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Geek History Lesson

Should Thunderbolts have been in MCU Phase 1?

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

From the dark places of the Marvel Comics Universe Geek History Lesson dares to shine a light on the super team - are they heroes? - The Thunderbolts. This team has made it to the big screen world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe led by Bucky Barnes, although on screen it does not appear to follow the comic book team in the slightest. We explore the similarities and differences in Thunderbolts media (Spoiler-free!), and ask the big question: should The Thunderbolts have debuted earlier in MCU history? One co-host thinks YES and one disagrees! Time to listen to discuss The Thunderbolts!


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0:00.0

Jason, the Thunderbolts movie is going to be in cinemas any second now.

0:17.5

And you could look at the Thunderbolts and say, boy, that looks an awful lot like a team of

0:22.4

villains. And a team of villains that I really know is the suicide squad. Now, I know you're a big

0:28.6

fan of the Thunderbolts. In the comics. I haven't seen the movie. So, so, so, so. I like

0:35.7

Florence Pew. Yeah. TLDR. What makes the Thunderbolt

0:40.1

special among teams of supervillains? What is compelling to you? The thing that makes them special

0:45.6

is the initial hook of the Thunderbolts. And again, we're going to dip into the thing about it,

0:50.7

is that if you don't know the history of the Thunderbolts is that it was

0:54.7

a Kurt Busiak and Mark Bagley team that was made in the 90s.

0:59.6

And during this time period, it was when the Avengers and the Fantastic Four and Iron

1:05.5

Man and the Hulk and Captain American Thor were all in a pocket dimension.

1:09.8

So the mainstream Marvel universe had no Avengers.

1:14.3

Yeah.

1:14.7

And so they made a bunch of books.

1:18.0

They remade like Heroes for Hire, I believe.

1:20.9

They did a new Khazar series.

1:23.2

They did, I can't remember.

1:25.0

There was a couple other books.

1:26.0

But one of the books they released in this time was Thunderbolts.

1:28.3

And they were all about these new teams trying to fill this whole, like, who are going

1:31.9

to be the new Avengers, basically?

1:34.0

And the Thunderbolts were the team that Kurt Busick and Mark Bailey made that was a brand

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