Promotional Stunt For Marvel Movie Edited With ‘I Told Modi’ Poster, Goes Viral

Claim

A video purportedly showing a man replacing a “Go tell Modi” poster at what appears to be a bus stop in a foreign location with an “I told Modi” poster, referring to the May 7 ‘Operation Sindoor’ launched by the Indian armed forces in response to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam.

The archived version of the post can be seen here, which has clocked 2.1 million views so far.

Fact

Newschecker ran a keyword search for “Go tell Modi poster bus stop”, which led us to this News18 report, dated May 14, 2025, stating that a video posted by Marvel Studios in May, where actor Sebastian Stan was seen replacing a poster for the latest Marvel film, “Thunderbolts*”, at a bus stop had been digitally altered to create the viral video.

We found the original video in this Marvel Studios post on X, dated May 5, 2025, which was before Operation Sindoor. The video and the hashtag #TheNewAvengers indicate that it was a promotional clip for the film, “Thunderbolts*”, which was released in US theatres on May 2.

A further search led us to this Deadline report on the promotional stunt, dated May 5, 2025, headlined, “Watch Sebastian Stan Replace ‘Thunderbolts*’ Film Poster With One For ‘*The New Avengers”.

“Earlier this morning, Marvel Studios tweeted a video of the actor [Sebastian Stan], who has long portrayed James “Bucky” Buchanan Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic universe as early as films like Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), replacing a poster for the latest Marvel installment film Thunderbolts*, directed by Jake Schreier, at a bus stop. Stan, clad in black from head to toe like his character Bucky often wears, and definitely does so in his latest MCU film, can be spotted on a stroll with some rolled up posters, and once he sees one at the bus stop, he stops to place a poster that reads *The New Avengers over it,” read the report, adding that fans and moviegoers had long been questioning why there was an asterisk on the end of the film’s title, and Marvel has answered this question, spelling out what the star symbolises, but not renaming the film. A similar Hindustan Times report, dated May 6, 2025, further confirms that the viral video is edited.

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Source
News18 report, May 14, 2025
Marvel Studios post, X, May 5, 2025
Deadline article, May 5, 2025