So far, the previews for Thunderbolts* have largely been centered on the ensemble. The characters which were collected because the roster for the titular workforce are all off-beat antagonist-types, and the advertising and marketing has principally centered on their enjoyable dynamic as a unit. At this time, the movie debuted a model new trailer for the Marvel Studios blockbuster that lastly offers us a greater sense of the story – and whereas there’s a clear try to attempt to conceal the identification of the film’s major villain, I am fairly assured I do know who it’s.
On this new Thunderbolts* trailer, it is revealed that the workforce has been introduced collectively as a result of there’s critical menace to the world that has emerged and there’s a consensus that the Avengers will not be going to assemble to cease it. We see proof of this menace’s energy through individuals being vaporized and helicopters crashing, however each time the massive unhealthy is featured on display screen, they’re solely represented as a silhouette:
Marvel Studios has a historical past of utilizing visible results to govern scenes in advertising and marketing supplies, and I feel it is protected to say that they’re being employed right here to forestall us from recognizing who the villain is:
It is a valiant effort, however I feel it is fairly clear who it’s: Bob Reynolds a.okay.a. Sentry (performed by Lewis Pullman).
Those that have been taking note of Thunderbolts* will recall that Bob was prominently featured as a personality within the first trailer for the blockbuster that arrived in September, however that footage simply had him featured as an bizarre man with no consciousness of why he was abruptly assembly a gaggle of costumed heroes. We have not seen an excessive amount of of him within the supplies which have launched since then, and his absence could also be explainable if he’s the massive unhealthy that Marvel Studios is attempting to maintain within the shadows pre-release.
Whereas Sentry is often a pressure for good in Marvel Comics, a big a part of his historical past on the web page has him doing battle with a pressure often known as the Void – a darkish half that exists inside him and that he’s continuously attempting to maintain at bay. When the character was first launched, it was established that he went so far as to erase himself from the minds of everybody to cease the Void from destroying the world.
Directed by Jake Schreier, Thunderbolts* shall be arriving because the second Marvel Cinematic Universe movie of 2025 following Captain America: Courageous New World (which debuts in theaters all over the place this Friday). The film options what is definitely among the finest ensembles that Marvel Studios has put collectively to this point – together with Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus – and the movie shall be in theaters all over the place on Might 2.