Ready Player One Trailer Explained: 10 Things We Learned
4. Some Newer Characters Will Appear As Well
It's not just the old guard, though. While it may draw most heavily on 1980s pop culture, Ready Player One is set in the year 2044, so it's entirely logical that its broad pantheon might encompass characters created more recently - even characters created since Ernest Cline's novel was first published in 2011.
Notable in this regard is the presence of Tracer, a heroine from 2016 video game Overwatch, whose appearance in this trailer seems to have prompted considerable excitement in many viewers who were otherwise nonplussed about the movie beforehand.
Nor is Tracer the only video game character introduced since Ready Player One has been in print who's made it into the movie, as Commander Shepherd of Mass Effect 3 (released 2012) can also be seen.