Marvel Studios has released the first teaser trailer and poster for the upcoming feature film Thunderbolts*, uniting the MCU’s least anticipated band of misfits.
Marvel Studios released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming movie Thunderbolts* on Monday (Sep 23). Starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan and David Harbour, the movie is set for release on May 2, 2025 and will be the 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU.
Thunderbolts is the next big team-up movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hitting theaters on May 2, 2025. It brings together a bunch of characters like Yelena Belova, the Winter Soldier, Red Guardian, U.S. Agent, Ghost, and Taskmaster. They all discover they’ve been set up by the new C.I.A. director, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. After barely surviving their crazy mission, these antiheroes and reformed villains team up to take revenge on the people who wanted them dead, but they definitely don’t work together as smoothly as the Avengers!
In the new Thunderbolts trailer, sharp-eyed fans might notice a cool Malaysian landmark. At about 1:04 sec, Florence Pugh's character, Yelena Belova, is hanging out at Kuala Lumpur’s Lebuh Ampang, and behind her, you can see the Menara HSBC South Tower collapsing. Plus, on the right, there's a sign for 'Kedai Kopi Kong Hoe,' which means Kong Hoe Coffeeshop in Malay. Pretty neat!
Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts*opens in U.S. theaters on May 2, 2025.
The Thunderbolts movie is bringing back some familiar faces from the MCU! We’ll see Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Plus, there are some awesome new characters joining the mix!
A Team of Misfits
The new trailer shows Yelena Belova leading a cool group that’s all about action and dark humor in the MCU. Here’s who’s on the Thunderbolts team:
This unlikely squad of anti-heroes has to deal with their past problems and relationships while teaming up to face new threats. Sounds epic, right?
It's Clear That The Tower Will Play A Role In The Movie 
Stark Tower, which originally had Tony Stark's name on it, was the Avengers' first headquarters, but they didn’t use it for long. By the time Avengers: Age of Ultron came out, they had already moved to a new base that was more private. Then, in Spider-Man: Homecoming , we found out that Stark sold the tower to some mysterious buyers. Crazy, right?
Since Stark sold the tower, its new owners have been a mystery, but everyone knew it would come back in the MCU eventually. It was mentioned a few times and seen briefly in *Spider-Man: Far From Home* during some renovations, but we never found out who owned it. Now, the *Thunderbolts* trailer shows that Valentina Allegra de Fontaine has taken over the tower. We don’t know yet if there are other people helping her out with it, but it’s clear the tower is going to be important in *Thunderbolts*!
In The Comics, Bob Is The Alter Ego Of Sentry
The *Thunderbolts* trailer shows a lot of scenes with the main cast interacting, but not many with new characters. However, there’s one cool moment where Yelena, Ghost, Taskmaster, and John Walker are in a fight, and then a guy in weird clothes shows up and introduces himself as Bob. For fans who don’t know the comics, Bob might not mean much, but it’s actually the first time Robert "Bob" Reynolds has been officially seen in the MCU!
Thunderbolts just dropped a new poster, and fans are saying it might have been made by AI! After the trailer came out on Monday, everyone was hyped, but then they noticed something weird about "Bob's" hand in the poster. Lewis Pullman's character has six fingers instead of five! This got Marvel fans into detective mode, trying to figure out if it was a mistake or if AI was involved. Most people think it’s just a Photoshop screw-up since there are other weird things in the poster, like characters’ limbs being all messed up, but not in a super obvious AI way. Pretty funny, right?
Marvel trailers are famous for changing things up before the final movie. A big topic among fans about the Thunderbolts trailer is whether Yelena Belova is on a mission inside Avengers Tower. Why would these anti-heroes and villains be let loose in the former HQ of the Avengers? Is the target they’re after just Pullman’s character, "Bob," who looks super ordinary? I mean, why is he just hanging around in a medical outfit in a classified area? Plus, what are those weird things hanging from the ceiling? It might just be a sneak peek rather than AI messing things up. Guess we’ll find out more in May 2025!
