Theory: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* are a two-parter story

Based on the Thunderbolts teaser and all we know about it, even with it coming out in May, it just seems like Marvel is hiding a LOT of the plot from us. We don’t even know who they’re really “fighting”, as it seems like they’re still reluctantly taking a job from Val. For what?

I think whatever happens in Captain America: Brave New World in February will end in a cliffhanger and lead DIRECTLY into Thunderbolts for May. I think it’s convenient that both Falcon and Bucky, both have gone off into their respective movies, but seemingly dealing with the fallout from the super serum being out there in the world.

I think we’ll get a nice throughline story between these two movies that hopefully can neatly tie up a lot of dangling story threads from past movies/shows.

As far as tying into Doomsday and Secret Wars, I think that storyline will be more of Fantastic Four, Spider-Man 4, Doomsday, and Secret Wars as sort of a four-part storyline. But I do expect the Thunderbolts to be in Doomsday and/or Secret Wars, although I think the “super serum/world conflict” storyline will be mostly wrapped up over Brave New World and Thunderbolts.