Trailer: Avengers: Infinity War

It's the most wonderful time of the year~ ♫♪ AVENGERS TRAILER TIME! And this time, it's an actual Avengers movie instead of an Avengers movie masquerading as a Captain America movie. Oop. 🐸☕

ANYWAY, I need to talk about this trailer or I'm going to go crazy (or crazier, as the people in the restaurant where I wept when I first watched this trailer can attest to). So let's try to break the trailer down as I break down as a person.

This is going to be a bit different because there are more pictures/screencaps/GIFs than text, partly because I also carefully and thoughtfully edited the images to reflect only my innermost thoughts. 

The use of this GIF will now be a tradition for trailer breakdowns. I am decreeing it so.

Warning: IMAGE HEAVY POST AHEAD! Pursue at your own risk! :D

Trailer Review

THIS IS GOING TO BE AN INSANE MOVIE. You know, I know it, everyone in the world knows it. I'm going to go even further and say that everyone in the multiverse knows it. The dramatic music that echoes Alan Silvestri's magical Avengers theme song (FINALLY, THEY USE IT), the lines that echo back to the first Avengers movie FIVE YEARS AGO, the new characters mixing with old ones, the teams in Civil War mixing together to prove that the lines are now blurred and We Are All Working Together, FREAKING WAKANDA, and of course, the tears I shed while watching the trailer. What was I enumerating again? I don't know. Who cares. Oh well. This is a great start to this post.

Time for a scene by scene breakdown! There are probably going to be 682,974 YouTube videos dedicated to this by the time I post this, but gosh darn it, I took screencaps and made GIFs, so I'm posting this even if it's wildly unnecessary (that should be this review blog's new slogan, hahaha). Let it never be said I don't try to make my content original! 

SCENE BY SCENE BREAKDOWN! aka Bea screams about things

As it seems to be the norm for every Marvel movie now, we had an abundance of Tony looking sad and hurt. HOW ARE WE GOING TO PIN INFINITY WAR ON TONY THIS TIME, MARVEL, HMM? I'm ready. I don't care. I'm still hyped.

TONY :( :( :(

IS THAT HIS HAND? IS IT RHODEY'S HAND? IS IT PETER'S HAND? WHY ARE THINGS EXPLODING BEHIND HIM IN SLOW MOTION?? He also seems to still be wearing the same outfit as the scenes with Dr. Strange so that team up is probably happening during the climax of the main fight. 

SPOILER ALERT Bruce isn't stuck in Hulk form!

And if the cutting of this scene is to be believed (which I'm not saying it should be, but there a gaping hole in the ceiling, so...), he crashes into the New York Sanctum Sanctorum! (Or some other Sanctum. Maybe. Possibly.) Was this coincidence? Did they accidentally summon him? I don't know!!

The shot before this (which I forgot to screencap, but am seeing now that I've rewatched the trailer 3294898 times and can get through it without crying too much) has Wanda sleeping in a big bed. So I guess these two are really ~serious now! Or maybe Vision went to while she's in hiding?

Anyway, Vision apparently shapeshifts now! I could be about it, sure. OR that's a Skrull about to betray and murder Wanda, OR this is just a dream sequence. Going by Occam's Razor, I'm thinking the first explanation. But eh!

Then we have Thor looking at... either those are circular holographic screens, or just windows to something exploding outside. The one on the left-most might be a screen, but judging from the explosion on the left and top circles, they might be windows. In space. I don't know.

Here's Bruce in what looks to be Wakanda! I am really feeling the color palette and stronger contrast in the Wakanda scenes! There's also a severed Hulkbuster arm and a black-clad figure who is probably... 

... Natasha. If the cuts are to be trusted! The clothes seem to match though! Everything is incognito in Wakanda. Haha. So, is Nat in Wakanda? Is that where she's hiding out? I DON'T KNOW.

ANYWAY, this is followed by Marvel's opening theme sequence which had me in tears because, again, THEY USED THE ALAN SILVESTRI THEME. I was not ready for the dramatic, slowed down version of the theme and I'm going to be very real with all of you: if they use that version at any point at all during the movie, I WILL BE THE LOUD SOBBING YOU WILL HEAR.

(I'm ok.)

To quote Ross Geller, "The word you're looking for is, 'Anyway...'"

New York shot! With Stark Avengers Stark Tony's Tower in the distance. Sobbing at the New York memories tbh.

THIS ONE'S A DOOZY. It's a shot of Wu, Stephen, Bruce, and Tony in front of a broken staircase. The hole might be where Bruce landed (?). 

But as you can see from my carefully curated screencap, WHAT I AM REALLY FREAKING OUT ABOUT HERE IS THAT TONY IS CLEARLY HOLDING THE BURNER PHONE STEVE GOT HIM AT THE END OF CIVIL WAR. 

(Please appreciate how hard I worked to move the red circle in each frame. HAHA.)

I am in tears. I am tired. I literally only noticed this while I was making the screencaps for this post. SOMEONE HOLD ME.

Here is Anthony, Son of Stark, looking deeply troubled but grimly determined. The wobbly face, as I'm sure you all know, represents me.

The much-awaited and heavily talked about SPIDEY SENSES TINGLING PART. AHHHH PETEY!! (YEAH I made a GIF for this even though there are probably 6,000 already in existence. Don't mock me.)

Next is a shot of Peter looking through the bus window to see a round thing in the sky. This looks like the same round thing that Thor is in the middle of later on, and the one Thanos comes out of. So I'm guessing it's a portal of some sort!

HERE IS SOMETHING THAT HAS TIRED ME OUT. Does Tony have an arc reactor again?? WHY? IS HE OKAY? Did he have to have surgery to put a hole in his chest again? When did this happen? Was that there during Civil War? WAS TONY HIDING SOMETHING THIS HUGE DURING CIVIL FREAKING WAR?

A shot of dead bodies?! That's probably Loki walking around them, and judging by their clothes, this is probably not on Earth, but casualties are the worst, wherever they may be. :/

Loki ONCE AGAIN steals the Tesseract, as hinted in Thor: Ragnarok. Doesn't look like he's enjoying having it, though, if his tears are anything to go by. I think at this point, the Tesseract is so over being stolen by Loki that it judges him silently.

Thanos walks out of the portal, presumably, to have fun by killing people...? He is looking distinctly more pink than purple, but you know what, we don't judge based on skin color. He looks like a musclier and more saturated version of Steppenwolf in Justice League.

THIS IS THE SPIDERMAN COSTUME AT THE END OF CIVIL WAR AND ITS EYES LIGHT UP AAAAND PETER'S THE CIRCULAR PROBABLY-A-PORTAL THING

I have no idea what's happening here or what this is, but I hope it's not another Isolated Thor Incident like the very confusing cave-lake scenes in Age of Ultron. In the Russos we trust!

This might be the same circle as in the preceding screenshot. I still don't know what's happening. But isn't this wildly reminiscent of the Steve-stopping-a-helicopter scene in Civil War? Haha. Battle of the Chrises, yes!

And then we get a shot of Proxima Midnight, one of the Children of Thanos. If the Comic-Con displays are any indication, we'll probably get most of them in this movie! I don't know much about these ~children, but according to that linked primer, she uses a spear forged from the sun and "never misses its target."

EXCEPT OF COURSE WHEN THE TARGET IS A BUFF, BEARDED, BADASS STEVE FREAKIN' ROGERS IN A BLACK TURTLENECK oh my god. I can't get over that gif. Steve is such a badass. I hate him, but I love him, but I don't know. WHO AM I.

T'CHALLA MY SON MY CHILD. You speak the truth and you speak it readily. Thank you for your guidance.

I'M SCREAMINGGG!! DELIVER US STEVE!!!!! Please never stop heroically stepping out of the shadows.

Whatever face Wanda is making here, I'm willing to forget my resentment for her for a moment just to say, in unity and oneness, SAME, WANDA. SAME.

VERONICA'S BACK. I don't know if this is because Bruce is the Hulk here (seems to have a similar background as when Bruce sees Nat and there's a severed Hulkbuster arm beside him). I don't know, but I'm seriously excited to see all my faves back together. I won't even mind the Bruce/Nat shipping (famous last words, lol).

SPEAKING OF WHICH, HERE'S NAT KILLING SOME BADDIE. ♥ Yeah, yeah, ScarJo's a problematic fave. I've made peace with being her fan.

They're baaaaack~ I have no excuse for this stale memeage. It just felt like The Thing To Do.

Things falling from the sky???

FLOOFY-HAIRED STEVE FIGHTING BADDIES IN HIS NOMAD-ISH OUTFIT (without the deep vee, lol). He's also sportin g a split lip and it's making me sad. Also, that one character I keep seeing from Black Panther is there!

These here multi-limbed creatures are Outriders, which are apparently an alien race bred for the purpose of killing everything in their path, because of course that's why. Lovely.

Peter gets picked on by Thanos. A red-eyed Tony looks over, concerned. Viewers are in tears. Tony fans, like yours truly, are weeping noisily, resigned to that fate that Marvel will always find a way to Make It Tony Stark's Fault. Dread, anxiety, worry fill the hearts of people everywhere.

Vision is literally assaulted because he has an infinity stone. We'll get to the Possible Deaths part of the program in a while.

Thanos makes #saltbae trend again, a fill 11 months after it was last relevant.

The stones are back (you can see I put teeny faces on them, haha) and we are definitely not happy to see them. Sigh.

TONY IN THE BLEEDING EDGE ARMOR!!!!!! Except my excitement for it is overshadowed by my PANIC OVER HIM BEING BEATEN TO A PULP BY THANOS. Hey, Marvel, how about an AU where Tony's happy??

My careful and artful editing speaks for itself.

LOOK AT THIS HANDSOME WINTER SON. He readies his machine gun, gazing distressed into the distance. "Why," he thinks to himself, "does war follow me..."

(But seriously. WW2 in Cap 1, some kinda mass killing plot in Cap 2, Civil War in Cap 3, and now the Infinity War. Poor Buck-Buck.)

STEVE AND BUCKY ARE IN THE ARMY. THEY LOOK SO LOVELY. My Brooklyn sons :( Also YES T'CHALLA LEAD 'EM LIKE BRAVEHEART (minus the problematic actor).

Falcon taking one for the bird-themed superheroes everywhere.

And then, of course...

First things first: RHODEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!

Okay. Also: LOOK AT THIS BADASS LINEUP. No particular CW team, just all very cool people together being decidedly very freaking cool. I can't.

Here's that scene in GIF form because OF COURSE I MADE A GIF VERSION:

THEN THEY PLAY THE THEME AGAIN, THIS TIME IN ITS ORIGINAL INCARNATION. At this point, I've lost it. I'm in tears, there is liquid coming out of every facial orifice, nothing matters, and I am a mess.

But there's this at the end:

Lookit that teenage Groot! That kinda shows the time passage between GotG2 and Infinity War (and also Thor: Ragnarok). Also, idk why, but Peter Quill's face looks weird here! Just me?? It seems too long and... maybe it's the weird facial hair. I don't know.

DEATH LIKELIHOOD TIME

This is based on the confirmed cast list going around on Facebook! I'm going to skip the Black Panther characters since I'll only know them in February.

• Tony Stark - 90%. I'd give him a higher score but my emotions are unable. 
• Steve Rogers - 90%. I will only accept his or Tony's death if they both die. Otherwise, it's gonna be a "no" from me, and I'm gonna quit this fandom. (I said that about Civil War too, but yeah.)
• Thor - 20%. Not very likely at this point in canon, I think.
• Bruce Banner - 35%. No point in killing him at this point.
• Natasha Romanov - 50%. She could die, she could also not.
• Clint Barton - 80%. Not in the trailer, wife features prominently in the promo material... I dunno.
• Wanda Maximoff - 25%. Too powerful.
• Vision - 97% BUT HE AN ANDROID so technically 0%.
• Dr. Strange - 0%. Doesn't make sense, he's only one movie in.
• T'Challa - 0%. Also doesn't make sense.
• Scott Lang - 0%. There's a new movie coming up so nah.
• Peter Quill - 10%. Probably not, wouldn't make sense. Also, he was featured in the trailer, but not too prominently. 
• Gamora - 75%. She hates Thanos so she might get into a fight with him and die.
• Drax - 65%. Also hates Thanos. Less likely to be wounded though?
• Groot - 0%. HE JUST DIED. He can't die again.
• Rocket - 0%. Wouldn't make sense. 
• Mantis - 0%. We just met her.
• Nebula - 100%. Her only purpose in the narrative is to kill Thanos or die trying.
• Peter Parker - 50%. BUT I HOPE NOT.
• James Rhodes - 60% :( (My brother says 175% but I am ignoring him)
• Bucky Barnes - 40%. Or maybe more? I don't know. Depends on what they do with his character.
• Nick Fury - 65%. I actually forgot he was still alive? He might die, I suppose?
• Maria Hill - 15%. She's featured a lot on Agents of SHIELD so I dunno if she can die here. 
• Wong - 45%. Could go either way. I thought he'd kick the bucket in Dr. Strange so...
• Ned Leeds - 0%. Nah, wouldn't make sense.
• The Collector - 0% because he's a Celestial?
• Loki - 80%. He's a tired character and I am tired of him. We need to let him go, haha.

That's it! Let me know what you guys think. I love fandom speculation ♥