THUNDERBOLTS* International Posters Are The Weirdest Thing You'll See Today (And We Kind Of Love Them)

THUNDERBOLTS* International Posters Are The Weirdest Thing You'll See Today (And We Kind Of Love Them)

Two new international posters for Thunderbolts* have been released by Marvel Thailand, and we're betting you never expected to see the heroes getting in on the fun during Songkran. Check them out here...

By JoshWilding - Apr 15, 2025 04:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Thunderbolts

Thunderbolts* is right around the corner, and two new international posters for the movie have hit social media today. Celebrating various Thai landmarks, the one-sheets show the team getting involved with Songkran, the world's biggest water fight. 

This isn't something we'd ever expect to see on screen, but honestly, it's kind of awesome for this team of anti-heroes to get in on the fun!

For those of you who may not be aware, Songkran, Thailand's traditional New Year, is celebrated April 13-15 and marks the start of the rainy season. Rooted in Buddhist and Hindu traditions, it features water fights symbolizing purification and renewal. 

Talking to Fandango this week, U.S. Agent actor Wyatt Russell revealed where we find John Walker when Thunderbolts* begins. "You find him where you left him," he admitted, "and what’s fun to do for me was to gradient this person from this bravado guy who has convinced himself he is fantastic in every way into a normal human being."

Ant-Man and The Wasp star Hannah John-Kamen also reprises her role as Ghost in the movie and teased, "She's very much a lone wolf and she's very much stubborn with that, and it’s gonna be very a difficult job to be around people. She's not vulnerable, she's not shaking, she's not an open nerve of fearing her death, it’s kinda controlled."

We can also bring you word today that the Thunderbolts* social media embargo lifts on April 22 at 4.30pm ET. As for reviews, those will go live at 12pm ET on April 29, the day after the movie's world premiere screening in Los Angeles.

Check out these new posters for Thunderbolts* below. 

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In Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes - Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker. After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, these disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.

Will this dysfunctional group tear themselves apart, or find redemption and unite as something much more before it’s too late?

The cast of Thunderbolts* will be led by Florence Pugh as Yelena Boleva, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and Lewis Pullman as "Bob."

Written by Eric Pearson, Lee Sung Jin, and Joanna Calo, and directed by Jake Schreier, Thunderbolts* is currently set to be released in theaters on May 2, 2025.

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theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 4/15/2025, 4:47 AM
Lazy and shite AI drivel. Pay an illustrator you tight [foo foo]s.
DTor91
DTor91 - 4/15/2025, 4:48 AM
This is some obviously AI bullshit.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 4:57 AM
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MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/15/2025, 9:46 AM
@ObserverIO -

Why aren't all the guys blasting Yelena, Ghost, and fake Taskmaster, while the ladies are screaming and laughing with big smiles?
Gabimaru
Gabimaru - 4/15/2025, 4:58 AM
The marketing team is killing it with the thunderbolts despite AI generated
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 4:59 AM
Although these did at least make me laugh a little. Which makes them better than the previous AI Thunderbolts posters.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 4/15/2025, 5:00 AM
I ran these through a couple of online AI checkers and, apparently, they're NOT AI.
lord22
lord22 - 4/15/2025, 5:02 AM
@JoshWilding - even worst then
DTor91
DTor91 - 4/15/2025, 5:40 AM
@JoshWilding - Speaking as an artist, no, they totally are. Those detectors aren’t reliable either. I’ve run some tests on my own art even, and when I’ve had instances where it said AI….even when it was clearly drawn on paper. The detectors aren’t 100%, not even 90%, and can be fooled.

The dead giveaway immediately for me was Bucky’s index finger. His face looks compiled of different Sebastian Stan images, the mouth area has warping and blurring, strands of hair crossing over to the wrong side of the part, and the pupils are not aligned. The perspective on the soakers are off, and the lines are also warped. These are just the tells on Bucky alone. Also mighty wild how you can tell that’s Stan, you can tell that’s David Harbour, but that is NOT Florence Pugh there.

I can’t speak to how art directors treat every facet of these projects, but having done art for Marvel Crisis Protocol, there were times I had to make edits for the most minute things before. If any one likeness was off or characters were off model, I would have been given notes and would have to make revisions.

I’d wager these posters are AI generated, and then roughly painted over to try and cover it up, especially to make sure the hands have five fingers each. But there are always giveaways.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 8:06 AM
@DTor91 - Yeah I just took another look at Bucky after reading your comment. That's AI. Those detectors are seemingly quite fallible, I just said something similar below.
DTor91
DTor91 - 4/15/2025, 1:35 PM
@ObserverIO - Yeah plus on closer inspection, Harbour’s arm is clipping through Pugh’s vest lol.

Plenty of tells on the other poster too. Taskmaster’s soaker, once again, wrong perspective, and the stream being shot from it suddenly stops. The vehicle she and Ghost are in, the lines all over are really inconsistent. There’s just too many errors all around in these that wouldn’t be human made.
MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 4/15/2025, 5:04 AM
Movie will be fun, more than i can say about Cap4 and probably F4 too.
AgentofSH1ELD
AgentofSH1ELD - 4/15/2025, 5:34 AM
why do they all have water guns and Hawaiian shirts?
Vigor
Vigor - 4/15/2025, 7:39 AM
@AgentofSH1ELD - because this is the third act scene 😏
AgentofSH1ELD
AgentofSH1ELD - 4/15/2025, 8:33 AM
@Vigor - oh no.. its going to be like the 50's and 60's movies all over again.. I knew eventually Marvel would do this. Avengers go to Hawaii.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/15/2025, 9:40 AM
@AgentofSH1ELD -

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MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/15/2025, 9:42 AM
@AgentofSH1ELD -

It's a culture thing.

Some people in some cultures like this kind of anime type thing.

Because they're weeaboos.
Mrnorth1921
Mrnorth1921 - 4/15/2025, 5:36 AM
They aren’t ai. Disney owns a comic book company and animation studio. They don’t have to use ai and with the growing backlash against ai in art, neither marvel or Disney are gonna try to piss of potential viewers for the movie.
DTor91
DTor91 - 4/15/2025, 5:42 AM
@Mrnorth1921 - Secret Invasion would like a word. Loki posters had clear use of AI as well.

Disney is a corporation that’s all about money. They WILL cut corners where and when they can.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 5:45 AM
@Mrnorth1921 - These might not be AI, as Josh says they passed the Voight-Kampff test, but AI practically signed this one:
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Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 4/15/2025, 7:19 AM
@ObserverIO - This was already debunked to have not been AI.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 7:44 AM
@Killuminatic - Then whatever debunked it is obviously ineffective.

I'm not saying that AI is sentient, but it certainly has an artistic (for lack of a better word) signature and this is definitely the work of AI. Either that or a really good forgery by an artist trying to make it look like AI, although why would any artist want to do that?

Maybe these Voight-Kampff tests are just looking for distinct giveaway signs and found there to be none.

Hypothesis: If an AI-generated piece of work is then found to be AI by some kind of program or human inspection looking for telltale signs then these telltale signs would be known and could be removed, but the work would still be AI.
I think this is what has happened with this poster, because it is otherwise unmistakably recognisable as AI-generated work.

Just look at it. Look at some AI-generated work (anything Harryballzack posts for example) and then look at this. It's the same, distinct style. Then look at real people, they look markedly different. Untouched by AI manipulation.

In the same way that you can recognize a Whistler or a Monet, you can recognize AI. But like I said earlier, why would anyone want to forge that style, especially in this climate of anti-AI generated "art".
AgentofSH1ELD
AgentofSH1ELD - 4/15/2025, 8:34 AM
@Mrnorth1921 - Then entire opening sequence of Secret Invasion was AI generated.
Mrnorth1921
Mrnorth1921 - 4/15/2025, 10:17 AM
@ObserverIO - the actors confirmed that it was real. Bob actor said so. He doesn’t six fingers.
Mrnorth1921
Mrnorth1921 - 4/15/2025, 10:19 AM
@AgentofSH1ELD - yeah. But again the creators of the show insisted on that. Wasn’t Disney per se
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 11:03 AM
@Mrnorth1921 - I could wear a chicken costume and stand in front of you and tell you I'm not wearing a chicken costume, but I'd be lying and you would know that because it would be obvious I was wearing a chicken costume.

Are you saying that the Bob actor is saying that this was a [frick]ing photoshoot?! That's absurd. Patently absurd.

Just look at Bob's face. A face doesn't doe that unless it's filmed in super slo-mo and even then.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 11:32 AM
I think they used a little of this guy for Bob's face.
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VoiceofReason
VoiceofReason - 4/15/2025, 12:02 PM
@ObserverIO - Isn't this a play on the This is the End movie poster?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 12:17 PM
@VoiceofReason - That too. And Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey if you're old school.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 12:17 PM
* if you're old.

(no sugar coating it)
Mrnorth1921
Mrnorth1921 - 4/15/2025, 12:46 PM
@ObserverIO - he was asked about that specific
poster. And he says he remembers taking pics for it. And he doesn’t have six fingers. It’s five.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/15/2025, 12:47 PM
@Mrnorth1921 - Yeah I know, I'm not saying you're lying or anything.

I'm saying he's lying.
heisei24
heisei24 - 4/15/2025, 1:04 PM
@Mrnorth1921 - https://x.com/artofmaiimou
This guy is the artist of this poster (plus all other Thailand-themed posters). Feel free to check if it's AI or not.
theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 4/15/2025, 5:40 AM
OK then, use an illustrator who's style does look exactly like AI. Gimme some fooking craft lads!

I do like the silly vibe tho.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 4/15/2025, 6:30 AM
Did I just have an aneurysm?
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 4/15/2025, 6:31 AM
Good lord. A bunch of sad sacks here can’t even say it’s humorous… God you folks are dour.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/15/2025, 9:42 AM
@IAmAHoot -

Wait.

It's humorous?

It comes across as cringe for weeaboos.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 4/15/2025, 9:45 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - You make my point...
DTor91
DTor91 - 4/15/2025, 12:37 PM
@IAmAHoot - When AI is literally destroying careers, there’s nothing to laugh at.
Odekahn
Odekahn - 4/15/2025, 8:19 AM
“We” love them…. /snicker

Never change, Wilding. 😂
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