Captain Marvel Trailer Breakdown: 15 Things You Need To See

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by Ewan Paterson
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The wait is finally over, True Believers - the trailer for Captain Marvel has arrived and it looks absolutely stunning. Complete with eye-catching moments and key reveals aplenty, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's feature looks set to kick off the MCU's 2018 with a bang, before Avengers 4 comes around a few months after.

There's a lot to love about this new trailer, including Brie Larson's rendition of Carol Danvers as well as young Nick Fury, but there are quite a few subtle details too that some viewers may have overlooked. With references to beloved Marvel Comics storylines, callbacks to certain costumes and even a few sneaky shots that divulge some of the plot, this initial teaser has actually given away more than most perhaps realise.

March 2019 might seem like a long time to go, but with this teaser and a likely follow-up to keep us going, as well as a buttload of related Captain Marvel media, it should be here in no time at all.

15. Captain Marvel Is A "Renegade Soldier"

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The first snippet of info we're given to piece together Carol Danvers' situation comes relatively early on into the trailer, after Carol has emerged from a Blockbuster rental store (gone, but forever in our hearts).

With a narration provided by Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury, we're informed that she's a "renegade soldier", and given what we know about Carol's association with the Kree Military - in particular the unit known as Starforce - it's likely that she's broken ties with them to return to Earth, and even likelier that it has something to do with her apparent amnesia.

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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.