This text incorporates spoilers for “Thunderbolts*.”
“Thunderbolts*” is an emotional intestine punch that does wonders to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, particularly because it comes so quickly after the lackluster and forgettable “Captain America: Courageous New World.” Regardless of their noticeable variations in high quality, the 2 films do share a minimum of one throughline: The surprisingly speedy political rise of 1 Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan). In “Courageous New World,” we discovered that the previous Winter Soldier is making an attempt to leverage his world-saving fame right into a profession as a congressman. Come “Thunderbolts*,” viewers uncover that Bucky’s election bid was really profitable and he finds himself strolling within the halls of energy — admittedly pissed off and barely out of his depth, however nonetheless.
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Earlier than lengthy, Bucky finally ends up grabbing his trusty “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”-era magnetic grenade launcher and leaping again in motion. He joins forces with Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Crimson Guardian (David Harbour) to cease CIA Director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine’s (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) amoral actions … and earlier than lengthy, the uneasy alliance of the Thunderbolts discover themselves up in opposition to the terrifying Void persona of Bob Reynolds (Lewis Pullman). After a profitable and psychologically surprisingly nuanced world-saving mission, the Thunderbolts discover themselves guarding the world because the New Avengers — however can Bucky actually pull that off whereas nonetheless serving as a congressman?
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In the event you ask “Thunderbolts*” director Jake Schreier, the reply is not any. Actually, the director confirmed to Leisure Weekly that heroic Congressman Bucky Barnes has left politics behind and returned to superhero stuff:
“I feel he is discovered a brand new place that makes rather more sense for him.”
Sebastian Stan thinks Bucky’s political profession was comprehensible, however he is higher at superheroics
Bucky’s dynamic with the remainder of the Thunderbolts — sorry, New Avengers — certainly makes it appear to be he is in a spot the place he belongs. All of the members of the workforce have their points. Additionally they have a number of tremendous troopers (which is not an expertise too many individuals in Bucky’s life can relate to), and lots of within the group have been concerned of their share of black ops missions and assassinations, which is one thing the previous Winter Soldier is aware of about all too nicely. Sebastian Stan, who was additionally interviewed by Leisure Weekly concerning the topic, feels that Bucky is eager to depart politics behind and concentrate on what he does finest:
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“He is nonetheless been looking for his manner of how he can contribute in a manner that he hasn’t earlier than. In the end, he realizes, ‘No, I’m who I’m, and I do issues how I do them, and I ought to simply try this.'”
Whereas Bucky is little question feeling extra snug as a member of the New Avengers (a minimum of each time his good friend, Anthony Mackie’s Sam “Captain America” Wilson, is not getting on his case about unintentionally commandeering the Avengers title), this does not imply that his fast political side-step was all in useless. In spite of everything, whereas Stan admitted to been stunned when he first discovered about Bucky’s bid for congress, he in the end got here to understand simply how purely shocking the profession transfer was:
“I feel it was an attention-grabbing flip that I did not see [coming], and I feel most likely lots of people would not have seen.”
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“Thunderbolts*” is now enjoying in theaters.