Thunderbolts*
Thunderbolts* is a 2025 American superhero film about a group of antiheroes who are caught in a deadly trap and later forced to work together on a dangerous mission. It is 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
- Directed by Jake Schreier. Written by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo.
Not super. Not heroes. Not giving up.
Yelena Belova
- There is something wrong with me. An emptiness. I thought it started when my sister died, but now it feels like something bigger. Just a... void. Or maybe I'm just bored.
- [to Valentina] We own you now.
Bob / Sentry / The Void
- Why would a god take orders from anyone at all?
- You thought you were gonna be some great saviors? You can't even save yourselves.
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
- Righteousness without power is just an opinion.
Dialogue
- Mel: I was in high school when the aliens came. And the Avengers.
- Bucky: High school, huh? I was, like, 90.
- Mel: Hah. It's kinda strange that it's all over now, right? I mean, the Avengers are gone? No one else is coming to save the day...
- Bucky: Maybe we could be the people that are coming...
- Alexei: What impressive friends you've assembled, Yelena.
- Yelena: We're not friends, Alexei.
- Ava: No, we're just disposable delinquents.
- Alexei: Whatever you are, the light inside you is brighter. How about this — you are team of scrappy antiheroes?
- Walker: Yeah. Go Thunderbolts.
- Alexei: What? Yelena, you named them after your pee-wee soccer club?
- Alexei: We are same, you and me!
- Bucky: Well...
- Alexei: I mean, we are different but we are same. You know, we could be co-leaders in this, huh?
- Bucky: Little different.
- Alexei: You get tired, I drive, huh?
- Bucky: I don't get tired.
- Alexei: No, I mean metaphorically. No, I don't actually want to drive.
- Yelena: I lost my sister again, but forever! And you disappeared!
- Alexei: [speaks Russian] I'm sorry. I don't know how to do this. I'm not good at it. I didn't think you wanted me.
- Yelena: I did!
- Alexei: I see that. I'm late, but I'm... I'm here now.
- Yelena: Daddy, I’m so alone. I don’t have anything anymore. All I do is sit, and look at my phone, and think of all the terrible things that I’ve done; and then I go to work, and then I drink, come home to no-one, and I sit and think about all the terrible things I’ve done again and again and I go crazy!
- Alexei: Yelena stop. Stop, we all have things that we regret.
- Yelena: No, but I have so many! My first test at the Red Room... Anya, she was just a child, she was so small...
- Alexei: So were you. I know; I know they were dark times -- very, very dark times, but... before, you were such a special little girl. Did you know this? You walked into room, you made it bright. You felt a lot of joy.
- Yelena: I don't remember that feeling.
- Alexei: You were so kind! You remember why you want to be goalie on your terrible soccer team?
- Yelena: It... So I didn't have to run as much.
- Alexei: No. Maybe that too, but you told me "I want to be the one everyone can rely on if they make a mistake". That Yelena is still in you. I still see her.
- Yelena: I don't...
- Alexei: You're stuck, you're alone, you look only at the bed. When I look at you, I don't see your mistakes. That's why we need each other.
- Yelena: ...'kay, that was really good.
- The Void: Robert the hero...
- Bob: I'm stronger than you.
- The Void: Let's see.
Taglines
- Be careful who you assemble.
- Everyone deserves a second shot.
- Not super. Not heroes. Not giving up.
Cast
- Florence Pugh - Yelena Belova
- Sebastian Stan — Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier
- Wyatt Russell - John F. Walker
- Olga Kurylenko - Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster
- Lewis Pullman - Bob Reynolds / Sentry / Void
- Geraldine Viswanathan - Mel
- David Harbour - Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian
- Hannah John-Kamen - Ava Starr / Ghost
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
External links
- Thunderbolts* quotes at the Internet Movie Database
