Marvel Studios’ The Marvels Teaser Trailer Breakdown

The first official teaser trailer for The Marvels is here! This new MCU installment sees Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and Monica Rambeau team up to tackle obstacles both cosmic and mundane. Watch The Marvels trailer below or on the official Marvel Entertainment YouTube channel, and then join us for a breakdown and analysis of the new footage after the video.

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Nick Fury and the S.A.B.E.R. Space Station

Nick Fury’s got a busy MCU future ahead of him. After supposedly retiring in Captain America: Winter Soldier, the former S.H.I.E.L.D. director has his hands full exploring space. As revealed in the Spider-Man: Far From Home post-credits scene, Nick is chilling with S.A.B.E.R. now. Somewhere along the way, he and Talos will reunite for Secret Invasion (releasing June 21 on Disney+). However that series ends, it’ll presumably put Nick back up in the stars with Monica Rambeau.

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Monica Rambeau and Kamala Khan

After gaining light-manipulating powers in WandaVision, Monica Rambeau is ready to combat intergalactic threats. The Marvels trailer begins with her explaining how she’s going to approach a jump point and extract data for Nick Fury. It’s unclear what the mission truly entails. But when she makes contact with the shimmery blue barrier, something extraordinary happens: Monica swaps places with Kamala Khan!

Screaming and floating back to the station, Kamala gleefully asks Nick Fury if this is a test to join the Avengers. Immediately we wonder if this is the moment from the Ms. Marvel finale where Kamala accidentally switched herself out for Carol Danvers, AKA Captain Marvel. Is this the start of it all? And if so, where’s Carol?

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Carol Danvers and Entangled Powers

Well, Monica made it onto some random planet where she’s immediately pitted against angry antagonists. Carol Danvers, meanwhile, crash lands in Kamala Khan’s fangirl-ified bedroom. So that shows us that the location jumping isn’t one-to-one. Otherwise, Monica would be in New Jersey.

That’s about all we know about these entangled powers. When Nick Fury goes looking for Kamala Khan, Monica is with him. Obviously the situation has been rectified — for now. Of course, things immediately go topsy-turvy when Kamala excitedly tries to demonstrate her abilities. Other clues to the nature of this situation continue to pop up. Kamala’s home is in shambles. Alien antagonists invade and fight inside the aforementioned home. Carol gets dragged back into the mess, but Monica stays on the couch.

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Flerkens

After switching places, Kamala learns firsthand what a Flerken can do. Goose adjusts pretty quickly to the body swap, protecting Kamala with that signature “use my tentacles to swallow your enemies” tactic. Nice kitty.

The next (potential) Flerkens we see are an entire litter of what we perceive as kittens. We don’t know their story. Based on how the trailer is spliced, however, we might be able to assume they are a small army belonging to Park Seo-joon’s currently unnamed character.

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Park Seo-joon and Zawe Ashton

Now, based on those brightly colored costumes alone, we could surmise that Park Seo-joon is playing a good guy. We can’t know for certain. However, we know for a fact that Zawe Ashton is a villain. She is surrounded by Kree radicals called Accusers — a notable member, Ronan, appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy. Like Ronan, Zawe Ashton’s character appears to be an Accuser. It’s possible that Ashton is playing General Dar-Benn, who wields a powerful hammer called a Cosmi-Rod and leads a Kree rebellion. A couple seconds later in the montage, we watch Ashton’s character fight against our heroic, planet-hopping trio.

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Final Thoughts and Predictions

Teaming up changes everything — and everyone. Although Carol and Monica insist that this isn’t a super team, we know better. The three women fly into the atmosphere together aboard a spacecraft, take part in extraterrestrial cultural celebrations, and save each other from falling out of the sky. We love a begrudging team formation moment.

Finally — blink and you might miss it, but we have all three Marvels in their super suits! Monica’s white suit has a logo update. Kamala’s costume doesn’t look too altered. Carol’s, however, is completely different. Where did these darker colors and huge starburst symbol come from? We can’t wait to see.

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