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Is "Avengers: Endgame" setting up the Young Avengers?
What a time to be a Marvel fan.
From word that James Gunn is returning to
"The Guardians of the Galaxy" for volume three,
to a new "Avengers: Endgame" trailer dropping,
this week has been nothing but thumbs up
for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
And of course, fans have already dissected
every square pixel of the new Avengers spot
in hopes of piecing together what will happen beyond
everyone is sad.
New and old theories have made the rounds across the
internet, but it's one shot in particular that
has caught the Internet's eye,
and it involves another team of superheroes,
the Young Avengers.
Now before we dive in, if you haven't seen
"Captain Marvel" yet, or you don't want to hear
"Avengers: Endgame" theories that may or may not
turn out to be correct,
then run for cover, cause there will be spoilers.
(revving up)
Still here?
Of course you are.
So what's the shot in question?
Who are the Young Avengers,
and how do these things relate?
Well, let's break it down.
First up, the shot sparking all of the debate
is this blink and you'll miss it shot
of Hawkeye training a young woman to shoot a bow and arrow.
While the girl is most likely Hawkeye's daughter,
Lila Barton, who we last saw in "Avengers: Age of Ultron",
fans are pointing to a resemblance to someone else
in the comics, specifically the unofficial leader
of the Young Avengers: Kate Bishop, aka Hawkeye,
and yes, there are two Hawkeyes
kinda like there are two Spidermen,
Miles Morales and Peter Parker.
And over the course of the last couple of films,
"Captain Marvel" and "Ant Man and the Wasp",
it appears Marvel studios has been laying the ground work
for the Young Avengers,
and they could be showing up next month's
in "Avengers: Endgame".
Now for those of you who don't know,
the Young Avengers are essentially the Teen Titans
of the Marvel Universe.
A group of younger heroes in adolescent equivalence
of veteran heroes who team up to offer some super
assistance to their older counterparts.
Some of the members of the comics' team include,
Speed and Wiccan, the children of Scarlet Witch
and the Android Vision that somehow are conceived
through magic, you know,
because comics and also because magic.
Other teammates include Noh-Varr, aka Marvel Boy,
aka Captain Marvel as well as Hulkling, a Skrull/Kree hybrid
who models himself after the Hulk,
and while there are quite a few other members of
the Young Avengers, only one of them
albeit in civilian form, has shown up in the movies so far,
Cassie Lang, also known as the hero Stature.
Cassie, of course, is the daughter of Ant Man
who follows in her dad's, Scott Lang's
tiny footsteps by becoming another size-altering superhero.
We've seen Cassie in the two Ant Man films
and in "Ant Man and the Wasp", she even talks about her
hopes to one day become her dad's sidekick.
Of course, she seems a little young to be taking
up the mantel right now,
but there have been multiple rumors that actor
Emma Fuhrmann has been cast in the role of an
older Cassie Lang in "Avengers: Endgame".
Adding fuel to this theory, Captain Marvel's
Monica Rambeau, while not a member of the Young Avengers,
Monica Rambeau is another MCU character who,
in the comics, becomes an Avenger.
In Monica's case, she becomes the superhero Photon,
and she was even Captain Marvel way before Carol Danvers.
Of course, in the movie, they swap the age difference,
making Monica the younger of the two,
and just like Scott Lang's daughter, Cassie,
Monica also has a scene in "Captain Marvel"
where she expresses hope that she will one day
get to don her mentor's super suit.
So that's two MCU movies in a row to feature scenes where
young women talk about becoming future superheroes.
And sure, maybe it's just a coincidence,
but knowing how interconnected Marvel makes its movies,
that does seem a little unlikely.
The more likely bet is that they're laying
the ground work for something bigger
like the Young Avengers.
But how exactly would these character jump from
young kids to full-fledged heroes
in the course of two movies?
As we mention in Nerdist News on Thursday,
evidence continues to stack up that a lot of End Game
will involve time travel.
The time vortices-
(beep)
Vortexes?
Vortexes.
The time travel vortexes
(beep)
The time vortexes, vorticese, vortikses
in "Ant Man and the Wasp", the behind the scenes photos
of Ant Man at the Battle of New York and so on and so forth.
The new trailer this week gives us an even closer look
at those new white suits we see the surviving Avengers
strutting their stuff in.
We mentioned yesterday that those suits remind us of
PIM technology's suits, well kudos to den_of_geeks
for pointing out why the suits jumped our memories.
They are basically modified versions of Ant Man's
PIM Technologies' suit.
So there you go.
Also, they look awesome.
They remind me of Mass Effect just a hank.
So, similar to the very existence of the Quantum Realm,
and the time vortexes, vorticies, vortexes, I don't know,
it seems like Marvel has been sprinkling in hints of a
new generation of Avengers,
and we could be seeing them in "Avengers: Endgame"
via some Quantum Realm time-hopping.
But what does this all mean if we add up the clues?
Well, we suspect that some of the Avengers
are going to end up traveling through the past
and future of the MCU in an effort to stop Thanos.
And it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility
that we could see them jump into the not-too-distant
dystopian future where Cassie Lang is Stature,
Monica Rambeau is Photon or the new Captain Marvel,
and Clint Barton's daughter is the new Hawkeye.
And, they've teamed up with now-grownup Young Avengers
to keep the world from completely falling apart
due to Thanos's snap.
We've read rumors that End Game will supposedly
introduce a whole bunch of new characters and
a brand new roster of future heroes would certainly
take care of all of that.
But what do you folks think?
How likely is it that the Young Avengers will show up
in Endgame?
If time travel is involved,
what other Marvel heroes from different eras
would you like to see on screen?
And who is your favorite Captain Marvel:
Carol Danvers, Mar-Vell, Monica Rambeau, or Shazam?
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