Put Down the SWORD and the SHIELD, and Raise a SABER
The trailer begins in Earth’s orbit, and reveals another weapon-based acronym-named mystery organization has joined the MCU: SABER, which is not an entity in the comics. We’re not given a meaning for the acronym just yet, but SABER appears to be a merging of the ashes of SHIELD, which has been long gone as a major entity in the MCU since the events of The Winter Soldier, and SWORD, which was introduced as its replacement in WandaVision. The appearance of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) working together suggests that the events of WandaVision and what’s to come in Secret Invasion have led to another new organization being created out of both halves of the MCU’s former super-investigative groups.
