Thunderbolts

The Thunderbolts are a team of individuals with special characteristics who are recruited by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine to undertake missions for the CIA and the .Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts’ Movie Taps Jake Schreier As Director
==History==
===Recruitment===
====Recruiting John Walker====
When John Walker was publicly stripped of his title of "Captain America" by at the United States Capitol, he was approached by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who expressed sympathy for his situation. Believing Walker to still be of value to America's interests and aware that he had received the Super Soldier Serum, de Fontaine left him with her business card, hoping that he would pick up the phone when she called him.
Walker later met with the de Fontaine at the Capitol once more, having played a part in defeating the Flag Smashers. There, she outfitted him with a new version of his Captain America suit and gave him the moniker "U.S. Agent". As Walker celebrated with his wife, de Fontaine told him that they would remain in touch.
====Recruiting Yelena Belova====
By December 2024, de Fontaine had established a connection with former Black Widow operative Yelena Belova. After Eleanor Bishop requested the assassination of Clint Barton, de Fontaine visited Belova at Natasha Romanoff's grave, where she was assigned with carrying out Barton's elimination. Belova agreed to do so after being told that Barton was responsible for Romanoff's death.
==Members==
===Winter Soldier===
*Name: James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes
*Activity: To be added
*Status: Alive 
*Description: A childhood friend of Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes enlisted into the United States Army during World War II, eventually being captured by Arnim Zola and experimented on, gaining super soldier abilities. Barnes was freed by Rogers, who was now the super soldier Captain America, together, the pair formed the Howling Commandos and became living legends during the war, until 1945 when Barnes fell from a train during the Capture of Arnim Zola, and was thought dead. However, Barnes survived and was captured by HYDRA, and after years of mental conditioning and torture, they turned Barnes into an elite assassin known as Winter Soldier. For decades, Barnes was forced to do HYDRA's bidding, until 2014, when Nick Fury and Rogers uncovered a conspiracy within the ranks of S.H.I.E.L.D., leading Rogers to discover Barnes' identity. With HYDRA destroyed, Barnes went into hiding for the next two years, until Helmut Zemo framed him for the Bombing of the Vienna International Centre, sparking the Avengers Civil War. Rogers, Barnes, and their allies brawled against Iron Man and his faction of the Avengers before managing to escape to Wakanda. There, Barnes finally found some semblance of peace, and with help from Shuri and Ayo, he overcame his mental conditioning. His peace was interrupted by the Infinity War, which ended with Barnes dying in the Snap, upon his resurrection in 2023, he aided the Avengers during the Battle of Earth. Months later, while atempting to make amends for his actions as Winter Soldier, he begrudgingly partnered with Sam Wilson to apprehend the Flag Smashers and bring their political violence to an end, ultimately helping Wilson accept the mantle of Captain America and save the day. 
===Yelena Belova===
*Name: Yelena Belova
*Activity: To be added
*Status: Alive 
*Description: Yelena Belova is a former member of the Black Widows, under the control of Dreykov. In 1992 she was stationed in Mount Vernon, Ohio, posing as the daughter of Melina Vostokoff and Alexei Shostakov, after their mission was a success, Belova was taken to the Red Room and was subjected to mind control until 2016 when she was freed using Red Dust. She reconnected with her adoptive sister Natasha Romanoff and along with their adoptive parents, worked to kill Dreykov and destroy the Red Room Academy. Belova from that point on traveled the world to free the remaining Black Widows, until she was killed by the Snap. Upon her resurrection in 2023, she discovered that Romanoff had died, which devastated her, she eventually met Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who assigned Belova to kill Clint Barton under the orders of Eleanor Bishop. Belova, convinced that Barton had killed her sister, agreed, but eventually she and Barton reconciled and went their separate ways.
===U.S. Agent=== 
*Name: Jonathan F. "John" Walker
*Activity: To be added
*Status: Alive 
*Description: John Walker is a highly decorated former Captain of the United States Army's who served in Afghanistan. In 2024, he was chosen to succeed Steve Rogers as the second Captain America. During the Flag Smashers' Political Ultimatum, Walker came into conflict with Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson after the duo freed Helmut Zemo from prison. After a failed attempt to capture the Flag Smashers' leader, Karli Morgenthau, Walker got his hands on a vial of the Super Soldier Serum, which amplified his already struggling mental stability. This all came to a head when a conflict with the Flag Smashers got Walker's partner Lemar Hoskins killed, leading to Walker brutally murdering a Flag Smasher in public before battling Barnes and Wilson over Captain America's Shield. Following this, Walker was stripped of his title and he vowed revenge against Morgenthau. However, Walker was ultimately able to make the right choice when he stopped his quest for revenge to save the members of the GRC during the Attack on the GRC. Afterwards, Walker met Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who rebranded him as U.S. Agent. 
===Red Guardian===
*Name: Alexei Andreovitch Shostakov
*Activity: To be added
*Status: Alive 
*Description: Alexi Shostakov was born in the Soviet Union, and eventually enlisted into the Soviet Armed Forces, where he was chosen to be the first recipient of the Soviet's recreation of the Super Soldier Serum, becoming a super soldier known as Red Guardian. Shostakov became acquainted with Dreykov, and in 1992 he was tasked with infiltrating the North Institute and stationed in Mount Vernon, Ohio, with the Black Widows Melina Vostokoff, Yelena Belova and Natasha Romanoff posing as his family. After three years, the mission was a success, however, instead of being toted as a hero like he expected, Dreykov had Shostakov incarcerated in the Seventh Circle Prison, where he remained until 2016, when his adopted daughters freed him to aid them in the Termination of the Red Room.
===Ghost===
*Name: Ava Starr
*Activity: To be added
*Status: Alive 
*Description: The daughter of Quantum Realm researchers Catherine and Elihas Starr, Ava Starr was exposed to extreme amounts of molecular energy following an accident with her father's Quantum Tunnel prototype that he created after his falling out with Hank Pym. The accident would kill both of Starr's parents and leave her with a condition called molecular disequilibrium, which causes her immense pain as her body switches between states of tangibility. Learning of the accident, S.H.I.E.L.D. sent scientist Bill Foster to investigate, and over time, Foster adopted her. S.H.I.E.L.D. would engineer a suit that allowed Starr to control her abilities, and with the promise of a cure for her condition, Starr would carry out special ops missions for S.H.I.E.L.D., under the name Ghost. In 2018 Starr came into conflict with Ant-Man and Wasp when she attempted to hijack Hank Pym's Mobile Laboratory to extract energy from the Quantum Realm to cure herself at the cost of Janet van Dyne's life, however, upon van Dyne's rescue, she was able to stabilize Starr's condition by using Quantum Healing Particles. Afterwards, she and Foster went into hiding.
===Taskmaster===
*Name: Antonia Dreykov
*Activity: To be added
*Status: Alive 
*Description: The daughter of the Red Room's ruthless leader, Dreykov, Antonia Dreykov was just a young girl during the Budapest Operation, where Natasha Romanoff, with help from Clint Barton, was tasked with killing Dreykov in order to defect from the Red Room and join S.H.I.E.L.D., her plan was to plant explosives inside Dreykov's Budapest Office, using his daughter as bait to ensure he was in the right place. However, Dreykov survived the assassination attempt, but Antonia was not so lucky. Through the Taskmaster Protocol, she was given a new life, fitted with a cybernetic suit to keep her alive, a chip in the back of her neck that allowed her to perfectly mimic any combatant she encounters, and an arsenal of weapons. In 2016, Antonia was dispatched to hunt down Romanoff in Sæbø, Norway and later came into conflict with Romanoff again during the Destruction of the Red Room, ending with Antonia being freed by the Red Dust. She was thankful towards Romanoff for killing her father and freeing her.
==Trivia==
*In the comics, the first Thunderbolts team was formed by Baron Zemo as a fake superhero team to "replace" the Avengers after they were "killed" by Onslaught, only to be defeated when they came back from the dead. They eventually expelled Zemo and became a genuine team of heroes under Clint Barton. Later iterations of the team composed of conscripted criminals, anti-heroes and vigilantes eventually became the most well-known versions of the Thunderbolts.
**To coincide with the Thunderbolts* film, a new team of Thunderbolts was introduced in the comics.
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