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      Wade Wilson is kidnapped by the TVA in Deadpool and Wolverine teaser

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 12 February - 18:29 · 1 minute

    Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), aka Deadpool, is back to save the MCU: "I am Marvel Jesus."

    After some rather lackluster performances at the box office over the last year or so, Marvel Studios has scaled back its MCU offerings for 2024. We're getting just one: Deadpool and Wolverine . Maybe one is all we need. Marvel released a two-minute teaser during yesterday's Super Bowl. And if this is the future of the MCU, count us in. The teaser has already racked up more than 12 million views on YouTube, and deservedly so. It has the cheeky irreverence that made audiences embrace Ryan Reynold's R-rated superhero in the first place, plus a glimpse of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine—or rather, his distinctive shadow. And yes, Marvel is retaining that R rating—a big step given that all the prior MCU films have been resoundingly PG-13.

    (Some spoilers for the first two films below.)

    Reynolds famously made his first foray into big-screen superhero movies in 2011's The Green Lantern , which was a box office disappointment and not especially good. But he found the perfect fit with 2016's Deadpool , starring as Wade Wilson, a former Canadian special forces operative (dishonorably discharged) who develops regenerative healing powers that heal his cancer but leave him permanently disfigured with scars all over his body. Wade decides to become a masked vigilante, turning down an invitation to join the X-Men and abandon his bad-boy ways.

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      Final trailer for The Marvels recalls past Avengers as a new threat looms

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 7 November - 14:23 · 1 minute

    Brie Larson's Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel takes on a new Kree villain named Dar-Benn in The Marvels .

    For whatever reason—superhero fatigue, disappointing performances by Marvel's last few films, the ongoing Hollywood strikes, or the general depressing state of the world— The Marvels doesn't seem to have generated the same kind of palpable anticipation that preceded the franchise's most successful releases. That's despite a fun, promising trailer back in July. Directed by Nia DaCosta, the movie opens this weekend, and the studio has dropped one last trailer with nods to past Avengers in their battle against Thanos, perhaps to remind us all why we fell in love with the MCU to begin with.

    (Spoilers for Avengers: Endgame below.)

    As previously reported , Brie Larson and Iman Vellani reprise their respective roles as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel and Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel for the film, along with Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, daughter of Carol/Captain Marvel's BFF Maria. Monica grew up to become a SWORD agent, but thanks to the events of WandaVision , she can also absorb and manipulate energy as Spectrum. As for Khan , aka Ms. Marvel, she's a teenage Pakistani American who lives in Jersey City. She's a major comic books fan, worships Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, and fantasized about becoming a superhero someday. Her powers stem from the Terrigen Mists, released globally in a crossover storyline, the " Inhumanity ." The mists activated dormant Inhuman cells in several people, Kamala included.

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      Kingpin is back with a snazzy eyepatch in trailer for darker, bloody Echo

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 3 November - 19:59

    Echo is the first Marvel project to feature a deaf protagonist and the first series to air all five episodes at once.

    If, like us, you miss the darker, more adult-oriented Netflix Defenders series ( Jessica Jones , Daredevil , Luke Cage , Punisher ), you'll be intrigued by the official trailer for Echo , which seems to be channeling some of the same gritty energy. In fact, it's the first Marvel project to earn a TV-MA rating and the first to feature a deaf protagonist. In other firsts, Marvel will drop all five episodes at once on both Disney and Hulu.

    (Spoilers for Hawkeye below.)

    We've already met Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), aka Echo, in Hawkeye . She was the deaf commander of the Tracksuit Mafia, capable of perfectly copying another person's movements. And she was on a quest to discover the true identity of Ronin, the assassin who had killed her father. That put her on a collision course with Clint Barton/Hawkeye, who had hung up his Ronin gear for good.

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      A time-slipping Loki struggles to fix the timeline(s) in new Loki S2 teaser

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 5 September, 2023 - 17:38

    New teaser for Loki S2 provides new footage ahead of the season's October premiere.

    Anticipation is mounting among Marvel fans for the October debut of the second season of Loki , starring Tom Hiddleston as everyone's favorite Norse god of mischief. We now have a new teaser showcasing a time-slipping Loki seemingly caught in an endless cycle of shuttling between the past, present, and future as he tries to restore order to the multiverse.

    (Spoilers for S1 below.)

    As I wrote in my review , the first season of Loki was "an excellent mix of action, surprising twists, canny exposition, and intimate character moments, all leading up to the final reveal: what is the TVA's true nature and purpose, and is there someone (or something) else behind the scenes pulling the strings of the sacred trio of Time Keepers?" The puppet master turned out to be none other than Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors, who reprised the role for this year's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ) —or rather, a Kang Variant known as He Who Remains.

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      Loki S2 trailer finds the god of mischief battling for the “soul of the TVA”

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 31 July, 2023 - 15:46 · 1 minute

    Tom Hiddleston is back as everyone's favorite Norse god of mischief in the second season of Loki .

    Of all the various TV spinoffs of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki was perhaps the most popular, largely thanks to the winsome bantering chemistry between stars Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson. The much-anticipated second season is set to debut this fall, and we finally have an official trailer. Good news: S2 promises to be just as much fun as the first, if the trailer is any indication.

    (Major spoilers for the first season below.)

    It has been a couple of years, so let's briefly recap. As reported previously , the launching point for Loki S1 was that scene in Avengers: Endgame when a 2012 version of Loki snagged the tesseract containing the Space Stone and vanished through a portal. Our trickster soon encountered a team of armed guards who "arrested" him on behalf of an entity known as the Time Variance Authority (TVA), the "custodians of chronology" in the MCU, monitoring violations of the Sacred Timeline. Catch the TVA's attention by trying to change history, and you just might meet the wrong end of the Retroactive Cannon (Ret Con) and have your entire history deleted from the historical timeline.

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      Meet the MCU’s new Kree villain, Dar-Benn, in trailer for The Marvels

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 21 July, 2023 - 17:47 · 1 minute

    Brie Larson returns as Captain Marvel, who finds herself in a destabilizing universe in The Marvels .

    Marvel Studios might not have a panel at San Diego Comic-Con this year, but it did release a shiny full trailer for The Marvels, part of Phase Five of the MCU, and directed by Nia DaCosta ( Candyman ).

    As previously reported , Brie Larson and Iman Vellani reprise their respective roles as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel and Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel for the film, along with Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, daughter of Carol/Captain Marvel's BFF Maria. Monica grew up to become a SWORD agent, but thanks to the events of WandaVision , she can also absorb and manipulate energy as Spectrum. As for Khan , aka Ms. Marvel, she's a teenage Pakistani American who lives in Jersey City. She's a major comic books fan, worships Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, and fantasized about becoming a superhero someday. Her powers stem from the Terrigen Mists, released globally in a crossover storyline, the " Inhumanity ." The mists activated dormant Inhuman cells in several people, Kamala included.

    Naturally, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) will be on hand to lend some assistance, along with fan-favorite Goose the cat-shaped Flerken (played by two cats, Nemo and Tango). Saagar Shaikh, Zenobia Shroff, and Mohan Kapur will reprise their Ms. Marvel roles as Kamala's older brother Aamir, mom Muneeba, and dad Yusuf, respectively. Lashana Lynch will be back as Maria Rambeau (one assumes in a flashback), and Randall Park returns as Jimmy Woo. There's also a new villain called Dar-Benn, played by Zawe Ashton—the aforementioned Kree revolutionary, who wields an Accuser's hammer. Park Seo-joon ( Parasite ) has also been cast as a yet-unnamed ally of Carol, and Colin Stoneley plays a Kree scientist named Papp-Tonn.

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      Marvel drops official trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 24 October, 2022 - 19:14 · 1 minute

    Paul Rudd returns as Scott Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania .

    The Lang/van Dyne family embarks on an exciting new adventure in the subatomic realm in the first official trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania . As we've reported previously , next month's release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will mark the end of Phase Four of what's officially being called The Multiverse Saga (encompassing Phases Four, Five, and Six). Quantumania will kick off Phase Five .

    We saw some preview footage at both San Diego Comic-Con and D23, featuring a villainous version of Kang (Jonathan Majors), a time-traveling adversary of the multiverse first introduced as He Who Remains during the finale of the first season of Loki . (Majors has said that the Kang in the film is not the same as He Who Remains.) That footage also showed Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) confronting Kang, who apparently was holding Scott's now-teenage daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) captive. Kang promised to release Cassie if Scott helped him retrieve something that has been stolen from him.

    Otherwise, we know little about the film, except that the four main characters are returning. So is Randall Park as FBI agent Jimmy Woo, Scott's former parole officer, as well as Gregg Turkington as Scott's former Baskin-Robbins boss, Dale. Per the official premise:

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      Black Panther: Wakanda Forever teaser is a moving tribute to Chadwick Boseman

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Sunday, 24 July, 2022 - 23:07 · 1 minute

    A teaser for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever closed out Marvel's San Diego Comic Con panel.

    It's been three years since the last in-person San Diego Comic Con and Marvel Studios pulled out all the stops for its panel in Hall H, giving us a jam-packed overview of Phases Four, Five, and Six in the MCU. We got a new trailer for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law , and those in attendance were able to view exclusive sneak peek teasers for Ant-Man: Quantumania , Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 , and a new crossover series event called Secret Invasion . The panel ended with the first teaser for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever .

    Wakanda Forever was already in development when Chadwick Boseman—who played T'Challa in 2018's Black Panther —died of colon cancer in August 2020. Director Ryan Coogler, Marvel's Kevin Feige, and many others had been unaware that Boseman was even ill. They decided not to recast T'Challa, nor would they try to insert the character using visual effects, although most of the other main cast members are returning. "His portrayal... is iconic and transcends any iteration of the character in any other medium from Marvel's past," Feige said in a December 2020 statement.

    The finished film is in many ways a tribute to Boseman, and the trailer evokes that sense of loss, set to an almost elegiac cover of "No Woman No Cry." There's even a shot of a street mural honoring a deceased T'Challa. T'Challa's mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett) and sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) are grieving the loss of their brother, with Ramonda currently sitting on the throne. "I am queen of the most powerful nation in the world and my entire family is gone," she says in the only lines of dialogue. "Have I not given everything?"

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