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We asked, and he answered: no, Lewis Pullman’s hand just looks like that, and there’s no AI usage in the new poster for Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts*.

Pullman talked to Collider about the suggestion — as some were making on social media, and we were curious about as well — that he somehow had six fingers in the new Thunderbolts* poster, which may or may not have translated into Marvel Studios returning to the use of generative AI after receiving a very public outcry for doing so for 2023’s Secret Invasion.

“I’ve heard about the six-finger thing. But if you look closely, there’s actually no mistakes going on,” Pullman said. “I actually spent some time because I was like, 'Did they give me a sixth finger?' But they didn’t. It’s just cropped at the right point where it looks like there’s an extra tip happening or something. But that’s about it. I love that.”

Good news for those hoping that Marvel wasn’t going back to the controversial generative AI mines any time soon — but now we’re worried about Pullman’s hands in general. Somebody needs to check up on him, if it’s that easy to fool so many people on the internet into thinking that he has an extra finger.

Thunderbolts* is headed to theaters May 2025; if there’s a subplot about extra digits and the pernicious effects of generative AI, we’ll be delighted by the stealth marketing we didn't even know what happening at the time.

Keep up to date on Popverse's Marvel coverage, with these highlights:

• How Disney+'s What If...? is the moonshot for the next 50 years of Marvel Studios & the MCU
• Marvel Studios has accidentally created a new Phase that predates Phases 1 - 6: the MCU Phase Zero
• Overgrown children of the atom: Marvel's X-Men can't evolve past their '90s commercial peak
• The biggest outstanding questions of the Marvel Studios' movies & TV shows
• Donald Trump is the landlord for Marvel's House of Ideas
• Marvel Studios swapping out Doctor Doom for Kang offers the chance to jettison the Multiverse Saga
• What Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige is saying (and not saying) about the MCU X-Men franchise says a lot about the future of the Mutant Saga
• If Marvel is going to bring Loki back for Secret Wars, it's time to give him an upgrade
• With Daredevil, and spinoffs from Black Panther, What If, and more, Marvel Studios' 2025 Disney+ slate is bigger than ever, and that might be a big deal for the future
• If Kraven the Hunter flops, Sony's Spider-Man Universe could look for a Marvel-assisted reboot
• In 2021, Sony's boss said people won't miss Spider-Man in its Spider-adjacent movie. Turns out, they do.