The biggest villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Thanos has arrived. But why is a group of superheroes — many of whom don’t really have superpowers — going up against someone so formidable? One of the hiding-in-plain-sight mysteries of the upcoming Marvel movie Thunderbolts* is the simple question of why this group of anti-heroes is tasked to save the world, versus whatever version of the Avengers is currently assembled. And now, in the most recent Thunderbolts* trailer, that question may have been sneakily answered.
In the new trailer, the lead villain, Sentry (Lewis Pullman), says menacingly, “Maybe I need to show you want I’m capable of.” Then, we see Sentry reach out his hand and apparently, flatten people into black smudges on the ground. Then we see people simply vanishing from a room. And after that, he says, “Avengers are gone.”
