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Left: The Captain Marvel logo on the pager screen seen in the Avengers: Infinity War movie, set in 2018. Right: This is likely the same pager when it was much newer and unmodified, seen in the trailer to the 2019 Captain Marvel movie, which is set in the 1990s.
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Will Captain Marvel one day reply to Nick Fury's paging with a loud "siang kah pager?" (It means "who paged me?" in Hokkien.) He beeped her in a 2018 Avengers: Infinity War post-credits scene.
Okay, the Hokkien part is not likely to happen.
