The Avengers have assembled to support Thunderbolts*, the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The Avengers have assembled once again — well, some of them. Marvel star Robert Downey Jr. posted a photo with some of his fellow cast members from next year’s major tentpole “Avengers: Doomsday” to watch the latest MCU movie,

While I won’t be sharing any spoilers for the latest MCU tale here, what isn’t a spoiler is that it was officially announced last month that many of Thunderbolts* ’s starring characters will be back for next year’s Avengers: Doomsday.

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.

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

Marvel's Cinematic Universe finally gets back on track and delivers a movie that doesn't suck by turning a bunch of villains in to antiheroes.