The new trailer for The Avengers from Japan is just made of so much awesome that it hurts.
We already had one awesome trailer for The Avengers recently, but the new one from Japan is just so much more awesome that it almost hurts. More shots of the attacking army, the first spoken lines for Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and the first really good shot of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier … I wanted to see this move before, but now I’m almost as hyped for it as I am for The Dark Knight Rises. May can’t get here soon enough.
In all of the pre-promotion for The Avengers, not a whole lot of attention is being paid to Cobie Smulders character of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill.
Not a well-known character outside of die-hard Marvel redears, Cobie Smulders of How I Met Your Mother fame got the role of tough-as-nails Maria Hill. She’s only been around since 2005 in the comics and has already built up a loyal fan base, which is impressive as she’s nothing more than a government agent.
Marvel released some official photos of her the other day, and while there was no mention of it, the first shot does indeed show her and what I believe to be the film version of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Heli-Carrier, essentially a flying aircraft carrier., which has been a staple of the organization’s appearances for decades now. So, yes, yay for the movie including a character like Maria, but … HELI-CARRIER!
And just a character shot of Maria Hill which isn’t getting a whole lot play yet.
With 10 months to go, Marvel is wasting no time getting us all worked up for the upcoming film of The Avengers. Considering the amount of time and money the company has put into prepping for this film, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Released over the course of the San Diego Comic-Con was a series of seven character posters that would finally form one large image that showed you some of the history of each character as well as hints of what we’ll see in the new film. (Is that a Helicarrier I see behind Hawkeye and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents?)
While I normally don’t care for films with too many characters in them, especially in the comic book genre, but the only new introductions out of all those characters I listed that are new to the series are Cobie Smulders of How I Met Your Mother as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye. (Yes, Hawkeye appeared in Thor for a sum total of an eye blink, I don’t count it.) If Marvel was going to try to introduce each character in this film I would go out of mind, but seeing as the characters have had their own films to prepare for this particular project, this concept works fine for me.
