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Does the new Avengers: Endgame trailer confirm
the Ant Man time travel theory?
It's been a banner week for the house of ideas
with Captain Marvel truly flying higher, further, faster
and passing the half a billion mark at the Box Office.
And now, about a month out from the premiere
of what will be it's next Box Office bonanza,
Marvel has released a brand new
trailer for Avengers: Endgame.
In addition to dusting up even more hype
for the next installment of the Avengers Saga,
this new Endgame trailer seems to confirm
the long gestating time travel theory
about how Ant Man and time vortex's in the quantum realm
could play a huge role in the film.
Now, before we go any further, we should let you know
that we are going to be spoiling Captain Marvel
and potentially, if we're right,
some of Avengers: Endgame as well,
so spoiler warning!
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Also, be sure to head over to nerdist.com
for the frame by frame breakdown of all
the nitty gritty details you may have missed.
But let's get into this time travel theory.
First off, this trailer really pulls from
the 11 year history of the Marvel cinematic universe
through callbacks to the past in the form of
black and white footage from previous Marvel movies.
Tony reminisces about his history as Iron Man
along with lines from Peggy Carter about starting over.
We see shots from Iron Man one and three,
Thor one, the Captain America films and Infinity War,
along with moments from Endgame.
So the trailer is definitely focused on showcasing the
passage of time, referencing the past, present and future.
Later, Captain America says "I keep telling everybody"
"they should move on."
"Some do, but not us."
Again, another reference to time as Cap refuses to move on.
All of these subtle and subconscious visual,
verbal references to time, build up to the surviving
Avengers vowing to do whatever it takes.
Could whatever it takes mean risking it all
by jumping into the quantum realm,
finding a time vortex and hopefully stopping Thanos?
Well the very concept of time travel and time vortex's
was recently introduced in Ant Man and The Wasp
when Michelle Pfieffer's Wasp warned Scott Lang
to be careful and not get caught in a time vortex
while exploring the quantum realm.
It's reasonable to assume that this intro
was to get audiences prepped for the possibility
of time travel in Endgame.
Subconscious clues aside, lets look to some harder evidence.
We've seen behind the scenes photos from
the set of Endgame back when we only knew
it as Untitled Avengers Film.
In those leaked pics we saw what looked a whole
lot like a recreation of the Battle of New York
from the first Avengers movie
with Ant Man added to the mix with the original Avengers.
This is where fans first started speculating
that time travel was afoot,
since Ant Man obviously wasn't in New York
for the Chitauri invasion.
Also in these photos you can see that some
of the Avengers are wearing some sort of wrist device
which we strongly suspect is time travel tech,
but don't stop zooming and enhancing yet because
in this new trailer we actually get our first
official look at one of those wrist devices on Hawkeye
as he's running away from an explosion.
The next big time travel clue is hair!
You might remember from the Captain Marvel mid credit scene,
Cap still has his beard and Black Widow is rocking
her blonde stealth bob,
but throughout the course of this new trailer
Natasha goes from blonde bob, to shoulder length blonde,
to long red ponytail with blonde on the end,
to fully red again.
Now we're heard per Kevin Feige,
that most of these shots are within the
first 15 to 20 minutes of Endgame,
so if we take him at his word, most of this hair
time warping happens right at the top of the film,
but the biggest piece of evidence for time travel
is this shot of Ant Man.
It's a quick shot, but he's out on a suburban street
and behind him we see a house with overgrown vegetation
and very full trash cans.
He's reading missing posters that seem to have
been out in the elements for a while.
This leads us to believe that Scott Lang will
make his way out of the quantum realm some time after
Thanos' snap and a world grappling with massive loss.
It's not the first time we've seen posters
with sentiments like this, if you'll recall this shot
from the big game Superbowl TV spot
where we saw signs at Cap's VA support group meeting
that says "Where do we go now that they're gone?"
Finally another indicator that our time travel theory
is tracking, is that shot of the surviving Avengers,
all decked out in their new white suits.
We've previously seen these suits in
leaked art from toy packages and
now seeing them on screen here,
they definitely look like something from Pym Technologies.
So, where do all hints, clues and pieces of evidence
leave the possibility of time travel in Avengers: Endgame?
Well, if we had to pop on our tin foil hats and make a guess
here's what we think will happen in the film.
Ant Man makes his way out of the quantum realm
and finds himself in a very changed world,
looking for his family and friends.
He'll meet up with the remaining Avengers
and they'll all figure out that he traveled
through time via a time vortex in the quantum realm.
They'll figure out a plan to use a time vortex
to try and stop Thanos before the snap.
However, they won't have complete control
over the time travel mechanism.
The team will be split up throughout dispirit
time periods in the past and future.
We've seen rumors of the medieval-esque super hero
Black Knight helping out the team in the quantum realm
as well as word that on older of Scott Lang's daughter,
Cassie, could appear in the film,
who in the comics, is a member of the Young Avengers
as the super hero Stature.
At the end of the day, we will see how
close we are with this theory.
All of this is based on toy leaks,
behind the scenes photos and trailers,
and as we know, none of those ever, ever lied to us.
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But what do you folks think?
Are you excited to see Endgame?
Will you be able to contain your excitement
between now and April 26th?
If Marvel likes to trick us with fake
shots in it's trailers,
could this all be a big misdirect?
And honestly, why haven't we got a title for
Star Wars Episode 9?
Let's discuss.
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