Even Marvel's Villains Are Teaming Up Against the King in Black
Warning: Spoilers for King in Black: Thunderbolts #3!
The Thunderbolts have teamed up to take down the King in Black… whether they like it or not! Much like DC's Suicide Squad, Marvel's current iteration of the Thunderbolts stars an unlikely band of supervillains brought together - with little say in the matter - by a greater authority than themselves. In this case, it's current Mayor of New York Wilson Fisk who forms this oddball team of expendables. Their mission: kill Knull, the King in Black, at all costs.
The new series started out with Fisk assigning this task to a handful of villains, explaining that if they succeed and survive this nearly impossible undertaking, he'll pay them handsomely. The only caveat is that if any of them refuse to accept this mission, Fisk will lock them up in a jail cell where they'd be sitting ducks as Knull's symbiote army consumes the earth. Left with practically no choice at all, these Thunderbolts - spearheaded by Taskmaster, Star Mister Fear and Batroc the Leaper - have already lost plenty of teammates while also picking up some new ones along the way.
A new preview for King in Black: Thunderbolts #3 by Matthew Rosenberg and Juan Ferreyra picks up shortly after the team received a new directive from Norman Osborn: acquire the Sentry's dead body and use its leftover energy to blow up Knull's lair. Seeing as how this team has been cursed with bad luck from the jump, it's no surprise their stolen getaway bus breaks down right as this new issue begins. Star, the only one amongst them with something of a moral compass, has to practically pull Taskmaster's teeth to convince him not to leave the Ravencroft inmates they brought with them behind.
As they make their way on foot through the symbiote-infested streets of New York, one panel showcases the team walking together as one. On their way to their climactic final destination, unsure if any of them will survive, this is typically the epic moment in most superhero stories when the team finally learns to work together as one and bring down the enemy. Only, given that none of this team really wants to be there and would gladly stab each other in the back if it meant their own survival, this is a hilarious subversion that's made even funnier by Mr. Fear threatening to kill Foolkiller for mentioning he'd rather not be a Thunderbolt.
Given how popular it currently is, the superhero genre often runs the risk of following its familiar narrative patterns a bit too closely. Specifically, when it comes to super powered team up stories, it's quite rare not to see the team overcoming their differences to become something greater than their individual selves. The current Thunderbolts series is having a blast exposing its absurd squad for exactly what it is: a group of villains with absolutely nothing to lose. Find out just how ludicrous things get from here when King in Black: Thunderbolts #3 releases on March 3.
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