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Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement also serves as a response to Thunderbolts* spoilers

Well, if certain actors are showing up in the movie, it almost certainly means they make it through their next movie in one piece, right...?

Thunderbolts* poster
Image credit: Marvel Studios

Marvel’s surprise reveal of the Avengers: Doomsday cast offered an unexpected side benefit of allowing Marvel to respond to rumored “leaks” of the plots of the upcoming Thunderbolts* movie.

As is traditional with an upcoming Marvel project, social media has been inundated with “leaks” of the plot of Thunderbolts*, most of which have been contradictory in some form or another, just to underscore how unreliable (read: likely entirely fictional) they really are. There were, however, two recurring rumors that appeared in such “leaks” over and over again:

  • Bucky Barnes will die early in the movie
  • The Thunderbolts will die before the end of the movie

Now that Lewis Pullman, Wyatt Russell, Sebastian Stan, Florence Pugh, et al have been confirmed for the new Avengers movie, it would definitely seem to at least be implied that they're going to survive Thunderbolts* in one piece — or else, they’re showing up as ghosts or flashbacks to such a degree that they’re being listed with the main cast of the film. Take that, people looking to spoil a movie with entirely incorrect plot synopses!

While the casting announcement was timed to accompany the start of production on Avengers: Doomsday, it’s fun to see the knock-on effect of it also allowing the studio to quietly push back against rumors in a method that’s traditionally not available. Let’s see more of this in the future… although perhaps not in the form of another livestream that lasts more than two hours, please.


Graeme McMillan

Graeme McMillan: Popverse Editor Graeme McMillan (he/him) has been writing about comics, culture, and comics culture on the internet for close to two decades at this point, which is terrifying to admit. He completely understands if you have problems understanding his accent.

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