One final trailer for the The Marvels hit YouTube at this time upfront of the film’s weekend debut and it’s a doozy of a factor. Stuffed with flashbacks to Avengers: Endgame, the reveal of among the film’s cameos, and the promise of a “second that adjustments every part” — Marvel Studios desires butts within the theater for The Marvels and is keen to do fairly a bit to get it.
There’s even one blink otherwise you’ll miss it second so troublesome to identify that we’re gonna put it underneath a spoiler warning earlier than we even discuss it.
[Ed. note: The rest of this piece contains what could be a pretty big spoiler for The Marvels, so if that’s not your thing, hit the back button.]
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The MCU’s fourth and fifth phases have been insistently teasing the X-Males, and The Marvels appears to be no exception. This isn’t surprising — lead character Kamala Khan was revealed to be the primary recognized mutant in the primary Marvel Cinematic Universe setting in her eponymous sequence Ms. Marvel. However pause this new trailer for The Marvels at simply the correct time and you may catch a glimpse of a pc display with the telltale circle-and-cross of the X-Males.
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If The Marvels’ massive villain, Dar-Benn, is admittedly smashing by the partitions between universes just like the trailer says, there could possibly be loads of room for a go to to a universe the place issues are fairly completely different — like Physician Unusual’s run-in with Professor X (performed by Patrick Stewart) in Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity.
And it’s not as wild to hook Captain Marvel as much as the X-Males as you would possibly factor. Although the MCU associates her with the Avengers, Carol spent a few years as a token human superhero within the X-Males books, because of being one of many private fave characters of legendary X-Males author Chris Claremont. And although she’s at the moment head of the Avengers in Marvel Comics, her affect on the X-Males setting lives on. Ever puzzled why Rogue is tremendous robust and may fly, if her mutant energy is nearly absorbing powers with a contact? It’s as a result of she as soon as absorbed Carol’s powers so arduous that they grew to become everlasting.
The X-Males stepped in to assist Carol recuperate, and a ravishing crew up was born. It’s solely becoming that Captain Marvel would have an in depth connection to the X-Males, and, if The Marvels is heading in a multiverse-y-mutant-y path, that she’d have that connection within the films as properly.
