[ESTE ARTÍCULO CONTIENE SPOILERS DE THUNDERBOLTS*]
You would not trust your life, but Marvel He has entrusted the box office at a particularly delicate and crucial moment for his film universe. Thunderbolts*, Disney’s new Superheroic bet after Captain America: Brave New world, has reached the big screen to try to redirect the saga led by Kevin Feige just before the premiere of The Fantastic Four: first Steps This summer and the meeting Avengers: Doomsday In 2026.
Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Natasha Romanoff’s child (Scarlett Johansson), faces a trap made by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) that forces her to combine strength with other marginalized from the MCU as Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbor), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and a new member called Bob (Lewis Pullman).
In two hours of film, this maladaptive band has to learn to work as a team to deal with a mission that threatens to bury them under the weight of their own traumas. All this leads to an outcome that completely transforms the MCU horizon and feels the foundations for Doomsday, which will arrive on May 1, 2026 to Salas.
In case you have not seen Thunderbolts*, We warn you that from now on we will enter the plot of the film and explain its transcendental ending. Spoilers are coming.
What happens in ‘Thunderbolts*’
Thunderbolts* Start with Florence Pugh’s famous jump From the second highest building in the world, the Merdeka 188 of Kuala Lumpur, Malasia, where Yelena completes a mission for Valentina. The cunning director of the CIA is immersed in a political trial for certain illegal operations and corrupt experiments that she has carried out in recent years.
With the help of Mel (Geraldine Viswanathan), his assistant, he prepares to erase any proof that implies it. Hence, also decides to deceive their most questionable pawns (Yelena, John Walker, the supervisor -olga Kurylenko- and ghost) gathering them in facilities in the middle in the desert to kill each other. The supervisor is killed by ghost, but, surprisingly, the rest (and Bob) opts to combine strength and thus get out of Valentina’s trap.
And who is Bob? An dismembered boy who is in the location and Valentina identifies as the only survivor of the experiments he was carrying out in Malaysia. In full escape from the quartet, Bob is left behind so that his teammates can escape and receive multiple shots despite Valentina’s attempts to stop the attack. Luckily, the mysterious character turns out to be bulletproof and capable of flying, and ends in the hands of Valentina.
Yelena, Walker and Ghost, meanwhile, are rescued by the red guardian, although they all end up soon in the hands of Bucky (Sebastian Stan), who intends to give them to justice to end Valentina’s career. However, the veteran avenger is forced to work with them when Mel, scared by the acts of his boss, tells him that this will unleash chaos with his new superhero.
‘Thunderbolts*’, final explained
When the Thunderbolts (they call themselves in honor of the Yelena Youth Soccer team) they reach the old tower of the Avengers in New York, a new Valentina Operations Center, it receives them with Bob turned into Sentry, the Marvelita hero with the power of one million explosive suns. But this powerful character has a very dark reverse, The void, which Valentina does not even dominate and soon threatens to engulf all New York City.
Yelena decides to enter the void and face her past, her first murder in the red room and macabre practices she had to learn in her tender childhood. The rest of Thunderbolts does not take long to follow her and, among all, they make Bob in front of her own traumas (the violence she suffered as a child and led him to try Valentina’s experiment) and is measured in the void. However, hitting this other version of himself threatens to end everything. Finally, his new companions stop him with a hug, saving him from his vacuum.
Interestingly, after stopping his dark back, Bob returns to be the one who was and does not remember anything that has happened with him. With New York safe, Valentina, who is always three steps ahead of the rest, has already prepared her strategy to take advantage of the situation and, when the protagonist group goes for her, This surprises them with a press conference in which he announces that they are the new avengers, A training “in which I have been working for a long time,” he lies.
Yes, that is the meaning of the asterisk of the title: the film has presented us to some momentary thunderbolts, which actually They are the new Avengers of a desperate and manipulative courage that always comes out with it.
Implications for ‘Doomsday’ and the future of MCU
Credit titles, as well as The second post -crushed scene, They bring us to the new formation of Valentina hugging her new status as a heir group. However, newspapers show A divided population between those who welcome the new saving band and those who discard the choice.
14 months after the events of Thunderbolts*, We meet them in the tower that belonged to Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), now their headquarters, discussing the rejection they generate in part of society. Among them, in Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), new Captain America, who is apparently not very happy with the heirs of the title of Avengers and has chosen to take the copyright of the name.
Thus, a new ‘civil war’ is coming between the MCU head heroes for whom they deserve to be part of the new avengers, something that will probably address Doomsday. Hence, all the members of the until now Thunderbolts, as well as Wilson and other veterans such as Thor (Chris Hemsworth) or Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) are in the Russo movie.
While we are convinced that the new avengers will have more members than the Thunderbolts, such as the now mentioned heroes, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men who arrive or the young avengers who trust that they join at some point, keep impacting that the most maladaptive and gray characters that the MCU has in template are the original chosen to continue the legacy of Tony and Steve Rog. Evans).
This selection also predicts an unexpected and necessary change of course: Other less perfect and more human heroes will take the reins of a universe that has already squeezed the canonical guards. Never an asterisk had so many implications, nor did he awaken so much hope in the marvelite cinephile heart.
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