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Today we are going to be going to be going further together into explaining the ending
to Captain Marvel.
What happened, why and what does it set up and explain for our MCU?
If you haven’t yet watched Captain Marvel be warned, this video contains MAJOR spoilers.
And I highly recommend watching the film before continuing.
Assuming we’ve all seen
the film, let’s continue.
Where to begin?
I guess the beginning of the end.
The film ends with Captain Marvel modifying Fury’s pager into a space ranged communicay
device which she explains can now be used to contact to her in the a the event of a
very serious emergency, before she heads back out to space to help the Skrull find a new
home and probably go on other badass cosmic space adventures, as she is often seen doing
in the comics.
Meanwhile Fury returns to the office to start working on a new project.
We discover that the reason he lost his eye was actually because of Mar-Vell’s flerken
cat, Goose--an obvious nod to Carol’s flerken cat, Chewie from the comics.
And conclude that Goose must have been the last being Fury trusted with regards to his
explanation in previous films as to how he lost it.
With the first and only hero now gone from earth and the discovery that Earth is not
alone in the universe, Fury decides to start a new project called the Protector Project.
However as he looks on to a photo of Carol Danvers from the past, back from when she
was a pilot on earth, he notices the a nickname she was given on her plane, “Avenger.”
And it is because of her that he decides to change the name of his new project from Protectors
to Avengers.
We find out that assembling the team is Phase 1 which is interesting because Phase 2 is
also referenced in the MCU.
We see the second Phase of the Avengers project in the first Avengers film which leads to
a heated argument between the members of the team, a lot of pointing fingers and a lot
of uncomfortable angled shots known as Dutch shots in the cinematography world.
This leaves me wondering what Phase 3 of the plan would be.
Was there a phase 3?
In the event of something catastrophic happening or in the case of Fury’s death.
We know he called Captain Marvel at the end of the film, could this be phase 3 or do you
think, even though he is for the time gone, Fury could have had something else up his
sleeve?
Speaking of calling on Captain Marvel that brings me to the first post / mid credits
scene.
A moment we have all come too familiar with waiting for in Marvel movies.
As I sat waiting for this one, I was none too surprised to see it take us into the aftermath
of Infinity War.
Where somehow Black Widow, Cap, Bruce Banner and Rhodey have come across the communications
device, as Captain Marvel would say, that was left with Fury.
How they found a small old pager amongst the wreckage and how it survived are both questions
that came to mind but hey--it’s a movie!
Banner is trying to determine who the pager was used to contact as whoever they are might
be the Avengers last hope.
However the pager appears to die before the can determine everything and it seems like
all hope is lost until Black Widow turns around and boom--there’s Captain Marvel, looking
like she’s seen some shit--and asking “Where’s Fury?”
Obviously this ending solidifies what we already knew, that Captain Marvel will be appearing
in Infinity War: Endgame.
But what else can we surmise from it?
For one thing, it could actually be a scene straight out of Endgame considering that it
seems to capture Captain Marvel’s arrival back on earth, for another it implied that
Captain Marvel has most likely not been to earth since we saw he leave in the 90s so
she’s been gone for 10 plus years.
Considering that Fury is gone and we do not yet know the status of Maria or Monica, Captain
Marvel may not know who to trust.
Which means we will likely be seeing some friction between Carol and the Avengers right
off the bat.
Considering how much the team also wanted to find out who the message is going to, they
may even be somewhat suspicious of Captain Marvel upon their first meeting though I imagine
due to their trust in Fury, they will the ones who are more willing to offer trust straight
out of the gate.
The post-post credits scene simply shows Fury’s desk.
Goose hops up into frame, looking like they are about to spit up a furball on the desk.
Poor Nick.
This highlights even more how much a sassy creature Goose is.
However instead of chucking up a fur ball, Goose spits out the tesseract.
Which leaves me asking the question if the other infinity stones got around as much as
this one did.
It’s definitely been all over and around earth, that’s for sure.
This leaves us to assume that this is how the tesseract gets back into the hands of
Fury and SHIELD.
One of my favourite things about the ending and this entire film is that it does a great
job of neatly wrapping things up and answering some questions.
It didn’t do quite what I expected with the story which is nice as someone who has
read the comics and is looking for to the MCU but it didn’t disregard the comic book
lore for Captain Marvel either.
And it did a great job of integrating all of the pieces of the puzzle, introducing new
content while resolving and explaining older content.
How did you feel about the film?
What did you think of the ending?
How do you feel Captain Marvel will react to all the changes that have come about on
earth during her absence?
How will she feel about the Avengers?
With lots of other superhero movies just around the corner and I also want to know what other
ones you are also excited for.
A lot of good previews were shown in our theatre before the start of this movie and I am personally
am super excited for Dark Phoenix and although it’s not a superhero film, Rocketman.
Feel free to let us know what you thought of Captain Marvel and which films you are
most looking forward to in the comment below.
Shazam, anyone?
This is top 10 nerd and I’m Amanda McKnight saying thank you for watching, and reminding
you to stay nerdy, You Tube.