Yippee-ki-yay movie lovers, it's Jan here, and today I'm breaking down the amazing new
Avengers: Infinity War trailer for Marvel easter eggs and other cool details you might
have missed.
If you're here for the first time, I do regular Marvel videos, and to celebrate the new trailer,
I'm kicking off a new round of my Infinity War giveaway for all my subscribers.
Just leave me a comment below about the new trailer or any requests you have for Infinity
War videos.
Obviously, speculation and potential spoilers ahead for Infinity War.
The new trailer introduces more backstory for Thanos with Gamora revealing her father's
chilling mission.
"The entire time I knew him, he only ever had one goal."
"To wipe out half the universe."
"If he gets all the infinity stones, he can do it with the snap of his fingers...
just like that!"
And that snap is a reference to the classic Infinity Gauntlet storyline where Thanos literally
snaps his fingers when he's wearing the gauntlet and half of the universe disappears.
This is an awesome easter egg although we might not actually get Thanos's exact "snap"
moment in the movie.
For example, we may see the Mad Titan's fingers about to perform that move, followed by a
sudden cut to black, similar to how at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron the camera
cut before Cap finished the famous comic book catchphrase, 'Avengers Assemble!'
"Avengers..."
Thanos's voiceover is as chilling as his mission and proves that his view of balancing the
universe is a twistedly positive one.
"The end is near."
"When I'm done, half of humanity will still exist."
"Perfectly balanced ... as all things should be"
Notice how Thanos is a glass-half-full guy.
He's pointing out half of humanity will still exist in perfect balance.
Of course, Thanos will need the time stone, and we get a terrifying shot of Ebony Maw
torturing Doctor Strange.
And it instantly brought to mind this scene from the comics where Ebony Maw manipulates
Doctor Strange into becoming an unwitting pawn for Thanos.
Ebony Maw has the ability to deceive even the strongest of minds and I think we're going
to see Doctor Strange used by Maw in some kind of deception against the Avengers.
Thor gets some pretty incredible scenes in the new trailer.
We see him with Rocket and Groot on the Dwarven planet Nidavellir, where he's gone in search
of a new weapon now that he no longer has his hammer Mjolnir.
And we get to see an awesome scene where a cape-wearing-Thor powers up and harnesses
either his own lightning powers or the powers of something else, perhaps an Infinity Stone,
to create his new weapon.
It's not shown in the trailer, but various tie-in toys have confirmed that the new weapon
will be Stormbreaker and the handle looks to be made from wood that Groot donates from
his own body.
Stormbreaker is an axe-like hammer which in the comics was originally wielded by Beta
Ray Bill.
Bill is a popular comic-book character who, after proving himself worthy enough to wield
Thor's normally unliftable hammer, was given the new hammer, Stormbreaker, by Odin.
And like Mjolnir, Bill's hammer was created by the dwarves of Nidavellir.
In the comics, Stormbreaker had the same powers as Thor's Mjolnir, so it'll be interesting
to see how Thor uses it in Infinity War and if there are any differences with his original
hammer.
In the previous trailer we saw the Black Order attempt to extract the Mind Stone from Vision's
forehead, and as I predicted then, the Avengers have taken Vision to Wakanda to try and safely
remove it.
In this shot, Wakandan high-tech genius Shuri is using her kimoyo beads to project an image
of Vision, who you can see lying down at the bottom of the screen.
She looks to be showing this image to Bruce Banner, whose glasses you can see flash by
just to the side of the shot.
Shuri seems to be working out or actually even showing Banner how she can extract the
Mind Stone from Vision while keeping him alive.
We know from the Avengers: Infinity War prelude comic and the Black Panther post-credits scene
that Shuri has developed tech in Wakanda that removed the HYDRA programming from Bucky's
brain, so it's not surprising that the Avengers would call on her again for her brilliance
at inventing and using cutting-edge tech, this time to try to help Vision.
As was hinted at in the first trailer, Bruce Banner will be getting into Tony's Hulkbuster
armour.
And I really liked this shot of the Hulkbuster standing tall and Falcon and War Machine flying
past behind him.
But later it looks like the Hulkbuster might not be strong enough to withstand the Outrider
attack as we see him getting overwhelmed.
If you're worried about Bruce Banner's chances of survival, well, I think he's probably going
to get out of this one because a recent toy shows Bruce Banner hulking out while inside
the Hulkbuster.
Also the first trailer showed a Hulk without any armour fighting on the Wakandan battlefield.
Hopefully then an angry Hulk will be able to take out the Outriders swarming all over
him at this point!
This flashback shows Thanos and his army conquering Gamora's people, with the Mad Titan taking
a young Gamora away from her family to raise as his own.
Remember that in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, we've seen how Gamora is very much
Thanos's favourite, which really hurt Nebula when they were growing up together.
In a recent interview with EW, Josh Brolin said that although Thanos uses his adoptive
daughter Gamora as a tool for his own gain, he does feel affection for her and we'll see
the evolution of their relationship over the course of the film in flashback scenes like
this one.
After all, conquering other places and races, and taking away some of their youngsters,
was all part of Thanos's grand plan, which we'll see snap into place in Infinity War.
The fact that Gamora is Thanos's favourite may well mean that, in his eyes, her betrayal
of all he stands for is simply unbearable.
This is one of many reasons I believe the Mad Titan will sacrifice Gamora by the end
of Infinity War.
And I talk about all the clues pointing to her demise in my new Infinity War Death Theory
video.
OK, let's talk Iron Man.
We get to see a bit more of his suit capabilities when his foot thrusters convert into a supercharged
rocket booster as he zooms up to the circle of death which we know from previous promos
has Spider-Man on board.
The machine heads out into space and we later see it smash onto a reddish-orangy-brown coloured
planet and in the background there's a ton of wreckage.
This planet or moon is Thanos's homeworld Titan.
As well as the flashback scenes with Gamora, we're likely going to see flashbacks to Thanos's
earlier life on Titan.
Recently, Kevin Feige explained we'll learn that Titan's population went extinct "because
of things that [Thanos] thought he could help prevent, [but] he was not allowed to do [anything
about them]."
And after that mass extinction, Thanos "vowed not to let [it] happen again."
Now, in the background of the planet there are various giant objects strewn around which
are likely left over from Titan's destruction.
In fact, I wonder whether they might be parts of a giant machine.
Remember in Guardians of the Galaxy, the Collector introduced us to the power of the Infinity
Stones and we saw a Celestial destroying a whole planet.
It might be that something similar happened on Titan and Celestials attacked Thanos's
homeworld.
Recently, the Russo Brothers said we should prepare for a lot of crying in the cinema
when we watch Avengers: Infinity War and Kevin Feige has also said we will be getting real
character deaths.
And in this new trailer, I think we get the biggest hint that Iron Man might actually
die.
Listen to Thanos and watch who it cuts back to.
Tony's looking pretty beaten down by this point with his armour broken, and Thanos's
words obviously echo the fact that Iron Man kick-started the whole of the Marvel Cinematic
Universe.
I also think it's interesting that the Marvel Studios intro logo was zoomed right in on
the R when it came on in this trailer and right there bang in the centre are 2 pictures
of Tony Stark, a subtle hint perhaps that he's at the core of this movie?
We've also had all the Soul Stone promo art teases with Iron Man in the middle of the
Soul Stone, and I'm getting a feeling Marvel could want Infinity War to come full circle
back to the very first movie in the franchise, Iron Man.
Robert Downey Jr has said that he wants to leave on a high, and going out in a blaze
of glory in Infinity War would definitely fit that ambition.
If Tony Stark really does die, I'm sure there will be a ton of misty eyes in the theatre.
Now, the editing in the trailer could, of course, be a bit of classic misdirection.
Thanos might be saying this line to someone else, for example, Spider-Man who we saw getting
beaten down by Thanos in the first trailer, or perhaps to Thor or Cap who we also see
Thanos attack in the new trailer.
By the way, even if Iron Man does die, we're going to see Tony Stark again in Avengers
4 as RDJ's been filming, so we'll either get flashback scenes or some time-travel shenanigans
that the remaining Avengers do to try to fix the events of Infinity War.
So, if Iron Man potentially dying wasn't enough for you, the trailer actually immediately
cut to Steve Rogers resisting Thanos and the gauntlet.
First of all, it's incredible that Cap appears to be holding Thanos back with just his hands.
And that reminds me of how Cap was the only one who managed to make Mjolnir wobble a little
in Thor's hammer lifting contest in Age of Ultron, and also of how Cap held on to The
Winter Soldier's helicopter in Civil War.
As for Cap's chances against the Mad Titan, well, he does have his new shields which are
bound to have some new capabilities we've not yet seen.
However, notice in this shot that Cap's right arm is missing its shield, but in this later
shot, the shield is back!
This could mean simply that these two shots in the trailer are shown in a different order
than they appear in the final movie, or it might mean that Cap's arm shields are similar
to his triangular shield in the comics, in other words, part of his shield is used to
protect himself while the other part splits off to attack a baddie.
And I talk in detail about Cap's new shield in my video on that.
I am still worried for Cap though because in the Infinity Gauntlet story when Steve
Rogers went up against Thanos, the Mad Titan easily crushed Captain America's shield and
then killed him like he was nothing.
I'm hoping Cap might hold out better here but I wouldn't place a bet on his chances
of survival.
OK, on a more upbeat note, I want to appreciate how awesome this shot of Spidey swinging through
the floating wreckage of Titan is.
It looks like this scene is from the aftermath of when Thanos throws a moon at the planet
which was recently released in a still and I imagine the Avengers might have survived
this attack perhaps because Doctor Strange managed to slow down time for himself and
the other heroes as the moon landed on the surface.
Now, I'd love to hear your thoughts and theories on the new trailer.
What's got you excited?
And who's got you worried?
Also, leave me any requests or questions you have about the trailer which I'll follow up/answer
in another video.
You can leave those in the comments or tweet me @Jan_Gilbert or @FlicksCity.
If you enjoyed this, I really appreciate you hitting that like button and sharing the video.
The winner of my last Marvel giveaway is on screen now.
If that's you, send me a private message with your details and I'll get your prize out to
you.
And if you want to check out my Infinity War Death Theory video or my other Marvel theory
and trailer breakdowns, tap the screen right here.
Thanks for watching and see ya next time.
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers!