Spoilers Thunderbolts* grade and discussion thread

[Starkers]

Well that was a whole heap of fun! Loved it!

I got a bit annoyed at how many times they pulled the "They're not going to come back are they?" "Hey they came back!" gag, and the film maybe needed to have a bit longer to show Valentina crafting Bob into Sentry, it seemed like that all happened in a few hours, but these are minor gripes.

I got a definite Nuclear Man vibe from Sentry's outfit (only he was way better than Nuclear Man) but also more than a whiff of Homelander.

Love Yelena (Florence Pugh can do no wrong!) love Bucky, adore the Red Guardian and even Walker and Ghost were great.

When Yelena was going on about all the terrible things she'd done I half expected a line about red in her ledger.

The New Avengers (and Bob) will return, and I for one can't wait!

 

[Turtletrekker]

Bucky probably has a lot of shame rooms that look like this...

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Ava's shame room probably looks a lot like this...

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[Starkers]

Couple of other thoughts.

It was cool that Pugh actually jumped off the building but also completely pointless as it appeared in the film. To risk your star like that is just nuts when you could so easily fake it, you wouldn't even need CGI just the kind of in camera trickery the likes of Harold Lloyd were doing a century ago.

It's a very weird super team (obviously) even on a practical level given three of them effectively have the same super power (loved Alexi asking Bucky what version of the super solider serum he got) one of them isn't super powered at all and one of them is incredibly powerful but can't ever use those powers!

Do like that they lampshaded this when Yelena said "So we all just punch/shoot things?"

It shouldn't work but it does.