(Spoilers ahead for the ending of “Captain Marvel”)
By placing it on the calendar less than two months ahead of “Avengers: Endgame,” Marvel Studios was seemingly setting up the “Captain Marvel” movie to have some kind of significance in the greater story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Which, then inspired a lot of questions coming into the movie about how exactly it would contribute beyond just introducing Carol Danvers as a character.
But there are two questions that are most immediately pressing. Where the hell has she been? And if Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) knew her back in the day and is able to call her for help, then why hasn’t he brought her in already for one of the other world-shattering calamities our heroes have had to stop?
And yet after watching “Captain Marvel” we still don’t know the answers to those questions — they’ll have to come in “Avengers: Endgame” in April if they do at all.