THUNDERBOLTS* TV Spot Sees Bucky Set Out To Assemble A New Team In A World Without The Avengers

THUNDERBOLTS* TV Spot Sees Bucky Set Out To Assemble A New Team In A World Without The Avengers

Marvel Studios has released an extended TV spot for Thunderbolts* that sees Bucky Barnes assemble a team - the New Avengers? - to take on the villainous Void. Take a look at what's to come right here...

By JoshWilding - Apr 05, 2025 03:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Thunderbolts

The cast of Thunderbolts* has been officially added to Avengers: Doomsday, but is this team of heroes the "Thunderbolts" or the "New Avengers"? That asterisk stands for something, and the latter seems likely.

A new extended TV spot for Thunderbolts* has been released today, and it sees Bucky Barnes set out to assemble a reluctant team made up of characters from the likes of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Black Widow, and Ant-Man and The Wasp

They need to assemble to battle The Sentry (The Void?) in a world without The Avengers. Can they possibly put their differences aside and prove themselves true heroes, given their respective pasts? That looks set to be a huge part of this movie's story. 

"I've seen a lot of synopses out there that just say, as though it's a fact, that it's a team assembled by Valentina to go do bad things," Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier explained in a recent interview. "I understand why that would be the assumption, but that is not the story."

"[Yelena Belova is] front and center. Yelena is in a certain place at the beginning of the film, and how she finds her way out of that place, and who she finds herself out of that place with, is at the heart of the story."

“It’s exciting to think of movies like Ronin or Reservoir Dogs, where you have a group of people that has no reason to trust each other," the filmmaker added. "Could they even learn to work together? What sort of conflicts would arise?"

Tickets for Thunderbolts* go on sale this Monday, and at the very least, we're anticipating new posters from premium format screen companies like IMAX, 4DX, and Screen X. Will The Sentry finally be revealed? For now, Marvel Studios is making us wait.

You can watch this new Thunderbolts* TV spot in the player below. 

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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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/5/2025, 3:25 PM
This world without an Avengers is such a good universe.
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 4/5/2025, 3:34 PM
Want a world without red guardian
blackiron777
blackiron777 - 4/5/2025, 4:41 PM
@AllsNotGood - thank you someone finally said it. He is the most annoying character in the MCU for me. His inclusion in this movie really has me not wanting to go see. I’m sick of the over acting cringe humor.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 4/5/2025, 3:38 PM
No heroes? Why doesn't Bucky call his best buddy Falcon Cap? How about Rhodey? Doesn't he have deep ties with Wakanda? Why not give Shuri Panther a ring?

I think this movie will be fine but Marvel writing is stupid. We just saw Bucky in Falcon Cap. Bucky knows all the living Avengers.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/5/2025, 3:44 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - * Bucky knows all the living "Avengers".
Taonrey
Taonrey - 4/5/2025, 3:51 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - that’s just the problem with doing a big universe (comics have had this issue for as long as they been around)
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 4/5/2025, 4:25 PM
@Taonrey - I guess so but the MCU used to be so tightly wound in this regard.
Taonrey
Taonrey - 4/5/2025, 4:34 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - maybe in your phase 1 but it’s been an issue since phase 2. It’s definitely been worse since endgame though
Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 4/5/2025, 6:13 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - You ever thought that they might explain this once you watch the film?

You’re asking the same question people have been asking since the very first Avengers film.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 4/5/2025, 11:06 PM
@Killuminatic - They are going to explain why there is a threat to the planet type villain and Bucky can't go to any of the 50 heroes he knows?

It's bad planning. It's bad writing and it lacks the cohesive glue as the first. With the Guardians, they were in space. In your example, of course there were these kinds of things. Those movies weren't marketing the fact that for the reason for this team to come together are because there are no heroes or Avengers.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 4/5/2025, 3:49 PM
Portraying The Void through obfuscation works really well. As well as the tiniest glimpse of a red spark coming out from his eyes while he is covered in shadows. I am getting more excited to see this next month.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 4/5/2025, 4:36 PM
@NinnesMBC - the Void has been depicted in different ways in the comics but I do like this iteration

It fits the shadow powers given.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/5/2025, 4:51 PM
@NinnesMBC -
Obfuscation the way they've done it is probably the cheapest and easiest way to do the character. It works, but could have done more with the design - such as having the darkness be portrayed as flowing around him or it fluctuating slightly when he attacks.

Would be neat to see them do this visual, given the lack of our chances of getting Venom Vs Spider-man:
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NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 4/5/2025, 5:23 PM
@TheVisionary25 - The most known one is when it goes all out into a berserk combat mode with red-lined tendrils. When it gets like that you know they're in trouble.

But yes I agree it looks good in this way.

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NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 4/5/2025, 5:34 PM
@Scarilian - The thing with The Void is that it advances and progresses taking over Bob's body the longer he isn't in control. It starts normal in him while he looks like Sentry and then it steadily starts changing until the gold and blue colors of Sentry are gone and it has morphed into something out of mankind's worst nightmares.

The longer the Thunderbolts+ take in bringing it down from inside Bob's mind the longer it could shape shift in the real world to resemble any of these forms.

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TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 4/5/2025, 5:46 PM
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Less monstrous versions of The Void.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 4/5/2025, 8:26 PM
@TheVisionary25 - The first two depictions are supposed to be his "Dark Sentry" phase when the Void had a new hold on it. That design reminds me of Adam Warlock's evil other self, Magus. (Would be cool to see if those two squared off in any of the upcoming Avengers films)

And there is also this simpler look for the Void.

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MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 4/5/2025, 3:54 PM
@JoshWilding

OT:
Captain American…(Dis) 2,380 (-520) theaters, Fri $375K (-50%), 3-day $1.4M (-51%), Total $199.1M/Wk 8

Cap 4 won't have reached $200 million after full 8 weeks/56 days.

It will cross that threshold on it's 9th weekend, when it will fall out of the top 10.


PapaBear562
PapaBear562 - 4/5/2025, 4:15 PM
I'm looking forward to this film. It's the only one that actually looks like it will be entertaining.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 4/5/2025, 4:38 PM
Seems good!!.

I actually really love the trajectory for Bucky in this as him being the one to unify the team it seems and be there for them in order to find the redemption that he’s been given , he’s essentially paying it forward which I like.

I truly hope becomes and stays the leader of this team and not Yelena , atleast as of yet.
THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 4/5/2025, 4:49 PM
I honestly don’t care about Thunderbolts.

But interested in seeing The Void , however knowing Marvel they will [frick] him up.

So whatever.

For [frick]s sake
Mrnorth1921
Mrnorth1921 - 4/5/2025, 5:50 PM
@THEKENDOMAN - Paul Jenkins was hired as a consultant to help implement the Sentry into the MCU. If you don’t know who that is, that’s the guy who created the character. So I have faith that Void and Sentry will be done well.
THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 4/5/2025, 5:56 PM
@Mrnorth1921 - Nice, just read up on Jenkins. 👊🏿

Ok, well like I said I'm looking forward to seeing Sentry/Void, but you know even with the consulting, Marvel has the final cut.

So lets see and hope we get what we deserve.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/5/2025, 5:59 PM
@Mrnorth1921 - Actually Stan Lee created the character and he was one of the first MCU heroes with his own solo movie in Phase One, but we've all forgotten that.
Mrnorth1921
Mrnorth1921 - 4/5/2025, 6:09 PM
@ObserverIO - ;)
MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 4/5/2025, 5:16 PM
I am looking forward to the New Avengers*!
NGFB
NGFB - 4/5/2025, 5:48 PM
TAKE MY MONEY!!!
Mrnorth1921
Mrnorth1921 - 4/5/2025, 5:55 PM
I love the Void. If they do make his movie, I hope we see other variations like the comics.
OgHerManM
OgHerManM - 4/5/2025, 6:12 PM
Mmm makes my balls nice and itchy!

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