Thunderbolts* Review: Exactly What The MCU Needs Right Now & I'm More Excited About The Franchise's Future Than I've Been In Years

For all 17 years the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been around, few Marvel Studios movies have explicitly tackled mental health with the depth and deftness of Thunderbolts*. Certainly, Iron Man 3 sees Tony Stark wrestling with PTSD from the events of The Avengers, Avengers: Endgame showed the toll of grief and depression on Thor, and Moon Knight told the story of a man living with dissociative identity disorder. But with the exception of Moon Knight, those MCU characters' mental health was secondary to the plot of the project. In Thunderbolts*, mental health is the main story.