WATCH: Brie Larson battles aliens in first 'Captain Marvel' trailer

WASHINGTON (Circa) — Captain Marvel is not what you think she is, or so she tells us in the trailer for the first Marvel Studios film featuring a solo female hero.

Brie Larson plays Carol Danvers, a former U.S. fighter pilot drawn into an intergalactic conflict with shape-shifting aliens after obtaining superpowers in an accident, joining an elite military team called the Starforce, and apparently crashing through the roof of a Blockbuster Video.

As the Blockbuster suggests, the film is set in the 1990s, largely sidestepping the implications of the end of this year's “Avengers: Infinity War,” which wiped out half of the world and a significant chunk of the Avengers team. A post-credits scene in “Infinity War” showed Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury sending an urgent message on an old-timey pager that flashed Captain Marvel’s logo before he is vaporized, so she will presumably play a significant role in the still-untitled fourth Avengers movie coming next summer.

“Captain Marvel” also stars Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn, and Lashana Lynch, along with Clark Gregg, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, and a digitally de-aged Jackson reprising their roles from previous Marvel films.

Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, “Captain Marvel” is scheduled for release on March 8, 2019.