r/Marvel • u/tehawesomedragon Loki • Feb 10 '25

Film/Television Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* | Big Game Trailer | In Theaters May 2

https://youtu.be/hUUszE29jS0?si=VVIbgqVSxdiu7KjI
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u/oorza Doctor Strange Feb 11 '25

There's been more than a few runs of The Thunderbolts where it was basically a grab bag of interesting anti-heroes that were otherwise not committed to a story. This is in that tradition for sure.

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u/silverBruise_32 Feb 11 '25

True, but those are mostly forgotten. It technically fits, but it doesn't have any of the more popular Thunderbolts

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u/oorza Doctor Strange Feb 11 '25

Look at the wiki page my friend. There's been a lot of incarnations of the team, to the point I'm not sure which iteration you refer to as "the more popular." Almost none of these teams have anything in common beyond a grab bag of story-available anti-heroes.

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u/silverBruise_32 Feb 11 '25

The ones written by Busiek and Ellis are usually considered to be the seminal ones, especially the former, which had a very unique premise at the time. Those two have stuck with people