Captain Marvel Super Bowl Trailer Breakdown: 10 Things You Need To See
10. More Maria And Carol Flashbacks
Marvel Studios
Captain Marvel has telegraphed that Carol Danvers was an Air Force pilot since pretty much the first teaser, but her time spent in the service and what she actually got up to has been kept relatively secret. We know she's friends with Maria Rambeau, mother of Monica, who becomes the superhero Spectrum in the comics, but Marvel have elected to keep what she's been flying out of public view - until now.
Although Lashana Lynch's character has only made the occasional appearance in trailers - as she does here - fans should expect the character to play a significant role in the story. She's Carol's best friend, and it's clear that their time spent together before Danvers encounters the Kree will be pivotal to the character rediscovering their lost memories, with other TV spots having even shown Danvers reuniting with Maria's daughter, who's 11 in 1995.
What's really interesting here, though, is that it looks like Maria and Carol are test pilots for a specific program. We see Carol in her airmen uniform stand up and potentially volunteer later in the trailer, and the craft she's flying while avoiding what looks to be either a Kree or Skrull vessel looks very experimental too - especially for the early-to-mid nineties.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
