TOP 10 EASTER EGGS YOU MISSED IN THE CAPTAIN MARVEL TRAILERIt͛s official!
The very first Captain Marvel trailer has finally been released, and it͛s everything
we could have wanted and more!
It͛s our first live action look at the hero, played by Brie Larson, and finally gave fans
of the MCU more insight on what exactly her solo film will entail.
For those of you out of the loop, Captain Marvel was hinted to at the end of the Avengers
Infinity War film, with Nick Fury sending out a distress call to her via a space beeper
seconds before he was dusted by Thanos͛ snap.
Since, theories have been ablaze as to how Carol Danvers will be involved in the upcoming
Avengers sequel, and how her origins would play out in her solo film that will be released
this upcoming March.
The easter eggs and references we͛ll be discussing in this video shine some light on those questions.
So without further ado, here͛s the top 10 easter eggs you missed in the captain marvel
trailer!
Blockbuster The trailer begins with Carol falling out of the sky, crashing landing into
a building, which just so happens to be a Blockbuster!
For those of you who didn͛t live through the 90s, Blockbuster was a big deal.
It͛s how you watched movies at home before Netflix and the internet existed.
The Captain Marvel film will be taking place during the 1990͛s, and the filmmakers have
already made it clear that her Earth scenes will be chalk full of 90s references.
Even the photos that were released by Entertainment Weekly recently featured Carol wearing a nine
inch nails t-shirt.
So get ready for a blast from the past, friends.
9 Ties to SHIELD Speaking of that Nine Inch Nails t-shirt, after a shot of her standing
out of place in her Starforce uniform in the middle of a subway station, we see her in
civilian clothes with a hat that appears to have the original SHIELD logo on it.
She presses her finger against an electronic finger pad, accessing a facility alongside
another individual, who we think it͛s safe to assume is Nick Fury, who is the character
speaking in the voice over.
This cuts to a shot of a facility with sparse medical equipment and Nick Fury holding a
gun while a doctor examines a Skrull spread out on a table.
This implies something we already figured; that Carol ends up working with SHIELD, and
that SHIELD is aware of the Skrulls and their threat.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Skrulls, they͛re the alien race that are mortal enemies
of the Kree, and the film has been stated to be exploring the Kree Skrull war that͛s
famous in the comics.
Many have also speculated that it may lead into Secret Invasion, the comic event in which
the Skrulls secretly infiltrated Earth.
They͛re shape shifters, able to disguise themselves however they choose.
But more onthat later.
8 Beeper!
Another 90͛s reference, Nick Fury also has a beeper that he uses.
It͛s not the same space beeper as we saw in Infinity War, though.
This could imply two things.
One, the reason why they have a special beeper in Infinity War is because at the time that
was the technology that Carol became familiar with, and this throw back will be used as
a sort of sentimental beat in the overall narrative when we reach the end of
the movie.
Two, the message that Nick Fury sends out on the beeper reads ͚WITH TARGET͛, meaning
maybe SHEILD as an organization doesn͛t have the best of intentions for Carol, if she͛s
the one who is considered ͚the target͛, at least towards the beginning of the movie.
7 Nick Fury In his voice over, Nick Fury states ͞space invasion, big car chase, truth be
told, I was ready to hang it up until I met you today.͟ This is followed by the reveal
of the de-aged Samuel L Jackson.
And take a look at that, he͛s got both eyes, still seeing properly out of not one, but
two of his peepers!
It appears that the two may go rogue at one point, with Nick also dressed in civilian
clothes with Carol in one shot while they drive down an empty desert road.
There͛s a good chance that the finger pad Carol pressed her finger against in that we
mentioned earlier is actually her using her powers to bust into an empty SHIELD facility
with Nick, which would tie into that beeper ͚target͛ note we mentioned in our last number,
and him turning against orders.
7 Phil Coulson Speaking of SHIELD agents, we get a brief shot of Coulson in this trailer!
And he͛s got more hair.
Not much more to say on that other than its great to see him again.
There was also a real quick shot of Ronan the Accuser standing on a space ship looking
out over a planet.
6 The Helmet In one quick shot in the trailer, we see the Starforce speeding through a bluish
dark area, which matches up with the terrain of the leaked scene description that hit the
interwebs a little while back.
This scene is supposed to follow the Starforce heading out on a mission to a different planet,
and Carol eagerly jumps into action.
In this shot, you can see that she͛s wearing her helmet from the comic; this
helmet had received a lot of criticism over the years for being silly, but it͛s a nice
touch to see the filmmakers incorporate it into her Starforce uniform.
We also get a better look at it towards the end of the trailer as well.
5 Her Powers We see Carol drop to the ground after a sequence of her as a child and youth
falling while doing various activities.
It appears that she͛s near something that looks like a crater of sorts; perhaps an alien
ship has crash landed nearby?
Then, later on in the trailer, we see her in her pilot uniform being thrown back by
a blue blast of energy.
Could this be the event on earth that gave her her powers, in which her DNA melded with
Kree DNA?
In the comics, when Carol first appeared, she was a supporting character to the then
Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, who will be played by Jude Law in the movie.
During an explosion, Carol͛s DNA melds with his, making her a half Kree hybrid, and she
eventually takes up the mantle of Ms Marvel.
According to Marvel Studios, we know that her origin will be changing slightly, but
it͛s a safe bet that her powers come to fruition in a very similar way as they do in the panels.
3 Carol͛s Memories Carol describes that she keeps having memories.
We see a shot of her looking out over Kree-Lar, intercut with her on Earth in her previous
life as an air Force pilot alongside Monica Photon Rambeau.
She goes on to describe ͞I see flashes, I think I had a life here.
But I can͛t tell if it͛s real.͟ This is followed by an epic shot of her in braces
in some sort of contraption that is shooting energy into her temples, and appears to be
some sort of memory wiping machine.
Are the Kree wiping her memory?
The fact that she can͛t recall her previous life, or perhaps how she got her powers, means
that maybe her position on the Starforce isn͛t a voluntary one.
The Kree could be using her abilities for their benefit, and the story she͛s been told
about how she ended up on Hala may not be the truth.
2 Is Mar-Vell the Antagonist?
Could Mar-Vell be the real antagonist of the game?
If this trailer hints at anything, its that the Kree have taken Carol͛s memories away,
and that Carol also gets her powers in a similar fashion as she does in the comics.
Could Mar-Vell be betraying Carol͛s trust in actuality, having accidentally given her
her powers and then abducted her, taking her back to Kree-Lar to use in the benefit of
the Kree people?
At the very end of the trailer, there is a shot that ends off a bad ass sequence of Carol
standing up and clenching her fists.
We get to see a tiny glimpse of her in her Captain Marvel uniform before its big end
of trailer reveal.
Carol makes a fist in her red gloves, while facing a figure standing in front of her that͛s
out of focus.
That figure has a fair complexion, and does not look like a Skrull solider.
Rather, it kind of looks like Jude Law.
1 Punching Grannies The shot of Carol punching an adorable smiling grandma may have been
slightly jarring to some.
But, considering the Skrull͛s presence in the movie, that is most definitely not a grandma.
This implies something really cool though.
Carol must have the ability to see Skrulls even when they͛re disguising themselves.
Considering the shot is on some form of public transportation, that Skrull most definitely
did not just shape shift.
It͛s also likely that Skrull that Carol is fighting atop the train in the earlier sequence
in the trailer, and she likely defeats it, because it͛s likely that same Skrull that
appears on the gurney in the facility shot that also appeared earlier in the trailer.
This also confirms that there are Skrulls on Earth now, which means the theory that
the film may have ties to the Secret Invasion story line is very plausible, and that perhaps
Carol has been absent from the MCU the past 20 something years because she͛s been taking
care of the Skrull threat while working with SHEILD in some way.
There we have it friends!
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Is it everything you expected it to be?
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