Warning: this article will contain spoilers for "Thunderbolts*."

At the very end of Jake Schreier's new Marvel picture "Thunderbolts*," the titular antiheroes have saved the day, convincing their depressive, superpowered friend Bob (Lewis Pullman) that he doesn't need to suck all of New York into an alternate dimension of despair. Bob, it is explained throughout the film, is deeply traumatized by a childhood full of abuse, and an adulthood full of desperation and addiction. When he learns he had been granted godlike powers by the corporate hero-wrangler Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), he instantly lets the power go to his head, using shadowy psychic abilities to suck human beings into living dioramas of their own unhappiest memories.

But the Thunderbolts win out in the end, pulling Bob back into reality with, of all things, a hug. The Thunderbolts aren't a ragtag group of misfits, so much as a wounded group of sad people.