Captain Marvel Trailer: 5 Huge Plot Hints
Punching old ladies? Bold.
After months of anticipation, set photos and official reveals - Marvel have finally delivered the first trailer for Captain Marvel. In just under two minutes, the trailer showed us plenty about the Marvel Cinematic Universe before we were introduced to it during Iron Man back in 2008.
It's important to remember that Captain Marvel takes place in the 1990s, although that might be easily guessed since the trailer opens at a Blockbuster. Remember those? For the younger generation, Blockbuster was a shop you could rent video tapes from...
But the most important part is that although the trailer doesn't directly tell us about the plot, the footage itself gives us an idea of where they're taking the star-spangled woman. There were some surprises in the trailer, with some moments that we might've seen coming and some that we definitely didn't.
The biggest thing to take from the trailer is seeing Captain Marvel embracing the full extent of her powers at the very end. All we could think of was how Thanos should really be running scared at the idea of Carol Danvers coming to find him. Plus, think of the team-up opportunities in Avengers 4. But, here are some of the plot hints we noticed.
5. Carol Danvers Has Forgotten Who She Is
This is the most obvious plot point throughout the trailer, as the opening establishes her as a fish-out-of-water on Earth. So when she somehow made it to Space - the Kree might have wiped her memory, which could be what they're doing in the shot of her upside down in a machine. But however she lost her memory, it's quite possible this is Marvel's backdoor route into doing an origin story.
We're going to cross the streams over to Fox for a second to borrow from their origin story methods in Deadpool. Throughout the first film, his backstory was explained through flashbacks and memories. It was an unconventional superhero origin story, while still giving us the main adventure. Captain Marvel could be adopting a similar style.
She tells Nick Fury that she keeps getting flashes of memories, as if she had a life on Earth. Obviously we know she did, she was a pilot in the airforce. So if the film opens with her crash landing in Blockbuster, and the main story is Carol trying to figure out who she was - chances are all the flashbacks will explain how she got her powers and became a Kree warrior. Maybe.