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Thunderbolts #1 - Background and Book Club

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

With the Avengers gone, the world needs new heroes to protect it. Enter…the Thunderbolts! Jason and Rosie dive into the comics debut of the Thunderbolts, 1997’s “Justice…Like Lighting!” Whether you haven’t read the issue and want to know what you’re missing, or you already read it and want to dive deeper into how the comic might influence the upcoming movie, we’ve got you covered!

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0:00.0

Warning.

0:00.8

Today's episode contained spoilers for the debut of the Thunderbolt's team in Marvel Comics in 1997.

0:10.2

And if you didn't read that, don't worry because we're just going to tell you everything that happens. Hello, my name is Jason McEpteone, and I'm Rosie Knight,

0:32.2

and welcome to X-I-Vision, the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics,

0:35.9

of pop culture coming to you from IHeart podcast.

0:38.4

We're bringing you three episodes a week every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, plus news.

0:42.8

Plus news.

0:43.4

In today's episode, it's a book club episode, but you know what, guys, we're living through

0:47.0

IP Mageddon.

0:48.5

There's so much going on.

0:49.9

We're covering the Lasterbust, we're covering Andor. We're covering the Thunderbolts. So you know what? If you didn't get a chance to read this issue, don't worry.

0:57.2

Because guess what?

0:57.8

We're going to tell you exactly what happens in it.

1:00.1

So this is Thunderbolts number one from 1997.

1:03.2

All right, Thunderbolts number one.

1:04.7

Tell us about it, Rosie.

1:06.5

Okay. Okay, so in the wake of the onslaught event, where we saw the terrifying villain onslaught essentially

1:14.8

kill the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. They are dead, guys. Can you believe it?

1:19.8

In 1997, they are dead. And I have to say, I think that's a pretty important point in this comic,

1:25.5

because we don't really know what the status quo is going to

1:27.7

be going into thunderbolts all we know is that people keep saying the avengers are not going to

1:31.7

come and save us so who knows so the marvel universe is without the heroes it has long depended on

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