Thunderbolts* 2025 quotes

Alexei/The Red Guardian

What kind of super serum did you get?

I don’t know. Regular. Hydra.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Hydra? Oh. Fancy.

Yes.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Mine was Soviet recreation. But it’s still good, you know? [chuckles] We are same, you and me!

Well...

Alexei/The Red Guardian

I mean, we are different, but we are same. You know, we could be co-leaders in this, huh?

Little different.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

You get tired, I drive, huh?

I don't get tired.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

No, I mean metaphorically. No, I don't actually want to drive.

Yelena Belova

Are we there yet?

Almost!

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Almost! [breathes deeply] Okay. Mr. Soldier, what is secret plan, huh?

The plan?

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Yeah. I like this plan. [The Thunderbolts fights the O.X.E. paramilitary security team]

Valentina

Jesus, you guys, I literally just put that drywall inǃ I left the door unlocked for youǃ Come upǃ [The Thunderbolts meets her as she pours a drink] How crazy is it to think of all the monumental fights that happened exactly here where you’re standing? Eh. I don’t really care. I mean, the place wasn’t cheap, but it’s got good optics.

Well, it’s over, Valentina. This ends today.

Valentina

Congressman Barnes, wow. You know, I never really thought you’d have a promising political career. But less than half a term? Yikes.

We’re taking you in, Val.

Valentina

I don’t think so. [looks at Walker and chuckles] Junior Varsity Captain America.

Walker.

Valentina

Oh, nice to see you, Ava. Yelena. You look awful. You sure you’re really ready for that public facing role you asked me about?

Yelena Belova

Eat shit, Valentina. Where’s Bob?

Valentina

Look at you. You are all so adorable. Just think, I send you down there to kill each other, and instead, you make nice and you form a team. [looks at Alexei] Who’s this old Santa?

Alexei/The Red Guardian

I’m Alexei Shostakovǃ The Red Guardianǃ

Valentina

What?

Where’s Mel?

Valentina

Mel? Oh, Mel. Yeah. Uh, Mel is having a little loyalty issue. But I’m just so grateful that she stayed long enough to lure you all in. [Bucky takes drink from her and attempts to apprehend but is thwarted by an unseen energy] I’m not alone. [calls up] Robert? [Robert/The Sentry walks downstairs]

Yelena Belova

Oh, my God.

That’s Bob?

Valentina

Yeah, he’s changed a little. [gestures to him] It is my great honor to introduce to you The Sentry.

Robert/The Sentry

Hey, guys.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Wow. That’s cool name.

Valentina

All powerful. Invincible. Stronger than all of the Avengers rolled into one. And soon to be known as Earth’s mightiest hero.

Ava

Have you dyed your hair?

Robert/The Sentry

Yeah. Well, it was...

Valentina

Yeah, it was my idea. People love a classic hero.

Okay, I’ll bite. What’s the plan?

Valentina

You haven’t figured it out yet, Bucky? Geez. Well, at least you’re kind of cute.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

You’re not going to hurt people.

Valentina

Oh, no. No, I’m not gonna hurt people. I’m gonna hurt you. You see, the press is on their way here now. And they’re gonna witness the awesome power of Sentry as he takes down this ruthless group of rogue agents, thus beginning a new era in which I decide how to keep the American people safe, answering to no one. I’ll be unimpeachable.

That’s... never gonna happen.

Valentina

Sentry, your first mission is to take out these criminals.

Robert/The Sentry

I don’t wanna hurt you guys. Why don’t you just turn yourselves in? [chuckles]

No, you don’t wanna do this, Bobby.

Robert/The Sentry

You can call me The Sentry.

Yelena Belova

Please, don’t do this. You do not need to listen to her.

Valentina

Robert, they don’t think you’re good enough.

Yelena Belova

That’s not true. Remember? You can trust meǃ I know youǃ

Robert/The Sentry

I don’t think that you do.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Enough talking! No one messes with the... [screams] West Chesapeake Valley Thunderbolts! [lunges forward and The Sentry sends The Red Guardian flying into a wall]

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Wow, so many choices, huh? Hard to decide. Oh, look, Wheaties. Wow. With its toasted wholewheat flakes, wholegrain, vitamins. Give you energy. Good for kids, huh?

Okay. Thanks. [takes box from him and places in cart]

Alexei/The Red Guardian

You’re welcome. [woman places box on a stack] That’s me on the box.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

What impressive friends you've assembled, Yelena.

Yelena Belova

We're not friends, Alexei.

Ava

No, we're just disposable delinquents.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Whatever you are, the light inside you is brighter. How about this — you are team of scrappy antiheroes?

Yeah. Go Thunderbolts.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

What? Yelena, you named them after your pee-wee soccer club?

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Yelena! Little one.

Yelena Belova

Go awayǃ

Alexei/The Red Guardian

No, I will notǃ

Yelena

Well, then, chase me foreverǃ

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Fine, I will, because that’s what family does.

Yelena Belova

Oh, my God, stop. If you cared, you would have calledǃ I would have heard from youǃ I lost my sister again, but forever! And you disappeared!

Alexei/The Red Guardian

I'm sorry. I don't know how to do this. I'm not good at it. I didn't think you wanted me.

Yelena Belova

I did!

Alexei/The Red Guardian

I see that. I'm late, but I'm... I'm here now.

Yelena Belova

Daddy, I’m so alone. I don’t have anything anymore. All I do is sit, and look at my phone, and think of all the terrible things that I’ve done; and then I go to work, and then I drink, come home to no one, and I sit and think about all the terrible things I’ve done again and again and I go crazy!

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Yelena, stop. Stop. We all have things that we regret.

Yelena Belova

No, but I have so many! My first test at the Red Room... Anya, she was just a child, she was so small...

Alexei/The Red Guardian

So were you. I know; I know they were dark times -- very, very dark times, but... before, you were such a special little girl. Did you know this? You walked into room, you made it bright. You felt a lot of joy.

Yelena Belova

I don't remember that feeling.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

You were so kind! You remember why you want to be goalie on your terrible soccer team?

Yelena Belova

It... So I didn't have to run as much.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

No. Maybe that too, but you told me "I want to be the one everyone can rely on if they make a mistake". That Yelena is still in you. I still see her.

Yelena Belova

I don't...

Alexei/The Red Guardian

You're stuck, you're alone, you look only at the bad. When I look at you, I don't see your mistakes. That's why we need each other.

Yelena Belova

...Okay, that was really good.

Ava Starr/Ghost

I’m going after her.

And then what?

Ava Starr/Ghost

If she did that, she did it for a reason.

Well, what if she’s dead, huh? What if there’s no coming back?

Ava Starr/Ghost

What if she isn’t?

How do you know that?

No, no, no, wait, hold on. I think she might have a point. When-when I was back in the vault, I-I saw something. I-I went somewhere. I can’t explain it, but...

Alexei/The Red Guardian

What did you see?

Ava

That doesn't sound like a shredder...It's an incinerator.

Yelena Belova

Two minutes. Then Valentina's slate is wiped clean.

You don't know that for sure. Could be anything. Could be for anything. Could be for when they come to pick me up.

Ava

Do you feel that?! The temperature rising dramatically as if heat were involved?

...Okay, it's an incinerator.

Bob

Oh, boy. That is no way to go.

Well, how would you like to die today, Bob?

Yelena Belova

Okay, ghost lady.

Ava

Ava.

Yelena Belova

Sure. Whatever. Don't care. We need to get you through the walls, so that you can open the door.

She tried that already.

Yelena Belova

I know she did. But we haven't tried shutting down the sound barrier.

Well, if they built it just for her, there's gotta be an independent power source.

Ava

Come on. Let's goǃ

Bob

What... what exactly is it we are looking for?

We are looking for not-stupid questions, Bob.

Oh, God.

Yelena Belova

I’ll call an Uber.

Jesus Christ.

Yelena Belova

I know. What was that? [referring to Valentina] That was her. She did that to him.

Well, she turned him into a tomahawk cruise missile.

Yelena Belova

You were right, she definitely wants us dead. To test on someone like that, it’s inhuman.

Yeah, she’s lost it.

Yelena Belova

Nope. She’s found it. [hands research papers to Ava] And she’ll use it.

Ava

What is this? “Power of a thousand exploding suns. Golden Guardian of Good.” That’s a mouthful.

Wow. Sentry. Very shiny, I’ll give them that.

Ava

What do you know about this?

There was a rumor that OXE was on the verge of some kind of big breakthrough. Whatever it was, was way too extreme. Test subjects were dying. When the government looked into it,Val shut it down. She put me on cleanup duty.

Yelena Belova

Let’s just make it home without getting cratered. Might need new homes.

Anybody hungry? [kneels down] Cactus berry.

Ava

So, that woman back there that I... You knew her?

Yelena Belova

Yeah, I did. She had a tough life. She killed a lot of people and then she got killed. Same as us someday.

Ava

It's a shit life.

Yeah, well... what other life can we have?

Ava

Says the guy with the Norman Rockwell family waiting for him at home.

Yeah.

Ava

How do you do it? [eats fruit]

Well, you just keep working at it every day. Never give up.

Yelena Belova

Beautiful. [points] Dr. Phil, that was really beautiful. [turns and walks with Ava following]

Yeah. [walks after] You know that show’s not on anymore, right?

Yelena Belova

Yeah, it is. I watch it.

Nah, it got canceled a few years ago. It was a good show while it was on, but it’s not on anymore. Gotta be like a YouTube thing. They took him off cable.

Okay, well, look at the facts. The infamous Ghost, a S.H.I.E.L.D. reject on the run from 15 nations? The dead one over there, she destroyed half of Budapest.

Yelena Belova

Don't talk about her like that

And you. [referring to Yelena] A former Red Room assassin. God only knows the blood on your hands.

Ava

Pretty ludicrous coming from the dime store Captain America.

I'll have you know I was actually the official Captain America, so...

Yelena Belova

Yeah, for like two seconds.

Ava

Before you publicly murdered an innocent man on the streets. Do I have that right?

Really? Define innocent. Hey, look, I'm a decorated combat veteran. I have a loving wife and son. Let's be honest, you guys are just cheap mercenaries. So clearly, I'm supposed to bring you in.

Yelena Belova

That was funny. Thank you, we needed that.

Those birds are way too high. They're doing recon loops at 4,000 feet. I mean, they don't know what they're doing. They'll be five or ten clicks away in no time.

Ava

Alright, Walker, we get it; you were in the military.

I was in high school when the aliens came. And the Avengers.

High school, huh? I was, like, 90.

Hah. It's kinda strange that it's all over now, right? I mean, the Avengers are gone? No one else is coming to save the day...

Maybe we could be the people that are coming...

Robert Reynolds

I’ve been here before. This is where it started. I was roaming around Southeast Asia, thought I’d figure something out, or at least find more drugs. Then there was this guy, started talking to me about a a medical study. A trial drug that could make me stronger. Felt like a miracle. I’d finally get to show everyone that I was more. That I was... something.

The Void

And look what you unleashed. The most shameful thing of all was thinking you could be anything more than nothing. [attacks the Thunderbolts with laboratory furniture and equipment]

Robert Reynolds

We’re leaving.

The Void

No.

Robert Reynolds

Stop. Just... let let them go.

The Void

Wait. You think they care about you? You don’t matter. To anyone.

Robert Reynolds

That’s not trueǃ [groans as The Void tightens tube around her neck]

Alexei/The Red Guardian

No! Don’t hurt herǃ

The Void

Robert, the hero.

Robert Reynolds

I’m stronger than you.

The Void

Let’s see. [Robert lunges at and engages in a fistfight with The Void]

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Get up, Bobbyǃ

The Void

You thought you were gonna be some great man? Some savior? You can’t even save yourselfǃ [beats Robert down] We will always be alone. [Robert beats The Void on floor] Is that all you’ve got?

This isn’t right.

Yelena Belova

Bob, stop! This is what he wants! [runs to Robert and wraps arm around his neck] I’m here.

The Void

It will always be just us.

Yelena Belova

I’m here. You are not alone.

Robert/The Sentry

You all know the truth. You can’t outrun the emptiness.

I think Bob’s dark side got superpowersǃ Get everybody off the streetǃ

Robert/The Sentry

It- It needs to be more of a collaboration. Like, the hair, for example. Maybe- maybe, I should have had more of a say.

Valentina

Don’t let those idiots get in your head. The blond is great.

Robert/The Sentry

You sure? ‘Cause, I don’t know, I thought I liked it. Now I’m not so sure.

Valentina

Enough about the hair.

Robert/The Sentry

Well, it’s not just about the hair.

Valentina

Well, you keep talking about the hair.

Robert/The Sentry

No, it’s everything. My suit. My name. My missions. I mean... Why- why would a god take orders from anyone at all?

Valentina

I think you’re throwing around the word “god” a bit loosely there.

Robert/The Sentry

No, no. Because you said I was all powerful, invincible, and stronger than a whole team of Avengers, which includes at least one god, so... [walks up to her] But, I’m starting to think maybe you don’t know what I am.

Valentina

Oh, goddamn it.

Robert/The Sentry

Or what I’m capable of. [chuckles] Maybe I need to show you. [grabs Valentina by throat and rams her into wall, sighs] This is so irritating. You were gonna turn on me, just like the rest of them.

Valentina

I’m not afraid of you, Robert.

Robert/The Sentry

It’s not Robert you need to be afraid of. [loses consciousness and falls to floor with Mel standing behind with a raised detonator]

Valentina

Good girl. You came to your senses. Come here. Help me up. [Mel complies]

I want a raise.

Valentina

Hmm. Okay, fine. Get cleanup on the body. And tell Holt it’s finally time to go lethal on these losers.

Valentina

Yes. I need an extraction right now. What? No. I don’t have backupǃ I need helpǃ

Alexei/The Red Guardian

I’m going to kill that person.

Okay. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. What happens when he regains his memory?

Yelena Belova

Okay. Come on. [grabs Robert by her]

Robert Reynolds

Oh, me too?

Yelena Belova

Yep. We stick together from now on.

Robert Reynolds

That’s nice.

Can’t kill her. We gotta take her in.

"Can’t kill her." Maybe when we take her in, I break a few bones.

Ava

Oh, I’d like to kill her.

Maybe when he does get his memory back, he can fix this stupid thing.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

At least let me break her legs.

Valentina

Okay, guys.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Then you can drag her.

Valentina

I know we’re all having a lot of feelings right now. I am too. I get it.

Alexei/The Red Guardian

Hi.

Valentina

Give me half half a second. [slips past tarp of construction crane to clamoring reporters] Are we live? Great. [announcing] For years, I have been working secretly to develop a new age of protection. Today, the citizens of the United States needed that protection. And thanks to my hard work, they got it. Ladies and gentlemen... meet... the new Avengers. [reporters clamor]

Yelena Belova

We own you now.

Valentina

I’m so glad you were able to catch a glimpse before your, uh... retirement. [chuckles] Camera crews are assembling. Finish the job, Robert.

Robert/The Sentry

Finish the job? No.

Valentina

What?

Robert/The Sentry

They’re not a threat to me, so why do I need to kill them?

Valentina

You need to do what I say, Robert.

Robert/The Sentry

Why?

Valentina

“Why”?