#u s agent

[thundrfunky]

im absolutely in love with the fact that pretty much no one questioned the fact that there was a FOURTEEN MONTH GAP between the post-credit scene and the movie. like what were the gays doing . where were they. what was happening.

[lalowolveralo]

✨️Character Growth✨️

Characters: John Walker/U.S. Agent/Nomad (Earth-96012 variant) Cass Carver/X-Spider (Spidersona, she/her)

[300-word-reviews]

Thunderbolts*

The latest edition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts draws together an ensemble cast of misfits to save the world through the power of hugs. It is a surprisingly funny film with a strong message and Florence Pugh, reprising her role as Yelena, truly stuns with an emotionally complex new look at this character that was never fully explored in the similarly backstoried Natasha Romanoff. The visual effects are stunning with the main villain’s power manifesting in a way reminiscent of the shadows of Hiroshima. Lewis Pullman’s Bob is also everything you would want him to be: eerie and pitiful; charming and sinister. With two of the main Thunderbolts also being the villains in their original portrayal who never achieved the level of fame as other Marvel villains like Loki: John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and Ava Starr (Hannah John-Kamen), creating a hero team in such a big budget film was a risk. But it paid off!

Of course, no film is without its flaws. The first half of the film has a brutality that does not follow through into the second half, making it feel slightly disjointed. The ending also does not feel satisfying. New York is saved, yes, but it would be as if saying there’s nothing more to be done when a bomb is defused even when the bomber is still out there. It, like many Marvel films before it, feels like an advertisement for a later movie. Yet the main characters have a full and meaningful emotional arc dealing with issues of mental health which is so rarely talked about in a poignant way in superhero media. Given the typically young age of the consumers of superhero media, I think this film will prove to be far more important than one would assume given its genre.

8/10

[nichknack]

One of the best bit of character writing with John is the fact that he consistently blames others for him killing the Flag Smasher.

We see it in his initial panic following the attack where he acted as though he had absolutely no choice/was forced by the flag smasher, to his trial where he (somewhat validly) blamed the military industrial complex for making him who he is, to him brushing off Ava pointing out that the man he killed was innocent.

It’s the classic “boys will be boys” argument turned up to 11.

[suzieloveships]

So MCU thunderbolts are two men who done some seriously bad shits but they did one good thing in the end so I guess they are redeem, two women that deserve so much better, a guy who spent the whole show trying to redeem himself only for creators to call him the name he wanted to get rid of, marvel biggest adaptation flop since X-Men origins, and Val, about whom I don't have a opinion yet. Zemo is nowhere to be seen. Bitches are already started shipping Yelena and Bucky. I hate it here, if anybody needs me I'm in my room rewatching James Gunn's Suicide Squad

[josis-teacup]

John Walker be like

[lukofr]

watching 2nd tfatws and i feel so bad how they made captain america, symbol who everything he did was for peace and people, into some kind of national commercial super star. that's so fuckin painful

[splooosh]

Not Jessica

Scott Kolins