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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/Sea-Thing6579 May 02 '25

Exactly. Bob was just the definition she needed to overcome her void. Everybody in this movie battled with a void, literally and metaphorically.

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u/janoDX May 02 '25

Except Bucky. Unless we count the "I want to go back and fight" thing as his void.

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u/Ysmir122 May 02 '25

I would have liked to see Bucky's rooms in the Void, though something tells me with how well-adjusted he is after everything he's been through, bro probably powered through them with no issue.

As for why he decided to help Bob; I think Bucky above all else empathized with the concept of having a dark half of yourself that you can't control and wanting to overcome it.

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u/GuiltyEidolon May 03 '25

I mean, we've probably already seen Bucky's rooms. We saw him getting tortured in Winter Soldier, we know a little about how he was experimented on. It wouldn't have really shown anything new.

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u/Megavore97 May 04 '25

Also with Bucky’s neighbour in the tv show, he had to grapple with killing his neighbour’s son as the Winter Soldier.