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In the original Wonder Woman movie, viewers saw Steve Trevor (played by Chris Pine) sacrifice his life in order to save his superhero sweetheart, as played by Gal Gadot. Cut to 67 years after the events of the first movie, however, and viewers of the Wonder Woman 1984 trailer were left confused after Trevor returned, without a scratch on him and looking around the same age as he was in 1917.
How is Steve Trevor still alive? WW84 director Patty Jenkins is giving nothing away, but the promo does contain some hints about how Trevor has traveled through time. Speaking at Comic Con Experience in Brazil, Jenkins said (per Collider): "I can't tell you [how he's back], but here's what I will say: We didn't put Steve Trevor in this movie because we just wanted to put Steve Trevor in this movie."
"When we thought of the story for this film while we were making the first film, a eureka moment came and it couldn't have been told without Chris Pine playing Steve Trevor," said Jenkins.
"So I promise you it's not a gimmick, it's integral to the story, it was incredibly important that we had him and we just super enjoyed it. So it was great having Chris back but it's also important to the story that I can't wait for you to see."
A Reddit post about the Wonder Woman 1984 trailer suggested the four possible ways that Trevor could be brought back: "I wonder what they'll use for explaining his return. Resurrection? Hallucination? Clone? Time travel?"
However, the trailer seems to hint that his return has something to do with the new villain Max Lord, as portrayed by The Mandalorian himself, Pedro Pascal. In one moment in the trailer after Trevor and Diana Prince/Wonder Woman are reunited, we hear the villain say, "Now, I take what I want in return," suggesting Lord has brought Trevor back in exchange for a favor from Wonder Woman.
As Lord says this he is seen holding a strange crystal of some sort. Could this crystal have the power to resurrect people, or can it be used to power some sort of time machine, as suggested by the repeated images of watches in the trailer?
These are both possibilities, but there is a more likely theory that spells bad news for people hoping that Trevor is really back.
At CCXP, Jenkins said that Lord is "the king of infomercials," while in the Wonder Woman comic books, the character has the power to control others mentally. This suggests that in the movie he uses these powers initially to persuade people they want what he is selling, but his powers could be so extensive that he can make Diana believe she is seeing Trevor when he is, in fact, just a hallucination.
The full explanation behind Trevor's return, however, is unlikely to come before the movie is released next summer.
Wonder Woman 1984 is released in June.
