Thunderbolts* is well one of the anticipated Marvel motion pictures of 2025, a crossover that includes a bigger group of heroes than your typical MCU journey. It’s the closest we get to seeing an Avengers film that’s not about Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
The Thunderbolts crew options former villains and antiheroes who must crew up. They first do it to outlive, as some Marvel followers have already realized from the leaked Thunderbolts trailer. Then they’ll must defend themselves, and possibly the world, in opposition to a higher menace. The identical trailer tells us who the movie’s actual villain is and what the threats are.
However ever since Marvel introduced Thunderbolts a couple of years in the past, I questioned whether or not the studio revealed the complete roster or whether or not we’ll get a couple of surprises alongside the best way. I had excessive hopes for a particular character to be a part of the band ultimately.
An insider now says that the beloved Marvel character won’t be a part of the Thunderbolts crew. You would possibly simply guess who it’s, however I gained’t affirm your suspicions till I let you know that Thunderbolts spoilers would possibly comply with beneath.
A couple of days in the past, Marvel launched after which pulled the clip it had ready for its eighty fifth anniversary. However the net was instantly stuffed with scenes and screenshots from it. The video contained photographs from a number of the key MCU motion pictures of the Infinity Saga but additionally scenes from upcoming Multiverse Saga sights.
On the time, I pointed your consideration to scenes that gave us a have a look at a partial Thunderbolts team in an elevator that matched a scene from the leaked trailer. Additionally, the anniversary clip featured Purple Hulk (Harrison Ford). We’ll see the latter in Captain America: Courageous New World in February, as he takes on Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie).
Marvel has rereleased the clip, which you’ll see on the finish of this put up. It appears to comprise extra footage than the model I first noticed, however the Thunderbolts and Courageous New World scenes are nonetheless in it.
So, what’s the connection between Marvel’s video and the shock Thunderbolts crew member? Effectively, MCU Insider Daniel Richtman mentioned on X that Purple Hulk is “100%†not in Thunderbolts.
Richtman reacted to a Variety story that mentioned initially that Harrison Ford would play Purple Hulk in Thunderbolts. Selection has corrected its story about Marvel’s anniversary clip, suggesting Richtman’s info may be appropriate.
Thunderbolts hits theaters in early Could, due to this fact, after Captain America 4. That’s not sufficient to substantiate the chronology of MCU occasions. The motion in Thunderbolts might all the time occur earlier than Courageous New World or concurrently.
What I’m getting at is that Purple Hulk might all the time be a shock addition to the crew. In any case, the crew has the identical identify as Thaddeus Ross’s nickname, Thunderbolt.
I additionally thought that Val (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) may be working for President Ross in Thunderbolts, however that may not essentially be true. She might need entered the personal sector relatively than staying with the CIA. That’s hypothesis based mostly on a recent Thunderbolts plot leak.
Whether or not that leak is correct or not, let’s do not forget that Val was working for the US authorities whereas she was recruiting the likes of Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) and US Agent (Wyatt Russell). She was the pinnacle of the CIA in Black Panther: Wakanda Without end.
Then once more, the Thunderbolts crew might need nothing to do with President Ross or Purple Hulk. The identical plot leak says the crew’s identify is predicated on Yelena’s soccer crew from when she was a child.
Additionally, keep in mind there’s an asterisk within the Thunderbolts title, which could counsel that’s not the crew’s precise identify. One idea says we’re the MCU’s Dark Avengers right here, which might be the movie’s actual shock.
