The MCU’s Thunderbolts Completely Misses The Point Of Team

The Thunderbolts are about to make their live-action debut in Marvel’s Thunderbolts (2024), but the upcoming MCU film is missing the point of the team. Of the many Avengers replacements introduced in the comics over the decades, the Thunderbolts team has changed quite a lot since its inception. While the Thunderbolts have recently been used as a force for good in the comics, thanks to Luke Cage, they began as a supervillain team-up substitute for the Avengers. That is an aspect that the MCU’s Thunderbolts is already failing to adapt for one big reason.
Although the MCU rarely makes one-on-one adaptations of a comic book arc or storyline, the choice to bring in the Thunderbolts as part of Marvel’s MCU Phase 5 with the Avengers still existing is already a major deviation from the comics. In the comics, the Thunderbolts' history begins thanks to a power vacuum left by a major Avengers defeat — something that has yet to happen in the MCU. While heroes like Iron Man and Black Widow died in Avengers: Endgame, most of the Avengers of Earth and space are still active. That, however, is not the biggest difference between the MCU’s Thunderbolts and the comic book one. The lineup is also different.


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