Avengers 4 trailer: five things we learned about Marvel Endgame movie

for a mega-blockbuster that had one of the most convoluted build-ups in the records of cinema, Avengers: Infinity War opted to end on one of the largest target audience bummers because The Empire Strikes Back. Spoiler warning: large red bad dude Thanos succeeded in wiping out actually half of the whole universe, which include a full-size proportion of the Marvel heroes followers had grown to love over the course of an eventful movie-going decade. So where do you go from there? Today’s new trailer for Avengers: Endgame has a few suggestions, squashed into two and a 1/2 minutes. Here’s what we learned.

Tony Stark is bad at voicemails

Avengers 4 trailer: Tony Stark is bad at voicemails

After getting his tin-can ass kicked by Thanos and witnessing his cosmic strike group of impromptu Avengers disintegrate into confetti on a far-flung moon, Tony Stark was once in a bad place. Now, he’s somewhere even worse: floating thru space in a dead spacecraft, 4 days besides food and about to run out of the air. That’s when this flippant motormouth decides to document a message for his liked Pepper via his semi-wrecked Iron Man helmet – rambling, wry and, as ever, a little self-involved. Save that oxygen, Tony!

Thanos is a Gladiator fanboy

Avengers 4 trailer: Thanos is a Gladiator fanboy

After pledging to pull off the biggest workforce reduction in the history of the universe, Josh Brolin’s stocky bruiser mused that he would crown his galactic victory by retiring and becoming a farmer, watching sunrises and whatnot. There was a taste of that rural retirement in the final scenes of Infinity War but in the Endgame trailer, we see that he has, in reality, repurposed his dread armor as a scarecrow. Surely the Mad Titan is now at peace? Except Thanos looks to enjoy walking through fields of space-thistles caressing his crop like Russell Crowe in Gladiator, which surely alerts some retributive smackdowns ahead.

Cap’s beard should be counted among the fallen:

Avengers 4 trailer: Cap’s beard should be counted among the fallen

Infinity War came unofficially billed as the most ambitious crossover of all time and many loved Marvel characters did no longer survive to see the cease of it (peace out Peter Parker, so lengthy Doctor Strange, bye bye Black Panther, Star-Lord, Falcon and many more). Yet even among the sprawling solid list, one performer stood out amongst the sprawling Spandex crowd, and that was the beard that Steve Rogers grew to symbolize his outlaw angst. Weirdly, even although Cap should technically be sadder than ever now that his first-rate pal Bucky is actually dust, Steve’s sad beard has suddenly vanished. Thanos’s fateful finger-click must have sheared off half of it simply for the LOLs.

Hawkeye is back, baby! You know … Hawkeye?

Avengers 4 trailer: Hawkeye is back, baby! You know … Hawkeye?

Despite Infinity War being full of ’arrowing scenes – remain with me right here – there was no signal of black-ops archer Hawkeye, nominally because Clint Barton had interestingly reduced a deal to lay down his quiver and return to civilian lifestyles on that homely farm we saw in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Yet up Jeremy Renner pops in the Endgame trailer, with a vaguely new seem (prison haircut, shadowy costume, constipated frown) and some sort of upgraded weapon that looks extra like a sword than a bow. Admittedly at this stage, the Avengers want all the help they can get.

Paul Rudd will save us all:

Avengers 4 trailer: Paul Rudd will save us all

At first, we all assumed that Paul Rudd aka Scott Lang aka Ant-Man had survived the Infinity War cull, partly because Rudd didn’t a big name in that movie but more often than not because he had his own Ant-Man sequel coming out very soon afterward. But those who caught around for the post-credits scenes of Ant-Man and the Wasp saw poor Scott reputedly stranded after spelunking into the teeny-tiny quantum realm. The reality that he has managed to locate his way lower back for the Endgame trailer suggests Ant-Man holds the key to restoring the natural order: perhaps the seemingly ageless Rudd has some killer skincare tips that will sway the permanently crinkle-chinned Thanos?