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- Meanwhile, Monica crashes onto a random moon occupied with Kree soldiers, complete with a Bomb Whistle for comedic effect. Said Kree soldiers immediately start attacking her, causing Monica to have an Oh, Crap! moment.
- The music for the first trailer is "Intergalactic" by Beastie Boys, which normally would be a typical case of Awesome Music. The funny part comes from when the Marvel Studios Logo pops up, emphasizing the lyrics "Well, now, don't you tell me to smile!", as a clear tongue-in-cheek jab towards the many people who criticized Carol for not smiling enough in the previous movie.
- When Carol takes a look at Kamala's room, she is justifiably freaked out at how Kamala is really a fan of hers. In particular, she has a drawing of Carol hugging Kamala with a heart and a sign that reads "BFF 4 EVA".Carol: What the...?
- The official trailer has a scene of Nick Fury affectionately stroking Goose's back before it cuts to the scene of Kamala freaking out over seeing Goose devouring the guards. And then it adds a scene of Monica looking completely shell-shocked at what she's witnessed before walking off in horror.
- Fury still being affectionate with Goose makes his boast to Steve that he lost an eye the last time he trusted someone even funnier. He may be the most paranoid man in the world, but that doesn't mean he won't keep his "enemies" close!
- Monica and Carol staring in horror at something offscreen. Whatever it is makes Monica go Screw This, I'm Outta Here while Carol is perfectly understanding.Monica: I...I can't. Can you...
Carol: I got it. - Past trailers have all shown Monica making the biggest jump into superheroism compared to Carol (active since the '90s) and Kamala (fully into it by the end of her series). Fury demands something a bit more literal.
- In "Players"
, Fury saying "Monica, what the hell are you doing" while Monica dances around with a pair of drinks. - Kamala finding out that Captain Marvel was in her house.
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- Kamala's first reaction upon switching places with Rambeau (and getting blasted all the way back to the S.A.B.E.R. space station, thankfully appearing inside the spacesuit Monica was wearing at the time) is to have a Freak Out and scream as she's in outer space. But when she sees Fury, she begins geeking out asking if this is an Avengers test.
- Nick's expression in response to this is, naturally, half "WTF is going on right now?" and half "Who the hell is that kid?". Since he's considered by many people to be a dreaded super-spy whose presence can intimidate grown men, seeing a young girl outright fangirl over him is probably the most unexpected reaction he's ever gotten.
- Fury is tired of people touching things against common sense. This is the second time and Monica should know better. So should Carol, for that matter.Fury: OK, new rule: No more touching shit! Especially glowing, mysterious shit.
- The Khan family's attempts at fighting the Kree soldiers that Goose regurgitated into their home. Muneeba throws a roll of paper towels at them while Yusuf and Aamir pin them down with a mop and a lamp.
- When the soldiers are finally subdued, they're tied up with, among other things, a garden hose.
- After the fight, Monica and Fury show up at the house, clearly tired and done with this shit already.Monica: Hello. Again.
Kamala: [running to the door] Did I get in!? - Kamala tries to demonstrate her powers to Monica and Fury, only to end up swapping with Carol again. She ends up in the corridor of a ship, and as Kree soldiers rush to attack her, she pauses to gawk at a cat, of all things, that shows up at her side. Only that's not a cat, it's Goose, who promptly devours the guards. Kamala has exactly the reaction you'd expect.
- There's something genuinely hilarious about Kamala trying to explain to her family that the cat just ate two men, and has tentacles, only for her mother to question her in the most mom way possible.
- Meanwhile, back in Jersey, Carol is angrily venting before realizing she's not alone and awkwardly greeting everyone.
- Carol flies up into the atmosphere... and swaps with Kamala several hundred feet up. Meaning now a girl who cannot fly is falling through the air. Fury nonchalantly tells Monica that she needs to figure out how to fly real quick, or "Kamala won't finish high school."
- The first time Monica tries to save Kamala, she doesn't realize she's become incorporeal and passes right through her. The second time they just sort of bounce off each other, and even the third attempt only 'works' so long as they're holding hands, with Monica only then understanding she can't fly and remain solid. Kamala gets the idea to save them both from falling by throwing up a shield. Just before the shield slams into the ground, they both swap with Carol again, who faceplants in the Khans' yard a few feet from impact. Fury goes from worrying about Kamala to being utterly unconcerned in a split second.Fury: Ah, it's cool. It's Carol.
- When all three of them are finally together, they fight off a Kree party, then Monica and Carol fly off to the planet. Leaving Kamala on the Kree ship while the Kree noncombatants stare at her.Kamala: I... can't fly. So... can you guys lend me a spaceship, or—
Carol: [flying back in] Kamala, hi! Don't talk to them. [picks Kamala up and flies her out] - Kamala tries to contact her parents from space, only to find out that Fury is personally escorting them to the SWORD station, in a narrow space capsule the size of a minivan, while Yusuf is not taking well to it and saying that they are in Hell (Fury: "Does that make me the devil?"), Aamir is Facetiming with his wife and trying to film stuff, and Muneeba is proving to be insufferable if yelling at Kamala over the interstellar airwaves is any indication. The last time we see Fury, he's just quietly mouthing "HELP ME" into the camera.
- Muneeba being insufferable gets a special mention, as she managed to do in a single day what not even Tony Stark did in years: driving Nick Friggin' Fury over the edge. Considering how insufferable Tony was at his worst, that's quite the achievement.
- When Carol asks Monica about how she got powers, Monica's answer is basically a long version of A Wizard Did It. Especially because a witch did do it.
- While on the S.A.B.E.R. station, Yusuf tries to convince a technician to plan for his retirement. When the thirtysomething-looking man seems unconvinced that he should have to plan it while he's still young, Yusuf asks his age. The man (revealed to be Asgardian in the next scene) then reveals that he's 306 years old. Aamir promptly cracks that he's the same age as Yusuf.
- Fury and Goose are cool now, but the sight of Goose licking herself with that tentacle tongue proves to be the last straw.
- The Running Gag of Kamala trying to give Monica a superhero moniker. Eventually, Carol joins in as well.Carol: Vision! Ah, wait, no.
- Kamala's most recurring suggestion for Monica's name is "Professor Marvel." She also dubs the team "the Marvels," despite Monica and Carol protesting.
- The entire Aladna sequence.
- As they're trying to determine where the Kree would go next, Carol immediately realizes it's Aladna, a water planet. Kamala and Monica both notice that she's being rather weird about it, evading all their questions and somehow knowing some very specific trivia about it.
- When they land, Carol informs them that she's "sort of famous" here.Kamala: You're famous everywhere.
- Carol explains that Aladna has a very specific way of doing things, and it's best to just follow their lead. Cue a Bollywood-style scene, as most people on Aladna simply can't communicate without singing. When they first arrive on the planet and join the crowd of singing locals, Monica looks around in confusion, while Kamala just rolls with it and starts happily swaying along to the beat. Monica only loosens up and starts dancing along after getting her hands on some drinks.Kamala: Why aren't you guys dancing?
Carol: (walking normally) I am dancing. - After they get near the top, Monica is puffed out and disbelieving that the dancing people are still going strong.Monica: Whoah! Give me some of what they're having!
- Then it turns out that Carol is the princess of the planet. She insists it's just a legal technicality, something she did to help her friend (the prince) lead in a matriarchal society, but yeah, she's an alien space princess. Monica and Kamala waste no time in trolling her for that.Carol: If you tell anyone...
Monica: What? That you're a pretty pretty princess? - When they reach the party, they are introduced as "the Marvels."Monica: How did that spread so fast?
- Monica and Kamala are shocked that the prince can speak normally.Carol: He's bilingual.
- Monica going WTF when Carol somehow instantly changes her clothes into a Disney Princess style dress with her superhero costume theme. She also looks at her drink briefly, as if wondering if she's drunk and hallucinating. Carol then starts to dance with the prince, while singing along with him in something straight out of every movie in the Disney animated canon to explain the situation.Monica: How many chapters can you make out of this for your Captain Marvel fanfiction?
Kamala: [grinning from ear to ear] A lot. - The realisation that tough as nails take-no-shit Carol Danvers is technically an all-singing, all-dancing Disney Princess.
- If you watch carefully, Monica goes from holding two full drinks to two empty ones between cuts. Girl is enjoying herself.
- The WTF look that Monica gives Kamala when she says "O captain, my captain" upon seeing Carol flying in.
- When Carol tries to play the "I used to change your diapers" card on Monica, Monica retorts that her mother told her Carol changed one diaper, then immediately threw up everywhere afterwards.
- When Fury picks up one of Goose's flerkittens, who starts flailing and whipping tentacles in his face:Fury: Oh no, not my good eye!
- When the Marvels arrive back at SABER, Kamala is immediately engulfed by her parents, while Carol and Monica are left staring at the Flerkittens and general chaos. Monica promptly has a No. Just... No reaction and asks if Carol can handle it.
- How do Fury, The Marvels, and Kamala's family evacuate 300 something scientists from a crumbling space station when there are only 10 escape pods? By having all of the Flerken kittens eat them!note It's a moment as ludicrously absurd as it is hilarious and even kinda heartwarming. And as the icing on top of the cake, the song playing in the background? The Eleven O'Clock Number of Cats, "Memory" as covered by Barbra Streisand.
- Carol's summation of the plan.Carol: So we're literally herding cats?
- When Fury tacitly confirms this, she grins and gleefully sets to.
- Despite this being the only means of escaping the station, all of the scientists are so horrified that they run for their lives... while the PA system repeats the phrase:
- One of the scientists managed to avoid being eaten by hiding in a corner... Just to see Goose and one of her kittens watching her from her other side. The scene is even funnier with the fact that Goose seems to have been waiting until the scientist realized they're there to make her kitten eat her. Had Goose the ability to talk, you can even expect her to scream "Surprise!" to the poor scientist. Heck, Goose even has the biggest smug expression a cat can make. In general, the scene plays several classic horror movie tropes just for laughs.
- Kamala apologizes after she traps a scientist behind a Hard Light wall. He then starts frantically banging on the wall before a flerken slurps him up from behind.
- That big Asgardian guy braces himself to be swallowed by pinching his nose, like he's about to jump into a lake. It's possible he's seen worse.
- Carol's summation of the plan.
- Fury finds himself in a genuine bind when his space capsule, with the Khan family and some Flerken kittens on board, get caught in a gravity well and is sent hurtling towards Earth, instead of properly descending slowly.Muneeba: Mr Fury, you are flying in the wrong direction!
Fury: Mrs Khan, I know!
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Fury: [turns to Aamir] Are you praying right now?
[Aamir falls silent]
Fury: Don't stop, we need all the help we can get!
[Aamir hurriedly starts praying again]- Fury also starts throwing in a few fervent Amens for good measure.
- Even better, Fury doesn't seems to doubt Allah's existence. Especially funnier if we consider that he personally met two Norse Gods. That might be why he's so open-minded.
- In the Khan family's new home (the Rambeaus' Louisiana house), Muneeba tells Aamir that the house is nice enough to start a family. Aamir quickly tries to shut her down with a TV's remote control.
- Kamala tries to look cool in order to recruit Kate to the Young Avengers. Then when Kate informs Kamala she's actually 23 years old, Kamala panics at the realization that Kate is an adult and not a fellow teenager, and switches to being polite and docile.
- Kamala recreates Nick Fury's dialogue and mannerisms from the iconic stinger from the first Iron Man film, all the way down to breaking into Kate's apartment and waiting for her in the darkness. In-universe, the only people who were present for that were the now deceased Tony Stark and Nick Fury himself, implying that not only did Kamala have the temerity to ask Nick Fury, the spymaster of the MCU, exactly how he recruited the initial Avengers roster, but Fury actually played along and told her.
- There is also the Running Gag of people calling Kate a kid despite Kate reminding them that she is in her early twenties.
