Warning: minor SPOILERS for Thunderbolts* are forward!
We’re every week out from Thunderbolts* shifting from the upcoming Marvel films slate to one of many choices on the 2025 films schedule. Following three months after Captain America: Courageous New World, the thirty sixth MCU flick sees antiheroes/former villains like Bucky Barnes, Yelena Belova and John Walker becoming a member of forces after they’re caught up in a scheme orchestrated by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. A brand new clip has been launched displaying the staff dealing with down the CIA director, and after watching it, I now have a special principle about what’s going to occur to Taskmaster, one of many Thunderbolts* protagonists.
Fontaine has been making strikes within the Marvel Cinematic Universe ever since Julia Louis-Dreyfus debuted because the character in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Two and a half years after she was final seen in Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly, we’re lastly going to study Val’s origins and what she’s been plotting, although the Thunderbolts are able to cease her, as you’ll see beneath:
Okay, that is fairly easy. The 5 protagonists confront Valentina at what was as soon as Avengers Tower and he or she lobs some insults at them. Hold on, 5 protagonists? Sure, Bucky, Yelena, Walker, Pink Guardian and Ghost are accounted for, however the place’s Taskmaster? Right here’s the place issues get even weirder. Try this body from the primary Thunderbolts* trailer:
Right here we see Taskmaster with the others at Valentina Allegra de Fontaine’s new digs, so then the place is she within the clip? Earlier than I share my principle, I have to level out that many, together with myself, imagine that Taskmaster goes to be killed off in Thunderbolts*. Olga Kurylenko’s Antonia Dreykov, who was launched in Black Widow, will not be getting almost the identical quantity of protection in advertising and marketing as her cohorts, main the suspicion that she’ll get the identical therapy that Slipknot did in Suicide Squad.
I nonetheless imagine that is going to occur, however after watching that Thunderbolts* clip, I don’t assume it’s going to occur in the best way I initially envisioned. Earlier than at present, I’d thought that Taskmaster would meet her demise when Lewis Pullman’s Bob is taken over by his Void character and begins wreaking havoc at what’s now generally known as Watchtower. As a substitute, I believe her dying will come earlier within the film, both shortly earlier than Void surfaces or lengthy earlier than the staff will get up in Valentina’s enterprise.
With the previous possibility, possibly there’s some form of lure set at Watchtower that kills Taskmaster, however doesn’t appear prone to me. The latter is trying way more promising. I believe the character was digitally inserted into that body from the Thunderbolts* trailer, and that we gained’t see her in any respect in that scene. As a substitute, Taskmaster will die manner earlier within the film, even perhaps proper after these starring characters meet each other. Possibly her demise will push the others to start out working collectively to determine what’s happening. Whether or not that’s correct or a special set of occasions will unfold, this clip actually doesn’t strengthens the thought that Taskmaster isn’t lengthy for this world.
All might be revealed when Thunderbolts* opens in theaters on Might 2. After that, The Unbelievable 4: First Steps will comply with because the third and closing MCU film of 2025, hitting the large display on July 25.