A closer look at the Avengers: Infinity War trailer
So the new trailer for Avengers: Infinity War is here! And it’s an epic one. I’m going to look at it a little more closely though, because i think there are things involved in the trailer that some people might not have seen....
The big guy, the Mad Titan. Thanos is the villain of this movie and he is here to fuck shit up. The intro to this trailer though is voiced by Gamora, his adopted daughter, who reveals his motivations to the Avengers.
“The entire time i knew him, he only ever had one goal. To wipe out half the universe. If he gets all the Infinity Stones, he can do it with the snap of his fingers. Just like that.”
This line from Gamora is a reference to the comic book Infinity Gauntlet, a story that depicts Thanos actually getting his hand on the complete set of Infinity Stones and snaps his fingers to kill half the universe in order to attract the attention of the woman he loves, Death.
Eventually, Thanos loses the Gauntlet and the power, and it would later fall to his other adopted daughter Nebula to undo his damage. While Nebula is in this movie, could she really go up against Thanos in the same way? I doubt it will come to that but who knows.
We also see a glimpse of a young Gamora taking Thanos’ hand.
The interesting part for me though is what happens when they walk away, because you can see to the sides of them that there are soldiers holding people at bay as the walk off.
If you look closely, the people share Gamora’s green skin and the soldiers resemble the Badoon.
In the comic books, Gamora’s people are killed by the Badoon and she is the last known survivor, where Thanos would later find her and adopt her in order to train her as an assassin. In the MCU version of the story though, it appears that Thanos controlled the Badoon at one time and used them to take over her homeworld.
The moment they walk away seems to symbolise the last moment of her species existence.
In the new trailer, we see confirmation that Loki pretty much hands over the Tesseract, the thing that houses the Space Stone, to Thanos. His motivations for it are unclear though, could it be to spare Thor’s life? Or does he know of Thanos’ power from their time together before and does it out of fear? Who knows.
There’s one thing we can say for sure though, and that is that Thanos cracks open the Tesseract like an egg and takes the Stone.
When Thanos arrives on Earth we know that he is has the Power Stone and the Space Stone in the Gauntlet.
All of the Stones are powerful in their own right but the Power Stone grants him unlimited strength and the Space Stone allows him to travel the cosmos in the blink of an eye. He is truly a danger to The Avengers.
The trailer shows us more of Cap’s activities during the movie, the biggest though is that he physically stands toe to toe with Thanos.
Look at Thanos there, he didn’t expect someone this powerful to be on Earth. With the Power Stone though, he should be easy to punch out, so why isn’t he?
Well one theory i have seen online is that part of Erskine’s Super Soldier Serum that made Steve into Captain America is based on the Heart Shaped Herb from Wakanda, which in turn could be mutated from the Soul Stone. This information relies on the idea though that the Vibranium meteor that lands in Wakanda had the Soul Stone in the heart of it.
That means if Cap, and by extension T’Challa, are products of the Soul Stone, then they would have some degree of power of the other Stones. We saw this in Age Of Ultron with Vision’s ability to decimate Ultron (a fellow product of the Mind Stone).
It’s a little difficult to see from the trailer, but The Avengers are together in some shape or form in spite of the events of Civil War. At one point of the trailer we see T’Challa welcome Steve Rogers and others to Wakanda.
If you look closely you’ll see people from all sides from Civil War, Vision and War Machine were on Iron Man’s side but are here with Captain America and Falcon. Also Bruce Banner is present, who i’m sure will be getting a slap in the face from Natasha for running away at the end of Age Of Ultron.
In New York though we have a basic team of Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and Wong.
Oh and don’t worry about Peter here, it’s likely that his classmates are looking out of the window on the other side of the bus (you can’t see them at all in that GIF) so he can sneak out and swing into action.
Also we have the Guardians and Thor.
Judging by other moments from the first trailer, it seems like Banner falls from space somehow and lands in Strange’s Sanctum, which later leads to the others joining them on Earth or some of the New York team going up to space. Based on Peter Parker’s meeting with Doctor Strange, it looks like some of them are in space.
And that leads to a meeting of the greatest minds in the universe, Tony Stark meeting Peter Quill.
All in all, i don’t think it’s going to take too long for all of the Avengers to Assemble in the movie.
Present in this trailer are Thanos’ generals, the group known as The Black Order. In the comics they are made up of Ebony Maw, Supergiant, Black Dwarf, Proximus Midnight and Corvus Glaive, but in the MCU they are taking a few creative choices by removing Supergiant and changing Black Dwarf’s name to Cull Obsidian (an alternative name for the group), and the group is going to be called The Children Of Thanos.
Here we get a proper look at the group. Cull Obsidian is the giant guy at the back, and in front of him is his brother Corvus Glaive and his weapon the glaive that gives him his powers. Corvus is Thanos’ favoured general in the comics. To Corvus’ left is Ebony Maw, the master manipulator, who we see torturing Doctor Strange in the trailer.
Ebony Maw has next to no abilities as a fighter, but he has a supreme intelligence and powers of persuasion and uses them to get his own way. This isn’t their first battle however, as Ebony Maw and Doctor Strange battled in the classic Hickman Avengers story Infinity.
In this story, Ebony Maw is looking for Thanos’ Inhuman son known as Thane and uses Doctor Strange to cause havoc on Earth. Inside Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum, he whispers in the ear of Stephen Strange and tricks him into summoning a monster on the streets of New York.
The last member is Proxima Midnight, the wife of Corvus Glaive. She shares similar abilities to him and like her husband wields a weapon, a spear that was made in the heart of a dying sun by Thanos himself.
All in all, there is a lot to digest from this trailer, more stuff i likely missed, but i think the movie looks absolutely incredible. I’m not sure if i should see it in plain IMAX or in IMAX 3D though.
I do think there’s going to be a couple of big deaths in this movie. I think Loki is going to be one of them, once he hands over the Space Stone to Thanos he is pretty much worthless to him. Also i think they’re going to go with a big emotional one like killing Captain America.
Anyway i hope you have a good weekend and hope you enjoyed my post.
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