Board Thread:Movies/@comment-5787114-20160421214455/@comment-1895174-20160503195828

I'd love to see a Thunderbolts movie in Phase 4, but the members of the team should be villains and anti-heroes that have already been introduced at that point in the MCU. That does mean Marvel movies need to stop killing off their bad guys, however. Zemo, Bucky, and Crossbones would be easy candidates (haven't seen it yet but assuming they all survive Civil War). The villains of Ant-Man and the Wasp and Spider-Man: Homecoming would work, too, I just don't know who that would be. I know Marvel isn't going to put the Green Goblin in their Spider-Man reboot just yet, but maybe he'll be introduced by the time we get a Thunderbolts movie. Other than Spidey himself, Norman Osborn is the Spider-Man character most important to the overall Marvel universe, so we can't go for too long without him in the MCU. Maybe Captain Marvel will give us a Moonstone? They could work in characters from the TV series like Donnie Gill or Elektra, but that's less likely.

General Ross would put the team together out of criminals imprisoned held at the Raft; their name coming from his ego. He creates the team under the guise of having an Avengers-like team of Enhanced people working for the government, but what he really wants is a hit squad to cover up that he's been taking treatments of Gamma Radiation (taking a cue from Code Red). The final battle would be between the Thunderbolts - who realize they're being played - and the Red Hulk on the Raft.