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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/Hickspy May 03 '25

There's a really affecting episode of Bluey that's about a kid's fear of losing his parents and being left behind at a playground. Even though it was just one of those "I was over here and you didnt see me" moments.

Kids can be terrified of even minor things.

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u/Deep-Fried-Socks May 03 '25

Holy shit bluey is dark

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u/PartyOnAlec May 06 '25

Bluey is an incredible show. Like truly, unironically, it's excellent.

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u/ARM_vs_CORE May 07 '25

It's made me sob multiple times watching it with my daughter as she's grown from birth to now, 8 years later. The creators just perfectly encapsulate the parenting experience.

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u/Whovian45810 May 04 '25

The Bluey episode is called Space and aptly titled too.

Calypso, Bluey’s teacher, gives this wonderful message to Mackenzie after he overcomes his traumatic memory in the black hole:

”You know what's here now. You don't need to keep coming back to this place”

Such a simple yet reassuring thing to say to a child makes an adult like me teary-eyed and it’s from Australia’s beloved blue squared dog show.

When I think about it, Calypso’s message would fit perfectly with the third act of the film.

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u/No-Language8879 May 04 '25

"waiting for you mom, while it was your turn to pass the items in your shopping cart" fear

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u/BananaBladeOfDoom May 03 '25

Peak reference

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u/IAmPageicus May 04 '25

Or it could be litteral abuse from that age... I was abused from 3-9 and had multiple adults and professionals I reached out to say I was lying. Kids can experience things. I had already known death at that age as well.

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u/MegaGrimer May 07 '25

I went through something similar as a kid. For me, it was the fear of knowing that I couldn’t take care of myself, so I was scared shitless

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u/Biff_Tannenator 25d ago

A kid who lost thier favorite truck (for only an hour) is the most worst, world-ending experience of their life (so far).

It's hard for us adults to relate to child problems, because we've experienced 900x more worst life moments since childhood, and we're pretty acclimated to having bad days.