#thunderbolts spoilers

[magnetothemagnificent]

Only valid part of the leaked Thunderbolts trailer is Bucky washing his prosthetic arm in the dishwasher.

A) It implies that Bucky doesn't wear his prosthetic 24/7 which is a huge win

B) It actually makes sense because how else is he going to sanitize something with so many tiny little nooks and crannies that he uses in battle but also for normal every day things like eating and shit? I can't imagine he'd have a designated autoclave for it, although that would make the most sense.

[delopsia]

Lewis Pullman Thunderbolts* Teaser Trailer Please do not repost without credit 💐

Bonus:

[editfandom]

THUNDERBOLTS*, 2025 | Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova

[avengerscompound]

Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes Thunderbolts* | Teaser Trailer

[karadanverss]

There are bad guys...

and there are worse guys. (x)

[mcudc616]

Bucky Barnes Icons

Sebastian Stan in Thunderbolts* (2025)

[marvelsgirl616]

Is anyone else low key excited to see bucky and walker interact again? 🤭☺️

[romcomxdd]

still getting over the fact that lewis pullman is playing an awkward character called bob who introduces himself then has to correct the person who asked again, in thunderbolts

like

what??

the scene from top gun is literally exactly the same-

[romancomicsblog]

Movie Redo: Fixing Marvel's Thunderbolts*

Marvel's Thunderbolts* recently came out with a stellar trailer, watching some of our favorite MCU anti-heroes going through the motions while uncovering a mystery and becoming a team.

While many have praised the trailer for its style, action and tone, I have had some problems with the movie from the beginning. For one, the group Thunderbolts* tends to be villains pretending to be heroes as opposed to morally gray characters.

The movie tackles the spirit of this by having several characters fill in classic roles of the MCU Avengers: Yelena as Black Widow, U.S. Agent as Captain America, etc. But this stops at about half the team.

For example, we have three different variations of Captain America. Each are not Steve Rogers, morally gray super soldiers. The main difference is their range of comedic quips.

We also have two different variations of (basically) Black Widow.

This makes the lineup a bit stale power wise, and makes most of the lineup side Black Widow and Captain America characters.

While it makes entering the film easier, this doesn't give us the same feeling of "assembling" characters from the MCU like the Avengers did. The characters should come from many different projects as opposed to 2.

Finally, the team is made up of 7/8 white people. So in so many ways, this movie is suffering from a lack of diversity.

My goal is to liven up the team with characters across the MCU, villains and antiheroes alike. I'd like this team to:

Fill roles of the classic Avengers

Have a wide range of abilities

Reward long time MCU fans for watching along

Lets get started with an obvious question:

Who Stays & Who Goes?

While this group is full of some great MCU characters, too many unfortunately are redundant.

We will be saving 4 Characters, starting with:

1. Yelena Belova - White Widow (Black Widow / Hawkeye)

One of the smartest moves made by this movie is having Yelena be the lead. I love Florence Pugh, and one thing that can differentiate this team from The Avengers is having White Widow be the leader.

She is the clear and funnest Black Widow stand-in, so I will be choosing her over Taskmaster.

2. John Walker - U.S. Agent (Falcon & The Winter Soldier)

Of the Captain America knock offs, U.S. Agent is by far the most interesting.

No hate to Red Guardian's jokes or Winter Soldier's angst, but having a sad, broken not as good Captain America who is not a good man but a perfect soldier, there's so many ways you can go with it. He can be a traitor to the group, the eventual villain or just the guy who thinks he's the leader.

He is also the character we've seen least of the 3, and deserves his time on the big screen.

3. Ava Starr - Ghost (Ant-Man & The Wasp)

One of the most underrated characters in the MCU, Ghost was a highlight for me in the Ant-Man trilogy. With a tragic backstory, skills to match the Winter Soldier and an actual interesting power, I'm really excited to see where they go with this character.

Plus I love her new suit.

4. Bob - The Sentry (Thunderbolts*)

Lewis Pullman is playing "Bob" who is most likely Robert Reynolds AKA The Sentry, a Superman like superhero who struggles with memory loss, and has the power of "a million suns".

Due to the S in the trailer and his general confusion, Sentry will likely join the team, and his archenemy The Void will may even be the main antagonist.

As a powerful longhaired hero, he fills the role of a Thor for our Avengers, which is a definite need.

The mystery behind Bob as well as the inclusion of a new Superman like character is very fun. I do think a need for every MCU movie is an addition of a new interesting character, so Bob must stay.

Now that we have our 4 stays, let's make some fun additions.

5. Agent Dex Poindexter - Bullseye (Daredevil Season 3)

Agent Poindexter fills a couple of significant roles from the Avengers and from the Thunderbolts* who we took off the list.

Like Taskmaster, Bullseye is an assassin, who worked for a puppet master who is still very much alive and around in the MCU. But unlike many of the other killers on this list, he enjoys killing. As the teams resident sociopath, he can be the devil on their shoulder, egging the team on to go further than they have before.

He also nicely fills the teams role as their Hawkeye. The both have perfect aim, have taken on new identities to commit atrocities, and started off as law men.

It also gives all viewers great homework, because everyone should watch Daredevil.

6. Aaron Davis - The Prowler (Spider-Man Homecoming / Across the Spider-Verse)

The Spider side of the MCU has very much stayed in its place due to Sony. One character who has appeared in both Sony and Marvel, portrayed by the same actor I might add, is Aaron Davis.

Aaron Davis first appeared in Spider-Man Homecoming, and if we believe him to portray the same character in Across the Spider-Verse, has evolved into his role as Prowler now.

Prowler with his tech, claws, skills, and general goofy vibe, could fill the role of a Black Panther or Spider-Man for our group, and much like Spider-Man, be the ground level criminal entering this world of Assassins and Gods.

You can also view him as more of a thief than anything else. Like Aladdin or Star-Lord, fitting him into this team but definitely bringing a different perspective as opposed to Bullseye.

I see Prowler as a secondary lead character, one who has Yelena's back over some of the others, and hopefully makes it out of this mission alive.

7. Titania (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law)

Where there are Avengers, there is need for muscle.

Titania is one the secondary villains from Marvel's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, notably played by Good Place actress Jameela Jamil.

Titania fills the role of a Hulk / Captain Marvel to the group as our resident strong woman, but also takes up Red Guardians role as comedic relief.

As a social media influencer and fashion icon, she'll bring a very different energy than our other two heroines. She also has the tendency to back whoever to keep herself alive, meaning she may team up with the worst of our titular team if there is a coup.

Plus I'd like her to dawn her wrestler outfit.

8. Justin Hammer - MACH-1 (Iron Man 2)

With many of the Avengers roles filled, all we need is left is a billionaire genius playboy.

Since his debut in Iron Man 2, Sam Rockwell fans have been clamoring for the actor to return as Justin Hammer. While we have inklings of him in All Hail to to King & What If, having Justin as comedic relief and the teams resident tech expert can add a different flavor to the team.

While Justin Hammer doesn't have an alter ego in the comics, he could take on the role of Titanium Man like he does in the animated show, Iron Man Armored Adventures.

My only gripe is the name is a little too close to Titania, so I recommend he takes on the name Mach-1, the alter ego of the Beetle when he joined the Thunderbolts.

While he is not The Beetle, he is still a villain pretending to be a hero, and several have taken on the name of Mach-1, so I think it'll be fine.

With just a few notable changes, my MCU team is now complete.

We now have heroes and villains from across the MCU, all with unique skills, powers, tools and motivations.

And once they all suit up...

They'll make one hell of a team.

Thank you so much for reading! Please consider following, and check out my socials and other sites here! And let me know: Who do you think should be on the Thunderbolts*?

[painted-doe]

Did you see Wyatt Russell said that Bucky's a congressman now

I DID and I have sooo many feelings.

Is it the choice I would have made for this character? Oh, hell nah. Do I think they could make it work? ...actually, maybe.

Like: maybe Bucky's done with fighting, but he's not done with fighting. This guy grew up attached to the hip of Steve "I don't like bullies" Rogers, and you know the Wilsons have brought him up to speed on the evolution of the social justice movement over the last hundred years and given him plenty to read and think about, and he is not one to sit idly by while there are things that need fixing.

So I kind of like the idea of Bucky deciding that he's truly had enough of the fight, retiring to Delacroix to settle down and heal and figure out who he is when he's not in a goddamn battlefield of one kind or another, and realizing in horror that there is no peace to be had even here. That even in Sam's sweet little seaside hometown, there is generational poverty, there is racism and police brutality, there are kids going to school hungry. There are deep-rooted systemic problems that his generation thought the sophisticated people of this distant future would have figured out by now. And he's so fucking mad about it.

Unfortunately, these are problems you can't punch.

But they are problems you can do something about if you're powerful in the right ways. And he's halfway there already. As Cap's best friend and a famous war hero, Bucky Barnes has a platform to speak out upon, a voice that others don't. He has the power to be heard. It's a power very few people have.

So he gets up and he gets involved and he starts climbing the ladder, because Bucky's particular kind of bravery means never being afraid to get his hands dirty if it means doing the right thing. Once upon a time, he did the cold-blooded wetwork that wholesome Captain America could never be seen to do -- and now he uses that same grit, cunning, and determination to play unpleasant political games, and play them to win.

Politics is not his passion. But he's carried out worse missions. And god damn it, he'll do it, because it's like Sam and Sarah say: injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

[delopsia]

I fixed him 🌸🎀

[avengerscompound]

Hannah John-Kamen Thunderbolts* | Teaser Trailer

[navybrat817]

Miss Navy, did you watch the Thunderbolts trailer?

I did, sweet nonnie! I took a break from training yesterday to watch. I'm ready.

And I wanna run my fingers through his hair. I wanna pull it. And I want him to pin me against the wall and-

Love and thanks! ❤️

[dharmasharks]

I would like 110 minutes of Yelena, John Walker, and Bucky talking about *purpose* please and thank you, but since that probably won't get butts in seats, I will happily accept this spy thriller team up. And I do mean happily! I liked the trailer! Great choice to center Yelena. Great choice to put Bucky in a tux. GREAT choice of song.

I genuinely have no idea how a casual moviegoer will be expected to decipher any of this without catching up on at least SEVEN movies and TWO seasons of television. And BOY do I find it insufferable that even the movie title itself is already positioned to promote the next project, or so it seems. But, I am not a casual fan, and I probably will see the next project, so. Shrug!

I know it's uncool to keep rooting for the MCU, but between this and the Daredevil leak, I'm rooting SO HARD and also I never said I was cool. All this to say, no shade if you want to block any of my tags, because I'll probably be very insufferably excited and hopeful (and also a stupid idiot who is wrong, probably!) through the Spring of 2025.

[mcudc616]

Lewis Pullman as Bob Reynolds aka Sentry in Thunderbolts* (2025)

[buckyistired]

I’m sure we’ve all heard the rumors that Bucky will die in Thunderbolts. And at this point, like, just do it. Put him and his fans (who are slowly being killed by the way his character is being treated) out of our misery. I’m so sick of the way his disability is treated as a running gag and now he’s also being made a congressman?!?! The MCU has done him so dirty.

Also, you can just tell that Seb is ready to be done. Pretty sure he’s the longest running MCU actor/character at this point. Let him be done.

Funny to receive this bc I was thinking earlier….I just know Sebastian is so damn tired of playing this character, esp when they don’t seem to give him any acting to do.

I hate to be like let’s keep our hopes up! But I’m trying. I gotta admit, I just don’t care the way I used to. We’re tired, too.

Peak Bucky was CACW to me. Everything after just went off the rails.