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Okay, so maaaaaybe they had a little help in the form of a leak.
(Here, by the way, is Marvel’s reaction to said leak…)
Dammit, Hydra.
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) October 22, 2014Anyway, the trailer weighs in at over two minutes, and while a lot of the images are fairly generic shots of action, or of team members looking very serious, there’s plenty to spot in there if you’re looking.
(And, yeah, we’ll probably miss some things, so feel free to chime in at the bottom with anything relevant we didn’t spot.
We’re going to approach it roughly in the order of occurrence, although certain things recur throughout the trailer and we’ll tackle them in their first instance rather than coming back to them over and over.
Most of the trailer is framed by a “puppet master” monologue by Ultron (James Spader), who also shows up in various physical forms throughout the trailer.
MarkConlin notes below, “The city skyline at the beginning is Johannesburg, the Hulkbuster fight and the police are all in South Africa.” We knew they’d done quite a bit of shooting there.
Could Ultron be “infecting” people with whatever this is? Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but his whole “I’ll show you something beautiful” speech seems to be one of those “I’m a villain who wants you to just see things through my eyes” monologues.
It’s been suggested online it might not ACTUALLY be a protest but rather a soccer game.
This is also the first of what will be many images of Thor without Mjolnir in the trailer. When my colleague Andrew Steinbeiser speculated that Thor may be deemed unworthy to wield the hammer, my gut instinct was that he was overthinking it.
Maybe it’s nothing. It’s probably nothing.
But Loki is on Odin’s throne. So…
Group shot!
Also: Look at the placement of Black Widow’s hand on Banner’s back. Could this lend credence to rumors that the two are romantically involved?
SO! As best as I can tell, from left to right, it’s Banner, Widow, Jane Foster, Thor, Cap, Maria Hill, Iron Patriot, Iron Man, Hawkeye.
In the next shot, Captain America is apparently searching it…for Von Strucker? For the Twins? Who knows.
We then get a few scenes of European action sequences. It’s hard to know just what’s going on here, but it will likely tie into the Twins.
Could it be Tony Stark, in a repeat of his origin, when he was operated on in the cave? Possible…
That’s also when we see Thor drop his hammer.
We get an ominous “nothing lasts forever” from Widow, although given that it’s in a different location and we don’t see who she’s talking to, I’d bet she’s actually trying to reassure Banner about their relationship by saying nothing lsts forever when he’s worried about the end, or something equally unrelated to Iron Man’s declaration of the end.
Then we get a quick look at this sequence…
Of course, it could just as easily be that Ultron is messing with the heroes’ minds and that this isn’t a REAL flashback. If that’s the case, what else from the trailer might not be totally on the level?!
There are a bunch of large ships seemingly stuck in the mud after a body of water is drained, and then a quick shot of this mysterious bearded fellow…
…who it seems might be Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaw. Whether that means he has two roles or is just NOT actually doing the mocap for Ultron (a long-standing rumor) is unclear. One fan has suggested it might instead be Daniel Westwood, who is credited in the film as an Asgardian on IMDb, but it doesn’t look like it to us.
In the immortal words of Arthur Dent, “What the hell’s that?!”
Lots and lots of destruction in the US, where Iron Man and Hulk are fighting and Captain America is running. All of them involve seemingly-unrelated flipping and flying cars.
Meanwhile, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are dealing with destruction in Europe.
And…Ultron has teeth? Are they taking notes from Transformers?!
