Thunderbolts* has a mind-blowing reason for placing an asterisk in the title, as the team's new name flips the MCU upside-down.

"Thunderbolts*" features a team of antiheroes, including Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes and Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova.

Most comics-derived superhero movies really wouldn’t be much of anything without buried rage, and what happens when it won’t stay buried. Their stories’ relentless emphasis on childhood trauma and the crippling psychological load carried by broken souls (heroes and villains both) — that’s the whole show.