The Marvel Cinematic Universe is moving on in many ways, and the arrival of the firstEternals teaser trailerled to social media trending the name #CaptainRogers, thanks to a quote referencing the death of the formerCaptain America.
We all know by now that Marvel likes to drop little Easter Eggs throughout their trailers and promos as much as in the actual movies and TV shows themselves. And in dropping the first trailer for the highly anticipatedEternals, eagle eyed fans were quickly pulling out little details to analyze and discuss for the next few months, until the full trailer arrives. While the trailer itself received a mixed response, it did lead to the term #CaptainRogers appearing on the trending topic lists of many sites due to a line in which theEternalsdiscuss who will take command of theAvengersafter the death of both “Captain Rogers andIron Man.”
For anyone who doesn’t know the significance of what, to some, could be an easily overlooked line, the fact that the reference was made to “Captain Rogers” and not “Captain America” is a direct link to the fact that by the end of the recent Disney+ seriesThe Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson has officially taken over the Captain America role in the MCU, meaning that Steve Rogers is now known as simply Captain Rogers. It is just another sign of how much attention Marvel Studios pay to the smallest things in even their earliest trailers for future movies.
This led to a storm of activity on Twitter, as fans rushed to add their feelings about the name check, with a mixture of joy, retrospective sadness and whole world of memes just created for the occasion as they remembered what has been lost in the MCU, but also what is very much still to come.
WhenAvengers: Endgamesaw the departure of Chris Evans' Captain America and Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man from the MCU, it was a devastating blow to many fans who have followed the story of Marvel’s best known superheroes for over a decade, but while the memory remains of what has been and gone, it’s clear that the future is still unfolding and there is not only more to come in the form of thealready announced Phase 4 moviesand shows, but also a whole newAvengersteam. Marvel don’t make these teases lightly, so there is no doubt that plans on just who will be the successor to the now Captain Rogers and Iron Man asAvengershead honcho are likely being discussed in secretive meetings as we speak.
Eternalswill be the thirdMCUmovie released sinceSpiderman: Far From Homesaw Phase 3 of the comic book universe come to a close. Delayed by Covid19, the franchise returns to cinemas in July with the arrival ofBlack Widow, followed a couple of months later byShang Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings. While fans have been waiting for these new movies for what seems like an eternity, Disney+ have been filling in the gap with the linked series’WandaVisionandThe Falcon and The Winter Soldier, both of which saw the platform struggle to cope with the demand when new episodes dropped, and will fill the lead up toBlack Widowwith the last of their ready to go series’Loki, starring Tom HIddleston reprising his role as the Norse God of Mischief.
