On the surface, Marvel’s Thunderbolts* (or New Avengers, I guess I should say now), is a story about seemingly expendable assassins and operatives, coming together to fight off a big bad. However, on a deeper level, this Marvel project that premiered on the 2025 movie schedule is about loneliness, depression, trauma, and how we cope with them. It’s about the importance of family, support and the power of emotional vulnerability, and I think no one’s character illustrates that better than Florence Pugh’s Yelena.
