Marvel's Avengers Trailer Breakdown - 12 Things Everyone Totally Missed
11. There's A Five Year Time Jump
Square Enix
Almost coincidentally, Marvel's Avengers picks up five years after the events of a destructive incident. If that sounds familiar it's because Avengers: Endgame boasted the exact same time jump, but to Square's credit it does afford their narrative designers a great deal of freedom.
This title is all about players assembling their own version of the Avengers. They've been disassembled, and now they have to be reassembled in a world that seems at odds with itself over whether or not it wants them to return.
Cap's memorial is adorned with tributes, and Thor - although clearly still worthy - has left Mjolnir by it. It's not clear yet what brings them all out of retirement, but it's clear the Odinson reclaims his hammer and goes onto reunite with Tony, Natasha and Bruce later on.
As for Cap? It's unlikely he's dead. And here's why...
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.
