"Thunderbolts*", with its stylish combat scenes and mental health comments, was a breath of fresh air for Marvel's film universe. /BJ Collangelo's own film has praised the film as "The Movie Miss The MCC Currently". It is a kind of juvenile miracle that works as well, since the central team is made up of C-wraps, such as Jelena Belova (Florence Pug) and the Red Guardian (David Harbor), reproducing their "Black Widow" in 2021. Looking at how important Marvel's "Thunderbols*" movie is, it's kind of surprising Melina Vostokoff (Rachel Weiss), Jelena's makeshift mother, is nowhere.

It has not been completely absent from MCC since 2021. It appears in the episode of Season 2 of "What if ...?" Titled "What if ... Captain Carter struggled with the Stomper Hydra?" The animated installment rises from the episode of Season 1, where Peggy Carter (Haley Atwell) receives the "Super Soldier" serum instead of Steve Rogers (expressed by Oshosh Keaton in the place of Chris Evans). The episode of Sequel sees that Peggy realizes that Steve is washed away by the brain of the red room to perform devilish missions, and Melina is the one that controls his brainwashing. It is her deterrence, as she dies until the end of the episode when Steve got rid of his machinations, sacrificing himself in the process.

Melina is a dead in whatever the universe "What if ...?" The story occurs, but it is very lively in the sacred time schedule (read: Earth-616). She could have easily had at least the Thunderbolt*, but that didn't happen.

Be fair, very much MCU characters disappear without explanation. Only a kind of territory of massive interconnected universe that is increasingly interested in researching alternative realities. Some people have to stay behind, and Melina probably won't have much to do in Marvel's future films. Weiss was also nowhere to be found in Long announcement of casting "Avengers: Doomsday"So no one can keep the breath for Melina to come back soon.

Comicbook.com Did he talk with Rachel Weiss as early as 2023 whether she knew about all the plans to bring Melina back to the superhero overlap. Her answer was not promising:

"Nobody has mentioned it for me for a long time. I think she still lives with her pigs she is experimenting with. She loves her pigs, they are friends."

In the world just as chaotic as MCC, perhaps the separation of a farm on a farm is not the worst fate to be subjected to. He knocks that he has to deal with the decaying universes or disappear in the shadow because Bob (Louis Pulman) has a bad day.

Comicbook.com was not wondering if Melina would return to Marvel's "Thunval*", and there seems to be nothing about why she didn't show up. The most likely answer is that no one wrote Melina in the script, so they didn't need it. The film already has a massive team, and throwing at Jelena's mother, when she already has a father's figure to give her shoulder to cry, she may have been considered superfluous. However, Weiss is not fighting for work; She is set to act in the upcoming Netflix Limited series, Vladimir.