Board Thread:Movies/@comment-5787114-20160421214455/@comment-4548390-20160503234454

LoveWaffle wrote: Well, Sterns needs them because he needs to get out of the Raft and protection from Ross. The Ten Rings want Sterns because... well, why not? His intelligence is a resource I think most scheming masterminds would want on their side. But Ross' Thunderbolts are a strike team, so he doesn't have any reason to include a physically weaker character like Samuel Sterns. He would join the team once the other Thunderbolts realize they're being played and turn on Ross.

And the Thunderbolts would need to fight Ross to get away from him, and a team of supervillains don't really face much of a challenge from him if he's just a normal old man. He doesn't need the Ten Rings, he could use anyone if he wanted, even people from inside the government ranks. The Ten Rings (at least the real ones) wouldn't risk their resources and their plan to return to break the Leader out of a prison they might not even know where's located. And, again, they have the Mandarin, whose intellect is probably superior to that of the Leader. The Leader being weak didn't stop Ross when he put him in his strike team in the comics. And they don't need to fight Ross physically to get away from him. Even if they defeat him in a battle he's become the Red Hulk, what would prevent the government to send others to try and stop them?