Why watchdog – the best villain Marvel in the eyelids

Warning: This article contains Main spoilers for “Thunderbolts*”. Continue with care.

Maybe only the approach that the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie with the participation of an anti -hero, antagonists and open superheroes will be rejecting will be those who remember how to create a proper villain. “Thunderbolts*” is not the fastest movie in a franchise that came in recent years, and it is even the biggest in 2025 – only in 2025 – This headline goes on “Fantastic Four: First Steps”, come out later this summer. But the miserable movie directed by Jake Schreier (if this phrase may even apply to the blockbuster, which is an unopological part of the Marvel machine) do Take your tonal signals from the dysfunctional team in the name loaded with asterisk. And even these avengers Wannabe could not predict what threat they would be forced to resist throughout the film.

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Thanos are likely to lead the lists of most fans for the main bad MCU, but “Thunderbolts*” adds an amazing opponent to the mixture in the form of a crowded, unprecedented Bob (Lewis Poolman). Of course, Comic book lovers knew that it was much more than it seemed. But in the early position, only Elena Belav Florence was even worried, giving him the time of day, perceiving him as a real man, while John Walker (Vyat Russell), a ghost (Hanna John-Kame) and the rest of the team just ever saw him as a caring luggage. This, however, turns out to be the key to make the emotional arc of the poor Ol Bob, who hit the stronger.

Like Elena, the script himself (writers Eric Pearson and Joanna Kala) refers to Bob and Its possible dark turns into a void As a refreshing human, above all. When the last act unfolds, and our heroes will have to literally enter into our mind to put an end to its destruction New York, the creative team has already succeeded where there are so many movies about Marvel (and films about superheroes as a whole). As long as the smoke is cleared, the most unexpected surprise “Thunderbolts*” is how it unleashes the best villain marvel for a long and long time.

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The Thunderbolts team can make a refusal and dissatisfaction look good, but no one imagines great pain to be an outsider like Bob, into the wonderful moments he shares with Elena. After Valentine Alegra de Fonten . Yes, his loss of memory, lack of physical strength and obvious mental instability makes it a burden for the rest of those who survived. But, deep down, Elena clearly empathizes on the one who had a bad hand in life and never even made it possible to take things into their own hands.

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Together with the arcs of Elena and Bob work hand in hand to become a beaten heart “Thunderbolts*” as a whole. The sequence put in the storage facility, tease the baby injury, especially if its touch repeatedly causes retrospectives and memories of their own dark past past members. When all this ends with its bold and explosive escape, the scenario throws another curve ball. Bob decided to sacrifice himself to allow everyone else to leave, which then reveals his superpowers for everyone. Not many other Marvel films, which would then devote so much time and Bob’s space (which is the real name – Robert Reynolds) when manipulated by Valentina, playing the abuse he suffered as a child to formulate it in the guard it provides.

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But drawing it like identity Unlike obstacles, “Thunderbolts*” creates a painful final act that fully establishes Bob as a terrible void – a shadow, inhuman mirror image of everything we know that it is really inside.

Move, Loki and Thanos because another character appeared anywhere Fighting for the crown of the best villain marvel … And with a much smaller time the screen. While the franchise is preparing to resolve heavy villains, such as Galactus and Doctor Doom on us in the upcoming events about events, there is something great in the most underestimated figure in “Thunderbolts*” that rise to steal the whole show. Although it does not cause the greatest damage to the property, killing the largest number of innocent, or threatens the largest gods and superheroes of the canon, Bob does what very little others have been shot: it feels real.

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Honestly, the key to its role in “Thunderbolts*” is that it really never feels like a true villain of history. The closest he gets when it turns into a guard, sends Thunderbolts without even working with sweat and instantly develops a serious complex of God. But if Valentine’s “switch” eliminates it as a literal shadow of my former, it is painful that it is just the end result of the one who was not only a victim and used throughout his life. These suspicions are confirmed as soon as he woke up when the void and instantly turns all Manhattan in the shadows, including Elena The world located in its own space.

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It is here, where Bob’s psychology is finally naked, and Elena can connect with it at a fundamental, human level. Of course, a character deprived of depression, like Elena, would be those who break through the injured man as Bob, returning him from the border with the help of his loyal friends. Faced with his own demons and learned to accept what he belongs (through a real hug, remember, not all ordinary stamping and struggle), Bob’s ransom is just as powerful and moves as any of the MCU testimony of one of the well-defined and three-dimensional characters of any recent movie Marvel.

“Thunderbolts*” now plays in theaters.