The Biggest Highlights from the Infinity War Footage

“Death follows him like a shadow."

By Jim Vejvoda

UPDATE, July 22: Marvel Studios ended their Comic-Con 2017 panel by showing this same footage from Avengers: The Infinity War that they debuted at D23 Expo the weekend before. Our original report follows.

Marvel Studios showed roughly five minutes of footage from Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War at D23 Expo 2017 on Saturday.

After opening with a sequence that shows the Guardians literally running into Thor amidst a scene of cosmic carnage, there was a sizzle reel of scenes showing the Avengers and Thanos in battle. Josh Brolin's Thanos, who wasn't wearing his helmet in the scenes, always seemed to have the upper hand in every scene.

Here are some quick, geeks highlights from this very quick montage of footage. BEWARE OF A SPOILER FROM SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING AHEAD!

• “Death follows him like a shadow," Mantis says of Thanos
• Peter has Spidey-Sense! He's riding in a school bus as the hairs on his arm stand up as the villains' ship descends to Earth
• Spidey has his new costume, the sleek one he rejected from Tony at the end of Homecoming.
• Gamora walking around in the Collector's Lair where the aether from Thor: The Dark World is stored
• Loki offering up the Cosmic Cube
• A massive ship crashing into a planet
• Seems like the Avengers -- including Iron Man, Star-Lord and Spidey -- are in another realm at one point.
• “This does put a smile on my face,” Thanos declares as he arrives on the planet and confronts the Avengers.
• Doctor Strange and Star-Lord all trying to fight him
• Quick shots of the Winter Soldier and Black Panther in Wakanda
• Cap shows up WITH A  BEARD
• Iron Man has a new kind of Hulkbuster-tyoe armor and possible a different mach of armor
• Thanos palming Thor's head like he going to pop it like a balloon
• Black Widow looks SUPER different, different hair. She's blonde now.
• Looks like there are several different battles on different fronts
• Thanos wielding the gauntlet, destroys a celestial body of some kind -- it was so quick but it was either a planet or a moon -- and HURLS IT AT THEM from on the ground.
• Is Tony Stark the last man standing? Is his premonition from Age of Ultron coming true? His face was ashen, he was shaken.

Bottom line is that the footage from Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War was stunning, a true culmination of this ten-year, three-phase journey of Marvel superheroes on the big screen. It's one hell of a mic drop.

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