Five Questions Captain America: Civil War Trailer 2 Raises
Have you watched the Captain America: Civil War trailer yet? Okay, that's too obvious: have you [...]
Have you watched the Captain America: Civil War trailer yet? Okay, that's too obvious: have you watched it at least ten times yet? Now we're tracking.
The second full trailer for Captain America: Civil War debuted on Thursday, and, of course, everyone is talking about Spider-Man. The character's 5-second debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been met with a lot of praise, a lot of analysis about his costume, and a lot of general excitement. Just do a search for #Underoos on twitter. It's amazing, spectacular, and a web of tweets.
But the trailer also had another two minutes and twenty seconds to it, and with that time, several questions about the plot, the character interactions, and yes, Spider-Man.
Here are the five biggest questions about Captain America: Civil War on our minds now.
Was that the Raft?
A large circular structure rises out of the water. We look inside, and it's jail cells, with Tony standing in the center.
This is most likely the MCU's version of The Raft, a prison designed for super-powered containment. In the Civil War comic books, a prison was built in the Negative Zone with the assistance of Reed Richards (who, obviously, isn't available here), so it looks like the two have been combined a bit for the movie version. Now, just who we might see in The Raft is a much more interesting question, and one we get zero hints of here.
What Sets Black Panther off?
Black Panther has a lot of anger pointed in Winter Soldier's direction. We see T'challa, no mask, in a pile of rubble toward the beginning of the trailer, so it's most likely related to that. What exactly "that" is, though, isn't hinted at here at all. The story of Bucky Barnes seemed like it was heading in the direction of "redemption" at the end of Winter Soldier, not in the direction of "international incident destroying a building and pissing off a very bad man," but if it brings in Black Panther catching up to and slashing the tire of a moving motorcycle, eh, we're cool with it.
Who Shot JR? (James Rhodes)
Rhodey goes down, and they sure make it look like he's dead. They also show a quick shot of Bucky holding a sniper rifle right before the scene, to make it look like he's the one shooting.
But it's a sniper rifle. And he's indoors. And Rhodey is clearly flying very high in the sky, with Iron Man, and someone or something chasing them. And the shot that takes him out isn't a bullet, it's a massive ray of energy.
So that begs the question - who shoots War Machine out of the sky? If it's a person - the only one introduced so far that has anything resembling that energy blast is The Vision, and he's supposed to be on #TeamIronMan. It could be an as-yet-unheard of villain, but that would seem to take the emotional context out of things. Right now, even money is on it being The Vision under Scarlet Witch's control (of which she doesn't have a ton). Given we saw her painfully taking Vision down elsewhere in the trailer, this could be the result of that.
Does Black Widow (or anyone) switch sides?
Of course, The Vision could just switch sides to accommodate our previous hypothesis, and he's not the only one that looks like they could in this trailer. Right before Iron Man calls in Spider-Man, Black Widow is seen behind Captain America, and she doesn't exactly look like she's threatening him. She looks like she's simply standing there. Now, she could be part of #TeamIronMan surrounding him and we're just not seeing the context, but it's an extremely nonchalant level of surrounding if so. The other option is that she's starting out with Cap and going to Iron Man.
Other decent candidates for turncoating? Ant-Man, whose loyalties aren't bogged down by a long history with any of these characters, and The Vision, who at the end of Age of Ultron is clearly under Cap's wing.
So, just how Iron Man-influenced is Spider-Man's costume?
Spider-Man's costume clearly has mechanical shutter-eyes, but is that where the Iron Man influence ends?
His forearms in the ever-so-brief appearance also look like they could be gauntlets, or at least partially armored, leading up to his high-tech web shooters. Now, Peter Parker is a boy genius and an amateur inventor, but high school-level teenage Peter has nothing on full-grown Tony Stark, who at this point in this universe has designed over forty Iron Man variants. We also don't know what's behind those squinty eyes - whether they're still cameras, video cameras, guiding a heads-up-display like what's under Iron Man's helmet, or something else entirely.
We'll just need more than five seconds of footage to figure that out.
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