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Captain Marvel trailer is out. When Brie Larson was first announced to be playing Carol Danvers in a new Captain Marvel film, the comic-book writer who made Danvers a bonafide hit in recent years, Kelly Sue DeConnick, had a few strong hopes. Among them, a burning desire for Carol’s mohawk and helmet to play a part in the upcoming film. “I love the helmet!” she told Vanity Fair. “That is not a universal opinion. After we left the book, they got rid of the helmet. I have a lot of boring continuity arguments on the history of the helmet and a list of reasons as to why the helmet exists. I want the helmet!” Some Carol fans, sadly, would not agree—it’s a divisive look.

The footage starts with a helpful recap from Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury about the villainous nature of the Skrulls and the heroic endeavors of the Kree. We even get Annette Bening as a Kree commander of some kind to helpfully explain some of Carol’s background. (Some trades had assumed that Bening would play Carol’s mom, but it doesn’t remotely look that way. In this film, even venerated, multiple Oscar-nominated actresses get a chance to throw a punch or two.) We learn that while Carol may bleed Kree blue now, she used to have a red-blooded human life back on Earth.

While audiences got a brief glimpse of Larson rocking the helmet in the film’s first trailer, new footage which dropped Monday night has mohawk to spare. We even get to see how Carol transitions from her battle attire to her everyday look without ever worrying about helmet hair. Ben Mendelsohn is the movie’s ostensible, obvious villain—that’s him under all that pointy-eared makeup. But in a film that seems to be so focused on channeling female empowerment and rage as well as the lessons of the Larson-backed Time’s Up movement.