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00:00 Welcome back to New Rock Stars, I'm Eric Vos,
00:01 and the Marvel's released new footage in a featurette,
00:04 posing some interesting questions around this MCU followup
00:07 to Captain Marvel and to WandaVision and Ms. Marvel.
00:09 Like, why does Carol Danvers want
00:11 to remember some of this stuff?
00:12 I'm gonna break down the new shots
00:13 to explain some details you might have missed.
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00:28 Okay, let's take a look at the first part
00:29 of this teaser.
00:30 - It gets pretty lonely out here.
00:33 (dramatic music)
00:37 I need to regain the memories that the Kree took from me.
00:40 - Auntie Carol!
00:41 - So we see Carol Danvers flying in space over this moon
00:46 with a flerken on her shoulder.
00:48 At first I was like, hey, yeah, it's Goose,
00:49 but I did notice that the cat they used
00:51 in 2019's Captain Marvel was a 12-year-old cat named Reggie,
00:54 and that cat had an orange mouth,
00:56 this cat has a white mouth.
00:57 That's because it ain't Reggie anymore, folks.
00:59 Goose is played by two cats named Nemo and Tango.
01:02 And apparently Brie Larson is highly allergic
01:05 to feline dander, so in addition to everything
01:07 in the shot being VFX, even the cat
01:09 on Brie Larson's shoulder was put there with VFX.
01:11 They took it from a different shot where, I don't know,
01:13 did they blow a fan on the cat's face
01:15 to make it squint like that and fold its ears back?
01:18 And the flerken does not appear to be contained
01:20 within Carol's aura that allows her to fly
01:22 through open space like this.
01:23 But in the July trailer, we saw Goose floating
01:26 in open space next to Carol, so who knows?
01:28 Flerken are just uncanny extraterrestrial creatures
01:30 whose mouths carry pocket dimensions.
01:31 Now in the lower right corner,
01:33 you can see some structure or base there.
01:35 A moon base, you say?
01:37 Steve Rogers on a moon base?
01:38 Joaquin Torres theory confirmed?
01:39 I don't know, if Carol is flying over our moon,
01:42 our moon is covered in a paler shade of dust.
01:44 This one looks darker and rockier,
01:46 so I think this is some remote colony
01:48 where the Kree have set up some kind of archeological site.
01:50 And it's interesting how part of that structure is a column,
01:53 reminding us of the monolith that was discovered
01:54 on Earth's moon in 2001, A Space Odyssey.
01:57 This column on the lunar surface,
01:58 which we get another shot of in the July trailer
02:00 as Carol fights these Kree soldiers before her swap,
02:03 might be part of that diamond ship formation
02:06 that Darbin seems to be using in other shots.
02:08 This actually looks like the same location
02:10 that we saw in earlier trailer footage with Monica Rambeau
02:12 as she faces a group of Kree soldiers.
02:14 Monica falls through a rift above this moon,
02:16 crashes onto this lunar surface,
02:18 and then holds up her hands
02:19 to protect herself from those Kree.
02:20 So Carol's moon flight will probably lead to the moment
02:23 that Kamala Khan activates her bangle
02:24 in that Ms. Marvel post-credits scene
02:26 that Nia DaCosta also shot.
02:27 And Kamala swaps with Monica into the astronaut suit
02:30 outside the Saber Space Station
02:31 by the UNTN grid that's malfunctioning.
02:33 And then Monica swaps with Carol here
02:35 and ends up on this moon facing the Kree.
02:37 And then Carol swaps from the moon
02:38 into Kamala's bedroom in Jersey City.
02:40 So why are the Kree on this moon?
02:41 Well, in the July trailer, there were shots of Darbin
02:44 discovering the second bangle on this moon,
02:46 covered in moon dust as she snaps it on her wrist
02:48 and hammering it with her Cosmi-Rod
02:50 to unleash a purple blast that lights up in an upward line.
02:53 I think this is a Kree archeological site
02:55 and they found the second bangle.
02:56 This could be the inciting incident
02:58 that causes the cosmic entanglement
02:59 that affects Carol and Monica and Kamala in this movie.
03:02 They are handcuffed in swapping places
03:03 because the bangles are not together on the same body
03:06 and both are activated.
03:07 We see Carol looking at a photo of Maria Rambeau
03:09 with an even younger Monica Rambeau,
03:11 whom Carol nicknamed Lieutenant Trouble,
03:12 and Carol playing with Monica in the backyard.
03:14 Carol says she wants to regain the memories
03:16 that the Kree took from her.
03:17 And we see her waking up in a Skrull fracking pod.
03:20 The fuchsia tinted glowing energy beams into her temples.
03:23 These are what the Skrulls used to contain their captors
03:26 in the "Secret Invasion" series
03:27 and bore through their memories
03:28 so that the Skrull imposters could take the humans' minds.
03:31 The Skrull Talos used one of these on Carol Danvers
03:33 in the opening sequence of "Captain Marvel"
03:35 to bypass the Kree brainwashing.
03:37 Remember, Carol was an Air Force test pilot
03:39 who worked with the scientist Wendy Lawson
03:41 on Project Pegasus,
03:42 but Lawson was actually a Kree scientist
03:44 experimenting on the Tesseract
03:46 to help the Skrull refugees hid in Earth's orbit
03:48 build a light speed engine to find a new home world.
03:50 But the Kree Yon-Rogg, Jude Law,
03:52 attacked and caused Carol to get hit
03:54 with a blast of cosmic radiation from that Tesseract
03:56 and Yon-Rogg kidnapped her, took her back to Hala,
03:59 and altered her memory
04:00 and told her that her name was actually Viers
04:01 from her severed dog tag from Carol Danvers.
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05:14 So what memory is Carol so shocked to recall in this shot?
05:17 If you look at Brie Larson's expression,
05:19 she already knows what Wendy Lawson
05:20 was up to with the Tesseract.
05:21 Was there something else that she learned about after that
05:24 about the Kree?
05:25 Perhaps she at one point learned
05:27 of the Kree Supreme Intelligence
05:28 secretly subverting Kree diplomacy to places like Xandar
05:31 to actually unleash militants like Darbin
05:34 to enact an annihilation wave protocol
05:36 against the Skrull and against the Terrans.
05:38 And that could be the memory that the Supreme Intelligence
05:41 or Yon-Rogg locked away in Carol's mind.
05:43 Now this featurette mainly serves to catch us up
05:45 on the past MCU titles
05:46 that these three characters appeared in.
05:47 2019's Captain Marvel for Carol,
05:49 2021's WandaVision for Monica
05:51 and 2022's Ms. Marvel for Kamala Khan.
05:53 But the Monica section does have some new stuff in it.
05:55 - They rounded us to investigate earthbound anomalies.
05:59 Now I can manipulate wavelengths
06:00 of the electromagnetic spectrum.
06:02 - I'm very happy for you.
06:03 - Where's our daughter?
06:05 - Yes, where is Kamala?
06:06 - Who's Kamala?
06:07 - Obviously these lines are compiled together
06:09 from a few different scenes,
06:10 but part of it is Monica and Carol catching up
06:12 on this room that I presume is aboard
06:13 the Saber Space Station.
06:15 And Monica describes her power
06:16 as the ability to manipulate wavelengths
06:19 on the electromagnetic spectrum.
06:21 Hmm, it sounds like of these three women,
06:23 Monica will have the most nuanced understanding
06:26 of how all of them are connected to cosmic radiation.
06:28 Like she has spent the most time studying it.
06:30 And so she might not see things as like me, an anomaly,
06:33 and the rest of the world normal.
06:34 She views her own anatomy and everything
06:37 as part of an interconnected system of flowing energy
06:40 that she can move in and out of and manipulate
06:42 and do things like phase bullets through her body.
06:44 I compare this to the difference
06:45 between Dr. Strange and Wanda Maxima.
06:47 Like Wanda might be more powerful,
06:49 but Dr. Strange, who's a doctor,
06:51 who spent more time studying and analyzing
06:52 his body's relationship with magic,
06:54 is probably more nuanced about manipulating it
06:57 in creative ways.
06:58 Which brings us to the final Kamala section.
07:00 - How do you have this?
07:03 - My grandma sent it to me in the mail.
07:04 - And then the rest of the trailer really gets the most
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07:08 to the Beastie Boys Intergalactic.
07:10 So we can't really play it here without getting whacked.
07:12 But we see Carol shaking Kamala's hand
07:14 while Monica watches while tinkering with some machine
07:16 and a red fidget spinner spins in her hand.
07:18 Seems like the three women are trying to figure out a way
07:19 to disentangle themselves.
07:21 And then we get a slightly expanded version
07:23 of the three of them fighting Darbin.
07:24 And in this shot, we see Carol swinging the Cosmi rod
07:27 at Darbin, but Darbin uses the bangle to easily repel it,
07:30 sending Carol hilariously flying back,
07:31 like Gimli trying to initially break the ring of power
07:33 with his ax.
07:34 But then this really cool move where Darbin uses the bangle
07:37 to absorb one of Monica's blasts
07:39 and then stores that energy briefly,
07:41 but then beams it at Kamala.
07:43 She's an effective military general
07:45 with great hand-to-hand combat.
07:46 And she knows how to turn her enemy's strengths
07:48 against her other enemies.
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