During all the precious
high-value commercial airtime blocks on the Super Bowl LIV broadcast courtesy
of FOX, there were plenty of ads from major companies, putting their best foot
forward in the offering of their various products and services. From the
latter, we have the recently-launched but highly upstart digital streaming
service Disney+, giving their first-footage look at a slew of original
programming content that they have promised but is taking time to produce: the
live-action series tie-ins to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). True, the “Star
Wars” tie-in media that premiered first was good, but Marvel fans have been
waiting for these shows too.
Polygon has it that Disney’s highly audacious streaming platform
has given the first teasers on their MCU-related streaming series for the
coming months and years during the commercial breaks for the Super Bowl LIV telecast
on FOX last Sunday evening, February 2. No less than three MCU tie-in shows
were showcased in this short collected preview: “The Falcon and the Winter
Soldier,” featuring supporting characters of Captain America, “WandaVision,”
with secondary members of the Avengers, and “Loki,” starring the unpredictably
aligned adoptive brother of Thor.
Plenty of either continuity
points from previous installments of the MCU, as well as shout-outs to plot
elements from the original Marvel Comics stories are seen in this Super Bowl teaser.
The preview starts with Sam Wilson/Falcon (Anthony Mackie) practicing with
throwing the vibranium shield of Captain America, who had passed it on to him.
The next scene sees Falcon in some mid-air action against a team of wing-suited
grunts, while Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) confronts “Captain America:
Civil War” hidden baddie Helmut Zemo (Daniel Bruhl) with loaded gun.
Next, the “WandaVision” tease
showcases the weird and quirky side of the MCU, with Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth
Olsen) and the synthetic android Vision (Paul Bettany) living in seemingly
blissful marriage…despite the latter being destroyed during “Avengers: Infinity
War.” The strange thing is that their home – furnishings, atmosphere, everything
– looks and feels like a stereotypical oldie sitcom, likely a result of Wanda’s
nebulous powers expanding to warp reality itself, much like her original
comic-book self. The series is also said to explain how MCU Wanda picks up her
comic-counterpart’s alias of “Scarlet Witch,” so that is another thing to watch
for.
Finally, “Loki” picks up on the
further adventures of the alternative Loki (Tom Hiddleston) who escaped from
his capture at the end of “Avengers” when the timeline was disrupted by the
Avengers’ future selves in “Avengers: Endgame.” When MCU fans last saw this
Loki, he had absconded with the MCU year-2012 iteration of the Tesseract/Time
Infinity Stone for parts unknown. The teaser shows the trickster-god of late
Asgard in prison garb with the initials TVA, probably referring to the Time
Variance Authority from Marvel Comics, a trans-dimensional agency that
ostensibly prevents drastic changes to alternate timelines but is notoriously inept.
Given that Loki boasts he would be burning something in his scene, the MCU-TVA
looks to be just as hapless.
All three MCU shows, six episodes
apiece, will premiere for streaming on Disney+ from late 2020 to early 2021 (“Loki”).
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