Final 12 months, Marvel revealed it had a film within the works for the Thunderbolts, a crew of villains and antiheroes attempting to redeem themselves. Whereas the principle forged consists of MCU mainstays like Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier and relative newcomers in Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova and Wyatt Russell’s John Walker, the movie additionally has some new additions in The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri and Invincible’s Steven Yeun.
Marvel’s been cautious to not reveal who both Edebiri and Yeun are portraying…which makes it all of the funnier the latter’s position doubtlessly bought leaked by Invincible co-showrunner Robert Kirkman. Throughout a latest stream with artist David Finch, he casually revealed that his “good pal” Yeun (who voices the titular hero within the animated Prime Video collection) shall be taking part in the Sentry. [Steven] known as me and he stated, ‘I simply got here again from a fancy dress becoming for the Sentry. I suppose I solely do superheroes which might be yellow and blue,’” Kirkman recalled. He instantly adopted it up by hoping he wasn’t spoiling something, then pivoted to simply not caring: “I don’t work for Marvel. What are they going to do to me?”
Within the comics, The Sentry—created by Paul Jenkins, Jae Lee, and Rick Veitch—first appeared in his personal titular comedian in September 2000. Initially an unusual middle-aged dude named Robert Reynolds, he steadily remembers his former life as a superhero with “the ability of 1 million exploding suns.” Upon studying concerning the potential return of his nemesis the Void, Reynolds will get again into combating form and crosses paths with a number of Marvel characters as a way to discover out why and the way nobody remembers him. He later discovers the Void is his different half, and that he beforehand wiped all reminiscence of the Sentry from all the world to ensure he wouldn’t reunite with himself.
Sentry has popped out and in of Marvel comics through the years, and when he reveals up, it’s generally within the orbit of the Avengers. He’s beforehand been a member of the principle crew and its Mighty offshoot, and even joined the Darkish Avengers counterpart when villains like Daken and Venom had been posing because the then-current crew. He’s not all the time a superb man, although; latest comics have made him an antagonist for different heroes attributable to his typically risky nature and the way highly effective he’s. Different occasions, a villain has taken his energy or hijacked his corpse to make use of for evil ends.
Energy-wise, he’s not far faraway from Superman, possessing flight, sturdiness, and superhuman senses and pace. However one distinction he has over the Man of Metal is that he’s really even extra ridiculously overpowered: it’s not fully clear what limits his powers have (if any), and he has a further suite of skills starting from manipulating molecules and darkness (when merged with the Void) to teleportation and resurrecting himself from loss of life. He typically chooses to carry again and provides his enemies a good shot, however within the cases the place he doesn’t, he could be a good better downside.
At time of writing, Marvel hasn’t stated both approach if Kirkman’s proper about Yeun’s position. But when true, it might be form of ironic to see the actor play a personality who by all accounts, would possibly really be…invincible. Assuming subways don’t become involved.
Thunderbolts is anticipated to launch in theaters on July 25, 2025.
[through IGN]
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