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I’m your host, Amanda McKnight.
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new Avengers: Endgame trailer.
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Strap in because there is a lot going on in this trailer and I mean a lot.
Especially considering it looks like we will be traveling through time with the Avengers
in this film.
And oh, so many flashbacks!
Or are they also part of the time travel?
Hmm...
The trailer opens on a flashback of Tony in wreckage, after he escapes the cave and his
kidnappers in his mark one Iron Man suit.
Wow, has that Iron Man suit come a long way.
A lot of the flashbacks we see in this trailer remind us of the humble beginnings of our
heroes and really highlight how much they’ve all grown which also left me wondering, if
this will be Marvel’s way of allowing us to say farewell to these heroes.
Maybe those who have flashbacks in the film will meet their end in Endgame.
And Tony isn’t the only one who gets these moving flashbacks.
Continuing on, we get a little hint of Pepper in Tony’s flashbacks which are accompanied
by a voice over.
The voice over seems to sound like a message from Tony to Pepper, possibly one he recorded
and sent back to her after the events of Infinity War, in a hope that she was still alive and
it would reach her on earth.
Here’s hoping, Tony.
We cut to a shot of Tony in the Guardian’s ship which makes me think, those who were
left alive and seemingly stranded on Titan were able to get the ship up and running again
and are probably on their way home.
Though we do only see Tony clearly on the ship.
We then hear Peggy’s voice, reminding Cap that the world has changed and none of us
can go back.
This line is something lil old lady Peggy Carter says to Steve when she he comes to
visit her in the Winter Soldier film.
These words seem to ring even more true in the context of Endgame’s plot and the aftermath
of Infinity War.
Peggy’s voice over coincides with what looks like a flashback of Cap joining the army,
before he was a super soldier and a completely separate moment of Hawkeye and his daughter
doing some target practice.
Okay so two things about both of these moments.
One we notice in the flashback sequences, if that is what they are, that they are shot
very stylistically.
We see these moments play out in black and white as opposed to full colour, with little
highlights of red here and there.
Or in the case of Cap’s flashback, the red and blue of the American flag both being highlighted.
While some may have theories on what these bits of colour mean or represent, I’m more
inclined to believe that this was simply a stylistic choice.
Symbolically the red may represent death or loss or war.
All of these ideas seem appropriate guesses given when and where we see the colour.
And thing number two, the moment between Hawkeye and his daughter is kind of hard to place.
It may be happen before, after or during the events of Infinity War.
As you may recall Hawkeye was not in Infinity War.
We haven’t gotten much of an explanation as to what he was up to.
We only know that the events of Civil War took a toll on Barton and made him retreat
back to his family life.
But it seems in Endgame, he will be ready to suit up and save the world again.
A question remains, will his daughter maybe joining him or be set up to follow in his
footsteps?
Could she maybe be stepping in as the MCU’s Kate Bishop?
For those that don’t know Kate Bishop is a member of the Young Avengers in the comics
who is the first person to adopt the name Hawkeye after Clint.
Moving on, a lot of the scenes from the trailer are hard to organize in terms of the timeline,
and I feel like Marvel wanted it that way.
They are after famous for trying to tease and psych us out with their film previews.
If you don’t believe me when I say that this trailer is especially confusing for mapping
out a timeline, just take a look at Black Widow’s hair.
She sports four completely different hairstyles in this trailer alone.
I’m not joking.
Either this film takes place over a long period of time, or we are jumping all over the place
when it comes to the timeline.
Speaking of Black Widow, after Hawkeye and his daughter, we cut to a scene of Hawkeye
and Black Widow, not sure when this takes place but it looks like the where is somewhere
in Asia.
Is it possible we are going to finally get to learn more about their time together in
Bangkok?
I’m not sure, but whatever is going on, it looks like Black Widow and Hawkeye may
be doing some major bonding in this film.
We get a few cut scenes of the two holding hands and looking into each other’s eyes.
Although I know Marvel is most likely just teasing us as we have pretty much already
established that Clint and Natasha are just BFFs, and both appear to be in committed relationships,
I would happily ship these two in the MCU.
I think they are super cute together.
We then get a lot of dead people flashbacks, if that is what they are, including Peggy’s
funeral, Thor with Odin on Asgard and a lot of heroes straight up turning to dust.
Uhg, my heart.
Back to the world of the living and we see Ant-Man looking at some missing people posters,
looking super confused.
It looks like Lang managed to get out of the quantum realm without the help of Hank, Janet
or Hope, who all appeared to turn dust during the post credit scene for Ant-Man and the
Wasp.
Though we were promised at the end of that film that the Wasp would also return...
Cut to the quinjet which looks like it is returning to New York.
Possibly coming back from Wakanda or heading to New York to get to the Avengers HQ.
We also get a few glimpses of the red tunnel in this trailer where we see Ant-Man running
from an explosion and later Hawkeye getting ready to shoot some arrows.
It looks as though the tunnel may be underground.
It did also remind me of the inside of a spaceship but based on the explosion that we see in
this trailer, I am sceptical if a correct assumption.
After all this death, we get an inspirational montage with some of heroes looking desperate
but determined, starting with Rocket and War Machine, a duo I love.
We hear Steve say, “We will.”
This is cut in such a way that it makes him look like he is talking to Hawkeye who we
see next.
Hawkeye also seems to be sporting a new hairdo in this shot, rocking a kind of fohawk look
which I don’t think I quite like…
We then hear Cap say “whatever it takes” echoed by other heroes voices as we cut to
hero after hero: Ant-Man; Thor with his new axe; Nebula, possibly on Titan’s charred
ruins charging someone; Hawkeye with his bow drawn; Black Widow, shooting nothing but bullseyes
at target practice; Cap, covered in soot and looking like he is in some major pain as he
straps his shield on; Ant-Man again, but super tiny, launching himself off a pencil amidst
some flaming ruins; and Iron man looking intense.
We then see all the surviving Avengers together in Avengers HQ walking in dramatic slow-mow
while all wearing what looks like a version of Hank Pym’s quantum suit.
Is it possible they will need to use quantum technology to time travel?
After cutting to the title, we get a cute little scene of Thor sizing up Carol Danvers,
and adorably declaring, “I like this one.”
This has resulted in a lot of internet chatter as to whether or not these two will end up
together in the film.
While I think that would be super cute, I’m still holding out for that good ol’ comic
book romance to crossover to MCU and am hoping that we might get to see some on screen sparks
between Captain Marvel and War Machine.
Wow, that trailer has a lot going on.
And surprisingly I feel like Marvel is teasing at a lot of romance in this one.
Romance, fights and a lot of the world just trying to cope.
Let me know in the comments below what you thought of this trailer, who you’re shipping,
what your theories for Endgame are and if there is anything else in regards to the next
Avengers instalment that you’d like us to talk about here at Top 10 Nerd.
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