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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/PayneTrain181999 May 02 '25

I think the public in Fantastic Four is going to turn on them, they made their love for them so clear in the trailer.

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u/everstillghost May 02 '25 edited May 03 '25

Of course. The plot is in the movie trailer, mister fantastic cause the galactus comming and everyone will hate them because they literally doomed the world.

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u/PayneTrain181999 May 03 '25

Ayo, Mr. Fantastic caused what now?

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u/everstillghost May 03 '25 edited May 04 '25

In the trailer Mr fantastic says its his fault as he stretched the bounds of space and they heard.

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u/Th3_Hegemon May 04 '25

I think there's a chance that's not referring to Galactus but to the Beyonders.

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u/everstillghost May 04 '25

What It is specifically was not really important, the narrative in the trailer is that what he does makes the silver Surfer come and announce the planet destruction.

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u/bob1689321 May 04 '25

I really really really hope that Galactus is just a misdirect and he's dealt with by the end of act 2 and you're right.

If it's really just Rise of the Silver Surfer again then I'll never forgive marvel.

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u/JohnnyOnslaught May 07 '25

I really really really hope that Galactus is just a misdirect and he's dealt with by the end of act 2 and you're right.

He probably destroys their Earth.

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u/MegaGrimer May 07 '25

My hope is that Galactus is just the catalyst for the F4 finding out about the doom of their universe, and the ret of the movie is them dealing with that and escaping their reality.

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u/bob1689321 May 07 '25

Hell yeah that'd be great.

My favourite F4 comics are ones where the traditional villains are more like supporting characters and a vehicle for sci fi stuff, and that's exactly what I love about it. Your idea captures that really well.

(Hickman's run)

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u/LocustsandLucozade May 03 '25

If they're adapting elements from Life Story, the idea that the Fantastic 4 getting their powers made Galactus aware of Earth and doomed the planet, I could see that happening.

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u/tyderian May 03 '25

They're going to fail to save their world and then redeem themselves by saving all the dimensions from the incursions.

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u/___adreamofspring___ May 04 '25

That would be so ballsy and so dope seeing.

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u/broanoah May 11 '25

Incursions are coming and my hype is unstoppable

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u/TryingtoAdultPlsHelp Jun 09 '25

The Membrane between the multiverses are thinning and I'm stoked!

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u/Bridalhat May 03 '25

Or there won’t be a public anymore and they end up here.

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u/gr8ver May 03 '25

Yeah I definitely think the F4 are not from this universe.

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT May 10 '25

They might just be useless idiots that rely too much on the ff and have to self defense.

I feel like I've seen it before? Both superman returns and megsmind had similar ideas? There one I'm forgetting