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First Thunderbolts Trailer Brings Together Marvel's Worst Superheroes

We still don't know what the asterisk is for, but we're here for this movie.

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Over Comic-Con weekend, you might have seen some of the leaked Thunderbolts footage after the Marvel Studios panel. If not, good news, as Marvel has officially dropped the trailer with some of the MCU's former bad guys coming together to take on even worse guys.

The trailer starts with Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova reuniting with her surrogate father, Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour). Yelena confesses that she feels an emptiness and that "there is something wrong with me." Check out the trailer below.

There's also John Walker/US Agent (Wyatt Russell) feeling like he's let his country down with that whole murdering someone with Captain America's shield thing. There's also Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) spying on the Countess Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Val is seemingly the one pulling the strings and bringing the team together, which we saw the foundation of in Disney+'s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.

Ant-Man and the Wasp's Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) also joins the team, but the trailer also introduces another major player to the MCU: the Sentry (seen in a new poster with six fingers). Originally Steven Yeun was scheduled to play the powerhouse, but Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick) is shown in the trailer as only "Bob."

Marvel's Thunderbolts arrives in theaters on May 2, 2025.

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They love dem' "could have easily been done practical but we are using" CGI backgrounds.

It's like watching a Playstation cutscene where someone forgot to turn the lights on.

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I didn't know the black widow women were given the super soldier serum.

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Speak for yourself, Gamespot. Some of the shows these guys did were better than the recent movies and I'm much more interested in them than I am another round of Spider Man or Thor. I'm genuinely interested in this and the only other current Marvel project I can think of that interests me is maybe Blade and possibly the Fantastic Four.

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@loveblanket said:

Speak for yourself, Gamespot. Some of the shows these guys did were better than the recent movies and I'm much more interested in them than I am another round of Spider Man or Thor. I'm genuinely interested in this and the only other current Marvel project I can think of that interests me is maybe Blade and possibly the Fantastic Four.

ahhhhh another "tuff" guy here, going against popular demand. Would rather watch what is undoubtedly going to be shit, just so they don't fit in to the same criteria of "nerd" that everyone else is associated with. :D

Putting any of the "Spider-Man or Thor" movies (okay maybe some Thor movies) but, to put Spider-man anywhere near the hot garbage they've been making in previous years, is a insult. lol

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Filing this one under "Might be crazy enough to work." Hopefully, it does...MCU could use a pick me up.

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@esqueejy: Yeah, I'm interested. A lot of these supporting characters had better arcs than the heroes of their respective films and shows. If the cast has some chemistry together it could be pretty good.

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@judaspete: Plus, I think part of the problem we're having throughout entertainment right now, from movies to TV to gaming, etc., is broken fan/audience expectations. More obscure, less frequently used characters and stories could help with that because it tempers expectations...whereas with all the big, famous, central characters, plot lines and stories, people expect them to match the awe and wonder and excitement of when they first saw them, when their childhood became defined by them, when their love and addiction to the material set in etc.

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