Marvel: Everything it unleashed at Comic-Con

The Marvel panel at Comic-Con is traditionally one of the biggest events of the convention and this year was no exception.

Despite a lot of news coming out of Disney’s D23 last week, the studio still saved some of the big guns for San Diego.

Fans were sent into meltdown as they were bombarded with announcements and sneak peeks during the 90-minute session, as stars across the Marvel universe attended to support their films.

Here’s everything that was revealed.

• The former Catwoman will join Paul Rudd and play Janet Van Dyne – the original Wasp and first wife of original Ant-Man Dr Henry Pym – played by Michael Douglas – and mother to Hope Pym, the new Wasp, played by Evangeline Lily. Marvel boss Kevin Feige said: “She was our dream choice.”
• Laurence Fishburne also joins the cast as scientist Bill Foster, who worked alongside Pym and became superhero Giant-Man.
• Relatively obscure Marvel villain The Ghost will also appear.
• • Brie Larson’s film – the first Marvel movie to be focused around a female lead – will be set before Iron Man in the Marvel timeline.
  • Samuel L Jackson will reprise his role as Nick Fury and will have two eyes as it takes place before he loses one and adopts his famous eye patch.
  • The villains in the film will be The Skrull – green alien shape-shifters.
  • • Hulk is going to talk in actual sentences! Mark Ruffalo explained Bruce Banner has been the Hulk for two years after the green giant refuses to turn back.
    • Cate Blanchett, who plays villain Hela, revealed she had been “happily dragged” into the Marvel universe “because of my kids”.
    • Jeff Goldblum confirmed his character, the Grandmaster, is the brother of Benicio del Toro’s Marvel universe character universe The Collector, as seen in Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor: The Dark World.
    • A new trailer was unveiled giving a closer look at Hela, the first look at Bruce Banner, lots of explosions and featuring some of the more comedy moments from the film.