Thunderbolts* is no different. Bundling together a crew of misfits and anti-heroes from Marvel's past across film and television, the all-star crossover brings the likes of Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes into the same orbit as Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova for the first time.

It’s a time of great peril in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The world’s biggest film franchise has struggled ever since Avengers: Endgame, a fact highlighted by March’s Captain America: Brave New World.

Florence Pugh leads a crew of scrappy misfits. It’s a familiar premise, “Suicide Squad” did the same thing, but here it works.