Captain America, Transformers And More: Your GIF Guide To The Best Super Bowl Trailer Moments

Amidst a sea of new commercials, a rocking halftime show and a football game, yesterday's Super Bowl broadcast also delivered some thrilling new TV spots for a handful of extremely anticipated movies. We were treated all the Michael Bayhem we could handle -- or all that could fit into a 34-second spot -- with the new Transformers: Age of Extinction trailer, and a look at what's ahead for Cap in the Captain America: Winter Soldier spot. There were also Muppets, cars racing and flying, webs galore and a flood of... well, flood.

In case you missed it, we thought we'd walk you through this GIF-illustrated recap of Sunday's thrilling Super Bowl trailers line-up. If you haven't actually seen one or more of the trailers mentioned, go ahead and click the link in the relevant title and you'll be whisked off to a place where that trailer will play just for you.

Transformers

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Trailer-suggested plot: Transformers and dinobots are about to tear up Earth. Mark Wahlberg's beautiful blonde daughter is in danger.

Also car smash!

car smash

Parachute-out!

parachute

And Mark Wahlberg's all like...

Wahlberg

And then Roar!!!

Roar

cars

Need for Speed

Trailer-suggested plot: Fast cars go fast. Some crash.

Hey, it's Jesse Pinkman!

Aaron Paul

Someone brings a helicopter to a car fight.

helicopter

And this guy's like: "Live forever!!!

woo

And then a car flies.

flying cars

Grease wave

heroes

Captain America: Winter Soldier

Trailer-suggested plot: Captain America is back and so is Black Widow. Explosions!

Cap's back!

Captain america suit up

But then this Winter Soldier guy throws an explosion at Nick Fury!

winter soldier

And Cap's like...

What

And this guy's like...

yeah

Falcon!

Falcon

Action mayhem ensues...

action

Shield-punch!

shield

muppets

Muppets Most Wanted

Trailer-suggested plot: The Great Muppet Caper goes to Russia and Europe.

Kermit gets arrested and Piggy screams...

scream

Tweeters tweet...

Twitter

The critics critique..

Critics

Kermit or Constantine freaks out...

freak out

And Janice thinks it's...

epic

And it is, because look, Tom Hiddleston!

Hiddleston

Then OMG something's wrong with your computer...

Pop-ups

Pop-ups attack! Constantine strikes again...

Constantine

Noah

Noah

Trailer-suggested plot: When it rains, it pours... and God smites.

Russell Crowe is all biblical and such...

crowe

Looks like rain...

rain

Time to gather all the birds and animals and what not...

birds

And by what-not, we mean snakes...

snakes

And this guy's like, yeah I'm out...

indiana

And these guys are all amped up until they're not...

men

Then it's all water and fire and light beams...

fire

water

And more water...

water

Spider lightning

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Trailer-suggested plot: Bad guys have plans for Peter Parker.

Oh no! Gwen is falling will she die?!

falling

No, she's ok. He web-caught her!

web save

So then Peter ponders.

Ponders

And Electro's all like...

electro

And then there's this guy who could be Hobgoblin?

harry

Something really hurts...

hurts

And mayhem happens with planes and explosions and electricity...

mayhem

And then Aunt May says...

chimney

Because they don't.

24 Live another day

24: Live Another Day

Trailer-suggested plot: Jack Bauer is back!

(Yeah, this is a TV series and not a movie, but it's awesome so we're putting it in!)

London is in chaos...

London

And Chunk's like...

goonies

And then Jack Bauer and Chloe come stumbling into the street....

Jack and Chloe

Jack Bauer rage!

Bauer rage

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