"Thunderbolts*", er, "*The New Avengers" is in theaters now and has reestablished some good will for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The movie is deliberately small-scale and low-stakes, following a group of lovable losers,

Following the movie's opening, Disney's marketing mavens bring out the biggest gun in the Marvel Cinematic Universe arsenal.

Ideally, a marketing plot like this would result in a nice split… but that doesn’t feel true in this particular case. The Thunderbolts, being a surreptitious way of assembling a new version of Earth’s Mightiest Heroe,s always seemed like the most obvious answer to the presented riddle, and I was hoping for something a bit more advanced.