforms to suit up and help out. Overall, the march of Avengers includes Captain America, Nebula, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, War Machine, Black Widow and... Iron Man? Wait, what?! Iron Man Lives Yes, though we all pretty much expected it, this trailer confirms that Iron Man doesn't die stranded in space on the Benatar and makes it back to Earth to aid the rest of the heroes in saving the universe yet again. Revealing it this way makes it look like Tony's survival is something throwaway but notice how the procession of the heroes is edited and you can tell that he was deliberately saved until last even if he's standing to the left of Cap at the front of the troop. Besides, the previous sequence also promises that Tony won't be defeated. The "whatever it takes" montage is the most affecting part of the trailer as it shows the various heroes repeating the phrase, proving that they're willing to push themselves further than ever to win. This ends with Stark on the Benatar saying the same thing. So, clearly he's spurned on after leaving his message to Pepper to find a way to return home. There was some theorizing about who could save Iron Man and Nebula, but when you put the TV spot clip together with this trailer it looks like Tony just applies his genius intellect to the problem and manages to fix the dying ship himself. So, Tony lives! Well, at least his makes it out of his first near-death experience in the film in one piece. We'll have to see if his luck lasts until the credits roll. Thor Likes Captain Marvel Spoilers for Captain Marvel incoming! Captain Marvel's post-credits scene finally gave us what we've been waiting for and showed Carol Danvers arriving at the Avengers HQ and uniting with the rest of the MCU's heroes. Following on from this, the tag at the end of the Endgame trailer shows us her first interaction with Thor. And it's amazing. The brief 20-second scene shows the God of Thunder and Brie Larson's heroine engaging in a staring contest, with both heroes clearly trying to suss the other out. He then summons Stormbreaker and Carol doesn't even flinch as the glowing axe flies past her and lands in Thor's hand. After a beat, the Asgardians says "I like this one" and chuckles. We can infer that the ice is broken between the newcomer - well, the hero who predates them but has only just returned - and the rest of the Avengers from this point on and they can put their heads together to come up with a way to fix things. A leaked scene description from footage shown at a Disney shareholders meeting also tells us that it's Captain Marvel who galvanizes the team into going after Thanos. We'll see if our heroes manage to do the impossible - and at what cost - when Avengers: Endgame arrives in theaters on April 26th.