you come to realize that there are bad guys and there are worse guys and nothing else hey welcome back to screen Crush I'm Ryan Ary and this is all the Easter eggs references and little things you might have missed in the first trailer for The Thunderbolts asteris we have so many Easter eggs to break down and we're going to give you our theory on why this title has an asteris at the very end of the video and I'm promise you it's going to be really cool and we're also going to explain the big screen introduction
of one of my all-time favorite Marvel characters the century created by the great Paul Jenkins but before we get rolling I want to remind you guys that we are currently selling tickets for our screen Crush tour where we're coming to 11 cities for interviews exclusive content fan q&as and I just want to meet all of you guys for the first time and nerd out together you can find the link below or on our Discord which also has a link below so the song for this trailer is Where Is My Mind by the Pixies now for
us '90s kids this is a special song because it featured prominently in the movie Fight Club the song's lyrics are actually about scuba diving but in the context of Fight Club the chorus where is my mind referred to the narrator and his other personality Tyler Duran he literally did not know where his mind was because it was split between these two different personalities the Sentry is similar to Edward Norton's character in Fight Club he also has a dual personality now I don't want to give away too much because of potential spoilers for the movie but
I will explain his origin story a little bit later in the video I will say now though that I love this character and including him in the MCU is very very exciting yes yes yes so in the com Comics the Thunderbolts primarily consist of redeemed super villains they were created by Kurt buic and they first appeared in the incredible hawk 449 following the events of onslaught when the Avengers were declared dead so it makes sense that in this film we're seeing the Thunderbolts form while the Avengers are seemingly no more yeah for some reason I
still don't understand it either now despite sharing the name of Thaddius Thunderbolt Ross the Red Hulk the team is not actually associated with the character in the comics they were primarily led by Baron Zemo who we all assumed and hoped would make an appearance in this movie I mean this is his corner of the MCU after all now speaking of Thunderbolt Ross I wouldn't be surprised if the MCU version of the team is connected to Thunderbolt Ross and perhaps even named after this newly elected president we should also mention that Thunderbolt Ross has seemingly taken
on a bit of a Norman Osborne type role in the MCU such as him being a villain turned president in the comics the Thunderbolts were also once led by Norman Osborne and this could all be connected to that Aster in the title but like I said more on that in a bit I will say that originally we thought the Thunderbolts was going to be Marvel's to The Suicide Squad but now it looks like they're going to be more of a dark grounded team of superheroes more in line with Nick Fury's Secret Avengers from the comics
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screen crush or click the link in the description to get 55% off available in the USA and Canada the trailer begins with Y Elena belova knocking on the door of her foster spy dad Alexi AKA The Red Guardian now just say right now you know what doug you're right I always assume that everyone who watches our videos has seen like every Marvel movie multiple times so throughout the breakdown I'm going to stop and give you guys just a little bit of background on each character as a refresher and I promise it won't take long so
in the movie Black Widow we learned that Natasha was a child spy who was assigned to two Russian operatives Living in America in the 1990s her foster dad Alexi was also a super soldier known as the Red Guardian Elena Bova who who basically the New Black Widow now was her younger sister now afterwards Elena and Natasha would be trained as assassins in the Red Room which for decades trained in brainwashed little girls to become the world's most elite assassins now in the movie Black Widow which takes place between Civil War and infinity War Natasha El
Elena and their foster parents work to bring down the Red Room which was like a flying fortress in the sky this is where they discover that the red room's chief enforcer is another brainwashed assassin Antonio drov she is the Taskmaster who can replicate the moves of any person she fights now the movie ends with the task Master freed from her mind control and then leaving with yena and the others to free more assassins from brainwashing now y Elena was blit by Thanos so when she came back her sister Natasha was dead and gone so she
started taking assassin jobs from Valentina alra de Fontaine who is the director of the CIA now Val is a central character in this movie but we'll talk about her role later on the last time we saw y Elena was in the show Hawkeye when Val hired her to go after Clint Barton thinking that he was responsible for her sister's death it was actually a very sweet scene where she reached an emotional catharsis over her loss of Natasha she loved you and always wanted you see so the last time we saw Alexi it was the year
2017 in the MCU he had just been released from a Russian gulg and he was definitely not welcome in the United States because he stole secrets from Shield but now we see him living a bachelor lifestyle in America now his apartment is filled with fun little details like how he surrounds himself with American memorabilia and Veteran iconography now this makes sense because he was a bit obsessed with Captain America my great adversary in this theater of geopolitical conflict I always thought there was a great de of mutual respect notice there's this flag behind him with
an eagle that reads strength and freedom there's also this pine tree air freshener still in the package so you know this place Rees there's also a past du bill in his fridge this cup of plastic Cutlery this American flag glass and my favorite detail there's this poster of himself the Red Guardian now he's holding a hammer which is the symbol of the industrial workers on communist Flags but why does he have a poster well in the movie Black Widow we saw that he was kind of a celebrity in the 80s with his own line of
toys in the Soviet Union the tattoo on his right arm reads Natasha and Y Elena and cilic text with roses on it showing how he cared for his foster daughters and we also see his spy wife Melinda on a tattoo with the word for love in Russian underneath but wait why is he allowed to live in America I thought you said he was caught spying yeah but as we've seen in the MCU usually when Heroes do something wrong it's forgiven after they do something right like how the sovia Accords just kind of went away pretty
sure this guy's a war criminal now but whatever there was also an open border policy during the blip when nations were trying to find workers to run their econom iies so obviously Alexi came in during that time now the trailer kind of hops around in time and place so it's a little difficult to construct a plot from the clips we see plus guys I don't really like to break down the whole plot from the trailers because it ruins the movie for you and for myself but I do think that the fight where y Elena is
in the hallway is the opening fight of the movie where she breaks into a medical lab and afterwards she recruits her dad for help you feel fulfilled yeah so F so field and this could be even after she meets the other Heroes but what's important here is that he does not feel like his life has meaning and that she is getting a team together you son of a bit I'm in now the Marvel logo is yellow matching the color of the centuries uniform who don't worry I'm going to explain the centry in just a bit
so then we see El Elena on the mission that looks like a setup now notice how she's carrying two batons now this is a design that most black widows take after it was how Natasha would wear her uniform post Civil War now remember she also wore her sister Elena's vest after the movie Black Widow well if you're leaving then I guess you should take this I know how much you like so it's very cool to see how the two of them share their Battle Gear like how a lot of sisters actually share their clothes then
we see Bucky at a senate hearing so the pin he's wearing is the Seal of the United States Senate he could be getting called in to testify but I get the feeling from the trailer that he's like playing it legit now the last time we saw him he had kind of reached an emotional catharsis about his time as a brainwashed assassin and you know he helped Sam fix the boat now it looks like he's working with the government and later we see him at a fundraiser you kind of a dow look on his face so
maybe he's still trying to to atone for his sins by following in Steve Rogers footsteps remember Steve worked for shield as soon as he came out of the ice and maybe now Bucky is trying to undo some of the bad that he has done but he's also wary of serving any government you know because of his time as a brainwashed assassin which may explain the gloomy look on his face in this trailer then we cut to John Walker who is super depressed in the show Falcon and the Winter Soldier he was originally handpicked by the
government to be the new Captain America until some super soldier serum gave him an outlet to release his inner rage and he murdered a man in broad daylight now after Sam and Bucky took the shield back and Walker made his own shield and then we saw Val recruiting him giving him a new name a US agent now in the comics John Walker had a similar story he was an extremist who the government used to fill the role of Captain America when Steve Rogers walked away from the shield so Walker went a little crazy and Steve
Took The Shield back and then Walker became the hardliner superhero us agent in the show we also saw his wife Olivia and here it looks like he's now become a father but he is still obsessed with his past failure the article's photo here shows Walker when he was was first announced as the new Captain America now notice though the article is written in like the New York Times font and it is about his fall as a hero and also notice it is written by Rory bruan who is a supervising movie art director for Thunderbolts and
multiple movies that Thunderbolts took inspiration from like tenant red notice and first man and speaking of art Direction I like these two stars hanging from this mobile two stars just like how John Walker was the second Captain America the article here even name checks Steve reading while no one could doubt that the boots of Steve Rogers were big ones to fill by anyone standards so we see here that Walker is haunted by this failure and he's searching for how he fits into the world and like I don't blame him I also am a huge Captain
America fan and that is why we designed this I can do this all day shirt at our merch store showing cap Shield Through the Ages we also have our Ross 24 shirt the woo about to make a name for myself and lots of fun Act of the parody merch like get on losers we're walking the cursed Road Shopping our merch store helps to support our Channel and the links are below and then we get a few shots of that first mission that I mentioned earlier Elena watches a building and explode which at first made me
think the te might be in mad report you know the Anything Goes country that we saw in Falcon of the Winter Soldier but later we see a similar exterior with a New York license plate and a sign for daab Avenue so I'm wondering if y Elena originally breaks into this place earlier in the movie and then returns and meets everyone else she is wearing two different outfits so I definitely think this is two different missions so this hallway fight could be meant to mirror her sister's hallway fight in Iron Man 2 but to show that
the Thunderbolts are darker and more extreme the fight is darker and more extreme happening in Silhouettes and shadows while Natasha's fight was in a white hallway the fight ends with yena doing a double tap to the head to make sure her enemy is dead and Natasha did something similar but with her stingers and Iron Man 2o and then we see the mission where the Thunderbolts first meet so I'm going to throw a crazy Theory out here what if this fight takes place in the old Avengers Mansion say right yes so in Spider-Man homecoming we hear
that Tony has sold Avengers Tower Tony sold Avengers Tower relocating to a new facility Upstate but we never found out who bought it mysterious then later in this trailer we see Val standing in front of the same bar where Natasha flirted with Bruce Banner and the view behind them definitely looks like Midtown Manhattan where Avengers Tower is placed so what if V lured them all here to assemble her new team now I'll dive more into that theory in a bit but it sets up something really cool notice how y Elena walks by what looks like
IV bags and all of this gear looks like it was just thrown into the room again making me think that this is Avengers Tower and the people are just moving in and these IV bags could be there for Robert Reynolds who we see in a hospital gwn oh yeah sir what's going on with that guy okay so I'll go ahead and explain the century because I think it'll help us to understand the scene and why they're in Avengers Tower in the comics the century won is the all-time most powerful Marvel heroes he was basically Marvel's
Superman and he was there for the early days of Spider-Man the Fantastic Four Hulk and everybody else but for some reason everyone forgot who he was for decades even the century forgot who he was the comic begins with him as an alcoholic named Reynolds who slowly starts to remember his life as a superhero he later finds out that doctor strange and Reed Richards work together to wipe the Sentry from existence but they did this at Bob's request intriguing now the Sentry also takes his power from drinking a super serum which is why he becomes an
alcoholic in his normal like amnesiac human form so to me this looks like in the Thunderbolts the government bought Avengers Tower and they're trying to create their own superhero the century and this is why they're testing out different blonde hairstyles now notice the text here reads Watchtower and the Watchtower was the centuries headquarters in the comics which later also becomes the Avengers headquarters inspiring Avengers Tower in the MCU so it would make sense if the government conducted experiments to create their own brainwashed superhero and then they wanted him to work out of the Watchtower which
was the old Avengers Tower so y Elena looks at this crate which also has a few interesting items there's the schematics but there's also this list of different hairstyles that I mentioned earlier like I said these are all different hairstyles of the s country this almost looks like a list of different options again like the government is creating their own branding for a new hero this could be why this says do not release because they're waiting to finalize The Branding of this hero before they release it to the public then y Elena encounters John Walker
and I think they were both definitely sent here by V since they each have taken jobs from her in the past I also want a flag that y Elena's haircut mimics Natasha's hair in Infinity war and it's also the same hair that she has at the very end of Black Widow this could have been the last haircut that El Elena ever saw her sister wearing which is why she's emulating it here now notice how John Walker immediately takes a shot at El Elena's head unlike Thor you should have gone for the head and she uses
this bulletproof case as a shield so I think this could be a case that she was sent here to retrieve which is how she knew it would be bulletproof then she's rescued by the Taskmaster so this MCU version of the character was first introduced in the Black Widow movie like I said earlier so Taskmaster owes y Elena and Natasha her life which is why she's helping her out here now in the comics task master has served as a fa to Spider-Man Captain America and even Ant-Man he's known for being really funny almost like Deadpool and
I really hope that Antonia keeps that tradition going in the MCU and then we see ghost or Ava star who was introduced an Ant-Man of the WASP Quantum Mania as a child she was exposed to Quantum energy which gave her the ability to phase albeit uncontrollably when Janet returns from the quantum realm she is able to help Ava control her phasing and at the end of Ant-Man of the WASP Scott Lang was in the quantum realm to collect these Quantum particles for ghost that would have helped her to maintain her phasing but then thanos's snap
happened and Ant-Man was stuck in the quantum realm for 5 years tough luck dude so this makes me think that Ava was never truly cured because you know Scott was stuck in the quantum realm but now at least her condition has stabilized now there are so many cool details in this fight y Elena pulls this knife on John Walker later he throws it at Ava and she phases so it goes right through her head crazy good toss and then she phases back to catch it so we're seeing here that she does indeed have greater control
over her abilities then she throws the knife at T Master it ricochets off her shield and then Walker catches it and then tries to drive it back into Elena's face so this knife gets passed between all of them giving everyone a chance to Showcase their powers but the significance of the knife is that it's traditionally the tool of an assassin which is what all of these people are notice she lat a stinger gauntlets which she did not wear in the movie Black Widow so this is another tribute to her sister and then Bob Reynolds crawls
out of a box now he is played by Lewis pman the son of this guy somehow Palpatine returned sorry I meant this guy at last we meet for the first time for the last time he was originally going to be played by The Walking Dead Steven young but then the strike last year caused a lot of reshuffling to this cast and then we see that they were all set up but I don't think this is a setup to kill them I think this is a setup to recruit them Val wanted to see if they could
work together as a team afterwards they go upstairs to her Suite where she offers them a chance to assemble into a new team but more on that in just a bit and then we see shots of Elena on that first mission holding these vials now I 100% these vials are tied to the century this could be the ser that they use to give Bob his powers which is why all of these super soldiers would have a vested interest in what happens to Bob he is another brainwashed hero who's being used by the government and then
we see the manipulator vow at a fundraiser so the banners behind her tell us that they are honoring the heroes of the Battle of New York in NYC notice that we see a banner of Hawkeye and Iron Man and various artifacts from the battle in the first Avengers movie like later we see a chitauri weapon like the one recovered in the excellent short film item 47 and then in the foreground here we see Loki scepter so the scepter was essentially discarded after Ultron pulled the mindstone from it in Age of Ultron also this tooth in
the middle looks like the tooth of a chitari leviathan now this is all really fun but look this is not just Easter eggs this movie seems concerned with the theme of Legacy many of these Heroes and anti-heroes are living in the shadow of former Avengers and they're trying to live up to the example that they set or they owe these Avengers some kind of debt like the Taskmaster or ghost now Val is assembling this team of Misfits who all feel like they owe something something to the dead which is going to make them easier to
manipulate now Valentina algra de Fontaine is a character who first appeared in the Nick Fury Agents of Shield comic books very long story short she's a spy she's a double AG at at Point she worked for Hydra and at Point she was Nick Fury's lover so the MCU has used her basically is a way to be like Nick Fury appearing here and there to assemble different Heroes together the last time we saw her was in wakanda Forever when we learned she was head of the CIA and the ex-wife of Everett Ross in that movie we
learned that the government wants to take offensive action against wakanda they went to destabilize the realm which could be a key factor in the just announced third black panther film also directed by Ryan cougler and then we get this awesome shot of Y Elena running through the woods and then bursting through a wall and falling through a ceiling then she lands at a meal table and this room looks a lot like the training room we saw in the Red Room flashbacks in Age of Ultron so here I think we're seeing that El Elena is trapped
in some kind of mindscape maybe she's entered Bob's mind you know to help him deal with the schizophrenia and then she got lost inside of her own or maybe she's been injected with some kind of mind control drug but I definitely think that her running through her own mind you know like the lyric where is my mind is going to end up being related to Bob's fractured psyche now this shot of her diving through a wall that then like the camera rotates and becomes a ceiling seems like it's pulled from the incredible Michelle gandre film
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind actually person I think you're confusing your Charlie Koffman films about the subconscious the sequence you're describing appeared in spite Joneses Being John malovich oh you're right sorry about that now speaking of Bob Reynolds we see him standing in front of arm gunman and he's done his hospital gown and he's been shot full of holes visually this is similar to Luke Cage in the Netflix series who made ripped hoodies a fashion statement in Harlem now Bob seems surprised here like he had no idea that he had abilities this would also
tie into his Amnesia that's in the comics but in the MCU he's a person who's been experimenting on and he's trying to remember who he is again where is his mind so after a badass shot of ghost using a knife to slide down the same Elevator Shaft we saw earlier we get this moment of Bucky getting his assignment as he's just washed his vibranium arm in the dishwasher now this is really funny but it's also symbolic of how he's trying to wipe his hands clean of all the blood he spilled but remember guys this is
not the same vibranium arm he was gifted in Infinity War where's the fight nebula stole that arm and gave it to Rocket and the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special F arm it looks like the wakandan offered him a replacement arm that looks exactly the same now notice he's on the phone with someone which is why I think that this is Val giving him a mission to go after or to assist her new team also small detail here notice how in the dishwasher Bucky tucked a small glass underneath the arm when he cleaned it no
wasted space and then we see a shot of Bucky in Avengers Tower what's the plan and this is either Val giving him the assignment or when he formally joins this new team after the shot of Elena stealing the serum we see John Walker outside that building that we saw earlier and notice how the Red Guardian is actually fighting behind him maybe for this Mission y Elena went inside and her dad stayed outside on Lookout and oh by the way I forgot to mention in the shots of Walker earlier notice how dirty and tainted his shield
is now in the comics his shield was black and red but also this is showing us how Walker feels like he has tainted the legacy of Captain America and his own legacy as a hero and a soldier and then we see this awesome desert Chase now notice the Thunderbolts are in a stolen car with Diplomat plates which is why Alexi thinks that this glass will be bulletproof don't what she's bulletproof now this entire sequence with the Humvees seems like a reversal of Iron Man's opening scene where Tony the hero was attacked while he was in
a Humvee again we're seeing the past of the MCU being subverted and reversed to become something darker Bucky is chasing them either to catch them or to help them is that Bucky and then he does a stopy the same move that Natasha does in Age of Ultron and then we see Geraldine vishan looking at brain scans so I think these are definitely scans of Bob Reynolds like I said he has two personalities a light side and a dark side like the narrator in Fight Club now I do believe that the Bears IO adab bever was
originally cast in this role but she left the project because of shooting conflict stemming from the strike so this looks like a modified version of the century logo which in the MCU looks more like the logo to The Incredibles and then we get the scene where the Thunderbolts arrive at Val's Penthouse now I think it's interesting that the last time we saw the Avengers in this space and Avengers endgame they were going down in an elevator but the Thunderbolts are seeing going up showing us how The Avengers as we knew them are gone but the
Thunderbolts are rising to replace them now like I said earlier I think that Val or the CIA have bought Avengers Tower here we can even see the boxes from that they're moving in and I think it's hilarious that they cleaned this entire room out but Val wanted to keep the bar you know the one that Bruce and Natasha hid behind sorry don't turn green ion so Val bought this tower for her new team and I think she wants the century to lead this team as he's being mind controlled by her of course and this could
also explain why y Elena was running through a mindscape earlier because she was trying to escape her own mind to rescue Bob now the in sequence is this Humvee attack which is beat for beat like Bucky's first appearance and the Winter Soldier when he attacks Nick Fury's car so like I said earlier I have a theory here I think the MCU is finally adapting the dark Avengers this storyline happened in the aftermath of Civil War when Norman Osborne ran shield and formed his own team of villains but then he called them Heroes and that team
by the way included the century and like I said earlier this is also similar to how the Thunderbolt started off in the comics so for years we have wondered why nobody has reassembled the Avengers but now we know because the government was always waiting to get a team of Avengers together that they can manipulate at and control all of these heroes are some kind of shade of a past Avenger super soldiers assassins and the century is a strong hero with long blonde hair and a split personality kind of like a combination of Thor and Hulk
and I think that is why this title has an asterisk at some point maybe at the end of the movie that is going to be replaced with dark Avengers and I can't wait guys we finally have a new MCU Team Up movie The Big Thrill of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is getting to see all of these different characters from different movies and TV shows meet me for the first time and it's finally happening about damn time and just a reminder everyone to give s bird a try click this QR code and use our code 55
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