Marvel's Avengers Trailer Breakdown - 12 Things Everyone Totally Missed
10. The Terrigen Reactor = Inhumans Confirmed?
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When the Avengers come to the West Coast, they bring with them their very own Helicarrier. Bit OTT - sure - but there's presumably still a relationship between the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. in this particular universe.
Either way that's sort of immaterial to the more pressing issue of what's powering the Helicarrier itself. An extended clip of the debate between Bruce and Tony confirms that it was being powered by Terrigen, which is very interesting given it confirms a link with the Inhumans.
In the comics, the Terrigen Mist is what causes Inhumans to develop their powers. A big Terrigen bomb was set off after the events of Infinity, which led to dozens of normal humans with Inhuman ancestry developing superpowers.
Here, it looks as though it's rendered San Francisco entirely uninhabitable, but there could definitely be another element at play too. As for Cap - don't be surprised if he makes it out of this one alive. There's nothing about Terrigen that includes portals or time-travel or whatever, but there's no way Steve Rogers is gone for good.
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.
