Spoilers for "Thunderbolts" follow.

So it's come to this: I am here to defend a Marvel movie. Look, I don't hate Marvel movies (despite what some may think), but I have proven to be mostly immune to their charms. I like some of them (hell, I even liked "Eternals"!), but I also agree with the assessment that we've been oversaturated with superhero movies for the last decade, and I wouldn't mind if the subgenre took a break for a bit. And yet ... I feel kind of bad about what happened to Marvel's "Thunderbolts."

To be clear, this 2025 film wasn't some gigantic flop , but since these movies are so damn expensive, the $382.4 million box off haul was considered a "disappointment" (side-note: if someone wants to give me a "disappointing" $382.4 million, I will happily accept it). The less-

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