A new, unlikely term has been added to the lexicon of stealth Hollywood marketing stunts - a pesky asterisk. On Monday, after weeks plotting and planning, Disneys vast marketing machine at last answered the question of why Marvel Studios' early summer tentpole is titled Thunderbolts* instead of just Thunderbolts.

It's official – Marvel Comics ' upcoming New Thunderbolts* series has been retitled New Avengers after Marvel Studios changed the Thunderbolts* film title to reveal the meaning of its mysterious asterisk.

What does the title change from Thunderbolts* to *The New Avengers mean? Near the end of the 36th MCU movie, Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guar