With the excellent new MCU film, Thunderbolts*, audiences were introduced to Bob, an ambiguous and tortured character, who is very endearing, transformed into a superhero (but sadly, also a supervillain) by the mysterious organization O.X.E. If he has temporarily shed his vigilante costume, he will inevitably put it back on in the future... And we think we have guessed why.
Thunderbolts*, a moving and dynamic film that prepares the future of the MCU
We expected nothing, yet we are won over: Thunderbolts*, the A new team of "superheroes" (or rather, lovable anti-heroes) named after Yelena Belova's childhood chick squad has it all. With this profound and decidedly human film, Jake Schreier, currently in talks with Marvel Studios to direct the X-Men reboot, succeeds where most of the films in the Multiverse Saga have failed. Namely, it perfectly balances emotion, humor, gravity, depth, action, and gentleness. The latest MCU productions have been widely criticized for skimming over its characters without seeking to deepen their depth (that's the problem with Captain America 4) or for being gigantic cosmic jokes with no basis in reality (hello The Marvels). Bob #Thunderbolts pic.twitter.com/naiTjSniKs
— Dan Hipp (@MISTERHIPP) May 7, 2025This "curse" of a large majority of Phase 4 and 5 films is lifted with Thunderbolts*, whose pace and heaviness are reminiscent of Captain America Winter Soldier and Civil War. As for the chemistry between the film's heroes, it works smoothly, very fluidly, and one duo in particular stands out: that of Bob and Yelena, whose repercussions are unfortunately presumed to be disastrous in the future of the MCU...
Could the Bob - Yelena couple cause the return of The Void?
By creating her own superhero, the terrible ValentinaAllegra de Fontaine, ready to do anything (and especially the worst) to have as much power as possible (and as little responsibility) in her hands, has also created a terrifying villain. By conducting tests on humans via the laboratories of her organization, O.X.E, she has certainly succeeded in shaping a vigilante stronger than all the Avengers combined, the Sentry, but she had not anticipated that the latter would be depressed. Bob, the only survivor of these clandestine experiments that caused the death of many guinea pigs, has a great darkness within him, which translates into an alter-ego named Void (or nothingness in French), a metaphor for his bipolar disorder. When this side of his personality takes over, he traps all the souls he encounters in a kind of alternative universe made up of the most traumatic memories of his victims. Trapped in their nightmares, they are condemned to constantly relive killings, separations, or violence from their past...
From the beginning of the film, we feel a special connection between Bob, who doesn't remember what he does when he's in the shoes of the Sentry or the Void, and Yelena, also trapped in a solitude that weighs heavily on her daily life. It's the Black Widow who manages to find the solution to stop the villain, by entering the Void and providing him with support, soon followed by all the Thunderbolts. Their relationship marks the beginnings of a touching and delicate love story, which we can't wait to see develop on screen... Even if it could well be what causes the Void to return. Indeed, in the post-credits scene directed by the Russo brothers, Bob refuses to put on his Sentry costume, so as not to bring out the Void, these two facets of the character being linked to each other. However, it seems impossible that the young man would let an adversary attack Yelena without coming to her aid. In other words, it would only take one in the future of the MCU for her to be attacked by an antagonist, for Bob to transform into Sentry... And into Void.
We wouldn't be surprised if this prediction came true in Avengers Doomsday, with both Sentry and Yelena in the cast! What do you think?
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