This article contains spoilers For “Marvel’s Thunderbolts”.

From the point of view of strict power, the main antagonist of “Marvel’s Thunderbolts” is Robert “Bob” Reynolds’ (Lewis Pullman), whose Sentinel incarnation of superheroes and its destructive obscure side, the Void, are the most powerful opponents that the holder team is confronted. However, the closest thing to the film of a big villain is the director of the CIA Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). This is an interesting development because of Fontaine has slowly took control of the role of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) as the main master-spymaste of the Marvel cinematographic universe in recent years. The two are known to lead a dark intelligence agency, share the tendency to build powerful protection tools that they can control – from Fontaine has the Sentry project, Fury shone with an overview of the project in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” – and are known to use costume vigilants for dangerous missions.

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Given these similarities, it is interesting to note that the “Thunderbolts” do everything possible to transform from fountain into an anti-nick fury. Like Fury, she is a capable commander who is hard as nails, but her leadership is undermined by poorly recommendable features such as the height and the desire for personal power. Unlike Fury, she does not have the luxury of working outside the government’s jurisdiction and turns out to be completely unable to submit to politicians. Instead, she must rush and improvise throughout the film to avoid dismissal. And unlike Fury, she is also quite ready to sacrifice her own people and her assets to save them. All this gives Fontaine a unique combination of impressive and intelligence which allows Louis-Dreyfus to portray the character as a combination of a cruel game group and a “Veep” style leader which is constantly out of its depth … and a scene of “Thunderbolts” finally offers us interior indices of the mysterious Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.

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Sale the Movie Revolves Around De Fontaine Scrambling to Hide Evidence of the Sentry Project and Various Off-The-Books Wetworks Operatifs, It Makes Sense That It Largely Steers Clear of Making Her Sympathetic-Especially Sale the Thunderbolts Team Gets Its Start When She Sics Yelena Belova (Flo Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) against each other and tries to incinerate them. However, when Bob turns out to have superpowers and takes him to the Watchtower in New York, we get a brief scene that reveals more about her than she probably would have wished.

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During a bedside conversation, a bob fountain touches and is subject to one of the flashbacks of bad live memory which are part of the power set of Void. Here, we learn that his father was an overly confident crook who found himself caught in something big and was shot down before his eyes by another shaded figure, which then took him under his wing. This brief scene explains many things about De Fontaine’s amorality and callousia – she is her father’s daughter, after all – and suggests that all the conditions in which she grew up cannot be good. In other words, Fontaine was directed to the path of a ruthless powerful player by nature And to feed. In addition, while she seems very comfortable in her own skin as director of the CIA, it is quite revealing that Bob’s Touch specifically sends people to live their worst absolute memories, and the experience is enough to briefly break the facade of De Fontaine, generally imperturbable.

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Compare the brief Fontaine flashback with the background of Nick Fury, which took place during many MCU projects – mainly “Captain Marvel” and the Disney + “Secret Invasion” miniseries – and you will find that sometimes, less really. Fury’s story, after all, is a very simple situation of “soldier to spy” until it meets with the Skrulls and Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) in “Captain Marvel” and uses these new contacts to start developing its power base.

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Fury’s tragedies are those of an action hero, and his career journey is that of a film character. It doesn’t make fury bad Character – on the contrary, it is very good, as does the MCU. However, simply taking an additional moment to offer an overview of the past of De Fontaine, “Thunderbolts” greatly contributes to establishing it as a much more three -dimensional figure than Fury has never been … and after the flashback scene, its comments on the world made up of bad and worse people hit very, very differently than they would do it without seeing it.

“Thunderbolts” is an emotional punch From start to finish. While the film exciting post-writer and the vast powers of Dark Sentry of Marvel, the voidCould sometimes distract from his heavy mental health themes, scenes like the Fontaine flashback add diapers to the film that will undoubtedly reward the spectator on a return.

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