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 film's lead?
Florence Pugh
She insisted on doing the Merdeka 118 tower jump herself, and won the argument with Kevin Feige.
Q 02What elected office does Bucky Barnes hold in Thunderbolts*?
US Congressman
He was first written as a lobbyist; Feige suggested making him a member of the House instead.
Q 03Who directed Thunderbolts*?
Jake Schreier
His pitch presentation reportedly 'blew away' Marvel executives; he brought several collaborators over from Beef.
Q 04What does the asterisk in the title turn out to mean?
The team is rebranded the New Avengers
Schreier suggested the asterisk in his pitch to imply they needed 'something better'; marketing switched to The New Avengers after opening weekend.
Q 05Where does the film open, with Yelena destroying a laboratory?
Kuala Lumpur
Filming took place at Medan Pasar square and the Merdeka 118 skyscraper there.
Q 06What position does Valentina Allegra de Fontaine hold in the film?
Head of the CIA
She is facing impeachment for her work with the O.X.E. Group.
Q 07What is the name of the corporation behind Project Sentry?
The O.X.E. Group
Valentina sends her operatives to a covert O.X.E. facility to kill each other and be incinerated along with the evidence.
Q 08Which member of the group is killed in the opening trap?
Antonia Dreykov, Taskmaster
Ghost kills her in the confusion before the survivors realise they have all been set up.
Q 09Who plays Bob Reynolds, the amnesiac found in a suspended-animation pod?
Lewis Pullman
Another actor was cast first but left after the strike delays, and Pullman was Marvel's top choice to replace him.
Q 10What happens when Yelena and Walker first touch Bob?
They see visions of their worst memories
It foreshadows the Void's ability to trap people in their own trauma.
Q 11What has the former Avengers Tower been renamed?
The Watchtower
The film establishes that Valentina is the one who bought it from Tony Stark back in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Q 12Where does the name 'Thunderbolts' come from?
Yelena's childhood soccer team
The U.S. Agent is the one who coins it.
Q 13What job is Alexei Shostakov doing when he overhears Valentina's plot?
Freelance chauffeur
It lets him swoop in and rescue Yelena, Walker and Ava.
Q 21How does Valentina escape apprehension at the end?
She unveils the team as the New Avengers on live TV
She takes credit for their actions and the group goes along with it.
Q 22In the post-credits scene, who is suing the New Avengers for trademark infringement?
Sam Wilson
He has his own Avengers team; the scene is set fourteen months later.
Q 23What arrives at the end of the post-credits scene?
A spacecraft with a large '4' on it
Q 14Who is Mel, played by Geraldine Viswanathan?
Valentina's assistant
Ayo Edebiri was originally cast; Mel tips off Bucky and later uses the kill switch on Bob.
Q 15How is Bob's power described relative to the Avengers?
Stronger than all of them combined
His abilities include flight, super strength and speed, invulnerability and telekinesis.
Q 16What triggers the emergence of the Void?
Mel using a failsafe kill switch on Bob
The Void is described as the embodiment of Bob's depression and insecurities, amplified by the procedure.
Q 17What does the Void do to New York's citizens?
Traps them in visions of their traumatic memories
Its shadow imagery came from a real historical tragedy.
Q 18Where does Yelena find Bob hiding inside the Void?
A recreation of his childhood bedroom
It is where he hid from his abusive father as a boy.
Q 19How is the Void finally defeated?
The team hugs Bob and affirms their belief in him
Writer Eric Pearson always wanted the climax to be a hug rather than a fight.
Q 20What nickname did the writers give the Void's spaces that manifest each character's greatest humiliation?
Shame rooms
Executive producer Brian Chapek came up with the idea of entering the Void to beat Sentry.
It is the Fantastic Four's ship entering Earth-616; the scene was shot on the Avengers: Doomsday set a month before release.
Q 24Which Netflix series' team, including writer Lee Sung Jin, rejoined the director on Thunderbolts*?
Beef
They saw the film as a chance to explore that show's ideas on a bigger scale.
Q 25Before Sentry was added, who was going to be the main antagonist?
John Walker
Valentina was to manipulate him into thinking his serum was wearing off.
Q 26Which swamp creature did Schreier consider putting on the team while pitching?
Man-Thing
Pearson said the character kept pulling attention away from Bob.
Q 27What was the film's working title, a reference to a Cap'n Crunch cereal variant?
Oops All Berries
Filming began in February 2024 at Trilith and Atlanta Metro Studios.
Q 28In which US state were the film's remote outdoor locations shot?
Utah
Emery and Grand counties were chosen because they felt 'untouched by the larger world'.
Q 29Which actor was originally cast as Sentry before leaving over the delayed schedule?
Steven Yeun
He had worked with Schreier on Beef and the character was added with him in mind.
Q 30Which actress asked to have her executive producer credit removed because she had no involvement?
Scarlett Johansson
The teaser trailer had listed the former Black Widow as an executive producer.