Marvel Officially Retitles Thunderbolts as The New Avengers

IGN (it sez here) ^ | May 5, 2025 | Jim Vejvoda

[SunkenCiv]

Marvel Studios has officially retitled Thunderbolts* as The New Avengers. The studio made the announcement on social media Monday with a change to the title on the film’s poster. And lest you think this is just a social media stunt on Marvel’s part, the New Avengers poster is already being used by AMC Theaters and Fandango to promote Thunderbolts ticket sales.

Marvel also posted a video of the cast peeling the Thunderbolts title off the poster to reveal The New Avengers underneath it at last week's Hollywood premiere as well as a video of Sebastian Stan changing posters at a bus stop.

The asterisk in the title of Thunderbolts had long been a matter of speculation until the ending of Thunderbolts revealed that Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, U.S. Agent and Sentry/Bob Reynolds were the New Avengers lineup spontaneously announced by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine...

Perhaps the movie will perform even better in the coming weeks now that general audiences know that the film is really a restart of the Avengers franchise.

The New Avengers – along with Sam Wilson/Captain America, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men – will return in Avengers: Doomsday, which is now filming in London. Doctor Doom star Robert Downey Jr. let the New Avengers reveal slip in an Instagram post over the weekend about him and his Doomsday co-stars going to see Thunderbolts but he later deleted the “New Avengers” mention from it.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: avengers; disney; marvel; thunderbolts

[SunkenCiv]

Another Disney bungle.

[SunkenCiv]

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[butlerweave]

NOT GOING TO HELP ,LOL

[Bratch]

[T.B. Yoits]

These are just cartoons with CGI instead of hand drawn animation cels, so it doesn’t look as obvious that they’re selling cartoons to perpetual children.

[ProudDeplorable]

Another dud. Disney truly ruined this franchise.

[Dr. Sivana]

The name's been taken:

[dfwgator]

You referenced the Avengers but didn't use a picture of Emma Peel?

[Codeflier]

Exactly - 75% of movies seem to be based on superheroes. Grow up already people! And yes, they are basically animated “cartoons” now.

[dfwgator]

"LIFE WELL SPENT!"

[Resolute Conservative]

Suck and will still suck.

[butlerweave]

They overdose on DEI and then think it will sell and if it doesn’t they get people from their movie to attack the customers ,LOL

[Celerity]

I guess since they’re filming in London, there will be a tariff on it?

Tickets will cost about 30 per person?

[larrytown]

Ding, ding, ding - winner, winner, chicken dinner.

[Southern Magnolia]

The Thunderbolts team was originally a group of villains (none of which are in the movie lineup) who decided to rebrand themselves from the title “Masters of Evil”.

“Masters of Evil” is more on target with Disney at this point, since they own Marvel (and Star Wars and the Muppets, etc ) now.

Casting freaking Elaine from Seinfeld is the bottom of the litter box.

[wafflehouse]

awesome another superhero movie.

[zeestephen]

Trying to replace The Avengers with The New Avengers is a REALLY bad idea.

Replace Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk...?

Really bad idea.

[Dr. Sivana]

You referenced the Avengers but didn't use a picture of Emma Peel?

She was in the original, NOT in the "New" Avengers, so I could not include her. She was excellent in the BBC "Bleak House" mini-series, MUCH MUCH better than Gillian Anderson would be later in the same role as Lady Dedlock.

[verum ago]

Hmmm. I've never read comic books.

But with the first set of MCU movieAvengers, I at least recognized many of the characters (who hasn't heard of Captain America, Hulk, or Iron Man?) and some of the actors.

But for this new set, I don't think I've ever heard of a single character, and the only actor (aside from Sebastian Stan, who's reprising his role from the earlier cast of Avengers) whose name I recognize is Florence Pugh, and even then I can't place her, just say I've heard the name.

It just seems like an uninspired, cynical, low-effort money grab to capitalize on the Avengers name, but well I guess that's Disney for you these days. Why make something original that stands on its own merits when you can recycle an existing IP by hollowing it out and wearing it like a skin suit?

[Retrofitted]

Don’t care what they do with the “Suicide Squad” redux, just don’t mess around with “Daredevil”, dammit! I like my vigilantes just as they are.