Thunderbolts Turns Marvel’s Symbol of Hope to One of Darkness
March 8, 2025
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Ever since 2012’s “The Avengers,” Avengers Tower has stood as a beacon of hope and heroism in the MCU, but that’s about to change. According to “Thunderbolts*” director Jake Schreier, he intends to make it a “symbol of things taking a darker turn.”
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The filmmaker was speaking to Empire when he said, “We know what that tower means. Who’s the person you would least like to own that tower, that means so much to so many people? Can you use that as a symbol of things taking a darker turn?”
From left to right: David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier, and Wyatt Russell as USAgent in Thunderbolts* From left to right: David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier, and Wyatt Russell as USAgent in Thunderbolts* DISNEY
The very name of the landmark is darker. Schreier said that rather than Avengers Tower, it is now “Watchtower.”
The renaming is courtesy of Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, aka Val (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a woman who has become one of the biggest mysteries of the MCU. Acting as a kind of darker version of Clark Gregg’s Phil Coulson in the later phases of the MCU, Val has been patching together the Thunderbolts from projects like “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and “Black Widow.”
But unlike Phil Coulson, Val has shown us a very dark side, including trying and failing to get Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) to assassinate Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner).
When Schreier talks about “things taking a darker turn,” it’s unclear if he’s just talking specifically about “Thunderbolts*” or about the MCU as a whole. The latter might certainly make sense. Not only are we getting darker, bloodier content from Marvel with projects like “Deadpool & Wolverine” and the more recent “Daredevil: Born Again,” but if things go where all the teases are pointing, there’s no bottom to how dark things could get.
The Multiverse Saga has already introduced us to the idea of incursions: when two universes collide, destroying both. In the comics, these incursions force the heroes of Marvel to make impossible choices, including battling superheroes from alternate universes who are only trying to save their own realities.
We’ve already had this possibility teased in the post-credits scene for “Captain America: Brave New World.” When Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) confronts Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson) on The Raft, the latter says, “All you heroes protecting this world, do you think you’re the only ones? Do you think this is the only world? We’ll see what happens when you have to protect this place from the others.”
Whatever kind of darker turn Schreier is referring to, we’ll get a chance to see once “Thunderbolts*” hits theaters. Marvel’s next film releases May 2.
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