The Trailers Thread III

[Shepherd]

Huh, wonder where I'm remembering Meanstreak from, then?  Regardless, exactly none of that (aside from Smoked Citizen V as noted) appears to be in this movie, so it's still some corpo suit's braindrizzle of slapping an existing IP name and onto what should by rights have been a new project to try to sucker in the old fans, and if other recent Marvel movies are to judge, while simultaneously belittling those same old fans for being insufficiently buzzword compliant.

Meanstreak was a character from X-Men 2099. There have also been multiple versions of the Thunderbolts over the years, and while I always felt the original run was best, the setup for that run doesn't apply to the MCU, while the setup to several later versions does.

The initial run was Baron Zemo's Thunderbolts. That wouldn't work here because MCU Zemo hates 'enhanced' enough that he'd never form his own super team. A+, would recommend.

Hawkeye then took over that team and tried steering them towards actual redemption instead of running a super powered con job. A pretty damn good run.

After that fell apart, a few original members joined up with some new members, before a (mostly) reformed Zemo regained control of the group. He lead the group into hunting down villains during the original Civil War storyline. An okay run.

A new version of the Thunderbolts formed under Norman Osborn. The only original members were Moonstone and Songbird. A very uneven run with lots of delays.

After Osborn's first team imploded in the wake of Secret Invasion, he formed a new, skuzzier team with some similarities to the upcoming MCU movie. Many of them got arrested after Osborn's latest evil scheme fell apart. I didn't particulalry like this run.

Next came Luke Cage's Thunderbolts, who were all prisoners trying to earn pardons/reduced sentences. They were like DC's Suicide Squad, but more legal and without literal suicide missions. I liked it much better than the previous few incarnations.

After that was Red Hulk's Thunderbolts, who were a super powered black ops military strike team. I didn't even bother collecting this run.

Then there was the Winter Soldier's Thunderbolts, which consisted mostly of original team members, but only lasted 12 issues. I thought it was sub-par.

Zemo started yet another incarnation of the team working for NY Mayor Wilson Fisk (aka the Kingpin). That failed, leading to:

Mayor Wilson Fisk starting his own, skuzzier Thunderbolts. After he's defeated, they're replaced by a new team lead (once again) by Hawkeye.

Most recently, the Winter Soldier wound up running a new incarnation of the Thunderbolts under Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (the character leading them in the trailer). They fought nazis and the Red Skull.