The Avengers: Infinity War Trailer Drops Like A Concrete Wall And Blows Peoples' Minds In An Awesome Way

The much-awaited trailer for Avengers: Infinity War blows away a whole planet of fans in its wake.
By J. Delano

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     The much-awaited trailer to the third installment of the Avengers franchise titled Avengers: Infinity War was released Thursday, November 30, 2017. 

     In the next twelve hours or so, it garnered around 28 million views on YouTube and was trending at number one. By Saturday morning Asia time, Marvel Studios came out with a statement on Instagram that almost 230 million watched the trailer online in all its platforms.

     Charlie Streams of Emergency Awesome had said in his blow-by-blow of the trailer in his YouTube channel that this may be the trailer "that broke the internet."

     In the trailer, we now see in full splendor the biggest and baddest villain of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Thanos (Josh Brolin), plus his tier one captains Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight.  Also, he has an army of Outriders which are ravenous four-armed biped beast hybrids which appears to be giving Team Cap (Chris Evans) and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) a beating in the plains of of his home country Wakanda. 

     Yet, Thanos is landing on Earth not to sightsee but his primary mission is to get the Infinity Stones kept in our planet, hence the title Infinity War, which was based on the Marvel Comic limited series.

     It's clear that Thanos has two stones already in his gauntlet.  The purple stone is the Power stone which was last seen in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie and was hidden by the Nova Corps. The second one is the blue stone which is the Space stone otherwise known as the Tesseract.  In the trailer itself, we see Loki presenting the Tesseract to somebody who most probably will be Thanos and the timeline does suggest that it falls during the period between Thor Ragnarok and Avengers Infinity War.

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     To avid followers of the movies, this means Thanos is on Earth for the Mind stone and the Time stone. The Mind stone is in Vision's (Paul Bettany) forehead and has been the foundation for his A. I.   On the other hand, the Time gem is in the Eye of Agamotto and is protected by the Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch).  

     We can fully expect Thanos and his Black Order to try to steal them and then obliterate anyone who stands in their way.  There's a scene where Vision is pinned on the ground while someone is lasertagging the Mind stone.  Also, Thanos' attack on New York city may be prompted by the New York Sanctum and Doctor Strange. 

     In a way, this was the culmination of several years and storylines as the Infinity Stones were first poked at in Thor (2011) with the appearance of the Infinity Gauntlet in Odin's Vault.  Then it was teased when the studio showed Thanos himself in Marvel's The Avengers (2012).   Slowly and amazingly, producer Kevin Feige, the directors Anthony and Joe Russo and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have reached this penultimate part of the Avengers saga without somehow missing a beat.

     Several of the fan favorite characters on the side of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Starlord (Chris Pratt) will be in the film.  If you count the number of superheroes in the trailer, it reached twenty one.  Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) was missing though.

     This spans almost all of the heroes thru the years including those who don't have powers like Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Falcon (Anthony Mackie) to the heavy hitters like The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and the cosmic adventurers like Drax (Dave Bautista) and Gamora (Zoe Saldana).

     Marvel Studios will eventually wrap this phase of the Avengers and the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the fourth Avengers movie in May 2019.  By that time, we may see Thanos gather all the Infinity Gems which will then grant him the powers of space and time and end the universe like in the comics, but there might be changes too on how that story goes.  What is guaranteed is that it will be the toughest trial yet for the superheroes of Marvel whom audiences all over the world have grown to cherish.

     The beginning of the trailer also puts the Avengers films into full circle.  It starts with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) giving his speech in the first Avengers movie after Agent Coulson died, "There was an idea, to bring together a group of remarkable people..."  If you look back a decade ago, putting together all these actors and writers and directors would have been a daunting task for any production and that idea still holds.  Marvel Studios did the remarkable.

     The Avengers: Infinity War will be shown in theatres on May 2018.

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