Ideally, a marketing plot like this would result in a nice split… but that doesn’t feel true in this particular case. The Thunderbolts, being a surreptitious way of assembling a new version of Earth’s Mightiest Heroe,s always seemed like the most obvious answer to the presented riddle, and I was hoping for something a bit more advanced.

Following the movie's opening, Disney's marketing mavens bring out the biggest gun in the Marvel Cinematic Universe arsenal.

The 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Thunderbolts” is directed by Jake Schreier with a screenplay by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo. “Thunderbolts” is more like “The Suicide Squad” than “The Avengers” as the movie follows a group of unconventional antiheroes who are forced to team up to take down a dangerous threat.