Every Candidate To Be The MCU’s Thunderbolts Movie Villain
Marvel villains and anti-heroes will team up in a Thunderbolts movie, but even these baddies will need a villain to fight — and there are plenty of exciting candidates. Rumors of Marvel Studios eyeing the Thunderbolts for an adaptation have finally come to fruition with Jake Schreier directing the film. Details on how the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 4 slate will incorporate the team have yet to be revealed, although the seeds for Thunderbolts have been planted for years.
The team known as the Thunderbolts has had many forms over the years in the comics, ranging from actual villains disguising themselves as heroes to a government-sponsored team of reformed criminals. Phase 4's Thunderbolts setup has left the MCU with plenty of options to collect older and recent villains together. An official lineup has yet to be announced, but characters like Baron Zemo (Daniel Brühl), US Agent (Wyatt Russell), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), The Abomination (Tim Roth), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) are strong possibilities.
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Regardless of which MCU baddies and anti-heroes team up in the film, Marvel still needs to find the Thunderbolts movie villain. After seeing Loki, Ultron, and Thanos play the main antagonist roles in the Avengers movies, Marvel Studios has set a high bar for the villains of its team-up movies. But since many of Marvel's bigger remaining villains could be the «heroes» of Thunderbolts, that means a major opponent will need to stand opposite them. This could mean turning some Marvel heroes into «villains» or including some even bigger baddies. Here are the best candidates to be the Thunderbolts villain.
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