WATCH: New 'Avengers: Doomsday' trailer teases first encounter of Wakandans and The Fantastic Four
The Wakandans of the Black Panther lore and The Fantastic Four are meeting for the first time!
The latest Avengers: Doomsday trailer released late Tuesday, Jan. 13, shows the newest Black Panther, Shuri, walking in a desert and monologuing about the events of her last film, 2022's Wakanda Forever.
"I've lost everyone that matters to me," she narrated, as the video shows Talokan warrior Namora.
"The king has his duties, to prepare our people for the afterlife," Shuri said, as the camera pans to the face of Marvel antihero Namor, sporting a scaled long collar, akin to his newer comic book costume. "I have mine," Shuri added.
Winston Duke's character, the former Jabari tribe chief who also has an updated armor look, then introduces himself: "King M'Baku of Wakanda."
"Ben. Uh, Yancy Street, between Broome and Grant," replied The Thing, the Fantastic Four character familiar for his rocky appearance.
Shuri then nods at an unknown character from a distance, before making the "Wakanda Forever" pose, as the screen fades to black.
It then reads: "The Wakandans and the Fantastic Four will return in Avengers: Doomsday" before coming into a countdown of the film's release on Dec. 18.
The trailer is significant for showing the first movie crossover between Black Panther and The Fantastic Four, a callback to the former's first appearance in the latter's comic. It appears to be the movie's first official multiversal encounter as characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe's present-day characters from Earth-616 meet superheroes from Earth-828, set in the 1960s.
On Instagram, Doomsday directors The Russo Brothers, hinted at a mystery, captioning the trailer: "What you’ve been watching for the last four weeks… are not teasers. Or trailers. They are stories. They are clues… Pay attention. #DoomsdayHasBegun."
The video follows teasers featuring Chris Evans' Steve Rogers and Chris Hemsworth's Thor, and the original X-Men movie cast played by Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and James Marsden.
Watch the full trailer here:
