New 'Avengers: Endgame' Trailer Breakdown: Thanos Is In Deep Trouble |

To keep you entertained at 5am this morning while trying to get Avengers: Endgame tickets, Marvel dropped a new one-minute mini-trailer for the Infinity War sequel. The moody and epic clip contains mostly new footage – behold, Hawkeye/Ronin’s new tattoo sleeve! – as Tony Stark returns to Earth to get his Avenging on with the help of all that’s left of the planet’s Mightiest Heroes.

While only sixty seconds long, Marvel has stuffed this spot with some interesting new bits, making the wait for April 26 feel that much longer. There is a lot to unpack here, so here we go.

SPOILER WARNING: If you wanna avoid any new footage before seeing the movie, other than what’s already released, now’s your chance to turn away. Still here? Okay, but you’ve been warned.

An Ominous Return to Avengers HQ

The trailer opens with a foreboding music cue and our first look at Avengers HQ in upstate New York following The Snap in Wakanda that devastated half of the Avengers and the rest of the universe. The timing here suggests this shot takes place before that shot from the last trailer, where a few of the Avengers are outside the compound and staring up at something coming from the sky. Possibly Tony landing in the Benatar?

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Up next, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) seemingly addresses a care of Avengers about the high risk facing the heroes as they plan to face off again with Thanos.

“If we do this, we’d be going in short-handed.” Cut to Thor (Chris Hemsworth) sitting at a table, listening, as Rhodes (Don Cheadle) quips with some edge to his response: “You mean ’cause he killed all our friends?” This exchange is followed by shots of Black Widow, sitting forlornly in the rain, and of Cap (clean shaven, yay!) staring at his own conflicted reflection.

Re-Assembling The Team

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A shot of a Quinjet streaking toward the NYC skyline at night precedes a surprising moment between Nebula and Rocket, sitting together on what looks like the boarding steps to the Benatar. We haven’t seen these two – the only surviving Guardians of the Galaxy left – share a moment like this before, which implies strongly that Endgame will follow Infinity War‘s lead by pairing up characters that usually don’t share screentime together.

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Over this, Tony’s voiceover: “It’s not about how much we lost, it’s about how much we have left.” And that sound you hear is our collective heartstrings being tugged as Pepper reunites with Tony.

When Are We…?

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Soon after touching down back on Earth, Tony seems to be back in his Iron Man suit, soaring over New York City during the day. But when in the Marvel timeline is he?

We’ve seen leaked set photos of Cap, Scott Lang, and Tony on the debris-strewn streets of the Battle of New York from the first Avengers movie, with Cap and Tony wearing some sort of wrist-watch device that reportedly allows them to travel in time or through the Quantum Realm to get back in time. Either way, chances are good timey-wimey physics comes into play that allows Tony and the team to revisit this key Marvel event in an attempt to right all of Thanos’ wrongs.

Hawkeye, Er, Ronin Has Kept Busy

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The final spot gives us our first look at Ronin outside of his street vigilante gear glimpses in previous trailers. Post-Snap, life for Hawkeye has been rough. A sleeve-full-of-jailhouse-tats rough. And that hair. At least he at some point comes in from his rain-soaked Ronin-ings to rejoin the Avengers before they embark on Operation: Stop Thanos, Take Two.

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Then, what’s left of the Avengers and the Guardians slowly rise, call-to-action style, moments before boarding the Benatar and blasting off for presumably wherever Thanos is. The scene ends with Tony’s badass delivery of the line: “We gotta finish this.”

Cap & Stark, Together Again

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Remember those leaked set photos we mentioned? This shot seems to be taken from that scene, with Cap wearing what looks like his Age of Ultron suit (and an earpiece) at some point during the Battle of New York. “You trust me?” Tony asks, almost imploring. And after a beat, Cap declares, without a doubt, “I do.”

If time travel via the Quantum Realm is what helps our heroes reach back into the past to save their future, we can’t wait to see how it all plays out. (Maybe the Avengers will pull a Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II, and interact in a different way, behind the scenes, with the Battle of New York while their 2012 movie counterparts wage on in the foreground.)

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From this, the Benatar literally blasts off into hyperspace from what looks to be an alien world suffering a hurricane, with Captain Marvel at the controls, flying our band of Avengers to presumably take on the Mad Titan once again. (And how pumped are we to see Captain Marvel in action here, giving our heroes a considerable powerset advantage they sorely lacked pre-Snap?)

But where is Hawkeye? We just saw him standing all hero-y with his fellow, um, heroes – why isn’t he aboard the ship? It looks like Clint may not join the war effort until after wherever this crew is going. (We know that the Russos said they have altered some of the marketing materials to keep some spoilers for theatrical release, so maybe Hawkeye is CG’d out of this shot? Or perhaps he is in the rear compartment of the ship?)

Welcome Back, Thanos

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The final moments of the trailer offer the most interesting teases so far that raise a considerable amount of questions, as well.

We see Thanos’ ship in orbit of an alien world (but it doesn’t look like the planet he retired to at the end of Infinity War). Note the two smaller Q Ships rejoining the Mothership in the footage.

We then see Captain America seemingly on the edge of taking a big loss on some unknown terrain — his shield scuffed with battle damage. His grimace recovering from what looks suffering a terrible blow.

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Thanos then beams in (thanks, Space stone!), sporting his shiny armor and his new double-bladed weapon (“perfectly balanced”). “You could not live with your own failure,” Thanos says over this footage. “Where did that bring you? Back to me.”

Find Tony, in his suit, steeping through the burning wreckage of… something…before joining Cap and a caped Thor on this battle-ravaged site. They slowly march toward Thanos, who sits, helmet off, with his new weapon stabbed into the ground. It appears that wherever this is, a Cap, Tony, and Thor were involved in a major battle here. Could the wreckage be what’s left of Avengers HQ?