Warning! Spoilers forward for Thunderbolts*.
Thunderbolts* simply shook up the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we all know it. With its shock ending, the most recent Marvel film launched the New Avengers, comprised of former Crimson Room murderer Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), US Agent John Walker (Wyatt Russell), ex-Congressman Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Crimson Guardian (David Harbour), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and the de-powered Bob (Lewis Pullman). Thrown collectively haphazardly by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) in a media ploy to avoid wasting herself from arrest, the New Avengers made their superb, if sudden, debut after saving Manhattan from Bob’s darkish alter ego, The Void.
However simply because they started with a splashy world-saving occasion doesn’t imply they’re going to be accepted instantly. Actually, the post-credits scene of Thunderbolts* exhibits that they’ve obtained fairly just a few obstacles to beat in the event that they need to declare their place because the New Avengers — and one in all them is an Avenger himself.
Thunderbolts* Credit Scenes Defined
Bucky Barnes’ relationship with Sam Wilson seems to be on the fritz following the occasions of Thunderbolts*.
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After a montage of newspaper clips questioning the validity of the New Avengers and their mysterious hanger-on, Bob, Thunderbolts* cuts to a mid-credits scene that includes David Harbour’s Alexei, aka Crimson Guardian. Hanging within the cereal aisle of a grocery retailer, he sidles as much as a random lady shopper, to level out the Wheaties cereal field with an image of the New Avengers emblazoned on the entrance of it. The lady is clearly not amused by this entire interplay, however Crimson Guardian, who had been audibly excited in regards to the prospect of being on a cereal field as soon as he realized Yelena had fashioned a workforce of misfit ex-mercenaries, doesn’t clock this. He arms the girl the cereal field, which she shortly tosses within the trash. However nothing can get him down, not even the troubling updates the New Avengers obtain within the post-credits scene.
The New Avengers, and Bob, have some convincing to do.
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Within the post-credits scene, the New Avengers are gathered within the New Avengers Tower, which Valentina has spruced up with their new workforce title and brand — a workforce title that’s now the topic of a lawsuit from Captain America Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie). Sam Wilson is suing the New Avengers for his or her title, having agreed to rebuild the Avengers through the occasions of Courageous New World. Not even Bucky’s friendship with Sam can get him to drop the lawsuit, with Bucky glumly alluding to his final dialog with Sam having gone “badly.” Nonetheless, Alexei does have an answer to this swimsuit: they modify their title to the New Avengerz — a reputation that he’s even mocked up some sweatshirts for (which not one of the workforce take). The workforce begins to surprise if, even with the backing of Valentina and the CIA, the New Avengers is lengthy for this world, particularly with their best asset, Bob, refusing to make use of his powers for worry that The Void will re-emerge.
However their musings are interrupted by a sudden blip showing from outer area. Yelena, with Bucky’s assist, manages to get their tech to provide them a studying: it’s an extradimensional ship, and it’s heading straight for Earth. And on the aspect of the ship, we see a well-recognized brand: The Implausible 4.
The Lengthy-Awaited Avengers-Implausible 4 Crossover
New Avengers, meet The Implausible 4.
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That is Marvel’s greatest reveal but for the end result of the upcoming The Implausible 4: First Steps. The subsequent Marvel movie, which introduces Marvel’s First Household, is about in an alternate-history model of the Nineteen Sixties the place the Implausible 4 have been working as superheroes for fairly a while. However with the Implausible 4 about to face off in opposition to the world-destroying Galactus, issues don’t appear promising for his or her Earth. May their look within the major Marvel timeline (aka Earth-616) imply that not solely does their world get destroyed, however their complete timeline? Possibly.
At the least, the New Avengers are on the case — they usually may use the Implausible 4’s assist in defeating Physician Doom. However the query stays whether or not the New Avengers would be the chief superhero workforce working with the Implausible 4, or whether or not Sam Wilson will collect up his personal workforce of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to provide the previous Thunderbolts a run for his or her cash.
