We got a brand new teaser trailer for the Captain Marvel MCU film yesterday, and oh
boy, did it give us a lot to think about!
The highly anticipated film starring Brie Larson as Carol Danvers is one of the last
MCU films of phase 3, and the last movie to drop prior to the Avengers 4 film.
It’s a prequel of sorts, set in the 90s, and follows Carol’s origin story, along
with highlighting the very iconic Kree Skrull war.
There’s rumours that the film will lead into the Secret Invasion story event, too.
But more on that later – let’s breakdown what exactly happened in this teaser trailer,
and explain what these reveals may mean for the film, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
as a whole.
CAROL’S ORIGIN This teaser gave us a lot more to digest in
terms of Carol’s origins in the film.
We know that her origin story from the comics is being revised in the film, although many
elements are still pulled from.
In the comics, Carol ends up getting her powers when shes within the proximity of an explosion
that occurs when the original Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, faces off against Kree villain Yon-Rogg.
Carol’s DNA is melded with Mar-Vell’s in the explosion.
This seems like an aspect that could still take place, since Carol is brought from Earth
to the Kree planet Hala, where we know her memory of her life on Earth is wiped, and
she believes that she’s a Kree.
We get a confirmation of this during the conversation between Carol and Fury in the shots of them
driving in a car, where Carol explains the Kree to Fury, calling them a race of noble
warrior heroes.
Clearly at that point, Carol still believes that she’s fully Kree.
We also get shots of her blood in this trailer; it’s sort of a teal colour, the colour of
Kree blood.
We also see Kree blood being injected into her, further emphasizing how she may have
been altered by the Kree even more so after her accident on Earth.
We hear voice over that states that Carol’s life began before it nearly ended, meaning
the accident that gave her her powers.
That voice over, from Annette Bening’s character, more on her later, states that the Kree found
her with no memories, another potential manipulative tactic; this is the story that Carol has likely
been fed since her accident.
She goes on to say that they made her “one of us”, which is when we see the Kree blood
entering Carol’s arm.
She goes on to say, “so you could live longer, stronger, superior.”
This is surely why Carol hasn’t aged by the time we’ll see her in Avengers 4, having
a longer life span.
We also see a shot of Carol in that mind altering machine, hanging upside down.
While speculation of this sequence with this machine from the first trailer was that it
was the Kree behind this contraption, in this shot in this trailer, we see a Skrull standing
next to Carol.
This could mean that the Skrulls, who later in the trailer state that Carol doesn’t
know the truth behind her origins, could be the ones who unlock her memories of Earth
after she starts having flashbacks.
Carol then tells Fury in the trailer that she keeps having memories, and something in
her past is the key to all of this.
Whether or not this is misdirection thanks to Marvel Studios in terms of the plot, we
do know that Carol, when on Earth, is actively searching for answers.
There’s even a shot of her looking at a half broken dog tag with part of her name
on it from her military days.
We then hear Carol in voice over say I think I had a life here.
What aren’t you telling me?
This is paired up with one of the only shots of Jude Law in the trailer, wearing his Star
Force uniform, implying that she looks for answers from him, her mentor, and that he
has in fact been lying to her about her past.
We then get some epic shots of Carol in her Captain Marvel uniform, with the voice over
stating that she’s not going to fight your war, I’m going to end it.
Also, it’s worth noting that Carol’s cat, Chewie, makes an adorable appearance in this
trailer, with Nick Fury absolutely loving him.
He’s been renamed to Goose, though.
For more on why, be sure to check out our Easter Eggs video on the trailer!
THE ANTAGONISTS There’s a popular theory circulating that
Jude Law’s character, whether it’s Mar-Vell or comic villain Yon-Rogg, is potentially
a villain of Carol’s in the film.
If he turns out to the be the latter, that would make sense, but even a sinister take
on Mar-Vell, causing Carol to adopt the name Captain Marvel, is a possibility.
We also get a shot of Mar-Vell down playing Carol’s powers to her, as if to further
manipulate her into doubting exactly how powerful she really is.
But this trailer revealed something more intriguing concerning who the antangonists, aside from
the Skrulls, could be in the film.
We’re talking Annette Bening’s character, an unnamed Kree, who is speculated to actually
be the Supreme Intelligence.
Who’s that?
THE SUPREME INTELLEGENCE Initially, it was rumoured that Annette Bening
would be playing Carol’s mother on Earth.
But in the trailer, we see her as a pink skinned Kree.
She has a pretty ominous voice over, discussing Carol and her abilities, almost seemingly
justifying what the Kree have done to her and why they removed all of her memories from
Earth.
This voice over really positions Bening as being some sort of antagonist force, or the
force behind why Carol’s memories of home were wiped; so that she could be used as the
ultimate weapon that will end the Kree Skrull war and leave the Kree victorious.
There’s a character in the comics who is more that capable of that kind of deception
and twisted thought process.
The Supreme Intelligence is a sentient computer AI that is composed of the brains of the Kree
race’s greatest minds, from scientists, to generals, to philosophers and other well
known thinkers.
After these individuals died, their minds were assimilated into the Supreme Intelligence’s
Super Computer.
It was initially created by the Kree in order to build a version of the Cosmic Cube for
them, and it’s served the race with it’s wisdom ever since, including leading the Star
Force in the comics as one of it’s members.
It essentially calls a lot of the shots.
The Supreme Intelligence in the comics had realized that it needed to jump start the
evolution process of the Kree race, so it manipulated the events of the Operation Galactic
Storm crossover in order to quietly and secretly arrange for the creation of a Nega Bomb; a
device with radiation from the Negative Zone that could be denotated in Kree territory
and ‘reactivate’ the Kree’s genetic potential.
Instead, it killed millions of Krees.
This prompted the Avengers in issue 347 of their self-titled series to execute the Supreme
Intelligence for committing genocide.
Despite this, it managed to survive.
If this is true, this could mean that the Supreme Intelligence has been using Jude Law’s
Kree character as a puppet in order to manipulate Carol and inevitably use her to end the Kree
Skrull war.
Perhaps by the end of the film, if Law IS playing Mar-Vell, he’ll turn against the
Supreme Intelligence and help Carol get away for good, and potentially will die in the
process, ultimately fulfilling Marvel’s fate in the comics of becoming a traitor AND
dying.
Except not by cancer, thankfully.
This could be how Carol adopts the mantle of Captain Marvel, by taking his name as inspiration
so that his memory lives on.
SECRET INVASION & AVENGERS 4 Let’s end off this video by briefing talking
about what we learned from this trailer that could connect to the potential Secret Invasion
plot line, and Avengers 4.
The trailer starts off with Carol on the subway train, the same one we saw in the previous
trailer, along with the Granny that Carol punches.
Granny is a Skrull friends!
The Skrulls are shapeshifting aliens who can take on the form of whomever, hence their
whole schtick in Secret Invasion; they secretly take over Earth with Skrull agents who impersonate
people in the Marvel Universe in positions of power.
Anywho, one of the biggest rumours about the direction Phase 4 of the MCU is going is that
they’ll be adapting the Secret Invasion story line, with the Skrulls replacing some
key characters with their agents throughout, building up to the climax of the Phase with
them invading Earth.
The Kree Skrull war in the Captain Marvel movie is the foundation for that; we see the
Skrulls on Earth, something that was heavily featured in the first teaser trailer for Captain
Marvel.
It would also explain Carol’s absence in the MCU up until now; that she’s been going
around the galaxy defeating Skrull threats, and she’s called upon by Nick Fury at the
end of Avengers Infinity War to put that mission on a halt and help out with Thanos.
It’s an important enough mission for Fury, who she builds a relationship with in this
film, to not want to call upon her until now, with Carol being a supremely powerful force
that is essentially his back up for when things get real bad on Earth, as they do at the end
of Infinity War.
In this trailer, we see Carol working alongside Fury, who learns of the Skrull threat.
It’s also been revealed that Talos, one of the Skrull leaders and the main Skrull
antagonist in the film, will be impersonating Fury’s superior at SHIELD.
His defeat would open up the way for Fury to also begin to climb in SHIELD’s ranks,
and give him a reason to want to stay with SHIELD.
In the last Captain Marvel trailer, in Fury’s voice over, we learn that he was pretty much
fed up with working for SHIELD until Carol came along.
So these two working together, gaining access to SHIELDs facilities, paves the way for that.
As for Avengers 4, it’s safe to say that the war that’s discussed in the trailer’s
voice over is specifically referencing the Kree Skrull war, and has nothing to do with
Infinity War.
That being said, there’s a nice little comedic beat in the trailer where Carol and Nick Fury
sit in the cockpit of a ship, and Fury asks if Carol knows how to “fly this thing”.
Carol is like, yeah, hey, why not?
And proves that she can.
We then get a shot of the ship flying out of a secret entrance way.
This ship looks a whole lot like a prototype of the Quinjet that we see in the contemporary
timeline in the Avengers films that the team, along with STRIKE, use in the future.
There’s speculation that perhaps Carol, when she appears in Avengers 4, will take
over as the leader of the Avengers, and might get behind the wheel of one of the modern
Quinjets and fly it like it’s no big deal.
Aside from the Quinjet connection, there isn’t anything else that ties the teaser trailer
to Avengers 4, or at least based off of what we know about the still untitled film as of
this recording.
So, there we have it friends!
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What theories do you now have about the film?
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