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Recently, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ released a new trailer focusing on the mighty war of Wakanda. The third Avenger movie, Infinity War, has been creating much of hype for its selection of heroes and the fate that awaits them. One of the few new additions to the Avengers family has been Black Panther. The recent trailer also centres on the black superhero.

The one-minute trailer sets the stage – on one side is Thanos and his army, out to capture all the Infinity Stones, and on the other side are the Avengers. Iron Man, Captain America, War Machine, Black Widow, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk can be seen and leading the charge is Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther. As the evil forces descend upon the Earth, T’Challa unites the heroes in a chant as they form a last stand. The battle seems bigger than any other battle of the super heroes. And as with the first two Avengers movies, we get a new hero shot of all the characters in one glorious frame. ‘Where will you be’, the titles on the trailer ask, ‘when it all ends?’

The film is being built up as a culmination of a decade of groundwork – even though a fourth Avengers movie is going to arrive in one year. But because Marvel is being so secretive about the title of that film – it is expected to close this chapter in the saga – fans are expecting major plot twists to happen in ‘Infinity War’.

There are many speculations over the possible death of major characters. While this trailer doesn’t play into that theory as much as some of the previous ones, it does highlight the large scale of these films – the Battle of Wakanda looks like one of those Lord of the Rings battles.

And the Avengers are going to need all the help they can get because Thanos is their most formidable adversary yet. Infinity War will also mark the first time that the Avengers meet the Guardians of the Galaxy – possibly introduced by Thor after one of his intergalactic adventures.

But after tantalising us with full-blown action, the trailer ends with a joke, by Okoye of all people. “When you said Wakanda was going to open its doors to the world this is not what I imagined,” she says, referring to T’Challa’s decision to open trade for the first time at the end of Black Panther. “What did you imagine,” T’Challa asks. “The Olympics… maybe a Starbucks,” she says.

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ stars Robert Downey Jr, Josh Brolin, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L Jackson, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Don Cheadle, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Rudd and Tom Hiddleston. It’s scheduled for an April 27 release.

Published in Daily Times, April 9^th 2018.