WARNING: This article contains Large spoilers for "Thunderstorms*". Continue with caution.

It may have been only the first film of Marvel The kinematic universe starring a bunch of antiheroes, antagonists and a completely superhero, will be the one to remember how to craft an appropriate villain. "Thunderbolts*" is not the brightest film in the franchise to be found in recent years, nor is it even the largest in 2025 - alone - That title goes to "Fantastic Four: First Steps", be announced later this summer. But director Jake Schreer's script film, a little Anderbog (if that phrase can even apply to a blockbuster that is a non -political part of the Marvel machine) Whether Take your tone signs from the dysfunctional team in your title equipped with Terspens. And even these Wannabe avengers could not predict what threat they would be forced to go against the whole movie.

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Thanos is likely to reach the lists of most fans for MCU's top Big Big, but "Thunderbolts*" adds a surprising candidate to the mixture in the form of a saturated, unpretentious Bob (Louis Pulman). Of course, The comic book fans knew he was much more than he initially seemed after it became super-power. But in the early walk, only Florence Pug, Jelena Belova even struggled to give him time of day, considering him as a real person while Johnon Walker (Wyatt Russell), Spirit (Hannah Johnon-Kamen), and the rest of the team just watched him as useless luggage. However, it turns out that it is the key to making the emotional bow of the poor all hit all the heavier.

Like Jelena, the scenario itself (by writers Eric Pearson and Joanna Kalo) treats Bob and his eventually dark turns into a void As a refreshing human, above all, most importantly. When the last act turns around and our heroes need to literally get into his mind to end his destruction of New York, the creative team has already succeeded where so many previous films by Marvel (and superhero films at all) have failed. By the time the smoke is being cleared, the most unexpected surprise of "Thunderbolts*" is how he freeed Marvel's best villain for a long, long time.

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The Thunderbolts team can make rejection and resentment to look good, but no one is pure pain of being an outsider, as Bob does in many moments she shares with Jelena. After the wicked and mysterious Valentina Allegra de Fontein (Iaulia Louis-Dreyfus) sets its various operatives to erase each other in the intestines of her secret vault, and Jelena and Bob are initially attracted to each other for reasons they neither understand. Yes, its memory loss, lack of physical strength and obvious mental instability makes the rest of the survivors. But deeply in, Jelena clearly sympathizes with someone who had a bad hand in her life and never gave her the opportunity to take matters into her own hands.

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Together, Jelena and Bob's arches work hand in hand to become the heart of beating "Thunder*" as a whole. The sequence set within the vault teases Bob's children's trauma, especially when its touch constantly causes retrospective and memories of the team's dark past. When all this culminates in their daring and explosive escape attempt, the script throws another curve to us. Bob chooses to sacrifice himself to allow everyone else to get out, which then reveals his superpowers for everyone to see them. Not many other films to Marvel then would devote as much time and space for Bob (which is the real name is Robert Reynolds) under Valentina's manipulation, playing the abuse she suffered as a child to shape it in Sentiri it predicts.

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But by showing it as a character Contrary to the obstacle, "Thunderbalci*" sets a frightening final act that fully establishes Bob as a monstrous cavity - a shaded, inhumane mirror in the image of everything we know that it is really inside.

Cross them, Loki and Thanos, because another character appeared from nowhere to Fight for the crown of Marvel's best villain ... And with much less time on the screen, too. While the franchise is preparing to free the bad bad as a galacutus and a doctor Doom on us in the upcoming event films, there is something perfect for the highest figure in the Thunderbolt*rising to steal the whole show. Although he does not cause the greatest damage to the property, the most innocent has killed or threatens the greatest gods and superheroes, Bob does something that very little others have managed to withdraw: he feels Real.

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Honestly, the key to his role in "Thunderbaltes*" is that he never feels like a true villain of the story. The closest he gets is when he turns into sentiment, sends the thunder, even if he does not work sweat, and immediately develops a serious complex of God. But after Valentina's "kill the switch" makes him a literal shadow of his former self, it is obvious that this is only the end result of someone who was nothing but a victim and used it throughout his life. These suspicions have been confirmed after he returns as a gap and immediately turns the entire Manhattan into shadows, including Jelena when she willingly allowed to swallow his powers and throw himself into a nightmare Netherworld located in his space.

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Here is where Bob's psychology is finally naked, and Jelena is able to connect with him at a fundamental, human level. Of course, a character crowded with depression like Jelena will be the one to break into a traumatized person like Bob, returning from the edge with the help of her loyal friends. Facing its own demons and learned to accept that it belongs (through a real embrace, I warn you, instead of all the usual hitting and struggle), Bob's ransom is just as powerful and moving as everyone in MCC-consciousness for one of the most rounded and three-dimensional characters.

"Thunderbolts*" now plays in theaters.