Secrets and techniques are ready on the market, at midnight of the 2025 film schedule. Tons of latest movies are heading our manner, with their very own gigantic reveals that studios are taking nice lengths to cover till these very initiatives debut at a theater close to us. However in a latest interview pertaining to Thunderbolts*’ huge Implausible 4 tease, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has stated one thing so mindboggling it’s raised extra questions than solutions.
Empire Journal was readily available for final 12 months’s Implausible 4 set go to, and in its July 2025 situation, the publication shared what they’d realized throughout that walkthrough. That is the place these enigmatic statements about Thunderbolts*’ post-credits tag originated. You could need to have a pillow readily available for screaming, as right here’s what Mr. Feige needed to say:
Effectively, the identify of their ship is the Excelsior, and there’s a Implausible 4 ship coming into the MCU within the tag. However I’m undecided they’re the identical ship.
I’m not gonna lie, that’s a bit irritating; and that’s coming from somebody who already has sufficient frustrations with Thunderbolts*. Simply after I was beginning to neglect that Bucky and Sam Wilson at the moment are having a combat over the Avengers branding, this needed to occur.
Okay, high-quality, Kevin Feige, I’ll play your sport. Let’s assume this isn’t one huge troll, like *The New Avengers title reveal. If that’s the case, let’s begin asking some questions.
If That’s Not The Implausible 4’s Ship, Then Whose Is It?
So if that tease on the finish of Thunderbolts* isn’t meant to straight tie the First Household of Superheroes in from their universe in The Implausible 4: First Steps, who the hell is on that ship?
I’m presuming that the one individuals who know that moreover Kevin Feige himself are the artistic workforce on Avengers: Doomsday, contemplating The Russo Brothers directed this cryptic scene. That reality itself leads me to 2 huge guesses, and neither are excellent news.
Did We Simply See Physician Doom Heading To Earth-616?
My first principle is that this Reed Richards-designed spacecraft is carrying none apart from Robert Downey Jr.’s Physician Doom. Whether or not he’s trying to conquer our universe or purposefully exiled into it, this harbinger of MCU catastrophe might be zooming in direction of Earth-616.
And that, my mates, is the way you get Doomsday.
Might This Ship Be A Lifeboat For Franklin Richards?
If we’re going to double down on unintended parallels to the Superman mythos, what if this ship is carrying younger Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue Storm? With rumors that The Implausible 4: First Steps will see the workforce’s world devoured by Galactus, in addition to a number of the supposedly leaked artwork from Doomsday seeing Vanessa Kirby’s MCU hero unwillingly sitting along side a triumphant Physician Doom, this might have been the one play to avoid wasting their youngster.
Is Kevin Feige Simply Trolling Us?
Look, I hate to be that man, however Kevin Feige loves to muddy the waters of hypothesis as a lot as he fancies baseball caps. Even Gizmodo’s reporting on this Thunderbolts* post-credits kerfluffle is aware of it. So with that in thoughts, may the MCU’s head honcho be making an attempt to throw us off the scent of one thing so apparent? Once more, this is coming after *The New Avengers thoughts sport that proved “the asterisk” actually wasn’t the world’s largest deal.
I wouldn’t be shocked if any of those eventualities had been true, as a result of all issues are attainable within the Multiverse. So I assume I’ll simply sit right here patiently and look ahead to The Implausible 4: First Steps to reach on July twenty fifth, as that may greater than seemingly have the solutions we’re searching for. At the least there’s a fairly candy H.E.R.B.I.E. Concession Vessel that’ll assist tide us throughout within the meantime.