10 Genius Misdirects In MCU Movie Trailers
1. The Disguised Time Skip - Avengers: Endgame
The trailers for Avengers: Endgame ultimately disguised a hell of a lot, but the most surprising revelation that they cleverly concealed? The movie's sudden five-year time skip following its grim prologue sequence.
Beyond easy tricks like not showing "Bro Thor" in the marketing, Marvel went to the lengths of using CGI to change the colour of Black Widow's (Scarlett Johansson) hair in the trailers, altering it from red-blonde back to the shorter platinum blonde bob she had in Infinity War, and even altering her clothes to match.
Though some fans suspected there might be a time skip of some sort - especially once later trailers showed off Natasha's real hairdo - Marvel did a fantastic job of creating so much confusion and inconsistency across their trailers for Endgame that it was extremely difficult to get a bead on exactly how much time had passed since Infinity War.
And so when the "five years later" title card appeared in the movie proper, it was an all-timer "holy s**t" moment, as anyone who saw Endgame on opening weekend will surely remember.