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We're breaking down the details
of the Captain Marvel trailer.
After revealing its first official images
earlier this month, Marvel finally dropped the first trailer
for 2019's Captain Marvel film this morning
and it is packed with details.
Skrulls on autopsy tables, Nick Fury with two eyes,
old ladies getting punched in the face!
While seeing Carol Danvers in action for the first time
has fans filled with more energy
than one of Captain Marvel's punches,
the trailer did leave some of the internet
with a few questions about the movie,
so we figured it's time to break down the details
of the Captain Marvel trailer Nerdist News style,
which means lots of speculation and little asides.
First up, we've got Captain Marvel
crash-landing into a Blockbuster video store,
which if you want to establish that the film
takes place in the 90s, we can't think of a better place
to start your trailer, besides a factory
that makes JNCO jeans.
And speaking of throwbacks, later in the trailer
we've got a digitally de-aged Nick Fury with two eyes,
which takes me out of it completely
'cause that's just weird,
and Phil Coulson with a full head of hair
that would make Johnny Bravo blush.
And from the first Guardians of the Galaxy film,
we've also got a shot of Ronan the Accuser
looking menacingly at Earth, and what looks like
Korath the Pursuer, played by Djimon Hounsou,
flying alongside Danvers near the end of the trailer
and it blew fans' minds to see Carol
with her classic comic book mohawk and helmet
onscreen for the first time.
Now if you aren't familiar with the comics,
this team flying alongside Captain Marvel is Star Force.
They were first introduced in Avengers #346
back in 1992, and they're basically
the Kree version of Seal Team 6 but with superpowers,
and for at least some of the film,
Carol Danvers is part of the group
and we've also got a shot of Jude Law
as a member of Star Force.
It was previously announced by Variety
that Jude Law was cast in the film
to play the original Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell.
However, Disney has been mum on his name since,
which leaves some fans speculating
that Law is actually playing the role of Yon-Rogg,
a Kree military commander and Captain Marvel's nemesis,
who is also partially responsible
for giving her powers in the comics.
So who is Star Force fighting in this cosmic smackdown?
The Skrulls!
The Skrulls are a shapeshifting alien race
that has had a long-standing war with the Kree,
and we see the Skrulls in their true green-skinned form
a couple of times in the trailer,
most notably with several Skrulls standing on the beach
and what looks like a Skrull laying on an autopsy table
flanked by Fury and Coulson.
And if you're wondering why Captain Marvel
punches an old lady in the trailer,
either the old lady is a Skrull in disguise
or this version of Captain Marvel
just really hates the elderly, which is not cool.
A major plot point in the film seems to be focused
on the Skrulls using their shapeshifting abilities
to infiltrate the US government,
and though we don't see him in the trailer,
we do know that Star Wars: Rogue One actor
Ben Mendelsohn will be playing the role of Talos,
the Skrull leader who is in charge
of the Skrulls' Earth invasion force.
So, who was Carol Danvers before she got abducted
into some type of alien Top Gun situation?
Well we've known for a while that Captain Marvel
will not give us a traditional origin story
and that she would start the film with her powers
but from the looks of this trailer,
we'll still be getting some of her backstory,
just through flashbacks.
And getting into those flashbacks,
in one scene we see an alien ship decloak in Earth's orbit
and confronting it appears to be a prototype Quinjet
which we see Carol piloting later.
This could be the moment where Carol
meets the Kree for the first time.
If we add all of these flashbacks together, along with
the line "I know a renegade soldier when I see one,"
it seems to us that Carol will get abducted by the Kree,
possibly after she is infused with Kree powers.
She will be mindwiped to become
a soldier within the Kree Star Force,
and we're gonna get speculatey here, like we do,
he humanity is going to start creeping out
and this will cause her to go rogue
and turn against her Star Force teammates,
leading up to her crashing into a Blockbuster.
I don't why I find that so funny, but I do.
(laughing)
(bell dinging) Blockbuster.
Of course, this all just based on quick shots
from the trailer, but we think it tracks.
Now the trailer also raises even more questions
about the significance of Carol's friend Maria Rambeau.
It's pretty clear from the Top Gun-style shot
of the two of them on the tarmac
that they are Air Force buddies,
and knowing that Maria is a single mom in this film
with a comics-significant last name.
We're already expecting her to be the mom
of the future Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau,
but did we actually get a cameo
from Monica Rambeau in the trailer?
We think so!
Check out that shot of Carol telling someone,
"I'm not what you think I am."
She's looking over the top of someone's head,
someone short, possibly a kid.
Could this be our first look at Monica Rambeau in the MCU,
or at least the top of her head?
And finally, with the trailer drop
came an official poster reveal,
and what's that little furry but in the shadows?
It's a cat, most likely Captain Marvel's cat Chewie.
In the comics, Captain Marvel's cat
is no ordinary cat either.
It's actually a Flerken, an alien that carries
a pocket dimension in its mouth and has tenties,
a la tentacles.
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What?
In the books, the cat's true identity
was discovered by Rocket Raccoon, which got us thinking,
could we get a Rocket and Groot cameo in Captain Marvel?
We could easily see the pair hanging out
at some type of Mos Eisley-style alien cantina
and bumping into Captain Marvel.
It would definitely be the perfect place for a cameo,
but we will see.
Clearly there's a ton to mine
from the official Captain Marvel trailer and poster
and we're super stoked to see this film
in March of 2019, but what do you folks think?
How excited are you to see Captain Marvel,
on a scale of baseball Carol Danvers
to Mohawk Captain Marvel?
And did you catch that slick Marvel Studios 10
logo color change from red and silver
to Captain Marvel's blue and gold?
Let's discuss.
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