The Thunderbolts: Tormented Heroes

I did not expect to like this Marvel movie, especially as Disney has just wrecked the franchise through woke crap. But it was fun to watch. A rag tag group of down on their luck, ex-super heroes who come together and save the world from a rogue CIA director. Anti-heroes doing heroic & good things. 

I got some good takes from it. So many of us are in pain right now, especially in the post Covid and ZIRP-era. Life has gotten tough. Many of us are sad and angry. 

“You can’t stuff it down. You can’t hold it in alone. No one can. We have to let it out. We have to spend time together. And even if the emptiness doesn’t go away, I promise you it will feel lighter.” 

Meditate. Spend time in nature. Make friends. Take action. Transmute this pain. Channel it. That’s what I do. “Keep working on it everyday. Never give up.”

Their former boss and villain of the show said it best. “Do you want to be good or do you want to be someone who changes the world. Righteousness without power is just an opinion. Look, you are brought up to believe there is a bad guy and a good guy. But eventually you come to realize there’s a bad guy and a worst guy. And nothing else.”

I certainly feel this way. Sometimes you just have to crack people’s skulls. Bad guys & criminals need to be put down. And the line between civilization and barbarism is very thin. Too thin. The world is an ugly place full of bad people as we have been learning the last few years especially. Pax Americana is over and our enemies are at the gates, lots inside the gate too. I think this is something most Americans and Europeans are still coming to grips with. 

“Dark times, very very dark times.”

But as one of the heroes Bucky says: “Look, I’ve been where you are. You can run but it doesn’t go away. Sooner or later it catches up to you. When it does it’s too late. So you can either do something about it now or live with it forever.” 

So this is a call to action and a call to arms. Get fit. Get ripped. Get rich and get organized. Take action. Get power. Protect the shire. 

Get strong, so you can be the one to step up when you are needed by others: “Be the one they rely on when they make a mistake.” To be someone. To be more. To matter.