Earth’s Mightiest Hero Is On Her Way: Captain Marvel Trailer

After a week of hints that the Avengers 4 trailer was coming soon, Marvel threw us their usual curve and instead dropped a new Captain Marvel trailer in the middle of Monday Night Football. Tricksy tricksy. Still not enough incentive to get me to go back to the NFL, but definitely enough to have me sitting on Twitter waiting for the drop. And when it did hit the open air waves, my #CarolCorps feed lit up like, well, like this…

The trailer opens with Carol punching an old white lady straight in the face and just gets more bonkers from there. Did you see when she BAM! Then, she POW!! Then, she SLAM!!! Of course you did. Go back up, hit the play arrow, and watch it again. I’ll wait. YEP, she punches everything and everyone except Nick Fury. She does say his name like she’s about to make him drop and give her 20 pushups, so that’s good enough. Look, full disclosure, I’m a skeptical fan. I expect the Marvel Cinematic Universe to ruin every one of my favorites from the Marvel Comic Universe, each time in new and unique ways. When it comes to Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel, the fastest way to do that is to make her into a blonde Black Widow — sassy, sultry, and sneaky. Gah. Carol does not do subtle. She does not do undercover. She can be sexy, but sexy is not what she is. What she is, is a take-no-shit, give-no-fucks BAWSE on Earth and in space and she knows it. As the woman who re-wrote Captain Marvel into the wonder she is today, Kelly Sue DeConnick, says about Carol: “Captain …