After both The Avengers and the Fantastic Four apparently perished in a battle with the super-villain Onslaught, a new team of heroes tried to fill the void. Called The Thunderbolts, their actions quickly earn them the respect and admiration of the general public, but what nobody knows is that Citizen V, Atlas, Songbird, MACH-I, Meteorite, and Techno are really the long-time Avengers enemies, The Masters of Evil.
Attempting to ingratiate themselves with S.H.I.E.L.D. and thus learn valuable secrets that they can sell off to the highest bidder, the Thunderbolts’ plan worked too well, and some of the villains started seeing themselves as heroes, leading to an inevitable conflict as leader Citizen V, AKA: Captain America nemesis Baron Zemo, continued to pursue the original agenda.
With a clever twist on the standard superhero formula, the comic asked what makes a hero, and can one outrun their past in order to embrace a better future? It was once a famous axiom that in comic book movies, the villain was more interesting than the hero, so by that standard, a Thunderbolts movie would be the best of both of both worlds, right?
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