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Spending his adolescence among normal crowds on Earth, it’s clear He-Man is not over his stolen childhood and the beauty his younger eyes witnessed. I find this the most relatable part of the trailer, in the way most of our childhood continuously affects us the rest of our lives.

Avengers: Doomsday’s latest teaser features a meeting between The Wakandans and The Fantastic Four’s Ben Grimm, aka The Thing. The Thing’s shot features considerable negative space to his left and the camera’s right. Amid some viewers arguing that positioning features a blur, rumors and theories have sparked about a digitally removed figure next to Thing. The most popular candidate is the movie’s villain, Victor Von Doom.

“I’ve lost everyone that matters to me”, exclaims the still grieving Shuri after the events of Wakanda Forever. Initially, this was true. The tragedy that struck in the sequel to 2018’s revolutionary movie had M’Baku telling Shuri, “The world has taken away too much for you to still be considered a child.”

In spite of her words, her actions throughout the story show something different. She expresses pain for Colonel Quaritch’s human son Spider when Jake attempts to kill him, despite initially wanting him out the house. She loves and guides her half-human children in their lives as if they were full Na’vi. She treasures her human husband Jake, and stakes her life to save him, waging a solo war on the human military base. Neytiri’s arc with race...