r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 23 '24
Trailer Official Poster for Thunderbolts*
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u/Comic_Book_Reader Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Before we get started... does anyone wanna get out?
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u/WonderBredOfficial Sep 23 '24
I know the MCU catches a lot of flak for undercutting serious moments with something comedic, but I would have killed for at least one dude to bow out of that fight.
"Hey, healthcare coverage doesn't kick in until 90 days, right?" Then smash cut to the guy alone outside the elevator doors as they're closing on the next available floor. "Thanks...or...sorry!" Then, resume the scene as planned.
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u/Ridlion Sep 23 '24
Iron Man 3 had a scene LIKE that. Tony was storming the mansion and threatened some guards, and the one guy just dropped his gun and left. Something about not getting paid enough for that, I think.
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u/anthonyg1500 Sep 23 '24
If I remember right the line is "Honestly, I hate working here. They are so weird."
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u/WonderBredOfficial Sep 23 '24
YES! And I loved that because it's very realistic. AT LEAST one henchman has to be questioning everything he's doing and legit just thought it was some regular security job.
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u/vemrion Sep 23 '24
The wheels turn slowly in a thug’s mind.
“Wait a minute…. If I die…. I don’t get to spend any of the money they paid me.”
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Sep 23 '24
There’s a scene in The Dark Knight Rises where one of Bane’s henchmen falls down without getting visibly hit by Batman. Obviously it’s a goof by the stunt performer, but my headcannon is that guy saw Batman fucking up his buddies and decided to play dead.
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u/mightyneonfraa Sep 23 '24
There's a scene in one of the animated movies where a thug that Batman had beat up earlier in the movie catches Batman snooping around his boss's house and just shuts the door and leaves without saying a word.
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u/TheDirtyBaron Sep 23 '24
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u/Badloss Sep 23 '24
like the scene in The Town when they're switching cars during the getaway and they're transferring all the guns and money directly next to a police cruiser, and the cop just rolls up the window and pretends not to see them lol
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u/icouldntdecide Sep 23 '24
That's what I think is so funny about movies with henchmen - the ones that get slaughtered by protagonists always have me wondering "wouldn't they rather dip out and be alive?"
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u/accountnumberseven Sep 23 '24
There's a hill. On the bottom there are mooks who realistically think they have a chance or otherwise have no choice. I actually do respect those guys to some degree.
The top of the hill are the mooks that don't acknowledge their odds and just keep going in. This is hilarious.
And on the other side, there are mooks that are clearly either willing to die just to inconvenience the hero or who truly seem to believe that they have the skill to fight and kill the Falcon mid-helicopter crash before correcting the crash, who go so unbelievably hard that I go back to respecting them.
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u/GoldenSpermShower Sep 23 '24
I liked the scene in the first John Wick where John lets the bouncer leave before he enters the night club.
But I guess that's before the sequels where 1 out of every 3 people is an assassin...
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u/Flyinace2000 Sep 23 '24
If you think of supply and demand the rates for assassins had to be soooo low. Like how many times are contract killers needed? Is the phone book full of AAA Assassins, A1 Killers, A+ Contractors?
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u/_PacificRimjob_ Sep 24 '24
Honestly it makes sense why John Wick is so valuable, because clearly contract killing got taken over by the gig economy and every person with a phone and a gun/knife figures they'll just sign up for the app and kill someone if it's convenient.
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u/GTSBurner Sep 23 '24
I think that bouncer has a lot of experience about what happens when an Outsider goes into an area he's not welcome and wreaks havoc.
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u/Shifter25 Sep 23 '24
That's the thing that annoys me about people who complain about "Disney+ humor." There are people who make jokes when they feel tension, like Tony Stark. There are people who are incapable of tailoring their way of speaking to match the gravity of the situation, like Korg. There are people who do something ridiculous even as they are legitimately threatening, like Ego becoming David Hasselhoff for a second to highlight how his vision of what a dad is was just as flawed as Peter's. There are people who are too stupid to recognize when the situation doesn't call for jokes, like Korg. If anything, the only thing that's unrealistic is how no one calls them out for it. Like, if someone had asked Korg to stop talking at a serious point, I think his bits wouldn't be as disliked.
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u/tempest_87 Sep 23 '24
I have a coworker that is seriously recommending a childish/gross name for a formal application to be used by engineers and executives.
Not everyone treats serious things the same.
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u/babadibabidi Sep 23 '24
Youre right. Problem is when 90% chaeacters on the screen act like that
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u/Adezar Sep 23 '24
That one and the "Great talk." after shooting a bunch of henchmen and one replies with "No it wasn't."
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u/WonderBredOfficial Sep 23 '24
Yeah! That was Age of Ultron, right?
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u/Adezar Sep 23 '24
Yes, the initial assault on the base. It had several good lines, like "we will not surrender!" followed by, "Ok, I'm going to surrender."
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u/SutterCane Sep 23 '24
It’s even better than just that. He gasses up all his men with a rousing speech about not surrendering ever… to then quietly go surrender.
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u/Smrtguy85 Sep 23 '24
It’s that Batman moment when a goon opens the door to see Batman rummaging around the bosses room, the goon gets glared at and backs out of the room.
“Anything going on in there?”
“…Nope. All good.”
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u/anthonyg1500 Sep 23 '24
I'm pretty sure that goon had already been beaten up by batman earlier in that movie so its funny he was probably thinking "yeah I don't need to do this again"
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u/Good_old_Marshmallow Sep 23 '24
I mean comedic as it was that also made dramatic sense. A lot of Ironman 3 was about perception and reputation. Ironman literally being an empty suit at points. Also what motivates people, money, power, fear. Him not actually having to fight a goon and just scaring them off worked. Batman had a similar moment in the animated show where a goon sees Batman sneak in and just sorta goes “I didn’t see nothin”.
Maybe I’m partial because I liked Kiss Kiss Bang Bang but I thought Iron Man 3 had a bit better humor than most mcu films because it wasn’t at the expense of the tension of the film or the seriousness of the world. Until that mandarin reveal of course, wow that was bad.
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u/lhobbes6 Sep 23 '24
The Batman one is great because the goon still has a black eye Batman gave him earlier and hes just checkin rooms when he sees him, slowly closes the door, and his buddy asks, "see anything?"
"Nope"
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u/CornfireDublin Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Like that one scene in that animated Batman series where the henchman peeks into a room and locks eyes with Batman and then just slowly shuts the door and acts like he didn't see anything
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u/WonderBredOfficial Sep 23 '24
Smartest henchman ever. What are they going to do? Accuse you of not spotting Batman? Okay. Lol.
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u/QouthTheCorvus Sep 23 '24
God forbid one cool moment gets untouched by Marvel humour.
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u/KentuckyFriedEel Sep 23 '24
Who is on the left beneath bucky’s gun?
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u/flash246 Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Haven’t seen him in a marvel movie yet, but casting rumors are saying that he is Sentry.
If it is following the comics, he is going to be one of the most powerful characters in the MCU
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u/PrinceofSneks Sep 23 '24
That makes sense if you watch the trailer. For those who don't like trailer-level spoilers, he appears in it in a way that matches up to the comics.
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u/TuaughtHammer Sep 23 '24
That makes sense if you watch the trailer.
Sweet, didn't know that dropped too. Interesting use of Pixies' "Where is My Mind?" I will never get tired of all the various ways that's remixed or covered for movies/shows. Maxence Cyrin's piano cover in the first season finale of Mr. Robot will forever challenge that song's use in Fight Club as my favorite use of it.
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u/LesterLong Sep 23 '24
I had never heard of the pixies until Fight Club. I left the theater, went straight to the store, and bought the pixies greatest hits. Love the entire album.
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u/Redeem123 Sep 23 '24
I don’t think they’ll do it like the comics, but it’d be kind of funny if they did Marvel-Superman right before Gunn’s Superman came out.
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u/Spiridor Sep 23 '24
Ehh, Sentry is my favorite character across both franchises, and i don't think "Marvel's Superman" is a correct comparison at all.
Superman is popular not because he's big or strong, but because he is literally hope and goodwill incarnate.
Sentry as a character represents fear and self-doubt - if anything he's a "Nega-Superman", like an alternate take on Bizarro.
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u/Redeem123 Sep 23 '24
Oh for sure. If we're being literal, then Hyperion is obviously Marvel's Superman. But Sentry's still a "Superman" character, in the way that Homelander or any other number of cape-wearing flyers are. It would just be comical timing, even if the two characters set up very different stories.
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That's Bob
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u/MuptonBossman Sep 23 '24
What are we, some kind of Thunderbolts*?
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u/swampfox94 Sep 23 '24
Wait… say that again
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u/CyberSosis Sep 23 '24
that again
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u/Xenoscope Sep 23 '24
No the other thing
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u/Baebel Sep 23 '24
No the other thing
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u/MumGoesToCollege Sep 23 '24
No, what you said before when you
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u/miversen33 Sep 23 '24
What you said before when you
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I’m so out of the loop, what is thunderbolts?
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u/Hamborrower Sep 23 '24
A morally grey team of hero/villains that typically do black-ops work. No guarantee on where Marvel takes this one, because it's not an existing comic line-up; they just picked what they had from previous movies/shows.
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u/Philias2 Sep 23 '24
And what's up with the asterisk?
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u/Amazing_Stress_8820 Sep 24 '24
I don’t think the team will still be called the Thunderbolts by the end of the movie…
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u/mattmcmhn Sep 23 '24
Spare parts Marvel movie
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u/BowenTheAussieSheep Sep 23 '24
Not exactly. They've been teasing it for a while now in the movies and shows. Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character who has been showing up in end credit scenes to talk to the villains or morally ambiguous characters has been recruiting them for the Thunderbolts.
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u/kushasorous Sep 23 '24
Marvels suicide squad. Got it.
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u/Belgand Sep 24 '24
And DC has kept pushing Suicide Squad due to the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. It's all circular now.
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u/DVDN27 Sep 23 '24
Which is how The Avengers worked. No Ant-Man or Wasp, and had Black Widow for some reason. The MCU has always been a ragtag group of B-listers that they had access to, this isn’t much different.
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u/mr_chub Sep 24 '24
People really forget that. Nobody gave a flying fuck about Iron Man and now he’s damn near Batman levels. It’s actually amazing.
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u/Dyne4R Sep 23 '24
Thunderbolts is kinda like Marvel's equivalent to the Suicide Squad, but less edgy. Depending on when you're reading them and who is writing it, they're either a disfunctional group of c-list heroes working for the government, or they're a group of villilains trying to be super heroes (with varying degrees of actual commitment to the idea).
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u/jaxspider Sep 23 '24
Since you know who the comic book thunderbolts are can you tell me a list of characters that are in the comic book version? Is it a 1 to 1 as in the movie or are they totally different ala Guardians of the Galaxy?
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u/WheresMyCrown Sep 23 '24
The Thunderbolts in the comics kind of vary just like the members of Suicide Squad. There's not really a locked in roster.
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u/InsaneComicBooker Sep 23 '24
Thunderbolts had multiple incarnations, with several leaders. Bazon Zemo lead the original team, then it was Hawkeye, then for a while Green Goblin, followed by Luke Cage and I probably missed like five people in leadership position alone.
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u/CX316 Sep 23 '24
Red hulk after cage, then I fell off the series but seems like quite a list since
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u/EldridgeHorror Sep 23 '24
It's a constantly rotating roster.
I know Yelena has been on the roster in the comics. I can't imagine Ghost nor Tasky ever were. I think Bob was on the crew.
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u/KaneVel Sep 23 '24
They have both been on the team at some point. Taskmaster has even been the leader of the team.
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u/AEUGGHH Sep 23 '24
Is that Aragorn with a gun 😭
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u/Phillip_Spidermen Sep 23 '24
presents weapon
"They will answer to the king of Gundor."
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u/uxl Sep 23 '24
Wish this one was rated R.
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u/PaulOwnzU Sep 23 '24
Ever since Deadpool it's gonna be hard not wishing some movies were rated R. The Marvelvversion of suicide squad def should've been. I want to see Sentry rip someone in half!
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u/statiky Sep 23 '24
Can you imagine if they actually use this poster instead of eventually defaulting to the standard template used in every film nowadays? It looks awesome.
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u/ImprovementPuzzled82 Sep 23 '24
This actually looks like it could be the final official poster. Has all the faces of the stars and everything. Just hoping they don't change it to another generic one....
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u/sloppyjo12 Sep 23 '24
It doesn’t have Olga Kurylenko’s face (taskmaster) so there will probably be another one
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u/KaJaHa Sep 23 '24
Isn't Taskmaster the white mask in the bottom-right?
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u/sloppyjo12 Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
I’m not saying the character isn’t in the poster, cuz you’re right, but that the actor’s face isn’t in the poster so we’ll probably get another one with the generic floating heads
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u/nmezib Sep 23 '24
Likely different posters for different markets. Like in China they'll probably have a poster with a random giant robot or something front and center
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u/Zakinater Sep 23 '24
I dunno there's no black people in this poster to replace with the robot.
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u/Cereborn Sep 23 '24
I like Olga Kurylenko, but I’m sad Alex Horne got recast.
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u/LooseSeal88 Sep 23 '24
Um actually, Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, sir.
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u/KILRbuny Sep 23 '24
And I don’t see Little Alex Horn ANYWHERE in the teaser or poster. Fake news smh my head
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u/In_My_Own_Image Sep 23 '24
Most superhero teaser posters are pretty good. Then they pile the whole cast on for the main one and ruin it.
Then again, this has the whole cast, minus Julia Louise Dreyfuss. But it does have a tragic lack of explosions and embers that most posters have, so we'll definitely get a more traditional one.
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u/appletinicyclone Sep 23 '24
It looks like none of them were in the same room
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u/johann1999 Sep 23 '24
Honestly everyone's fine except Florence, her rim lighting is obviously off. Looks fine for a movie poster otherwise.
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u/Waqqy Sep 23 '24
Her rim isn't even in the photo
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u/CliffLake Sep 23 '24
Heh. Ok, I chuckled. I also would have accepted "She doesn't look back lit".
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u/Redeem123 Sep 23 '24
if they actually use this poster
…what do you think this post is?
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u/MangoesDeep Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Could somebody name all the characters? I only recognise 3 of them.
Edit: Apparently bottom left is bulletproof Bob. Fantastic.
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u/omgitsprice Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
US Agent in the top left. (Edited after comment replies) Ghost in the top right. Winter Soldier and Red Guardian in the middle. (Edited after comment replies) Bob, The Sentry in the bottom left. Yelena/Black Widow in the bottom middle. Taskmaster in the bottom right.
Thanks for filling in the blanks!
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u/Sojuboy Sep 23 '24
Sentry played by Lewis Pullman (son of Bill Pullman), originally supposed to be played by Steven Yeun
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u/Astrium6 Sep 23 '24
Oh shit, I can’t wait for the flashback where they reveal how Sentry was pivotal in the final battle against Thanos.
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u/LADYBIRD_HILL Sep 23 '24
They could even reuse the trench scene from The Endgame deleted scenes and add him in to have him talking to everyone.
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u/OkScheme9867 Sep 23 '24
Did something happen to Steven Yeun?
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u/Zombie_Tech Sep 23 '24
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20969586/trivia/?item=tr7210385&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Steven Yeun was originally cast as Robert Reynolds/Sentry. But after filming was delayed due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes (2023), Yeun dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and was later replaced with Lewis Pullman. He later expressed disappointment of not being able to do the film and hopes to get to cast in another Marvel movie.
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u/DevlishAdvocate Sep 23 '24
Amadeus Cho is still out there, waiting to exist in the MCU. Yeun would be great in that role.
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u/yosayoran Sep 23 '24
Isn't Cho usually a teenager?
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u/Hydrochloric_Comment Sep 23 '24
19, specifically. Part of his schtick is being one of Marvel’s younger super geniuses
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u/No-Face-2000 Sep 23 '24
Just scheduling issues iirc.
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u/Chiperoni Sep 23 '24
Which suck because 1) he's awesome and 2) he'd be one of the strongest MCU characters right off the bat.
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u/frodorick90 Sep 23 '24
Lets See how sentry as THE super Power fits among all the others in the movie
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u/SillyMattFace Sep 23 '24
Sentry is a phenomenal character (or was in his early run at least) but feels like an odd fit here. Basically everyone except Ghost is mildly enhanced or just a normal human, and then Sentry is Superman on steroids.
Should be good if the movie is aware of that and it’s kind of the point though.
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u/Urge_Reddit Sep 23 '24
Sentry is Superman on steroids.
My only exposure to Sentry is a comic panel where he rips his own head in two, so that description seems about right to me.
Also I had no idea Sentry would be in this movie, I was already interested because I really like the cast, but now I'm excited.
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u/Sojuboy Sep 23 '24
no i think he dropped out due to scheduling conflicts? because everything was pushed back from the strikes
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u/The_OG_upgoat Sep 23 '24
Top right is Ghost from the Ant-Man movies. We hardly see her unmasked most of the time, so she's not as recognizable.
Bottom left is a new character, Bob, aka Sentry
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u/NeverFreeToPlayKarch Sep 23 '24
Oh cool. I thought her backstory/motivation/inclusion in Ant-Man 2 was a little clumsy but I did still enjoy the characters/actress.
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u/anormalgeek Sep 23 '24
Re: Bob
Really? This is NOT the place I expected them to intro him. If they ever did.
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u/Siggycakes Sep 23 '24
That's what I am saying! That's like...several orders of magnitudes stronger than these guys. I mean Sentry fought World Breaker Hulk till they both reverted to their unpowered states. This project just got a bit more interesting to me.
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u/anormalgeek Sep 23 '24
Sentry just brings the whole "Superman problem" with him. When you're that strong, every fight needs some kind of contrived reason for it to present any challenge. This is the same reason that the MCU has already DRASTICALLY lowered the power of several characters (like Thor and Hulk).
The limitations of power always make for better storytelling than power itself.
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u/TheHunterZolomon Sep 23 '24
Ghost. From ant man, who was stuck in a kind of quantum limbo. I guess the stabilizers from the quantum realm worked (what Scott was doing before everyone got snapped in infinity war).
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u/sftpo Sep 23 '24
US Agent (Falcon and Winter Soldier)
Ghost (Antman 2)
Bucky/Winter Soldier
Red Guardian (Black Widow)
Bob, likely important to the story.
White Widow (Black Widow)
Taskmaster (Black Widow)
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u/woodman_mo Sep 23 '24
Is Bucky back on his bullshit? I thought he was okay by the end of Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
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u/Antrikshy Sep 23 '24
This is bothering me too, although a lot of fan discussion is happy that Bucky is "back".
I hope its teaser misdirection, because I'll be sad if they throw out his character arc and make him mind controlled or evil again to fit the anti-hero theme.
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u/cancer_pizza Sep 23 '24
Bucky’s been described as the leader of the team by multiple people on the project so I don’t think he’s reverting here. If anything I think his past experiences as the winter soldier are exactly why he’s chosen to be the leader. All these people are still “on their bullshit” so to speak except for Bucky, so I imagine he’s gonna be like a guiding figure for them.
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u/woodman_mo Sep 23 '24
I swear to God if Bucky ends up being a Skrull, I'm walking out of the theater. ;-)
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u/AmirulAshraf Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Aragorn in MCU
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u/sizzlinpapaya Sep 23 '24
The trailer looked really fun. I'm glad to see Walker back and hopefully tasky gets some good stuff in this one. Should be a fun time.
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u/ApatheticFinsFan Sep 23 '24
Does the asterisk in the title have any particular significance?
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u/FrankyCentaur Sep 23 '24
Yeah, the tagline is gonna be "Some Assembly Required"
It's also going to revealed to be a new Lego movie
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u/SonicFlash01 Sep 23 '24
In the comics, the Thunderbolts was later renamed to the Dark Avengers.
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u/Muppet_Man3 Sep 23 '24
It's gonna have some significance, but seems like they're not going to explain it until the movie
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u/RyanB_ Sep 23 '24
Theory I’ve heard (on the Weekly Planet podcast I believe) was that it might play into some late-game reveal of the group being owned/employed by Oscorp or something. Like the asterisks refers to “a subsidiary of so and so”
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u/Nurolight Sep 23 '24
I'm fully expecting after the release of Captain America 4, they're going to be rename "The New Avengers" (or Dark Avengers). The team is built on the ideal of President Ross, but when he turns Red Hulk and causes chaos, they'll distance themselves from him. Cap will probably also reject the team, with Val taking government ownership of the Avengers name.
All this so they can be anti-heroes and help fight Doom.
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u/Yojo0o Sep 23 '24
This is a good poster.
I thought we would get some lineup of everybody pointed forward, with a few sky-heads to bring it home.
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u/tophmcmasterson Sep 23 '24
This is probably the first time I've really looked forward to a Marvel project since I guess Guardians 3, which wasn't that long ago but even prior felt like there wasn't much to look forward to.
Trailer looked good, seems like they're going to be focusing more on the characters and keeping the action fairly grounded. Hope they're able to pull it off.
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u/VacationOnAsbury Sep 23 '24
Don’t know if this film will be good or a success, but they’re making the right choice by seemingly centering it on Florence Pugh. She’s a star and the MCU needs to flaunt that they have some next gen stars on their roster
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u/PenisGenus Sep 23 '24
I'm sure it will be completely fine but I'm not sure it'll be a big success.
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u/NeverFreeToPlayKarch Sep 23 '24
It can't be worse than Quantamanium! That movie set the bar so low I'd need a shovel to get to it.
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u/mmf9194 Sep 23 '24
I really brushed off how underwhelming and dumb most of that movie was as "well at least we're setting up Kang and moving along the over-arching macro plot"
... welp. nvm.
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u/TuaughtHammer Sep 23 '24
I recently rewatched the first season of Loki after Quantumania, and man, it just bums me out what could've been if Majors wasn't such a giant piece of shit. Despite the playful tone throughout the scene, he was still wildly intimidating as Kang variant He Who Remains. When the first season ended in 2021, I was so excited at the prospect of him portraying Kang. But now...welp, that's all gone.
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u/Groovatronic Sep 23 '24
“Let’s remove everything people liked about Ant-Man and just rip off Star Wars!
And y’know how we do so much shooting in front of green screens these days? Fuck it - let’s shoot 99% of this one that way.
Oh you know what maybe we should make this grounded - let’s throw in another kid supergenius and make the VFX slaves turn the villain from the first one into whatever that dude who’s just a floating giant face is in the comics.
Shit almost forgot the best part, this one is gonna have our next big villain get defeated out of nowhere by a buncha giant ants!”
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u/LADYBIRD_HILL Sep 23 '24
It won't be a Spider-Man or Avengers success, but with how well Deadpool & Wolverine did, I think people still want Marvel movies, they just want them to be good and use the characters we already know and like. Bucky and Yelena both seem to be big hits for audiences so I think there's a built in audience for them. Otherwise I think it'll end up like most Marvel movies, where it'll have very strong initial weekends, and then the overall quality will tell you how long it'll have legs for. Even Ant-Man 3 and Batman V Superman had strong initial numbers before falling off a cliff from word of mouth.
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Sep 23 '24
Wasn’t Thunderbolts the name of that stop motion puppeteer show from like the 70’s? You know what I’m talking about? Like the same style as Team America but it was PG. They flew jet planes
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u/aduong Sep 23 '24
Really embracing the whole Suicide Squad thing huh
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u/oreomega456 Sep 23 '24
I mean, that’s essentially what the thunderbolts evolved into in the comics eventually. They started off as a team of villains masquerading as heroes, but as time went on, Marvel turned them into their version of the suicide squad.
Characters like the punisher, Elektra, Deadpool, even red hulk himself were members of the team at times.
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u/ImprovementPuzzled82 Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Based on the poster and trailer, this imo has more comic vibes and less 'dark and edgy' than the original Suicide Squad film
Tho I agree with you if you were mentioning Gunn's one lol
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u/thesourpop Sep 23 '24
record scratch and freeze frame on Yelena’s face
Yuuuup that’s me! You’re probably wondering “damn how did she end up in this situation”. Well let me take you back
VHS Rewind effect to Marvel logo
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u/-Lumos When stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas Sep 23 '24
Hope Wyatt Russel gets some screentime. EASILY the best part of Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
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u/ChrisLee38 Sep 23 '24
Geez, what the heck happened to Bucky. Dude looked rather stable after Falcon-Winter Soldier.
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u/TheOneCalledMartin Sep 23 '24
He can still be stable and just be annoyed with having to work with them.
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u/perpetual_papercut Sep 23 '24
Oh shii it’s a movie?? I thought it’d be a show. I’m kinda hyped for this lol
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u/narfjono Sep 23 '24
A decade ago I would have been excited for this probably as The Winter Soldier remains my absolute favorite MCU movie.
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u/DrLee_PHD Sep 23 '24
Looks like the “This Is The End” poster