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.

Marvel Studios is no longer keeping Thunderbolts*'s big asterisk secret under wraps, as the studio has officially released a series of posters with The New Avengers name front and centre. Check it