Leaked Avengers: Doomsday Wakanda Trailer Gives Shuri Ominous Lines

The fourth trailer for Avengers: Doomsday leaked, and it features the Wakandans alongside Ben Grimm from the Fantastic Four. It's a very short trailer, roughly 38 seconds, but it's an ominous one to say the least, especially because of what Shuri says in it.

It surfaced on the same day the X-Men trailer was released in HD. Judging by the number of views that one racked up in its first couple of hours, it was crushing the internet. First, a correction: an earlier breakdown of mine got something wrong. Reed Richards is not in this trailer at all. Here is every shot and every line of dialogue.

Shuri says she has lost everyone while Namor's people watch the sky

The trailer opens behind Shuri, looking over her shoulders as she walks into the desert. Over the top of that shot, she says: "I've lost everyone who's mattered to me."

Next comes a quick shot of Namora. She's adorned in a ton of feathers. It looks somewhat ceremonial, and she's among other members of Talokan and what could be the Wakandans. They're all looking up at the sky as something ominous approaches. The camera then pans right to show Namor in his new costume. He has an extremely high collar, like some of the so-called AI leaked concept art that had been circulating.

While the shot stays on Namor the king, Shuri says: "A king has his duties to prepare our people for the afterlife. I have mine." The trailer then shows her walking alone in the desert.

M'Baku introduces himself to Ben Grimm

Shuri is quickly joined by M'Baku. People noticed that their costumes seem to have blue inlays instead of the normal purple. I think that might come down to how Avengers: Doomsday is being colored compared with the other scenes we've seen, plus whatever lens happens to be on the camera. At the time, we had to wait for the HD versions to know for sure. In this trailer, admittedly, it looks like the normal Wakandan garb with blue inlay instead of purple.

They arrive at a meeting place in the desert with other Wakandans. M'Baku goes to shake the hand of the Thing and introduces himself as King M'Baku of Wakanda. The Thing jokingly responds, as he shakes his hand, that he's Ben from Yancy Street.

The trailer then shows them boarding ships. Shuri looks at someone and gives them the Wakanda Forever cross over her chest. The screen cuts to black and announces that Black Panther, the Wakandans and the Fantastic Four will return in Avengers: Doomsday.

Shuri, Magneto and Thor all sound like heroes who expect to die

You have to admit that Shuri's line about preparing their people sounds eerily similar to Magneto's line in the X-Men trailer about death coming for everyone. Tie that to Thor's prayer in the forest, where he asks Odin to allow him to survive this battle, and it certainly seems like these heroes know there's a good probability that they and everyone else will die.

I think the reason is twofold. First, I know everyone is going to say they're headed into battle against Doctor Doom. That may be right for the Thor scene. I suspect it comes toward the end of the film or going into act three, once Doom has been established and has become extremely powerful. There's a good chance they know they can't defeat him, or that they'll be defeated and killed trying to stop him.

The second part is the impending incursions. I expect those to be established from the beginning of the film, given the doomsday clock countdown that, from what I've heard, runs throughout the entire movie. The heroes would know that their whole timeline, their entire existence, is about to be erased or destroyed as it collides with another. That creates a sense that no one will survive and the end of the world is coming.

That's what I took from Shuri's line. You have to prepare your people for death, because it's coming no matter what. They'll make a last stand, X-Men pun totally intended, to try to save their timeline, whether that means fighting heroes of another timeline or fighting Doctor Doom. Either way, they know there's a real probability that everything is going to be destroyed.

Doomsday may mean the end of the multiverse, not only Doom's day

That same ominous undercurrent runs beneath the dialogue in all three of these trailers in our first look at Avengers: Doomsday. Even without Doom on screen, his shadow looms large over all the timelines and all the heroes.

It also puts a second meaning on the title. I think many of us immediately concluded that Doomsday meant Doctor Doom would have his day. I now think it refers to the day the incursions end the multiverse: doomsday in the apocalyptic sense.

In that context, it makes sense that everyone is talking about dying. They think it's the end of their reality. They're going to try their best to stop it, but given what they'll know, it's probably not going to happen.

The fifth and sixth Korean ratings submissions were reportedly re-edits

There was also talk of a fifth and a sixth trailer sent to the Korea Media Rating Board. That's the same database where people data mined the first couple of trailers. People assumed these might be more character trailers, attached to theatrical showings of Fire and Ash for its fifth and sixth box office weekends.

As it turns out, according to sources we trust, those submissions were re-edits of the original trailers so they could keep playing. They had updated CGI, slight re-edits where frames were dropped from the final cut, or in some cases a shorter version of a trailer that had already run.

Cutting shorter versions might be difficult here, since all of these trailers run about a minute, and this Wakanda trailer is only about 38 seconds long.