Thunderbolts\* Super Bowl Trailer Sees MCU Anti-Heroes Prepare To Face Lewis Pullman’s Sentry

With Captain America: Brave New World mere days away, Marvel Studios are already ratcheting up the promotion for Jake Schreier's upcoming MCU joint Thunderbolts*, which is set to see Earth's mightiest anti-heroes team up, The Suicide Squad style, to face a mysterious threat. Well, perhaps not quite so mysterious any more. After months of speculation, the latest trailer for the movie — which just dropped during the Super Bowl — seems to confirm just who exactly Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), and their fellow under appreciated ne'er-do-wells (Wyatt Russell's John Walker, Olga Kurylenko's Taskmaster, and Hannah John-Kamen's Ghost) will be squaring up against. Check out the trailer below and see what you make of it:

Yeah, we don't know about you guys but we're thinking Lewis Pullman = Sentry confirmed. On the whole, this latest look at Dark Aven— we mean, er, Thunderbolts*, offers up more of what the first two trailers gave us — Julia Louis-Dreyfuss' Valentina Allegra de Fontaine saying the Avengers have gone AWOL, assembling her morally compromised team, and then sparks flying between them as they learn to work together. All of which, might we add, is still looking great (every moment spent with Red Guardian is a moment we treasure). But where this spot breaks from its predecessors is in actually offering a peek at what — or, more accurately, who — Yelena and co have been looking up to the sky fearfully at all this time. And the lone, imposing figure with a mass of long, dark hair looking back at 'em seems to be Pullman's 'Bob', aka Robert Reynolds, aka schizoid supe with the power of a million-exploding-suns Sentry — essentially Marvel's answer to Superman. If you want to get real technical (which we always do), then it looks like we'll be meeting Reynolds' dark alter ego, The Void, the malevolent embodiment of all the evil and darkness within Reynolds. TL;DR version — our new favourite superteam are in a whole heap of trouble!

Can the Dark Aven— dammit, the Thunderbolts, set aside their differences and get their gun-toting, non-superpowered act together? Is the balance of power in the Marvel Cinematic Universe about to shift with the arrival of Sentry/The Void? Will any actual Avenger show up at all to prove Valentina wrong? And, for the love of Feige, what is the deal with the asterisk? We'll find out when Thunderbolts* hits cinemas on 2 May. In the meantime... Alexa, play 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now' by Starship.