Missing Trailer Scene / Marvel Cinematic Universe

The MCU is absolutely not immune to having moments or scenes featured in its marketing that end up not appearing in the final cuts of their movies. However, unlike the competition, some of it is actually intentional. Ever since Avengers: Infinity War, the studio has been altering footage that ends up in their movies to remove any spoilers that may've contained as the franchise continued to become more and more popular with the general public. What you see below is a list of both traditional examples of this trope and the ones that involve the alterations that were including in each film's marketing campaign.

Be warned though, all spoilers listed here up to Captain America: Civil War will be left entirely unmarked.

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• The Incredible Hulk (2008):
  • Many of the commercials featured Emil Blonsky describing the Hulk to someone... no such scene appears in the movie. Neither does the character he's talking to.
  • The theatrical trailer for the film opens with Banner in a therapy session with Leonard Samson. This doesn't happen in the movie, but was later included as a DVD extra.
• Iron Man 2:
  • The trailer includes a scene of Pepper kissing Tony's Iron Man helmet in a cargo plane, then throwing it overboard. Tony jumps out after it, turning as he leaps and telling her "You complete me," then flies down to a convention stage and takes off the suit in front of a large crowd. In the final film, Pepper is missing, and Tony, fully dressed as Iron Man, simply runs out of the plane. Director Jon Favreau explained this was because the scene was the first in the film to feature Tony, and not seeing him outside of his Iron Man armor until he undressed in front of the crowd made a splashier entrance for the viewer. However, the change also hints that in a previous version of the film, Tony and Pepper were officially together, while in the final film their romance is unrequited until the end. The costumes of the dancers in the following scene were also changed between the trailer and the finished film.
  • In another missing scene, Tony is seemingly teaching Natalie Rushman how to use his repulsor glove.
• Iron Man 3: Lots of great Mandarin lines, such as "Today... is the first day... of what's left of your life" and "Do you want an empty life, or a meaningful death?" aren't in the movie.
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier:
  • The film ends with The Falcon asking when will he and Steve start searching for Bucky. The TV spots included an additional line where Steve looks up dramatically and responds "We just did."
  • Another TV spot has a scene where Steve jokingly tells Sam (presumably in reference to something said by Black Widow) "She can be dramatic."
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2014):
  • The trailer has scenes showing Drax being brought into prison (crossing into Trailers Always Lie, since Drax was already in prison when the other four were brought in). Also, Rhomann Day's "They call themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy" line isn't in the movie and wouldn't make sense at that point.
  • The Nova Corps officer's response - "What a bunch of A-holes" - wasn't meant to be in the movie either, but in a subversion, the line proved so popular that it was included in the final cut. From the same scene, they removed the censoring text and graphic when Quill flips off the officer although the actual scene remained. It was added to the trailer to make it safe for TV.
  • One removed scene had Dey commenting that something might not be the best idea which was not in the movie. Based on his location it was likely in response to Quill declaring he'd keep the other Guardians in line.
• Avengers: Age of Ultron:
  • Nothing Ultron says in the teaser trailer is spoken in the film itself. He does sing excerpts of "I've Got No Strings", but in a different context.
  • Even worse, a deleted scene featured in the trailer with a dark-skinned bald woman disrobing in a cave got everyone's hopes up, with speculation that she may be Princess Shuri, Mantis, Hela, etc.
• Underplayed in Doctor Strange, as several scenes where changed between the trailer and the film:
  • In the trailer, Strange walks backwards into the Mirror Dimension; in the film, he follows the Ancient One inside the proper way.
  • The line "how did you become a doctor" is changed to "and how did you learn to connect torn nerves and mend broken spines".
  • Kaecilius' line "I am death and pain" is absent from the movie altogether, as is Ancient One's "I've spent years peering through time, looking for you."
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: The scene of Drax giving Peter a hug, despite his protests, is not in the film.
• Spider-Man: Homecoming had Spider-Man telling a group of burglars in Avengers masks "You guys aren't the real Avengers. I know because Hulk gives it away." In the trailers. The strings of jokes he makes while taking out the group is also different than what ended up in the final film.
  • A shot of Spider-Man and Iron Man swinging/flying together at the end of the first trailer never shows up in the movie.
• Avengers: Infinity War:
  • The Disney D23 trailer shows alternate shots of Thor waking up onboard the Guardians' ship — with both eyes intact, which was done to hide the surprise in Thor: Ragnarok (which was released four months after this trailer was shown) when Hela slashes out one of his eyes during the climax of the film. Additionally, both the D23 and first trailer shows a shot of the entire team looking on in surprise (with Mantis waving) when Thor asks them who they are. The same shot in the finished product is an alternate take that doesn't feature Groot or Rocket, as they choose to go along with Thor on his mission to the Asgardian forge.
  • Several shots from the sequence where Proxima and Corvus attack Vision and Wanda are changed from the trailer. Whereas Steve's reveal is set against a solid brick wall in the first trailer, the film reveals him standing in front of a window at the train station. Likewise, the trailer showed footage of Wanda giving a sigh of relief upon seeing Steve, whereas she simply looks behind her in wonder in the finished product.
  • The scene where Quill tells Tony that his plan sucks has alternate dialogue from the version in the finished film, which is also missing Peter Parker's Reaction Shot as he stares in confusion during the conversation.
  • The first trailer shows footage of Natasha and Bruce standing near a detached arm from the Hulkbuster suit on Wakanda, which doesn't occur anywhere within the film itself (by the time the team arrives in Wakanda, they only have one scene together discussing what should be done with Vision alongside T'Challa and Shuri before the Black Order forces descend from the sky and everyone scrambles). The second trailer shows additional footage of Natasha, Bruce and Rhodes looking up at something (presumably the Black Order dropships hitting the Wakandan shields), which is replaced in the film with the suited War Machine looking up as the dropships hit.
  • A shot of Thanos stepping out of the portal on Titan in the first trailer has him smiling as it closes behind him. In the finished film, the act of stepping out of the portal is longer and he doesn't smile, instead looking around as the portal closes. Additionally, a scene where Thanos threatens the group on Titan with a Badass Fingersnap was shown in the second trailer but is not present in the final cut.
  • Shots of Thor activating his lightning powers in the forge while Groot and Rocket look on in surprise were cut from the finished product.
  • The footage of the team running through the Wakandan forest in the first trailer with Hulk is never shown in the film — not only was it created for marketing purposes, but the only time Hulk appears in the film is at the very beginning onboard the Asgardian ship. After Thanos beats Hulk, he refuses to emerge (despite Bruce's pleas) for the rest of the movie, apparently out of fear.
  • Thanos has an entire line from the trailer where he talks about balancing the universe (through genocide) putting a smile on his face. This line is nowhere in the film, and doesn't seem to match up with his portrayal as killing half of the universe out of a sense of grim pragmatism.
• Ant-Man and the Wasp had a trailer scene where a giant suited Scott looms over a ship and rumbles in Hulk Speak about "ME SEE PEOPLE" before admitting he's joking. The basic scene occurs in the movie, but his dialogue is more to-the-point and less scaring the passengers.
• Not counting scenes edited to remove certain characters and alter certain details, Avengers: Endgame had two scenes from the Super Bowl preview that didn't make it into the film:
  • Black Widow in a target practice range.
  • Thor (shown here Pre-Time Skip) in the sky, bathed in lightning.
  • The second Endgame trailer gave several Avengers the line "Whatever it takes," framing it as a team mantra before they start the mission. In the actual film, Tony never says it, and the context when Clint and Natasha say it is very different.
    • One change that was made to footage that eventually found its way into the movie included having Cap's shield still being in one instead of being split in half thanks to Thanos' sword blade.
  • All footage in the film featuring Bruce Banner's Professor Hulk featured in the trailers and ads were altered to completely edit him out.
• Spider-Man: Far From Home: In the trailers, there are more scenes set in New York. According to the director, these scenes were dropped to quicken the pace of the first act, and they were eventually compiled into a short called "Peter's To-Do List" that accompanied the film's home release. Scenes shown in the trailer include:
  • Peter getting his passport and visiting Delmar's bodega from Spider-Man: Homecoming to get the things he'll need for his trip.
  • Peter in his Iron Spider armor taking down several criminals (the "Manfredi mob" according to Aunt May). Once the police arrive, Spider-Man jokes around with them before informing them he's going on vacation.
  • The international trailer bowdlerizes Flash's "dickwad" insult at the end to instead have him call Peter "loser," while some variations of the first teaser has his say "buttwad." Weirdly, the original domestic version of the trailer leaves the line intact.
• Spider-Man: No Way Home:
  • Similar to what happened with Flash's line as mentioned above, Doctor Strange's line to Peter, Ned, and MJ to "Scooby-Doo this shit" was altered to instead be "Scooby-Doo this crap."
    • Similarly, an official clip of the film's opening scene has J. Jonah Jameson's first line as "That's right, folks! Spider-Man is in fact Peter Parker!"^note This line is also heard in the teaser trailer. However, in the actual movie, he ends up saying this instead:
  J. Jonah Jameson: That’s right, folks! Peter Parker, a 17-year-old high school delinquent harboring a homicidal hunger, is in fact the vile vigilante villain Spider-Man!
  • The shots of both Spider-Man landing on the Statue of Liberty with a heroic pose and jumping towards Electro, Sandman, and the Lizard all completely out Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's respective Peter Parker variants despite the two being heavily rumored to star in the film. Ironically, an international trailer featuring the latter shot inadvertently left in place the Lizard being kicked in the face by Maguire and went on to be mocked by the internet.