Thunderbolts Big Game Trailer: Bucky recruits a team of villains to replace Avengers, Sentry makes explosive MCU debut

Thunderbolts have arrived in the MCU but have to face off against a powerful foe - Sentry, one of the most mysterious Marvel characters ever.

Published on: Feb 10, 2025, 05:59:45 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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The Thunderbolts are taking shape. And in a post-blip universe of the MCU, they are the unlikely - or rather unwilling - replacements for the Avengers. The new Big Game Trailer for Marvel Studios' latest superhero team up gives a closer look at this band of misfits, and also introduces the big bad - one of Marvel's most powerful characters. (Also read: Captain America Brave New World trailer: Red Hulk squares off against Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson)

Thunderbolts Big Game Trailer

Marvel released the trailer for Thunderbolts along with Super Bowl LIX, the biggest night on American television. The trailer opens with Val (Julia Loius-Dreyfus) proposing the Thunderbolts as Avengers' replacement to 'save the world'. Sebastian Stan's Bucky then recruits this bunch of villains to actually do that, even as they are unsure of their hero status. Joining him are US Agent (Wyatt Russell), Yelena (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen).

But the trailer's highlight is their adversary's introduction - the all-powerful Superman-like Marvel antihero Sentry. Lewis Pullman had been seen as his alter ego Bob in the first trailer, but here, we see Sentry dismantling the Thunderbolts with relative ease, and the fans just can't keep calm.

All about Thunderbolts

Directed by Jake Schreier and written by Eric Pearson, Lee Sung Jin, and Joanna Calo, Thunderbolts is scheduled to be released on May 2, 2025, as the final film of Phase Five of the MCU.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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