The New Avengers (Thunderbolts)
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
Alive — CIA Director, nominally in charge and actually controlled by the team
- Appearances
- 4
Along the chronological spine
Where the guide talks about them (5)
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who appears in the post-credits, is a senior US intelligence figure who recruits damaged, disposable people for deniable work. By 2025 she is Director of the CIA. She recruits Yelena here and John Walker in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
The post-credits scene takes place after Natasha's death, years later — Yelena at her grave, being pointed at Clint Barton by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Note that if you watch chronologically: this scene doesn't belong here.
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine recruits John Walker as U.S. Agent.
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, CIA director facing impeachment, sends four of her expendable operatives — Yelena Belova, John Walker, Ghost (Ava Starr), and Taskmaster — to a facility to unknowingly kill each other and erase evidence of Project Sentry.
| Character | Premiered | Appeared in | Status now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yelena Belova | Black Widow (2021) | Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thunderbolts, Brand New Day | Alive — leads the New Avengers from the Watchtower. D |
| Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian | Black Widow (2021) | Black Widow, Thunderbolts | Alive. D |
| Melina Vostokoff | Black Widow (2021) | Black Widow | Alive, not seen since |
| John Walker / U.S. Agent | FATWS (2021) | FATWS, Thunderbolts | Alive. D |
| Ava Starr / Ghost | Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) | Ant-Man 2, Thunderbolts | Alive, stabilised but not cured. D |
| Bob Reynolds / Sentry | Thunderbolts* (2025) | Thunderbolts | Alive, with the Void contained rather than gone. D |
| Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster | Black Widow (2021) | Black Widow, Thunderbolts | Dead — killed early in Thunderbolts*. Not in Doomsday |
| Valentina Allegra de Fontaine | FATWS (2021) | FATWS, Black Widow (post-credits), Thunderbolts, Brave New World | Alive — CIA Director, nominally in charge and actually controlled by the team |