You’ve seen this story before, the notion of a disparate group of irredeemable characters who discover a modicum of redemption through heroic acts they themselves didn’t expect to commit. Yet, this is also just classic archetypical storytelling, because what separates Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” from many of these stories—James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” being the most superficially similar, but totally different—is its characters’ genuine, perceptible feelings of shame, regret, and self-loathing.

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