With the movie arriving shortly, I decided to do a quick piece on the Thunderbolts. I’m going to start with several disclaimers. First off, this is about the original comic book Thunderbolts stories, not the movie version of characters. There is no crossover between the membership in the two versions.
Marvel has a lot of interesting characters in their ever-expanding universe. One area they’ve been fairly lacking in is Native representation, although they’re working on it. Among their few Native characters is Echo, Maya Lopez. The MCU version turned up during the Hawkeye series, and now she’s off on her own adventure.
Brave New World brings the Captain America franchise to its fourth installment, which only Thor has managed to equal. While pretty much all MCU projects are connected to a greater or lesser degree, most of them can also stand alone. I’d argue you could enjoy this movie without having seen the rest of the MCU (although I’m not sure why you’d want to), but it ties most closely to the movies Incredible Hulk, Eternals, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series on Disney+.
In this episode, parts of both 2012’s Avengers movie and Thor: Ragnarok are reshuffled to give us “What if Iron Man Crashed Into the Grandmaster?”
He has changed and grown a great deal through the course of the two seasons of his Disney+ series, and now that it has reached an end in “Glorious Purpose,” a phrase that’s been part of Loki’s mythos throughout his MCU journey.
I have a long-running policy of avoiding spoilers in my reviews. There will not be any below.
Loki, Mobius, and the rest have a lot of unexpected things to deal with in “Science Fiction.”
Some have been tragic, some dramatic, and a few have been more on the humorous side. “What If Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?” is definitely one of those. There’s all kinds of action and a few nods to assorted Christmas stories as we see an Avengers Christmas party like no other.
When Disney+ starting making shows set in the MCU, they included an animated version of What If, which featured many of the stars of the movies coming back to reprise their roles. It was so successful, it became the second Marvel series on Disney+ to get more than one season, just behind Loki. Returned for a new series of could-have-been tales, What If started off with an out of this world story.
The TVA has a new status quo to adapt to, individual present and former members get a lot of unexpected revelations, and there are a lot of startling events for all concerned. The Sacred Timeline is indeed a multiverse now, as we see when we get a look in “The Heart of the TVA.”
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