So far previews for Upcoming Marvel film Thunderbolts* Have been mostly focused on the ensemble. The characters that have been collected as the guard list for the title team are all off-beat antagonist types, and the marketing has mainly focused on their funny dynamics as a device (Recently described by Sebastian Stan as a Brat-Pack-Esque feature). Today, the film debuted a brand new trailer for Marvel Studios Blockbuster, which finally gives us a better sense of history – and although there is a clear attempt to try to hide the identity of the film’s main villain, I am pretty sure I know who it is.
In this new Thunderbolts* Trailer, it is revealed that the team has been brought together because there is a serious threat to the world that has arisen and there is a consensus that the avengers will not gather to stop it. We see evidence that the power of this threat by evaporating and helicopters crashes, but when the big bad one is on the screen they are just represented as a silhouette:
Marvel Studios has a history of using visual effects to manipulate scenes in marketing materials, and I think it is safe to say that they are hired here to prevent us from recognizing who the villain is:
It’s a brave effort, but I think it’s pretty clear who it is: Bob Reynold’s alias Sentry (played by Lewis Pullman).
Those who have been aware of Thunderbolts* will remember that Bob was prominent as a character in the first trailer for blockbuster It arrived in September, but those pictures only had him as an ordinary guy without awareness of why he suddenly met a group of dressed heroes. We have not seen too much of him in the materials that have released since then, and his absence can be explained if he is the big bad that Marvel Studios tries to keep the shadows before release.
While Sentry is usually a force for good in Marvel Comics, a significant part of his story on the side has him to fight with a force called the void – a dark half that is within him and that he is constantly trying to keep in the fourth. When the character was first introduced, it was found that he went so far as to delete himself from all the senses to prevent the void from destroying the world.
Directed by the Jake screen, Thunderbolts* will arrive as the second Marvel Cinematic Universe movie 2025 after Captain America: Brave New World (that debuts in theaters everywhere on Friday). The film contains what is easily one of the best ensembles As Marvel Studios has put together so far – including Florence PughThe David HarborThe Sebastic townWyatt Russell, Olga, John-Kam and Julia Louis-Dreyfus – And The movie will be in theaters everywhere on May 2.
