By the time the credits roll on Thunderbolts, there have already been a handful of big surprises — not least the film changing its title at the eleventh hour, revealing what that asterisk was all about.

This article contains major spoilers for "Thunderbolts*," now playing in theaters. Marvel Studios is waisting no time spoiling the ending of its new summer tentpole “Thunderbolts*.” A giant billboard in Los Angeles promoting the Marvel movie got a massive facelift during the end of the film’s opening weekend as the title changed from “Thunderbolts*”

Ideally, a marketing plot like this would result in a nice split… but that doesn’t feel true in this particular case. The Thunderbolts, being a surreptitious way of assembling a new version of Earth’s Mightiest Heroe,s always seemed like the most obvious answer to the presented riddle, and I was hoping for something a bit more advanced.