Board Thread:Movies/@comment-5787114-20160421214455/@comment-1895174-20160503214403

Sterns would find a way to contact the Ten Rings to bust him out, I would think. He'd become the "brains" of the team after he makes the Thunderbolts see Ross' true intentions for them.

And remember that the Thunderbolts are typically reformed villains. The team would consist of anti-heroes, villains who want to make a change, villains who could make a change if given the right push, and villains who want to appear to have made a change for their own purpose. They don't need Ross' Thunderbolt Initiative to make that change, they just need it to get them together and out of the Raft. The lesson they learn is that they can still be heroes even if no one else is going to look at them like that.