Thunderbolts’ New Trailer Dropped a Large Tease for Its Precise Villain

Yesterday throughout the Tremendous Bowl, Marvel gave us another solid look at Thunderbolts, the ultimate film to bow out the present part of the MCU, as we put together to take some fantastic First Steps only a few months later. However whereas the trailer largely lined re-introducing us to its rag-tag team identical to our first huge look did, it threw in some very attention-grabbing seems at simply what these would-be-heroes are up towards… and it’s not nice.

Whereas Marvel’s nonetheless largely tip-toeing across the reality, it was already just about a provided that Lewis Pullman’s “Bob” in Thunderbolts was the truth is Robert Reynolds, aka Marvel’s most well-known reply to Superman within the comics, Sentry. We barely received to see Bob in the first trailer, and we see him even much less within the new trailer. Effectively, kind of. As a result of whereas we don’t see a lot of Bob himself as the person who will turn out to be Sentry within the trailer, we do see numerous, effectively, a Superman-esque determine inflicting an entire lot of chaos and carnage.

And they’re the truth is one and the identical.

Enter the Void

Robert Reynolds features his superhuman powers as a teen, when he steals a vial of an experimental pressure of the Tremendous Soldier Serum—one born from historic analysis by a fractured pan-nation coalition of scientists within the wake of Captain America’s look in World Battle II. Granting him huge powers of enhanced energy and pace, flight, invulnerability, and extra, Robert’s ailing psychological well being additionally reacted to his transformation, instantly subsuming him in a malevolent persona that that might turn out to be recognized solely because the Void. Able to wielding all of Robert’s newfound powers however with a wicked malice that lifted his restraints, the Void was countered in Robert’s thoughts by the creation of a heroic persona, one which he would finally manifest as Sentry.

The Void endured as a violent side of Robert in his thoughts, rising out of his management and with out his true information—believing for a few years that the Void was a separate individual and Sentry’s archvillain nemesis—to grimly stability the scales of his profession as Sentry. For each life that Robert saved as Sentry, the Void aspired to take one in flip, and it could take years of investigation earlier than Robert realized that Sentry and Void had been two sides of the identical coin. On the conclusion of his debut Marvel Knights miniseries, after the Void had slaughtered 1,000,000 individuals in Manhattan, Robert labored with Mr. Incredible and Physician Unusual on a plan to finish the Void’s grip on him: by erasing not simply Robert’s reminiscence of his powers and time as Sentry, however your entire world’s, the Void would now not have must manifest as a darkish foil to Sentry’s actions, seemingly eliminating the 2 altogether.

Within the years since as Robert has returned on and off as Sentry, so has the Void, with Robert additionally often nonetheless believing that the Void is a separate entity past his manifestation inside him, and has tried and didn’t both outright destroy or separate the Void a number of occasions. It might take, once more, a sacrifice on Robert’s half to seemingly vanquish the Void solely, albeit an unintentional one: when Sentry died within the 2020 occasion King in Black—torn to shreds by the titular villain, Knull—the Void remained as a lingering entity, selecting to undergo Knull and be absorbed by him solely. When Knull himself was overwhelmed by Eddie Brock on the climax of the occasion, the Void, solely subsumed by Knull, seemingly died with him.

The Void’s Powers, Defined

As the identical individual, the Void basically has all of Robert’s powers as Sentry in addition to the compulsion to make use of them for evil. However as we see within the new Thunderbolts trailer, he does even have a number of distinctive skills that spin out of them. The Void makes use of Robert’s capacity to control matter and power to not solely shapeshift his kind, but additionally mission clouds and tendrils of darkish matter, just like the one we see enveloping New York within the movie. Void’s “tendrils” themselves may also fluctuate in energy, both with the ability to merely ensnare and subdue opponents, or of their most centered kind, trigger atomic cancellation in an individual’s physique—disintegrating them solely as the sector sustaining their atomic and subatomic particles is dissipated. We appear to see some type of that within the new trailer, when Void “flattens” a number of fleeing civilians into black smears.

Though largely bonded to Sentry, Void can possess different hosts past Robert, too, simply as he did when he turned a part of Knull after Robert’s personal dying. Which implies when the Thunderbolts go up towards him this Could, not even killing poor Bob outright may have the ability to cease one of many Marvel Comics universe’s deadliest threats.

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