Summary
With theThunderboltsmovie arriving next year, theMarvel Cinematic Universecast reflects on how the new team is the opposite of the Avengers. While 2024 was limited with the amount of films to come out ofthe MCU timeline, 2025 will be back with several releases as they wrap up Phase 5 and get into Phase 6. The final film in the Phase 5 slate will beThunderbolts, making it one of the latest teams to come to life in the MCU.
TheThunderboltsmovie was previewed as part of Marvel Studios’San Diego Comic-Con 2024presentation, and the cast was finally able to share some footage from the team-up film.Screen Rantchatted with severalThunderboltscast members, including David Harbour, who will be back as Red Guardian. When theBlack Widowstar was asked if there is a dynamic difference between theThunderbolts*characters in comparison to the Avengers, Harbour stated the following:
David Harbour: To the Avengers? We’re not the good guys. We are not capable like Captain America or responsible. We don’t show up on time, things like that. Punctuality is not our strong suit. Impulsivity is! And reactivity. The ability to get things done is; bending the rules is. We’re a completely new species of hero, I would say. We don’t exist yet in the MCU. I think we’re a new evolution of something. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but it’s unique.
Screen Rantalso spoke with returning MCU star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who will be reprising the role of Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, while Lewis Pullman is playing a character named “Bob” (who is believed to be Sentry). Both of theThunderbolts*movie castmembers have agreed that this team is more underdogs, adding the following:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: The Thunderbolts are a gritty group of underdogs. Like, super duper underdogs. And that’s one difference right there.
Lewis Pullman: That is the real difference there. You think this is the bottom of underdogs, but there’s a whole basement below, and that’s where the Thunderbolts reside.
Who Are MCU’s Thunderbolts? Team Members, Origin & Comic History Explained
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Thunderbolts Team’s Differences To The Avengers Explained
The idea of them being underdogs is an interesting concept, as the Thunderbolts in the comics are essentially Marvel’s answer to the Suicide Squad, meant to focus on villains and/or morally gray antiheroes. That is even what theThunderboltsmovie has been pitched as for the MCU, to serve as their iteration of Task Force X.Thunderboltswill, more or less, highlight further how the Avengers are very traditional superheroes, while this new team will use questionable methods for their cause.
The bigger difference between the Thunderbolts and Avengers is how the former is seemingly getting manipulated by Valentina, who is the director of the CIA, meaning she is not that much different from the Suicide Squad’s Amanda Waller. Since the Avengers have managed to break free of the government with the Sokovia Accords being eliminated, it is not stopping a high-powered player like Valentina from putting together a team like the Thunderbolts.
SinceThunderboltsis less than a year out from its theatrical release, a trailer will likely be coming sometime towards the end of the year. While San Diego Comic-Con did getexclusiveThunderboltsfootage, it likely won’t be that much longer until they have their first teaser trailer ready to roll out. Hopefully, whenever newThunderbolts*footage becomes available, it will offer more clues about how these underdogs will operate as a team within the MCU.
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Cast
Thunderbolts follows seven disillusioned individuals who find themselves trapped in a perilous situation. Tasked with a daunting mission, they must face the most shadowy aspects of their histories in order to survive and achieve their goals.
