Thunderbolts* Trivia
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50 free Thunderbolts* trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Thunderbolts trivia quiz covers Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* (2025), the film that closed Phase Five of the MCU and quietly retitled itself The New Avengers. The easy questions cover the team, from Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova and Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes to Red Guardian, U.S. Agent, Ghost and Taskmaster, plus Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Valentina and Lewis Pullman's Bob. The harder ones dig into Project Sentry, the O.X.E. Group, the Watchtower, the shame rooms inside the Void, and the post-credits scene with the ship marked with a 4. Behind the scenes it covers Jake Schreier's asterisk pitch, the Beef writers' room reunion, Steven Yeun's exit and Lewis Pullman's arrival, the working title Oops All Berries, Florence Pugh's real jump from Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Son Lux at Abbey Road, the A24-style trailer, Scarlett Johansson's removed producer credit, the Utah locations and why an 88% Rotten Tomatoes score still could not get the film to break even. Every answer was checked against the film's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. For more Marvel, try our MCU, Avengers and Black Widow quizzes.
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Q 01Who plays Yelena Belova, the lead of Thunderbolts*?
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh insisted on doing Yelena's leap off the world's second-tallest building herself, emailing Kevin Feige until Marvel dropped its insurance objections.
Q 02What elected office does Bucky Barnes hold in Thunderbolts*?
US Congressman
US Congressman: Bucky was first written as a kind of lobbyist whom politicians used for propaganda, until Kevin Feige suggested putting him in the House instead.
Q 03Who plays Valentina Allegra de Fontaine in Thunderbolts*?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Louis-Dreyfus says Valentina's great weakness is her dread of losing power: she doesn't realise that she hasn't really got it, or that she doesn't need it.
Q 04What does the asterisk in Thunderbolts* turn out to mean?
The team is rebranded the New Avengers
The team is rebranded the New Avengers: the director pitched the asterisk as a note meaning 'until we come up with something better', and Marvel's marketing switched names after opening weekend.
Q 05In which city does Thunderbolts* open, with Yelena destroying a laboratory?
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur: Yelena blows up the lab to erase evidence of Project Sentry, and the film's final confrontation returns to a recreation of that same lab.
Q 06What position does Valentina Allegra de Fontaine hold in Thunderbolts*?
Head of the CIA
Head of the CIA: facing impeachment, she tries to save her job by unveiling a superpowered protector of her own to the press.
Q 07In Thunderbolts*, which corporation is behind Project Sentry?
The O.X.E. Group
The O.X.E. Group: Valentina sends her own operatives to one of its vaults with orders to kill each other, planning to incinerate the survivors along with the evidence.
Q 08Which character is killed early in Thunderbolts*, inside Valentina's death trap?
Antonia Dreykov, Taskmaster
Antonia Dreykov, Taskmaster, is killed by Ghost within minutes. In the writer's original draft she survived to the end and bonded with Ghost, and the change shocked him at the first cut.
Q 09Who plays Bob Reynolds, the amnesiac found in a pod in Thunderbolts*?
Lewis Pullman
Lewis Pullman asked whether Bob could be renamed Robert, having just played a Bob in Top Gun: Maverick; the director said the comics name had to stay, and Pullman grew to love it.
Q 10Which Thunderbolts* character hopes the team will end up on a Wheaties box?
Red Guardian
Red Guardian voices the hope in the film's Super Bowl trailer; Marvel answered with a poster styled as a Wheaties box, and by release day the cereal was selling a real limited-edition box with the team on it.
Q 11What has the former Avengers Tower been renamed in Thunderbolts*?
The Watchtower
The Watchtower: Valentina turns out to be the buyer of the building Tony Stark sold in Spider-Man: Homecoming, picked by the director as the person you'd least like to own it.
Q 12In Thunderbolts*, where does the name 'Thunderbolts' come from?
Yelena's childhood soccer team
Yelena's childhood soccer team, which never won a game: a teammate brings it up as a sarcastic jab, and Alexei proudly mistakes it for the group's official name.
Q 13What job is Alexei Shostakov doing in Thunderbolts* when he overhears Valentina's plot?
Freelance chauffeur
Q 21The Thunderbolts* director likened his film to which Pixar sequel, asking if the team can 'get out of the trash can together'?
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3: he meant its furnace scene, which works, he said, because you have come to care so much about the characters, a thrown-together team facing obsolescence like his own.
Q 22In the Thunderbolts* post-credits scene, who is in a legal dispute with the team?
Sam Wilson
Sam Wilson was asked to build a team of his own in Captain America: Brave New World, so by this scene, set fourteen months after the main story, two rival squads exist.
Q 23What arrives at the end of the Thunderbolts* post-credits scene?
A spacecraft with a large '4' on it
Freelance chauffeur: at the wheel of his limo he overhears where Valentina is heading, then races there and picks up Yelena's group before her strike team can finish them.
Q 14Who is Mel, played by Geraldine Viswanathan in Thunderbolts*?
Valentina's assistant
Valentina's assistant: Mel says she was still in high school when the Avengers first assembled, and in the film she goes behind her boss's back to contact Bucky Barnes.
Q 15Which villain did the Thunderbolts* writer want at first, before Marvel kept him for Captain America: Brave New World?
Red Hulk
Red Hulk: writer Eric Pearson asked for him as the villain and Marvel said no, because Thaddeus Ross's transformation was already promised to the Captain America film.
Q 16In Thunderbolts*, what triggers the emergence of the Void?
Mel using a failsafe kill switch on Bob
Mel using a failsafe kill switch on Bob stops him as he turns on Valentina, but his body blackens and he rises again as the Void, the embodiment of his depression.
Q 17What does the Void do to New Yorkers in Thunderbolts*?
Traps them in visions of their traumatic memories
Traps them in visions of their traumatic memories. Yelena realises the only way to stop it is from the inside, and walks into the darkness on purpose.
Q 18Where does Yelena find Bob hiding inside the Void in Thunderbolts*?
A recreation of his childhood bedroom
A recreation of his childhood bedroom, where Bob hid from his abusive father as a boy; Yelena urges him to face his pain, as she has, rather than stay hidden.
Q 19How is the Void finally defeated in Thunderbolts*?
The team hugs Bob and affirms their belief in him
The team hugs Bob and affirms their belief in him. The writer always wanted the fight to end with a hug, not a beating: when Bob attacks the Void himself, it starts to consume him.
Q 20What nickname did the Thunderbolts* filmmakers give the spaces inside the Void?
Shame rooms
Shame rooms: executive producer Brian Chapek suggested Sentry could only be beaten from inside the Void, and the rooms were staged as practical, in-camera sets rather than visual effects.
A spacecraft with a large '4' on it: the Fantastic Four's ship, from another universe. A cut gag had Bucky and Walker trade 'What's the number for?' lines like a 'Who's on First?' routine.
Q 24Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier brought writer Lee Sung Jin and other crew over from which Netflix series?
Beef
Beef: its creator Lee Sung Jin rewrote the script at the director's request, and the team saw the film as a chance to explore the show's ideas about mental health on a far bigger scale.
Q 25Before Sentry was added to Thunderbolts*, which character was written as the main antagonist?
John Walker
John Walker: Valentina was to tell him his powers were fading and keep him going on medication, secretly turning him into a time bomb the team would have to talk down.
Q 26Which swamp creature did director Jake Schreier consider adding to the Thunderbolts* team while pitching the film?
Man-Thing
Man-Thing: the writer said a swamp monster would have pulled the audience's eyes away from Bob, and a Marvel Halloween special ended up using the creature first.
Q 27What was the working title of Thunderbolts*, borrowed from a Cap'n Crunch cereal variety?
Oops All Berries
Oops All Berries is Cap'n Crunch with only the berry-flavoured pieces. The cover name fooled few: it turned up on state film-office paperwork, and reporters matched it to the Marvel film.
Q 28In which US state did Thunderbolts* shoot its remote outdoor locations?
Utah
Utah: the producers wanted a landscape audiences hadn't seen on film for one of the story's key sequences, the remote vault where the team first meets.
Q 29Which actor was first cast as Sentry in Thunderbolts* but left when the strikes delayed the shoot?
Steven Yeun
Steven Yeun had worked with the director before. He said the delays pulled him out of it, that it took many email drafts to say how sorry he was, and that he still wants to do a Marvel film.
Q 30Which actress asked for her executive producer credit on Thunderbolts* to be removed because she had no involvement?
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson was listed on the first teaser. When a former co-star congratulated her on the credit in a magazine chat, she replied that she'd asked to have it removed because she wasn't involved.