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There are family Archivesmany theories as to how earth’s mightiest heroes will deal with the shocking aftermath of Avengers: Infinity War, but the one short trailer and handful of ambiguous posters haven’t given Marvel superfans much to confirm one way or the other. Now that Spider-Man: Far From Homehas a teaser trailer, however, there’s more evidence that one theory might be more correct than the rest.

To recap, Spider-Man: Far From Hometakes place after the events of the yet-unreleased Avengers: Endgameand is in itself a spoiler (Sony producer Amy Pascal said that the plot of Far From Homebegins "minutes after Avengers 4 wraps as a story"). Spider-Man, who was turned into dust at the end of Infinity War, is clearly alive and well at some point down the line, as is Nick Fury and Maria Hill, who both appear in the Spider-Man trailer despite falling victim to Thanos’ Snapture.

What’s odd about the Far From Hometrailer is how normal everyone seems. Aunt May is flirting with Happy Hogan, Peter’s classmates are as teen-ish as ever, and countries across the world are all in perfect functioning order. Most tellingly, Peter makes a decision to leave his spidey suit at home while he travels with his school to Europe, claiming that he doesn’t anticipate anyone needing Spider-Man.

Um, does anyof this seem like it takes place in a world that very recently experienced the human apocalypse? Sure, the humans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe do seem to be a bit more resilient to weird stuff than us regular folk do (they really took the whole “aliens are real and they have guns/are hot” news in stride), but one would expect a little more reticence on behalf of the entire planet to go on with business as usual post-Thanos.

This ties into one of the two primary schools of thought regarding how the Avengers deal with Thanos in Endgame. The first school says that the Avengers will find a way to reverse the snap but stay in their current timeline, bringing everyone who was dusted back from wherever they went and keep trucking along with their lives. The other school says that the Avengers will negate the snap, fiddling with time and space to ensure that the snap never happened in the first place.

The world’s rapid return to normalcy in Far From Homeseems to indicate that Thanos’s snap was negated and not reversed. Ordinary people don’t seem to be laboring under the trauma that the Snapture would cause — what parent would let their child go abroad for weeks when they were very recently made aware of the fact that life can end with the snap of two big, purple fingers?

Of course there’s nothing in the trailer that indicates how the Avengers stop the Snap from happening, but many theories revolve around using Ant Man’s van-sized Quantum Zone gateway to travel around in time to either collect/destroy the Infinity Stones or get a second chance at stopping Thanos.

There’s still plenty of time to go before Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgameanswer everyone’s questions, but at least the Spider-Man trailer exists to remind us that when the Avengers are on the job, everything (usually) turns out OK in the end.