i’d like to add that during the fight scene on the bridge between natasha and the taskmaster when the taskmaster is wearing a hood Morgan went “she looks like stacie during the riff off in pitch 2” and i belly laughed for a good five minutes
When I said I was excited for a thunderbolts story line, I didn’t mean I wanted Yelena and Bucky to be demonized as ‘former villains’ and lumped in a group with people like Zemo Yelena was never even an antagonist and has actually been hero in all of her mcu time by going around and freeing other widows. Bucky was literally a POW and tortured beyond imagination for his whole antagonist arc and then went on to be a mild mannered recluse who wants to make amends. Like how in the fuck are they villains????
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s noticed this. People expected Yelena Belova to be a bad guy (or at least a greyhat) because many expected her to be in a Thunderbolts-style team. But the story in Black Widow made it clear that she and Taskmaster have nothing to atone for.
Same goes for Bucky–his redemption arc was well and truly completed by the end of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. John Walker is on a similar course, without the need of some rehabilitation program.
The only reason those characters would be thrown together in a “villain team” would be if they’re conscripted by someone who didn’t particularly care if they’re good, evil, or whatever. Which isn’t really a strong Thunderbolts premise to begin with.
