Let’s Talk About the Thunderbolts End-Credit Scenes

Post-Avengers: Endgame, end-credit scenes successful Marvel movies have been incredibly inconsistent. If they’re not introducing immoderate instantly recognizable prima (Harry Styles, Brett Goldstein, Charlize Theron, etc.) who has yet to reappear successful immoderate capacity, they’re teasing a communicative that has yet to, or possibly volition never, travel to fruition. Marvel’s latest movie Thunderbolts doesn’t bash either of those.

The movie has 2 scenes during its credits, and portion 1 is mostly a joke, the 2nd straight references 2 upcoming movies, teasing their plots and more. Let’s speech astir them with afloat spoilers.

After the squad is anointed arsenic “The New Avengers,” the archetypal country sees David Harbour’s Red Guardian gloating implicit really being enactment connected a Wheaties box. Funny, but mostly a throwaway. What’s much important is the credits earlier that, wherever we spot respective magazines and newspapers question the validity of these heroes arsenic “New Avengers.” It’s a deficiency of assurance and popularity that plays into the all-important 2nd scene, which comes astatine the extremity of the credits.

In the scene, we spot Yelena, Ghost, Bucky, and Walker each successful caller costumes, spending clip successful the Watchtower, aka the aged Avengers Tower. They’re discussing the information that there’s nationalist disorder implicit who the Avengers really are. Sam Wilson, aka Captain America, is seemingly putting unneurotic his ain Avengers and is not blessed astir this squad of “New Avengers.” Bucky, a bully person of Sam’s, talked to him astir it and it did not spell well. In fact, it seems Sam is considering copyrighting the word “Avengers.” This leads to a comic infinitesimal wherever Red Guardian proposes they spell by the “New Avengerz” with a “Z” to debar copyright infringement.

Yelena feels the unit astir of each though, particularly since she feels they’re being frozen retired of accusation astir a existent “space crisis.” successful space. Using their precocious technology, they bring up footage of an “extra-dimensional” incident. It’s a precise sleek-looking vessel coming into Earth’s ambiance and, erstwhile they zoom successful connected it, there’s a large “4” connected the side. Clearly, we’re watching the infinitesimal the Fantastic Four permission their retro timeline and get successful the main timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, close connected docket for Avengers: Doomsday.

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So, obviously, there’s a batch to sermon here. The archetypal is the precise absorbing struggle acceptable up by Valentina calling these characters the “New Avengers” retired of nowhere. Clearly the archetypal Avengers, pb by Sam Wilson, bash not similar that. Who are those different Avengers, though? Sam was tasked with putting a squad backmost unneurotic successful Captain America: Brave New World and he’s got plentifulness of radical to take from. Hulk is retired there, Thor, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Hawkeye, etc.

Hulk, Thor, and Hawkeye are each archetypal Avengers but, according to the Doomsday formed list, lone Thor appears successful the film. But immoderate operation of those characters oregon others (Ant-Man, Shang-Chi, Falcon, and Gambit are each confirmed for the upcoming film) would beryllium incredibly formidable.

So possibly Doomsday volition person a storyline astir which Avengers are the existent Avengers. But intelligibly that’s not the astir important thing. The astir important happening is wherefore the Fantastic Four are traveling to this timeline. Are they chasing Doctor Doom? Something else? And is that happening during Doomsday oregon earlier it?

We’ll find retired successful July erstwhile The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters. Then each of these characters and galore caller ones volition look unneurotic adjacent summertime successful Avengers: Doomsday.

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