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Marvel's been teasing the Thunderbolts movie
They just announced that they're introducing the sentry
during that. We think we know who that's actually going to be, so we'll explain
how that's all tied together with what Thunderbolt Ross and Val are doing.
It spills out of secret invasion
a lot of it's tied to what he was doing with the Super Soldier program
because there are so many super soldiers on the Thunderbolts as they announce them.
we also have a clip of the director talking about what
the movie is actually going to be about,
like why they're bringing all these characters together.
So of course, we'll break it all down.
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more videos for the movie for the century as we start to get more footage.
but it's basically like the MCU introducing its version of Homelander.
someone who's totally crazy in nine Invulnerable with crazy levels of power.
This is the clip of the director
talking about what the movie is actually about characters.
And is there something specific to those characters
that bring them together and something that they're going through that is,
you know, the most
traditional superhero story to be told? And
I think that's sort of similar to the way that we're looking at thunderbolts.
But there is a real clear take and perspective on these characters,
and there's a specificity to it And then also, you know, John Waters,
my roommate from college, and we're good friends.
And so knowing this, what a great experience he had making those films.
and I even did unit on like the L.A.
portion of one of the Spider-Man movies.
So like having a little bit more kind of connection or insight into that world.
But beyond that, it was just like a really different approach
and a new kind of story to tell.
And there were so many things, but it is, you know, it's not a sequel
and it's not, you know, yes, these characters have appeared before,
but it is a new story being told and a story,
I think, with a very different perspective than maybe people are expecting.
And I think that that felt exciting and felt like a real challenge worth
taking on.
when he talks about Bucky being the team leader, bring everyone together
and they're dealing with something together, it's
sort of like the sheer trauma, like everybody has issues
that they've been dealing with in all the previous movies.
They just spill over into this and the sentry character because he is
one of the most messed up characters in the MCU.
the reason why we're talking about the century
is because you price on your feeds.
This week that Marvel revealed they're casting an evil Superman character
from the comics to be one of the villains
of the Thunderbolts movie, if not the main villain.
They're kind of doing that thing where they say that
somebody is the main villain, but secretly somebody else is actually the villain.
Like Thunderbolt Ross Val is another good example,
kind of an anti-hero,
but also kind of one of the big antagonists, a marvel Phase five.
we got a couple of teasers for what's going on with that during Black Panther,
Wakanda forever with The Vow, The Thunderbolt Ross Vibranium plot,
we also learned that they just recast Harrison Ford in the MCU as Thunderbolt
Ross and will turn him into Red Hulk during Captain America four,
which comes out right before the Thunderbolts movie.
so all this stuff for the Thunderbolts, the sentry is meant to be connected.
when you hear evil Superman in the MCU, there are a couple of main characters
that come to mind, mostly Sentry in Hyperion,
two completely different characters, completely different backstories.
Hyperion isn't an eternal
like the ones we just saw in the Eternals movie with the same backstory
as Superman from DC, like he was fired from his dying planet to planet Earth.
and uses crazy Eternals powers to become a more hardcore anti Superman
kind of character
within the ranks of Marvel's heroes and villains in Squadron Supreme.
That's his big team.
His version of an Anti Justice League.
kind of like Marvel's version of the Boys seven team Sentry is also like Marvel's
version of Superman with the twist that he's totally schizophrenic.
He's a schizo type of personality disorder.
Not the same thing that Moon Knight suffered from, but similar.
Both of them have alternate personalities like Moon Knight has Marc Spector.
Steven Grant
We just meet Jake Lockley at the end of that series,
but he has something called dissociative identity disorder,
century's real name is Robert Reynolds.
He started out as a drug addict who was just down on his luck
and broke into a lab where he thought he could find a score.
He took what he thought was going to be drugs
that were going to get him high, but it wound up giving him powers.
It wound up being the golden sentry serum, which was a derivative
of the super soldier serum, part of the weapons Plus program.
it gave him the power of a million.
Exploding suns like that version of the super soldier
serum was way more potent than the version that the other super soldiers
on the Thunderbolts team got, or even Captain America got.
but the process of getting all that power
when he was already kind of broken mentally caused him to develop
an alternate personality called the Void, who's a totally evil version of himself
with an equal level of power, but different types of powers
so a lot of his backstory is similar to the backstory for Homelander
and the other boys superhero characters getting their powers from Compound V
but the whole picture is
is he's mentally very broken character he's not mentally stable.
So the whole idea is what if Superman but he's totally crazy,
which is where you get to the century in the MCU.
The reason why I say the mystery evil Superman
that Marvel is introducing is century and not Hyperion is because
of what Kevin Feige said at D23, that Thunderbolts presentation
they revealed what's going on with Val Thunderbolt Ross and their whole plot
to recreate super soldiers in the Weapons Plus program.
This pays off a long running Easter egg
that I'll explain in the second from the first Incredible Hulk movie.
in it, D23.
Kevin Feige very specifically remarked that Winter Soldier was going
to be the most mentally stable person on the Thunderbolts.
David Harbor, who plays Red Guardian.
So said, it's all about this group of fundamentally broken people.
Mentally broken, that is.
Who have crazy levels of powers.
Who find a way to work together and help heal each other slowly,
like, help each other
actually accomplish their mission, but also fix a lot of their mental problems.
They've been suffering from in a lot of them just happen to be super soldiers.
Kind of like Sentry is.
Technically, he's a super soldier,
even though it's a slightly different version of the formula.
through Captain America four In the Thunderbolts movie,
they're paying off this long running Easter Egg from the Incredible
Hulk movie with the Weapons Plus program, which is meant to be Thunderbolt,
Ross's renamed version of the Super Soldier program.
So, for example, Wolverine comes from the Weapon X program,
but X is a Roman numeral that stands for ten.
He's the 10th version of the weapons plus program of them
trying to recreate a super soldier using different means.
all the members of the team here come from some iteration of the weapons
plus program or some offshoot
in the case of the Winter Soldier with Hydra's Winter Soldier program.
thunderbolt.
Ross's whole thing with continuing the weapons plus program
during the Incredible Hulk movie and then in the present day,
they don't use to create more super soldiers, better weapons
that he wants to use
to defend the United States from other future Threats like that
shows the program that Bruce Banner was working on when he had his gamma
accident, giving him his whole powers was secretly part of the weapons
plus program Thunderbolt Ross just tricked him into working on it,
thinking that the program was meant for something else.
And because he got his powers in the U.S.
military's lab, like all the equipment that he was using
when he became the Hulk, belong to the U.S. military thunderbolt.
Ross thinks of the Hulk as the property of the U.S.
government and intends on taking that power for himself to become Red Hulk.
I've already done a much larger red Hulk video explaining the actual process
of how he became Red Hawk in the comics
and how they're changing that for the movie.
So we'll link that at the end of this and down in the description below
the reason why this is connected to the origin of the century in the MCU
is because Sentry also got his powers from a derivative of the super soldier
Serum Weapons Plus program in the comics century came from the same place
Deadpool came from called Department K, which was an offshoot of the Weapon
X program, the Wolverine program, which itself was a further version
of the Weapons Plus program.
so the century's origin is meant to be very similar to Homelander's origin.
A lot of the other boys characters, like Soldier Boy, started out as a dirt bag
or were broken people mentally and just got God tier powers.
He's meant to be one of the most powerful characters
in the Marvel Universe during World War Hulk, for example,
there's a bit of a World War hold plot that they're using
for Captain America four In the Thunderbolts movie,
it seems like he was able to fight world breaker hold to a standstill
with the fight
just going on
until they eventually wore each other out because neither one could kill each
other. But.
Even though they say he has the power of a million
exploding suns, his actual powers go way beyond Superman types of powers.
He has molecule manipulation and superspeed flight immortality.
He can heal people
extreme regeneration faster than Deadpool and Wolverine's regeneration Night.
Invulnerability, telepathy.
He can create forcefield shapeshifting energy manipulation,
whether manipulation In the comics, the way that introduces
character is in a Rashomon kind of story where he just wakes up
confused in present day, this kind of overweight, middle aged man
not really understanding what's going on, but slowly remembering who he is.
He's sentry.
He has all these got to your powers
Eventually he learns that in order
to protect the world from his evil persona, the void
he caused the entire world to forget about the century, including himself.
it was a way for Marvel to explain how he was created back
during the 1950s, 1960s, and he'd been alive this entire time.
While you're having all these adventures
with The Avengers, all these big crossovers,
but you're only learning about the century.
In the early 2000s, when they first introduced the character,
nobody knew about him because they pulled a Spider-Man.
No way home. It was just like the movie.
Just cause everybody on the planet to forget about the century.
at least until he remembered everything which caused the evil persona
within his mind to resurface the void, bringing that threat back as well.
so the whole idea is he's so unpredictable, so crazy
that it's even harder
to deal with him as a character and get him to do what you want than it is
to deal with a version of the full Hulk, like the mindless Hulk.
so the idea during the Thunderbolts movie is that you have this mentally unstable
team of anti-heroes trying to take down or talk down the sentry
in insurmountable nine invulnerable and totally crazy force.
so part of the whole joke
here, part of the pitch is that they have zero chance against him.
Like there's no way that they be able to stop him.
He's that powerful in faced with that, how do they wind up taking him down
or talking him down, talking him back to his senses And a lot of
this is about getting over past trauma and dealing with your mental problems.
They kind of address that during Falcon in Winter Soldier with Winter Soldier's
character being in therapy and slowly working through his problems
So right now my early theory is, is they have to face the sentry.
There's no way they can beat him and they won't beat him.
They'll find a way to talk him back to his senses The big surprise, though,
the actor they're supposedly casting as sentry is Steven Yeun
because Jake Schreier, the director, also did be the Steven Yeun series.
there's also why I've been using
all the invincible means during this video just ironic that it winds up being.
Steven Yeun In the MCU.
Let me know in the comments where you want Sentry to show up after this movie too,
because it sounds like he's going to be a pretty big character.
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