We call one of Marvel ’s three picture show come this yearThunderboltsa great deal , but Marvel has also gone to great lengths to on a regular basis prompt us that , well really , the pic is officially titledThunderbolts*–with an star . As with any time Marvel Studios decides to be cryptic about something , the existence of an errant objet d’art of punctuation mark has lead to everyone speculating that it simplyhasto intend something of full of life grandness . And while that still might be the shell , a new poster offers a far more elementary solution .
Every lookwe’ve had atThunderboltsso far has boast a gag insome form or anotherabout just why the team of the moving-picture show – theunlikely pairing upof Winter Soldier , Yelena Belova , Red Guardian , Taskmaster , US Agent , and Ghost – is taking on the name of the comedian squad that more often than not has a wildly different war paint of quality , in so much that the aforementioned Red Guardian just thinks it ’s a cool name for a superteam ( he ’s right ! ) . But none of what we ’ve seen has touched on why Marvel decided to add that asterisk , which has now done everything from be blazon on Kevin Feige’strademark baseball game capsto being bug as havingsome slap-up meaningto the film ’s plot .
It ’s that last aspect that has lead to rearing guess among comic Holy Scripture fans , because , of course it has . Does the asterisk mean that the Thunderbolts are n’t in reality going to be called the Thunderboltsin the movie ? Is it hiding that arealteam of Thunderbolts , more nearly aline with the rosters normally seen in the comics , will show up and usurp them ? Is it , in perhaps the wildest of possibilities , a coquette that this team is really a readiness up for aDark Avengersmovie despite that creating a similar scenario where this is a grouping of characters where only a match of them have everbeen on that teamin the comics ?
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The solvent might have just been base – and as is the casing with the Brobdingnagian bulk of supposed Marvel mystery story , the answer might be much more canonical ( and likely ) than any of the wild speculation . AsIGNpoints out , after this weekend ’s release of the latest preview for the movie , a new Japanese international poster forThunderboltsutilizes the asterisk as the actual citation brand it is : to elucidate that that the Thunderbolts are what you get when the Avengers are n’t available .
It ’s simple , but cute ! We know that Marvel decided to retroactively add the star to the film ’s title , rather than it being something established from the start , so something like this makes sense – it ’s something we see de Fontaine feeling on in the latest trailer too , when she tells a hearing that the world needs responses when the Avengers are n’t available , such as they are n’t in the current state of the MCU . It also fits the more ragtag vibe of the film that it ’s a silly joke , rather than it being an actual serious closed book . Temu Avengers has always been a much more probable deal forThunderboltsthan the Dark Avengers have , that ’s for sure .
But still , this is only a possibility – no doubt we ’ll learn the truth of the greatest mystery to have hit the Marvel Cinematic Universe since “ Was the Mandarin ever really going to fight Tony Stark in a golf cart inIron Man 3just likethat Lego set teased ? ” whenThunderbolts(sorry , Thunderbolts * ) hit theaters May 2 .
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