Captain Marvel’s first appearance in a brand new “Avengers Endgame” trailer dropped without warning on Thursday morning.
The spine-tingling teaser focuses on the origins of the main three original Avengers — Robert Downey Jr‘s Iron Man, Chris Evans‘ Captain America and Chris Hemsworth‘s Thor.
The trailer opens with a black and white throwback clip from 2008’s Iron Man, as Tony Stark lays in the ruins of the first ever Iron Man suit in the middle of an Afghani desert
The penultimate shot of the trailer gives a hint at how they are going to go about bringing back the other half of the universe’s population, and confirms a widely held fan theory, as the Cap leads the remaining squad — including a safely returned to Earth Tony Stark and Nebula — all wearing quantum realm suits. Bruce Banner and Danai Gurira‘s Okoye are conspicuously missing, however.
The final scene was the one that had fans most excited on Twitter immediately afterward as Brie Larson‘s Captain Marvel made her Avengers trailer debut — and there was definitely a spark of something between her and Thor.
Wearing civvies rather than her flight suit, she stares down the Asgardian, and he matches her stone-faced.
Reaching out, his axe Stormbreaker flies past her head and into his hand… prompting the tiniest impressed grin from her.
Breaking into a grin of his own, he finally chuckles: “I like this one.”
A brand new poster was also unveiled on Thursday, and the only character to appear on it who did not show up in the trailer was Josh Brolin‘s bad guy, Thanos himself.
Avengers: Endgame opens in theatres on April 26