Marvel Officially Retitles Thunderbolts as The New Avengers

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait, I thought the movie was doing well? I haven’t seen it yet, but reading the article it seems like this is more of a PR stunt to align with what happens in the movie. Apparently it’s revealed they are the new Avengers, so spoilers for everyone who hasn’t seen it yet I guess.

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  • Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, with the asterisk in the title and the discussion about it, I would think that this was the marketing plan from the start. The movie’s performance may have affected when exactly they decided to pull the trigger on the rebrand though.

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rumor has it that Marvel was worried it would bomb, and naming it “New Avengers” would put them in an awkward position moving forward. Thunderbolts was the backup-insurance-title basically.

    Now that the movie seems to be doing well, it’s getting its proper title.

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  • Schal330@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fortunately I’m not invested in the MCU as much as I once was. Probably worth chucking the spoiler in some spoiler tags though.

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  • thisisdee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I thought it is doing well. Reviews have been pretty good and word of mouth seems to be decent as well. This is 100% a spoiler for those who haven’t watched it. I did think it’s quite soon from its release to them revealing it publicly like this though

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FUCK!

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• fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thunderbolts*

  *name temporary

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  • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like the Washington Football Team or Utah Hockey Club, we’re just waiting for the focus group data to refine the name

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• ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This seems desperate.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So… Nothing’s changed since Endgame?

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Odd. I think an asterisk in a movie title is pretty eye-catching.

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• mendiCAN@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  no matter the title i need like 10 fuckin years off fore I’ll watch more capeshit. nothing against ppl that like it but enough. fuggen routine assed shit

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Patsy’s 70s were even crazier than she can remember.

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• porcupine@lemmygrad.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For anyone confused: this isn’t coming out of nowhere,

  minor movie spoiler

  it’s just the marketers trying to squeeze attention out of a spoiler at the end of the movie. They want to have their cake and eat it too by teasing the asterisk in the title as a mystery, then milking the reveal after a few days now that they assume anyone who cares about having that sort of thing spoiled has already seen it.

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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is that love sausage on the left?

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