…and holy crap can we talk of the awesome that was this phenomenal piece of artistic genius? Now, the first thing I need to do is thank my good friend Lewis (Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall fame for those familiar with webseries and digital art), because he was the one who said “Age of Ultron trailer apparently leaked. I would check it out, but literally about to head out the door.” Well, I hopped on that shit like it was going out of style and had all the feels.
Now, most people generally know that I am a HUGE fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but when this dropped, I couldn’t. I really couldn’t words with how awesome this was. Well I could. It was mostly this:
So… yeah. To say I was excited is a bit of an understatement. So let’s look at the trailer and talk cultural sustainability. Now, I already told you how I want to get a degree in how popular culture affects cultural sustainability. But it goes a bit deeper than that. Superhero movies do deal with real issues. For example, Iron Man 3 is Tony Stark’s struggle with PTSD after the Battle of New York in The Avengers. He took a nuclear missile into deep space and almost died saving the planet. Even Captain America was like:
So, Iron Man is busy with that fallout while Thor deals with ethnic cleansing. Yep, Dark Elves led by Malekith are like “ASGARD NEEDS TO BE WIPED OUT. PERMANENTLY.” And that’s some deep shit right there. You basically have Thor busting out Loki and saying “Genocide and he killed Mom.” And Loki says “He killed Mom? Asgard is mine!” And they deal with the threat. By destroying London. Yeah…
Makes no sense, but superheroes, so… Okay? Yeah I’ll talk about continuity at some point I’m sure. Then we have the most badass knife fights I have ever seen. Captain America: The Winter Soldier pushed the envelope and in terms of a character who is out of time? They did a good job with putting him in present day following the story of “Big Brother is watching you” and the culture of fear. It’s something we here in the United States deal with on a normal basis. What did Cap do? DISMANTLED SHIELD and said I HATE YOU HYDRA, kicking all kinds of ass and basically telling Fury:
(By the by, that’s Lewis, who I was telling you about earlier.)
So, culture of fear fallout is currently being dealt with in Agents of SHIELD. But the cool thing was after such a movie, we got Guardians of the Galaxy which actually has a pretty positive message of acceptance. Whether you’re a talking racoon with a gun, an assassin who worked for Thanos, a human from Terra, a tree who only knows five words, or an alien with a vendetta, you are accepted. All walks of life. Just… don’t piss off the Nova Corps. That should be an important aside. So now that I led up to Age of Ultron, because that’ll be the next film, let’s talk trailer. Now, when it leaked, Marvel not only released it before this Tuesday’s (10/28) Agents of SHIELD episode, but they also responded in the BEST WAY POSSIBLE:
So, Marvel was a good sport about the leak, at least publicly. Let’s take a look at this trailer.
In the first part, we see people running and screaming. Traditional things in the superhero movie. Then it gets AWESOME. 18 seconds in and we see a hand in molten metal. Which is badass. Like AMAZINGLY badass. 22 seconds: We see Captain America with his back turned. Now, right off the bat, I feel foreboding, which ULTRON so I should, but this is kind of terrible, like I want to be happy about Ultron, but where is the action? Then we see Hawkeye, Thor, then we see Bruce Banner, wrapped up. I am intrigued and I get this flashback:
Which is still one of my favorite parts of Avengers to this day. But this Bruce looks broken or mad. And I have to admit that even I am getting the chills at this. Then we see Ultron. HOLY CRAP. He looks amazing as everyone stands. And at 45 seconds we finally get our Marvel Logo. And I am hyped by this point. We see Iron Man, then Cap kicks in a door and I assume we are in Romania. Because Scarlet Witch and Quiksilver are supposedly in this movie. ACTION. GUNS. EXPLODING GLASS.
Bruce running in the woods and falling down. Definitely intrigued with that plot thread. Wait… Then we see Scarlet Witch and Quiksilver standing with Ultron, but we are totally unsure of their alligence. Well, this got much more interesting than I had hoped. Crap.
Then Ultron climbing and a bunch of Ultrons flying and holy crap. I cannot contain my excitement now. I started going: 
Everyone staring at something. And… Thor drops the hammer. Also, WHERE’S IRON MAN? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOUT? 1:10 we see THIS MAY. Iron Man, and we hear “It’s the end.” Can I… Can it be May yet? Like I’m cool with that. I’ll be good, I promise. Nick Fury in a skullcap. I… Nick Fury if you started Secret War, I’ll kill you. Black Widow: “Nothing lasts forever.” And everybody wants to rule the world. Scarlet Witch screaming in rubble. FOOT with Hulk in the background. Could it be?
IT IS. THE HULKBUSTER ARMOR. HULK VS. IRON MAN IN THE HULKBUSTER ARMOR. I WAITED FOR THIS IN AVENGERS. And Joss Whedon said it would be darker. Whedon, you magnificent bastard! 
Black Widow on a sexy new bike? Don’t care HULKBUSTER ARMOR. Also, this is what I tweeted essentially for 5 minutes after I saw the Hulkbuster Armor:
So if you couldn’t tell I was excited about the Hulkbuster Armor… Flash of Quiksilver in slow motion, Scarlet Witch’s powers look cool at least, I’m optimistic about the two of them. Andy Serkis? Who are you in this movie? Thor screaming, Hulk and Black Widow are sharing a moment, which builds on the Avengers storyline they had in the first movie. Flashback to ballet, Hawkeye is running through the woods. …Yeah, A LOT is going on in this trailer. A LOT. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a close to a 3 hour movie at this point. Thor is pissed at Tony. Tony stop pissing off the Norse gods. First it was Loki, now it’s Thor. Get it together.
Because Hulk just threwpunched a car into the Hulkbuster Armor. OH YEAH. Captain America running from a car being overturned. ACTION. ACTION. ACTION. Broken Captain America shield? I SMELL A BLACK PANTHER MOVIE BECAUSE VIBRAINIUM. The creepiest thing in this trailer by far is Ultron and the undercurrent of “No Strings On Me.” Which if you know the story of Ultron… CREEPY. AVENGERS: Age of Ultron title card drops and May 2015. And that’s it. NOOOOO! So, this was what I thought of the trailer:
Yeah, it’s kind of like that.
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