Captain Marvel trailer discussion post!

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We're going to have non-spoilery discussion posts as well, but for today, let's talk about the new Captain Marvel trailer that came out last week! Share all your thoughts and hopes and feelings!

"Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel - Trailer 2" (Watch on YouTube)

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Stuff I love in this trailer:
* CAROL LOOKING FUCKING BADASS. I'm weak for glowy space fighting, and she looks SO good, omg. The mohawk helmet! Just like, all her action scenes.
* "I'm not gonna fight your war, I'm gonna end it."
* I'm so here for all this amnesia business. Also the nonconsensual (?) body modification.
* How there is zero evidence of obligatory het love interest.

I was kind of meh on the last trailer, but I love this one, and now I am so ready to see this movie. Also, I'm hoping we get lots of emotionally complicated Carol-centric fic out of it, because that is exactly my jam.

It's interesting, from an in-universe perspective, that she never got namedropped in all those years with the Avengers and SHIELD and all of that. I wonder if her time on Earth in this movie is kind of a secret, and not a lot of people know about it besides Fury? Although you'd think if a buff woman in a jumpsuit is punching unexpectedly spry old ladies on the train, word would get around.

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I'm so here for all this amnesia business. Also the nonconsensual (?) body modification
Hard same. I think the amnesia stuff will be good for making yet another origin story not feel like an origin story, and I am always here to add to the list of noncon body mod MCU characters. (I kinda already ship her with Nebula TBH...).

It's interesting, from an in-universe perspective, that she never got namedropped in all those years with the Avengers and SHIELD and all of that
Good point! Especially when -- from a meta/Doylist POV -- they were already name-dropping Strange as early as TWS, so I don't know if it can just be chalked up to "she wasn't part of the MCU at the time." I'll be interested to see how/if they handle that.

Although you'd think if a buff woman in a jumpsuit is punching unexpectedly spry old ladies on the train, word would get around.
I guess it's slightly easier given the time period? Like, if Fury paid off the newspapers to not report it, at least there wouldn't be cell phone footage or whatever. Maybe it became an urban legend!

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I think the amnesia stuff will be good for making yet another origin story not feel like an origin story

Good point. We'll get to find out how she got where she is without having to live it all in real time (because I, too, am pretty bored of origin stories).

Maybe it became an urban legend!

Oh my gosh, that would be amazing. Yes please. Maybe complete with some writeups on 90s conspiracy theory websites. And then when she returns ~25 years later for Endgame, oh man!