Ideally, a marketing plot like this would result in a nice split… but that doesn’t feel true in this particular case. The Thunderbolts, being a surreptitious way of assembling a new version of Earth’s Mightiest Heroe,s always seemed like the most obvious answer to the presented riddle, and I was hoping for something a bit more advanced.

Let’s take a trip back to the year 2016, when Captain America: Civil War was released in cinemas, a film that’s widely regarded as one of the best ever released by Marvel Studios. (It’s currently number five on IMDb’s list of the top-rated MCU films, and number 11 on Rotten Tomatoes, with a fresh ratings score of 90%).