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The long-awaited – seriously, it’s been about 15 months since the first one! – second trailer for The New Mutants finally arrived online yesterday. It’s been a very rocky road for the teen-oriented X-Men spinoff, but all the bad vibes were blown away by this trailer, with fans finding themselves really impressed by what’s on offer in Josh Boone’s movie. It even featured a sneak peek at a fan favorite character – well, dragon – that we totally missed.
One scene that’s got a lot of attention is the climactic clip of Anya Taylor-Joy’s Magik attacking Demon Bear with the Soul Sword. What you might have not caught in this scene though was the brief, easily-missed glimpse of her pet dragon, Lockheed. We’ve already seen the creature represented by a handheld puppet in Illyana’s possession, but it seems that the supernatural events of the film will mean Lockheed comes to life to help out in the battle against Demon Bear by its end.
Lockheed is typically Kitty Pryde’s pet in the comics, but he and Illyana do have a connection. In The New Mutants series, Kitty and Magik were roomies and so the latter got pretty close to the dragon, as well. With no other X-Men properties making use of Lockheed in the past 20 years, let’s be thankful that Boone decided to drop the popular – but weird – creation into this flick. His appearance in the third act could be an extra treat for fans in this surprise final installment of the Fox franchise that we never thought we were going to see.
Not that this is necessarily the last time the New Mutants will show up, mind you. Marvel Studios must be releasing the movie theatrically because they have a certain amount of faith in it and sure enough, our sources say that Kevin Feige likes what Boone has done and is willing to fold the gang into the MCU if it does well. It’s hard to say whether general audiences will be hooked, but Marvel lovers will no doubt check The New Mutants out when it arrives and this trailer gives us hope that it may get some decent reviews.
One of the most satisfying scenes of Avengers: Endgame came as the heroes from across the Marvel universe gathered to take on Thanos and his forces for the sake of all reality. With a whole army behind him, Chris Evans’ Captain America finally got to say the character’s iconic line from the comics: “AVENGERS… Assemble.” It was a real punch-the-air moment, as fans had been waiting to hear the catchphrase for the past 11 years of the MCU. But you have to wonder, why did Marvel hold off on the line for so long? This was the fourth Avengers movie, after all.
Well, let’s run through the previous three films and examine why they weren’t the right place to drop the moment. First of all, 2012’s The Avengers united Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to foil Loki’s invasion of Earth. The movie was even called Avengers Assemble in the UK. So a quick shout of the phrase could have easily been worked in somewhere during the Battle of New York. However, it was likely felt that at this relatively early stage in the franchise, the power of the line hadn’t really been earned.
Three years later, the gang got back together for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Infamously, this sequel actually ends on a major tease of the line, with Steve Rogers saying “Avengers A-” before the credits kick in. So, why didn’t they just use the full line? Well, if you think about it, Ultron was really a film about the original six heroes disassembling and, though a new team has come together by the point of the final scene, it wouldn’t have had the same impact as if Cap had been saying it to a fully-united line-up.
Then we come to 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War. At this point, the filmmakers likely knew they were going to hold off on dropping the phrase until Avengers: Endgame so decided not to use it on this occasion. In any case, it was a good call not to deploy it in Infinity War as this is another movie where its effectiveness would have been muted. Even if Cap had said it during the epic Battle of Wakanda, its impact would’ve been lessened by the team’s terrible loss at the film’s close.