Marvel Movies: Captain Marvel and Avengers 4

It’s been a big week for Marvel movies with a new trailer for Captain Marvel and yesterday’s long awaited, much anticipated trailer for Avengers 4. 

Captain Marvel has lots of scenes with the good captain flying, throwing around energy bolts, punching stuff and overall being a super powered badass.

She also has a cat.

It appears that at the core of various super powered shenanigans involving warring alien races using Earth as a battle ground is a story of identity. Carol Danvers is a woman who is both human and more than human, caught between what she wants out of life and what other forces beyond her control would have her be. Her memory is in pieces and she’s uncertain about who she is or who she is supposed to be.

But she does have a cat. 

We get to see a younger Nick Fury with both eyes open. Will we get to see in Captain Marvel how he loses one of his eyes?

We might. Captain Marvel has a cat.  

The agitation over when we would finally get a sneak peek at Avengers 4 has been building to an almost fever pitch in the last week or two. So I imagine there was a palpable sense of relief when the trailer for Avengers 4: Endgame finally dropped on Friday.  

Endgame? Well, we have a title of the sequel. Ominous much? 

Things do not look good for Tony Stark. Lost in space, our not so invincible Iron Man is running out of everything keeping him alive. Presuming he’s going to die, the trailer opens with Tony recording a last message to Pepper Potts, a lovelorn message in a bottle, his Iron Man helmet, cast into the infinite ocean of space, a last statement to the woman he loves, a message she will likely never get.

We look in on Thanos, living his life as a farmer, his armor used as a defacto scarecrow.  

Back on Earth, the Avengers are devastated in the wake of the decimation of half of all life in the universe. We get a glimpse of a new hooded figure who looks like Ronin from the comics. We also see Jeremy Renner, our erstwhile Hawkeye. In the comics, Clint Barton was revealed as the man beneath Ronin’s hood. 

Captain America talks gravely of the fight to come. Who are the fighting? What is the nature of this fight? Is it a fighting chance to restore those lost? Or a fight to avenge those who have been lost?

“We will save the Earth and if we don’t, we’ll damn sure avenge it.” That’s what Tony Stark told Loki back in the first Avengers movie.

But I think there is more than vengeance at work here.

The clip ends with Ant Man himself, Scott Lang, showing up at Avengers HQ. At the end of Ant Man and the Wasp, Scott was left stranded in the Quantum Realm after Hank, Hope and Janet got zapped by Thanos’ decimation snap. Somehow Scott has extricated himself from the realm which may hold the answers to undoing the losses caused by Thanos. We learned in Scott’s last movie is that the Quantum Realm has temporal characteristics. Time travel, anyone? 

Speaking of time, we have a few months to speculate over all this.  

Click here for the Captain Marvel trailer on You Tube.

Click here for the Avengers 4: Endgame trailer.