{"id":611626,"date":"2023-02-25T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/who-on-earth-is-steven-yeun-playing-in-the-mcus-thunderbolts\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T04:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T10:50:00","slug":"who-on-earth-is-steven-yeun-playing-in-the-mcus-thunderbolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/who-on-earth-is-steven-yeun-playing-in-the-mcus-thunderbolts\/","title":{"rendered":"Who On Earth Is Steven Yeun Playing In The MCU’s ‘Thunderbolts’?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Glenn<\/p>\n

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Some huge MCU news broke this week, as it\u2019s been announced that Oscar nominee and Walking Dead alumni Steven Yeun would be joining the cast of Thunderbolts, the villain\/anti-hero-centric feature about a team of mostly criminals tasked with doing dirty work for the government. It\u2019s not exactly<\/em> Marvel\u2019s Suicide Squad, but it\u2019s about as close as we\u2019ll get.<\/p>\n

The cast for Thunderbolts has been changing over time, but we seem to have settled on some core characters. The series is supposed to be led by Florence Pugh\u2019s Yelena Belova, who will star alongside Sebastian Stan\u2019s Bucky Barnes. Also in the roster, we think, are Taskmaster, Ghost, US Agent and Red Guardian. They\u2019re controlled by Julia-Louis Dreyfus\u2019 Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and the one new cast member announced before this was Harrison Ford as Thaddeus \u2018Thunderbolt\u2019 Ross, who may be turning into Red Hulk at some point.<\/p>\n

But then, enter Steven Yeun in a total unknown role. Deadline reports <\/a>that he\u2019s been added to the cast and his part \u201cthat is not only significant to this film but could also play a role going forward in future films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, he\u2019s not just a one-off team member or villain, though he may in fact be<\/em> the villain. Based on comic lore, a common theory is that Yeun could be playing Sentry, Robert Reynolds, a sort of unhinged Superman with a dark presence attached to him called The Void, albeit probably without the long blond locks. He\u2019s a hero and villain wrapped up in one, but in this case, it seems like the Thunderbolts may be called on to stop him.<\/p>\n

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Sentry<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s one option, though if that\u2019s the case, the way this role is being described, Sentry would have to live to fight another day and appear in other projects in the future.<\/p>\n

Another Yeun theory is that he\u2019s not playing Sentry, but instead a role connected to his Korean-American heritage, Amadeus Cho, a genius who becomes a new version of The Hulk called Brawn. The idea is that Yeun (age 39) could be playing an aged-up version of Cho, and the \u201csignificance\u201d of this role could be that he is essentially the MCU\u2019s new Hulk going forward.<\/p>\n

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Amaedus Cho<\/p>\n

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Which of these holds more weight? I\u2019m leaning toward the Sentry idea. Why? I think we are already about to overload on Hulks, and I\u2019m not sure Yeun showing up as Cho right now makes much sense. Bruce Banner does not seem like he\u2019s going anywhere. He turned his cousin into She-Hulk, so that\u2019s another Hulk right there, and during that show he revealed he has a son, and the MCU seems gearing up for a Planet Hulk adaptation down the road. Also, we have Thunderbolt Ross as a potential Red Hulk, and there are rumors Liv Tyler could return as his daughter to be Red She-Hulk. Too many Hulks.<\/p>\n

Sentry on the other hand makes more sense, though I\u2019ve also heard some wild theories that perhaps they\u2019re going to go all the way and cast Yeun in an even more important role like Doctor Doom. Whatever he plays, Yeun will be a huge asset to the MCU, and I can\u2019t wait to see the result.<\/p>\n

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GlennAMC Some huge MCU news broke this week, as it\u2019s been announced that Oscar nominee and Walking Dead alumni Steven Yeun would be joining the cast of Thunderbolts, the villain\/anti-hero-centric feature about a team of mostly criminals tasked with doing dirty work for the government. It\u2019s not exactly Marvel\u2019s Suicide Squad, but it\u2019s about as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23029,2415],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-611626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earth","8":"category-steven"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}