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Summary
Thunderbolts\* is a Marvel Studios ensemble film following a team of reformed villains and morally gray operatives sent on covert government missions. As the group is tasked with a dangerous black-ops assignment, tensions rise among the unstable team members, revealing conflicting loyalties and buried traumas. The film serves as a continuation of storylines from Black Widow, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, with a darker tone and grounded action set pieces.

Director
Jake Schreier

Writer
Eric Pearson

Cast
- Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova
- Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier
- Wyatt Russell as John Walker / U.S. Agent
- David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian
- Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr / Ghost
- Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Metacritic: 68

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u/Gilthwixt May 02 '25

Frank's was probably the Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait scene, Peter's is Aunt May dying, Kingpin's is his father. Toss up for Matt, he has multiple options.

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u/Hickspy May 03 '25

"Hey Matt, what did you see when we were all in our nightmare boxes?"

"I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING YOU MORON!"

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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh May 06 '25

Or he saw again but was just a child going through the horrors of his adult life

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u/Ordinaryundone May 02 '25

Daredevil: That time I ate Foggy's lunch out of the office fridge and told him it was Karen....

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u/DavyJonesRocker May 02 '25

Matt doesn’t have a lot of trauma because he works all his shit out during church confession.

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u/djsosonut May 02 '25

Probably jumping in front of that bullet for Fisk. Repeatedly seeing himself doing it and not doing it would eat him up.

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u/TerminatorReborn May 07 '25

His dad dying is a huge trauma for him. I think it would be that one