Marvel Studios might not have a panel at San Diego Comic-Con this year, but it did release a shiny full trailer for The Marvels, part of Phase Five of the MCU, and directed by Nia DaCosta (Candyman).

As previously reported, Brie Larson and Iman Vellani reprise their respective roles as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel and Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel for the film, along with Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, daughter of Carol/Captain Marvel’s BFF Maria. Monica grew up to become a SWORD agent, but thanks to the events of WandaVision, she can also absorb and manipulate energy as Spectrum. As for Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, she’s a teenage Pakistani American who lives in Jersey City. She’s a major comic books fan, worships Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, and fantasized about becoming a superhero someday. Her powers stem from the Terrigen Mists, released globally in a crossover storyline, the “Inhumanity.” The mists activated dormant Inhuman cells in several people, Kamala included.

Naturally, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) will be on hand to lend some assistance, along with fan-favorite Goose the cat-shaped Flerken (played by two cats, Nemo and Tango). Saagar Shaikh, Zenobia Shroff, and Mohan Kapur will reprise their Ms. Marvel roles as Kamala’s older brother Aamir, mom Muneeba, and dad Yusuf, respectively. Lashana Lynch will be back as Maria Rambeau (one assumes in a flashback), and Randall Park returns as Jimmy Woo. There’s also a new villain called Dar-Benn, played by Zawe Ashton—the aforementioned Kree revolutionary, who wields an Accuser’s hammer. Park Seo-joon (Parasite) has also been cast as a yet-unnamed ally of Carol, and Colin Stoneley plays a Kree scientist named Papp-Tonn.

Per the official premise:

Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan, Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now SABER astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team-up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as “The Marvels.”

The studio released a teaser in April, building off Ms. Marvel‘s end credits scene, where Captain Marvel suddenly appears in Kamala Khan’s bedroom while Kamala finds herself on a spaceship with Goose (we learned that this scene leads directly into the start of The Marvels).

The trailer opens with Fury exchanging wry greetings with Carol, who is somewhere in deep space. (He calls her the “prodigal child of the Milky Way,” while she terms him her “favorite one-eyed man of intrigue.”) Cut to Carol/Captain Marvel’s fateful encounter with Dar-Benn, who refers to Carol as the “annihilator” and accuses her of taking everything from Dar-Benn. Dar-Benn would like to return the favor in the form of a magical bracelet similar to the one that gave Kamala her Ms. Marvel powers. The Ms. Marvel storyline held that the bracelet was a Djinn artifact, though one popular fan theory is that they are actually Kree artifacts known as “Nega-Bands” that confer powers on their wearers.

Whatever that bracelet is, that’s what entangles the Marvel-ous trio’s various light-based powers (Carol can absorb light, Monica can see and manipulate light across the spectrum, and Kamala can turn light into physical matter). Now, whenever they try to use their powers, they switch places across the universe, and wacky hijinks ensue. Dar-Benn takes advantage of the chaos to target “every planet we call home,” per Carol. Fortunately, Captain Marvel has a couple of super-friends to help her beat back the threat—not to mention Goose and a group of adorable kittens that we would not be surprised to learn are actually Flerkens,

The Marvels is slated to hit theaters on November 10, 2023.

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