The second trailer for The Avengers: Age of Ultron has dropped. Just in case you missed it:
We've watched it countless times, scrubbed through it frame-by-frame,
and you can see exactly what we found in the video up
top. Alternatively, we've broken it down in written form below.
As always, it's been combined with an unhealthy mix of speculation and inference. Otherwise, we'd just be saying look at man with shoes; look at woman, also wearing shoes.
00:04: It's still unclear where this action is
taking place. Obviously something bad has happened to necessitate the
presence of The Avengers.
Hawkeye is seen ushering people into a drop ship. One of those people, as seen in the next shot, is Scarlet Witch. Have her and her brother, Quicksilver, just
been freed from von Strucker's asylum (the place where we first saw them in the MCU)? Are they even responsible for some of the destruction we see?
00:09: Here's a better look at the carrier from
above. You can spy rows of seats through the roof, and on the side of
the ship it carries the number 20. There's a lot of these, then. It also
looks like it's been through the wars.
It's unclear as to whom this technology belongs. It's possible it's leftover SHIELD hardware or maybe it belongs to Stark Industries. Maybe it was once used to carry people into battle, not save them.
Also, what caused so much destruction? The Hulk – the colour-grading seem to place the scene where Banner loses is elsewhere. Maybe this was all down to Ultron or, perhaps, Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver could be responsible.
00:14: Notice the Avengers branding on the uniform.
Unlike the first film, they're now an established team with their own
nifty logo. And based on this new trailer, how long they can stay united
as a team appears to one of the tensions running through the sequel.
00:18: "Everyone creates the thing they dread,"
intones Ultron, over this shot of Tony Stark stepping into a warehouse
filled with missiles and bombs, presumably of his own creation.
Are we watching Tony having his Oppenheimer moment? In Ultron has he unwittingly created a weapon of total destruction?
00:23: This is interesting. Banner identifies Ultron the moment he gatecrashes the party.
The relationship between Banner and Stark formed one of most interesting dynamics in the original Avengers movie. At last, Stark found someone who was his intellectual equal.
(Banner: "Well, if he could do that, he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet." Stark: "Finally, someone who speaks English.")
The feeling was mutual, with Banner meeting someone who didn't let him runaway, and ultimately made him accept the monster inside and recognise the importance of his terrible condition. (Stark: "It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.")
The Avengers concluded with Banner and Stark heading off into the sunset in Stark's convertible. Since then, have they been conducting research together? Did Banner help out with the Ultron project? We know from descriptions on leaked promotional art that The Vision is "programmed by the combined geniuses of Tony Stark and Bruce Banner".
This is also interesting from a dramatic perspective, since later in the trailer (and therefore film) Banner and Stark end up fighting each other in spectacular fashion. What do they disagree about?
00:26: Are we seeing Ultron in his initial corporeal
form, inhabiting one of the Avenger robots. Look at the breastplate,
and you can see the robot sports the new Avengers logo and is decked out
in the rather inspirational colours of red, white, and blue.
Iron Man 3 showed how the events of the first Avengers movie affected Stark – he was paranoid, stricken with anxiety. He withdrew from the world, and built more and more elaborate suits. The movie also showed how Stark had begun work on automation,
with a little help by JARVIS of course. Does Stark create these Avengers-branded robots because he's given up being Iron Man, yet still wants to contribute to the Avengers initiative?
00:31: Following the events of Captain America: The
Winter Soldier, Nick Fury is believed to be dead and is on the run.
(This is signified by him wearing a beanie.)
00:33: Definitely the most enigmatic shot in the new trailer. Who is this disrobing in a cave?
Our best guess is Shuri, the younger sister of T'Challa (aka The Black Panther). She is the Princess of Wakanda and possesses similar abilities to her brother.
But where is she? Is this cave a source of precious Vibranium?
Vibranium is a fictional metal in the Marvel Universe. It's the stuff Stark's family used to craft Captain America's shield. This is a hunch, but it's likely that Ultron wishes to forge himself a body constructed entirely from Vibranium (remember the first trailer opened with shots of molten metal cooling). This is likely the impetus for the Avengers travelling to Africa, and more specifically the nation of Wakanda, where there are natural deposits of the metal.
00:39: Flash back alert!
This looks like a young Black Widow, and she's being grabbed around the face. Interesting to note, the hand doing the grabbing is a woman's (it's not von Strucker).
The trailer implies she was once an inmate/patient of von Strucker. Will this allow her to identify more closely with the plight of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver? Will it also fill in some of Natasha's murky past?
This overplayed with a VO by Natasha herself, in which she says, rather melancholically, "We have no place in this world." This tells us a lot about the tone of the movie. The MCU is starting to deal with much more the heroes and villains fighting each other; it's beginning to reflect on the impact that superheroes are having upon the world, politically, socially, ethically. It seems Age of Ultron is laying plenty of groundwork for future films, particularly Captain America 3: Civil War, which we expect will deal with a lot of these issues head-on.
00:43: A closer a look at one of Ultron's sentinels.
It's appears the blue eyes are being used to denote one of his legion,
while red is being used to distinguish Ultron himself from the crowd.
00:49: Here's the Mark XLIII armour in action. Is
this a raid of von Strucker's facility? All previous Iron Man suits were
destroyed at the climax of Iron Man 3 at the Battle on the Norco. And
following on from that, Stark relinquished the Iron Man persona, yet it
seems the rise of Ultron has forced him back into the armour.
00:51: Stretchy pants! Not much to
say on this apart from Hulk's wearing stretchy purple pants. In the
first movie, he sported the improbably elastic, ripped shorts look, but
for the sequel it seems he's been given an official outfit. (Maybe
that's what Stark and Banner spent months working on.)
00:54: Another look at Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaw.
In the comics, he's a scientist who specialises in 'applied sonics' and
is an expert when it comes to Vibranium. He kills T'Chaka, the Black
Panther's father, and goes on to become one of the Panther's chief
adversaries.
Does Ultron enslave him to create him a body of pure Vibranium? You'd think Ultron would be able to take of it solo, but perhaps he needs Klaw for some other reason.
00:55: The quinjet has also received a nice new lick of paint and an Avengers logo.
00:57: Cap takes on one of Ultron's minions. Steve Rogers is 6'4", which puts Ultron's army probably somewhere around 6'5"/6".
01:00: This moment featured in the
first trailer, and it appears again here. It's a quiet, touching moment
between Hulk and Black Widow. It appears to take place just before Hulk
fights Iron Man. Is it simply a nice, emotive visual or is it being
built up as a pivotal scene in the movie? Is something really bad about
to happen?
01:03: Is this Ultron's final form? Is it forged
from Vibranium? If so, this could be bad news. The rare metallic element
possesses the ability to absorb all vibrations and kinetic energy
directed at it. This energy is trapped at a molecular level, making the
metal even stronger. A virtually indestructible Ultron would be bad
news.
We also witness one of Ultron's chief offensive abilities – he can shoot red-tinted electricity from his hands.
01:03: Where the heck is this? Is this von
Strucker's facility? Perhaps, but the candles and design work carved
into the brickwork might place it somewhere in Asgaard.
01:06: Thor chokes Stark by the throat,
foreshadowing what the latter will do to Hulk later in the trailer. The
first Avengers started off with a lot of fighting, but ultimately it was
the story of how a disparate set of heroes were forged together as a
team. It seems that harmony was short-lived. Expect the decisions made
by Stark and the other heroes in the movie to have ramifications that
extend well beyond the events of this movie.
01:17: Hulkbuster choke slamming Hulk. No comment, no real insight, apart from this is pretty cool.
01:21: Why's Hulk got red eyes? If we rule out the
possibility of him going full Red Hulk, is it because he's been crying?
(Is this somehow related to that touching moment he shares with
Natasha?) Or is simply a result from an intense battle with Hulkbuster
Iron Man?
Did you spot anything else in the trailer? If so, let us know in the comments below.
Marvel's The Avengers: Age of Ultron hits cinemas 23 April in Australia, 24 April in the UK, and May 1 in North America.
As always, it's been combined with an unhealthy mix of speculation and inference. Otherwise, we'd just be saying look at man with shoes; look at woman, also wearing shoes.
Hawkeye is seen ushering people into a drop ship. One of those people, as seen in the next shot, is Scarlet Witch. Have her and her brother, Quicksilver, just
been freed from von Strucker's asylum (the place where we first saw them in the MCU)? Are they even responsible for some of the destruction we see?
It's unclear as to whom this technology belongs. It's possible it's leftover SHIELD hardware or maybe it belongs to Stark Industries. Maybe it was once used to carry people into battle, not save them.
Also, what caused so much destruction? The Hulk – the colour-grading seem to place the scene where Banner loses is elsewhere. Maybe this was all down to Ultron or, perhaps, Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver could be responsible.
Are we watching Tony having his Oppenheimer moment? In Ultron has he unwittingly created a weapon of total destruction?
The relationship between Banner and Stark formed one of most interesting dynamics in the original Avengers movie. At last, Stark found someone who was his intellectual equal.
(Banner: "Well, if he could do that, he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet." Stark: "Finally, someone who speaks English.")
The feeling was mutual, with Banner meeting someone who didn't let him runaway, and ultimately made him accept the monster inside and recognise the importance of his terrible condition. (Stark: "It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.")
The Avengers concluded with Banner and Stark heading off into the sunset in Stark's convertible. Since then, have they been conducting research together? Did Banner help out with the Ultron project? We know from descriptions on leaked promotional art that The Vision is "programmed by the combined geniuses of Tony Stark and Bruce Banner".
This is also interesting from a dramatic perspective, since later in the trailer (and therefore film) Banner and Stark end up fighting each other in spectacular fashion. What do they disagree about?
Iron Man 3 showed how the events of the first Avengers movie affected Stark – he was paranoid, stricken with anxiety. He withdrew from the world, and built more and more elaborate suits. The movie also showed how Stark had begun work on automation,
with a little help by JARVIS of course. Does Stark create these Avengers-branded robots because he's given up being Iron Man, yet still wants to contribute to the Avengers initiative?
Our best guess is Shuri, the younger sister of T'Challa (aka The Black Panther). She is the Princess of Wakanda and possesses similar abilities to her brother.
But where is she? Is this cave a source of precious Vibranium?
Vibranium is a fictional metal in the Marvel Universe. It's the stuff Stark's family used to craft Captain America's shield. This is a hunch, but it's likely that Ultron wishes to forge himself a body constructed entirely from Vibranium (remember the first trailer opened with shots of molten metal cooling). This is likely the impetus for the Avengers travelling to Africa, and more specifically the nation of Wakanda, where there are natural deposits of the metal.
This looks like a young Black Widow, and she's being grabbed around the face. Interesting to note, the hand doing the grabbing is a woman's (it's not von Strucker).
The trailer implies she was once an inmate/patient of von Strucker. Will this allow her to identify more closely with the plight of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver? Will it also fill in some of Natasha's murky past?
This overplayed with a VO by Natasha herself, in which she says, rather melancholically, "We have no place in this world." This tells us a lot about the tone of the movie. The MCU is starting to deal with much more the heroes and villains fighting each other; it's beginning to reflect on the impact that superheroes are having upon the world, politically, socially, ethically. It seems Age of Ultron is laying plenty of groundwork for future films, particularly Captain America 3: Civil War, which we expect will deal with a lot of these issues head-on.
Does Ultron enslave him to create him a body of pure Vibranium? You'd think Ultron would be able to take of it solo, but perhaps he needs Klaw for some other reason.
We also witness one of Ultron's chief offensive abilities – he can shoot red-tinted electricity from his hands.
Did you spot anything else in the trailer? If so, let us know in the comments below.
Marvel's The Avengers: Age of Ultron hits cinemas 23 April in Australia, 24 April in the UK, and May 1 in North America.
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