While the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) preps to unleash Red Hulk with Captain America: Brave New World this week, Marvel gave fans a closer look at Thunderbolts* with a new Super Bowl LIX trailer that highlights the group’s many different skills as well as what seems to be a sneak peek at its main villain, Sentry.
The commercial aired as part of the Big Game today, highlighting characters like Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, David Harbour’s Red Guardian, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and more. It’s an action-packed video that only gave football fans a taste of what’s in store, with the full two-and-a-half-minute trailer showing up online to reveal even more from Marvel’s latest. Additionally, in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, we seem to get a few glimpses at Lewis Pullman’s Sentry as he wreaks havoc on an unsuspecting MCU.
Thunderbolts* is the MCU’s latest team-up movie. This time, however, the group is a bit more Suicide Squad than Guardians of the Galaxy, as many of its characters have dabbled in the bad guy life at one point or another. The film puts faces from across the superhero universe’s movies and shows in the spotlight, including characters from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and more. How the story will connect to the grand MCU plan remains to be seen.
We’ll learn about how the Thunderbolts will come together when it premieres May 2, 2025. While we wait to see what else the MCU is cooking up, you can check out every major Super Bowl commercial in our roundup here. You can also check out everything we know about Sentry, including his powers, origin, and comic book history here.
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