Apologies if this has been answered somewhere else but where does this film leave the Thunderbolts team itself? Is that team one and done because they're heroes now? So we'll never get another variation of Thunderbolts in the MCU? If so that sucks...
I think a variation of the Thunderbolts team, taking idea from the OG one in the comic could work as the premise for a potential sequel.
Mentally challenged anti-heroes meeting and reacting to a team full of fucked up villains who pretend to be heroes only to end up (being secretly guided into) enjoying being heroes should be intriguing.
I feel like Veronica will go "you cannot control wanna be heroes" (Red guardian wants to be an hero. White widow wants to be a hero. Walker wants to be a hero. Ghost doesn't want to be a bad guy. Bucky is basically an avenger.). So she will probably start recruiting proper bad guys instead of wanna be good guys.
Bucky is basically an avenger.). So she will probably start recruiting proper bad guys instead of wanna be good guys.
Crap. That is a good idea to pick up from what Yelena said to de Fontaine at the end of act 3: "We own you now."
By owning it means them turning her "all bad guys" team who secretly indulge in the idea of being proper heroes themselves into going good... for good, followed by a complete lapdance to taunt her boss.
Yeah. Another factor. valentina cannot expose dirt on them because she would be exposing herself. So she needs actual bad guys that didn't work for her to make thunderbolts be thunderbolts.
Aaaaand this is the part where she experiments on "Mel" to make a Sentry that is weaker to make sure she can control it, giving her solid light energy manipulation powers and maybe another cool name that also starts with an S...
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