Marvel Releases New Avengers Teaser
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WARNING! This article contains spoilers for "Thunderbolts*".
If you've seen "Thunderbolts*" then you know the post-credits scenes finally reveal the meaning behind the mysterious "*" in the title. You learn that, rather than the Thunderbolts, the team you've been cheering on the entire time is in fact the New Avengers. Even though the film has only been out for one weekend, Marvel is already doing everything it can in the marketing to spoil this part of the movie, including new teaser for the film just released by Marvel Studios Singapore. You can watch the new video below.
You've seen the asterisk everywhere. Now it's time to watch the reveal in cinemas. Marvel Studios' #ThunderboltsSG is in cinemas now. Get your tickets here: https://t.co/VdkBJ9PXwe #TheNewAvengers pic.twitter.com/Y0vRsGD0Pu — Marvel Studios Singapore (@MarvelSingapore) May 5, 2025
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That's not all. Marvel Studios also released a video of the cast unveiling a new poster for the movie, with Florence Pugh tearing off "Thunderbolts*" to reveal "*The New Avengers". You can see that video below.
The cast of 'THUNDERBOLTS*' revealing the film's actual title 'THE NEW AVENGERS'
Read our review: https://t.co/VLBmJSYPfY pic.twitter.com/S4mAJHFsxO — DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 5, 2025
From left to right: David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier, and Wyatt Russell as USAgent in Thunderbolts*
From left to right: David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier, and Wyatt Russell as USAgent in Thunderbolts*
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It makes sense considering an ongoing theme in both "Captain America: Brave New World" and "Thunderbolts*" is the absence of the Avengers, though there are a lot of questions that this raises.
For example, considering he was ready to form his own heroic team of Avengers, exactly how is Captain America (Anthony Mackie) going to feel about this new team of Avengers forming without him? How would the rest of the surviving Avengers feel about this, like Thor and the Hulk? Is this setting up some kind of clash between old Avengers and new in "Avengers: Doomsday" and/or "Avengers: Secret Wars"?
That the MCU Thunderbolts should become the New Avengers is also somewhat fitting considering it was also an absence of Avengers that helped the concept blossom in the source material.
During a time when most of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four are believed dead, a group of supervillains rebrands themselves as heroes and become the first Thunderbolts. The fact that the Avengers are gone helps the villains gain the public's trust.
"Thunderbolts*" is off to a promising start. The film took in $76 million domestically over the weekend and $162 million globally. The Marvel film had a production budget of $180 million.
"Thunderbolts*" is playing in theaters now. The film is directed by Jake Schreier and stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Edward Price, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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