Hi there, nerd squad.
My name is Amanda McKnight and I will be your host for this top 10 list, where we will be
counting down some of the biggest WTF moments in from the Captain Marvel film.
There was a lot to choose from here and not all could make the cut, so let me know if
there was something in the film that made you go W-T-F and went unmentioned here in
the comments below.
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Just be careful who you share with as this video is chock full of Captain Marvel spoilers.
And we’re not talking small potatoes either.
Some of these spoilers are preeeetty sizeable.
Let’s fly on, shall we?
10 Mar-Vell
Yes!
Mar-Vell is in the movie but a reimagining of the character which I kind of love.
This version was introduced in a way that made me do a double take.
The OG Captain Marvel, known as Mar-Vell for those of you that don’t know, is actually
a hero from the golden age of comics and was first introduced to Marvel comic book readers
in 1967.
What is so interesting about what they did with Mar-Vell for the film was that they decided
to make Mar-Vell a woman, catching us all off guard.
Instead of being war hero to the Kree, Mar-Vell is presented as a scientist who was posing
as a doctor on earth to work on alien tech in secret.
Her earth name, Wendy Lawson is obviously another throwback to Doctor Walter Lawson,
the earth identity which the comic book version of Mar-Vell assumes when on earth.
9 The Skrull Autopsy
After the death of a Skrull agent who was posing agent Colson, Fury takes the corpse
to receive an autopsy.
Near the end of this alien autopsy scene, Fury lifts the very conveniently placed sheet
to well… check out the Skrull’s junk.
Yeah, that’s right.
Fury looks at a Skrull’s junk.
This act is then repeated by Fury’s senior officer, Keller who remarks that Skrulls certainly
are ugly.
We subsequently find out that Keller is Talos, a Skrull leader in disguise.
The moment is quite funny but... seriously what the actual F?
8 No Nine Inch Nails
Despite Captain Marvel sporting a 90s Nine In Nails T for most of the movie, there was
no music from Nine Inch Nails included on the soundtrack for the film.
Nothing.
Although the film’s soundtrack does boast of No Doubt, Nirvana, TLC and Hole among other
great bands and other great tracks which are a throwback to the 90s, it was kind of disappointing
to me that the logo for the band was so heavily featured and yet there wasn’t even one song
from them on the soundtrack.
7 Carol tortures Fury
Don’t worry, in a playful not literal way.
There are more than a few moments in the movie when Carol does this but the most memorable
to me are these two: one, when she questions Fury to try and make sure he’s not a skrull,
continuing to ask him more and more awkward and personal questions, even after she admits
she knew he wasn’t one.
Like, how would she even know if he was telling the truth?
She remembers very little of life on earth at this point, still thinking she is a Kree
warrior named Veers AND she has just met Fury and knows little to nothing about him.
He could have been a Skrull and she really wouldn’t have known.
And two, when Carol messes with Fury while he tries to make a point of proving that the
name Marvel is cooler than Mar-Vell.
She has no idea what he is talking about when he starts singing into a dish brush… yes,
singing!!!
Mr Postman by the Marvelettes.
When he asks her if she remembers the band that he’s talking about, she teases him,
asking him to keep singing and maybe it’ll come back.
And he does keep singing!
If Nick Fury singing doesn’t shock you, I don’t know what will.
6 Flaming piano…?
A few times in the film we get a series of what Carol describes as flashes of her memories.
One of these flashes from earlier on in the movie includes a piano on fire.
It’s quick but it’s in there and I saw it earlier on in the film and then was waiting
for it be explained for forever but it never was.
At first it took me back to all those weird Voldemort flashes in Harry Potter’s Order
of the Phoenix [insert clip 1:03-1:08 from voldy, link in script] and left me asking
WTF?
However it turns out the flaming piano may actually be a tribute to the of Stephen “Cajun”
Del Bagno, a pilot who consulted on the film but passed away in April of 2018.
There is a legend about a how this tradition started involving a UK Royal Air force pilot
who was also a gifted musician.
After being shot down, his friends set fire to his piano as a symbol of mourning for the
fact that he would never play music again.
5 Dramatic Face Off Fake Out
There’s a moment near the end of the film where Yon Rogg and Carol slowly and dramatically
walk towards each other before they are about to engage in a face off.
And I mean slowly.
Like as slow as the last scene in Force Awakens [insert clip force awakens 2:21, link in script].
When they finally get to each other, there is another long dramatic pause, followed by
Yon Rogg telling Veers, aka Carol how proud he is of her and then offering that they fight
fisticuffs to settle things, like they did at the beginning of the movie.
Carol seems to recognize this as a WTF moment too as her response is to photon blast Yon
Rogg into next week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfsG-ZXyjeA [force awakens]
4 Korath and Ronan
This film not only introduces audience members to Captain Marvel and ties up a few loose
ends but it also helps to clarify the cosmic picture by giving us more info on the Kree.
I understand why they did this but found the additional appearance of Korath and Ronan
surprising.
Korath serves on Yon Rogg’s squad which feels random, like they just wanted to give
all of us MCU fans something to point at and recognize.
And the coolest and most surprising thing for me in Captain Marvel, regarding Ronan,
was that we get to find out that he started out as AN Accuser, not THE Accuser.
Accusers are basically the big guns of the Kree.
They are bombers who come in and blow up anyone that gets in the way.
Ronan also runs into Carol after she has unlocked the full potential of her of powers.
And although Carol manages to scare him away from earth, Ronan vows to come back for Carol.
Currently Ronan is believed to be dead in the MCU.
So what does this mean?
Is he going to come back?
Will we get to see a fight with him and Carol in a flashback?
I’m flabbergasted but ready!
3 Dogtag
This one made me laugh out loud in the theatre.
After Carol talks with Maria about how she disappeared, attempting to piece together
her forgotten memories; Maria, Monica, Carol and Fury all go through Maria’s old photos
and mementos of Carols.
Among them is what Maria claims is the only trace of Carol found at the crash site: a
piece of a dog tag.
Yeah!!!
A piece!
Keep in mind that this crash site appears to be covered in sand…
How did they find this tiny piece of dog tag?
Fair enough, it’s a movie but it doesn’t end there.
We also see in a flashback, after they fight Yon Rogg goes to retrieve an unconscious Carol
and immediately finds the other piece of her dog tag, straight up just picks it out of
the sand.
Do Kree have some amazing metal-detector eyes or something?
So random!
2 Physics
Okay so Skrulls are capable of seemingly intergalactic travel, can shape-shift and have the technology
to retrieve a person’s memories…
And yet they have the coordinates of Mar-Vell’s space station lab but can’t read them because
apparently, they didn’t understand them.
That is they did not understand that they were space coordinates.
Like WTF?
Because Maria instantly does.
This part is so ridiculous that even the film acknowledges it when Talos, upon discovering
this, says, “You’re supposed to be my science guy,” to you know, his science guy.
1 Goose
Carol’s Flerken cat.
Except in this movie, the cat belongs more to Mar-Vell or Fury than Carol.
Originally in the comics, this cat was given the name of Chewie by Carol, a Star Wars fan
and self-proclaimed nerd.
Have I mentioned how much I love that fact?
But in the film, they changed the cat’s name to Goose.
While this is obviously a poignant reference to Top Gun, I was kind of saddened to see
that they ditched the Chewbacca reference.
Another surprising moment was that this cat is a member of an alien race referred to as
Flerkens.
And that Fury lost his eye due to a cat scratch from Goose.
Which I guess means that Goose was the last being he trusted.
Never trust a cat, Fury, I could have told you that one.
[insert fury clip 5:47-5:57, link in script] I hope you enjoyed watching this video as
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