Just one of the pictures I took from 3rd row...
San Diego Comic-Con 2014 is over and I've read many descriptions of the footage shown to us 6.500 cheering Marvel fans in Hall H on Saturday, but there's always a few details missing. Here's a few tidbits I remember from the material that I couldn't find in any report here so far:
- In the Hammer lifting scene that was shown first, all the male Avengers seemed pretty drunk while Black Widow, made up in a cocktail dress and strong make-up, is the only one seemingly sober.
- One of the first sentences of this scene was Hawkeye talking about his circus past (claiming that only Thor being able to lift Mjoelnir is just a circus trick), leading to the hopeful conclusion we'll get a much more comic-like Clint Barton this time.
- Thor looks legitimately shocked when Steve almost lifts the hammer. Probably already thinking about how to introduce the new leader of Asgard to Odin (Tony asked if he could lead Asgard if he could lift Mjoelnir and Thor said yes).
- In a scene in the woods, Black Widow and the Hulk are near to touching hands, the way Betty and the Hulk did in The Incredible Hulk.
- A lot more Hawkeye presence in the footage than we're used to it after The Avengers. When Ultron enters the party scene, we see Hawkeye getting sober and alert and next to Tony at once. Also included: tidbits of his sequence with the twins from the Italy shoot, where he leads a bunch of civilians in a quinjet, some arrow shooting and the running scene from the explosion from the promotional pictures.
- Black Widow jumping out of the quinjet with her bike
- Not only Maria Hill chilled with the Avengers at the party scene, Claudia Kim's character was also there, indicating a quite interesting possible closeness to Tony.
- Unlike most descriptions say, in the famous depressing apocalyptic shot in the end of the footage, not all the Avengers are lying dead on the floor. We see at least Hawkeye kneeling very awake next to Iron Man.
All in all, Marvel did a solid presentation that evening, very satisfying on the
Avengers: Age Of Ultron front but - considering the female majority of the audience, probably wisely - holding back any Phase 3-revelations which did leave a little of a stale taste. Here's hoping the next months will be filled with more awesomeness, especially on the female lead front. When you have mainly woman camping for the best seats since Friday morning for the panel Saturday night, one should think, that gets Feige & Co thinking.