Thunderbolts*' New Avengers twist and marketing were creative, but it created a few problems that didn't allow the movie to ...

The Avengers is a combination of Marvel’s greatest heroes, battling against the most powerful threats imaginable. The ...

This began the Dark Reign era of Marvel Comics, in which Norman Osborn elevated villains to positions of importance and began persecuting and attempting to assassinate various heroes. While the MCU ...

as Norman Osborn usurps Tony Stark’s position and spearheads his own team of Dark Avengers. The Dark Avengers are notable for featuring many major villains masquerading as heroes. For example ...

The Avengers were given the fitting appellation “Earth’s Greatest Heroes” and for good reason. The Avengers combined Marvel’s ...

It’s fitting, then, that the team’s adventures occurred in a series called Dark Avengers. Neither of those distractions undermine the central power of the Dark Avengers concept. Osborn has ...

When the title Thunderbolts* comes up in the closing credits, it's officially confirmed that the asterisk was a tease of their new name as the logo morphs into one for The New Avengers.

Osborne does exactly this in the Marvel Comics series that followed, Dark Avengers. In that series, Norman Osborn takes several “reformed” villains, many of which were once Thunderbolts ...

He also built his own Iron Man-inspired suit, dubbing himself the Iron Patriot. The Dark Avengers went through ups and downs over their history, but were often closely associated with that other ...

One of the more compelling fan theories is that the Thunderbolts will end up becoming the Dark Avengers, as they did in the comics (alternatively, they could end up with one of the other alternate ...

That's a slight difference from what many expected, which was for the team to take on the name Dark Avengers, thanks to that team's comic connection to the Thunderbolts. You may like Marvel ...