MCU Phase 4: Predicting Every Major Character That Will Join

17. Thunderbolts

First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #449

If you can't beat them, join them... is what Marvel would be saying if DC's Suicide Squad was any good. But it wasn't, and so the torch falls to Marvel to do something intuitive with the Dirty Dozen premise Warner Bros. so horrendously squandered in a sea of green, purple and Adidas product placement.

For all intents and purposes the Thunderbolts, a team created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley, are Marvel's equivalent of DC's Task Force X. They're a group of villains assembled to do the dirty work the heroes can't do, and with that in mind, it's easy to see Marvel making the team a feature in the future. What villains will appear is a slightly trickier question, but the House of Ideas aren't exactly short on options, with Michael Keaton's Vulture an obvious contender for a part in any potential Thunderbolts film.

There are countless other characters to include in this case, and while DC have beaten Marvel to the punch when it comes to their bad-guy ensemble, there's no reason why they too can't visit the concept later down the line.