Avengers Tower will have a new name in Thunderbolts, and the movie’s director says it’s “a symbol of things taking a darker turn”

Marvel’s next big-screen release Thunderbolts* is introducing a new group of (anti)heroes to the MCU, but that’s not the only change it’s bringing with it. One of the franchise’s key settings is getting a different name – and new ownership.

Avengers Tower, formerly the New York City headquarters of Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and the rest of Earth’s mightiest heroes, is now pretty much defunct since Stark’s death in Avengers: Endgame. With no Avengers saving the world right now, the building has fallen into the hands of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Valentina Allegra de Fontaine and known, ominously, as the ‘Watchtower.’