There’s a new crew in town, and they don’t play with the superhero handbook. Thunderbolts is Marvel’s reformed villains that has just entered the group chat, and these villains are going to save the world. It’s messy, moody, occasionally murderous, and a stand-alone movie. Thunderbolts follow a crew of an irreverent team-up starring depressed assassin Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) alongside Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), in addition to some exciting new faces.
If you like your heroes with a little edge and your team-ups with maximum chaos, buckle up – because here are five fun and unreasonably convincing reasons why Thunderbolts deserves your screen time!
It’s the MCU’s Not-So-Suicide Squad
We’ve all secretly rooted for the villains at least once, like our all-time-favorite Loki. Thunderbolts flip the script and hand the keys to the MCU’s most morally misfits. They are antiheroes with attitude and trauma.
Zemo, Yelena, Red Guardian, U.S. Agent – it’s like the Avengers’ dysfunctional cousins who got their own group chat after the demise of the OGs in Avengers: Endgame.
Yelena Belova Is Back, and She’s Stealing the Show
Florence Pugh is the moment. Her deadpan humor, chaotic energy, and snack-loving sass is iconic. You could watch her roast the entire team for two hours and still want more.
Expect sarcasm. Expect action. Expect mac and cheese jokes.
This Team Has More Red Flags
Every single member has serious baggage – and we’re living for it. You’ve got super soldiers with questionable morals, ex-assassins with identity crises, and a guy who really thinks he’s Captain America but is dynamically toxic – the drama is at peak and the entertainment value should be unmatched.
Zemo Might Dance Again
Remember Zemo’s unexpected Euro-club groove in Falcon and the Winter Soldier – we have to see if he will manipulate people from the shadows again. Let’s manifest to get another iconic moment.
It’s the Messy MCU Energy We Didn’t Know We Needed
The Thunderbolts are basically the group you’d never want to fight but would 100% binge-watch. They’re unpredictable, unfiltered, and unbothered. Basically, it’s a Marvel team-up that looks like it was curated by pure chaos, vibes, and uncut mayhem.
The MCU is evolving – and Thunderbolts is proof that the bad guys deserve the spotlight too. So, buckle up, Marvel fam – it’s about to get wild, weird, and wonderfully unheroic – as the tagline says, ‘Careful who you assemble!’
(Contributed by Wajeeha Syed)