‘Captain Marvel’ trailer plays up 90s nostalgia

Carol Danvers has crashlanded — on a Blockbuster Video store — in the first trailer for Marvel’s Captain Marvel.

Touted by the comics-based studio as “one of the universe’s most powerful heroes,” Brie Larson’s embodiment of the electrifying heroine came to life on Tuesday, arriving on Earth, where she tries to make sense of her past.

“I keep having these memories,” Larson’s Carol says. “I see flashes. I think I have a life here. But I can’t tell if it’s real.”

We can tell you what’s real: In the trailer, Carol totally punches an old lady — or what appears to be one — on the subway.

As if Blockbuster weren’t enough of an indication, the film is set in the 1990s — a previously unexplored time period in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and long before Thanos wiped out half of it with a snap in Avengers: Infinity War.

There’s still plenty of tech to geek out over — including a beeper! — otherworldly environs, space invasions, car chases, a young Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) and a two-eyed Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). — Los Angeles Times