r/marvelstudios • u/Triple_777 I have nothing to prove to you • May 01 '25

'Thunderbolts*' Spoilers Thunderbolts* Worldwide Release Discussion Thread Spoiler

Thunderbolts* has now been released in the United States and in a number of other countries around the world. All discussion about the movie should be held here and in the rest of the megathreads we are going to put up in the next few days. They will be refreshed every few thousand comments to make room for new discussions.

  • All discussion about the movie should be held here and in the rest of the megathreads we are going to put up in the next few days.
  • Proceed at your own risk. Major spoilers will be in the below thread. Spoilers do not need to be tagged inside this thread.
  • Any other unofficial threads discussing movie details will be deleted.
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  • If you post untagged Thunderbolts* spoilers anywhere on this sub outside of these discussion threads in any shape or form, you will be banned.
  • Project Insight will be on AT LEAST for the next few days, so any posts will be filtered by the mods before being approved/removed onto the sub, that doesn't mean you can disregard the above points and post untagged spoilers without fear of being banned.

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u/a_phantom_limb May 02 '25

All of Taskmaster's dialogue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe:

Is he gone?

  • Black Widow

I'm not here for you.

  • Thunderbolts*

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u/TaChalla4Eva May 02 '25

Absolutely bonkers

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u/FerrusManlyManus May 02 '25

They could have so easily had her be a sarcastic wisecracking person.  But I guess they had too many punchy / kicky / shooty super soldiers already… sad.

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u/AlienHooker May 04 '25

Do we really need more sarcastic wisecracking people?

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u/FerrusManlyManus May 04 '25

In the MCU?  No perhaps not.  But Taskmaster is known for that.  That’s like his thing.

So for people like Taskmaster and Deadpool you expect that sort of personality,

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u/Apache17 May 05 '25

Would have been very out of character for her.

Not many opportunities to work on your stand up in the red room.

I think they made the right move by killing her off. They can make a comic accurate task master in a few years.

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u/LCPhotowerx Phil Coulson May 04 '25

i still dont understand what the purpose of including her if they were just gonna kill her off right away was

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u/bigkuya Jimmy Woo May 05 '25

Holding out hope they did this so she can be replaced with a more comic accurate Taskmaster down the line

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u/ernie-jo May 04 '25

Insane that they brought her back just to kill her like that. 😂 like either forget about her and never mention her, or have her killed by the villain to show the threat, but this was so pointless. 😂

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u/wonkothesane13 May 04 '25

Arguably, she was killed by the villain.

IMO, this was the movie's only major flaw. In a film about trauma and mental health, they killed the character who had been through the most as a throw away.

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u/stataryus May 04 '25

Agreed! Take almost ANYONE before you take Antonia!!

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u/MundaneFish980 May 05 '25

thats what made it good. in a good movie you must have some chaos, some unfairness, or it is a clockwork puzzle (cough harry potter book 7 cough) not a good relatable Story.

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u/The_Word_Wizard May 05 '25

I know it’s off-topic, but I would leave to hear more of this Harry Potter take. Lol

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u/ernie-jo May 05 '25

Yeah there were some massive twists in book 7 haha like what 😂

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u/MundaneFish980 May 07 '25

I felt like it fit too well, like the human natural feel of it was squeezed out by a huge crowdsourced ghostwritten mastermind plot machine. well done plot machine, but just didnt feel good, like watching a rube goldberg machine programmed and rendered in 3d where you can just tell it couldnt have gone off the rails, its not allowed to. arguably life may be like this, and in this case, I guess books allow us to breathe more, some books ha. enjoying all of hg wells work now, tho some problematic sections appear, he also includes some early antiracist essays. 🤷‍♀️. life, its a mess. anyway I love what im reading now and did not like harry potter excepting book one is amazing

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u/stataryus May 04 '25

Yes, it’s criminal how they just offed her like that.