#U.S. Soldiers

[semioticapocalypse]

Robert Capa. U.S. soldiers on their way to Paris. 1945

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[stone-cold-groove]

Catching up.

[kollectorsrus]

[drgrlfriend]

John Hodgman, National Treasure. https://x.com/hodgman/status/1833694892305813836?s=46

[usarmytrooper]

[asmileworthahundredlies]

Yeah I, I got those palpitations. Those boom, boom, booms… ♫

[bbyboybucket]

Ik this ain’t supposed to be Bucky???? Cause this is NOTTTT Bucky Barnes, this is fuckin Barn Bucket

[ghostwarriorrrr]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Members of the Army Signal Corps come home, August 1945.

Photo: U.S. Army via the Rijksmusuem

[marveluniversehero]

Thunderbolts* Trailer

[mcudc616]

New Thunderbolts* Poster

[bionyxtrinity]

'𝚃𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚋𝚘𝚕𝚝𝚜*'

𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚜: 𝚁𝚎𝚍 𝙶𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚗

𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚑 𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗-𝙺𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚜: 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝

𝚂𝚎𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚜: 𝙱𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚢 𝙱𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚜

𝙵𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙿𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚊𝚜: 𝚈𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚊 𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚊

𝚆𝚢𝚊𝚝𝚝 𝚁𝚞𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚜: 𝚄.𝚂. 𝙰𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝

[thena0315]

[vee-nyx]

i want to talk about the Thunderbolts logo because i feel it has more significance than just “one bullet for each of the leads”

like duh, there are six bullets and six members of the supposed “team”, but the bullets are pointed at each other instead of outward like the Avengers formation:

this logo is reminding us that the Thunderbolts aren’t like the Avengers, who were friends at best and coworkers at worst. sure, it’s likely some of the Thunderbolts will be friendly with each other (think Ava and Antonia, Yelena and Bucky) but some of them already hate each other (Bucky and Walker, Yelena and Alexei) or have reason to hate each other (Antonia and Alexei). what makes the Thunderbolts a team of anti-heroes is that all of them have dark pasts, but they can still be clearly sorted into people who chose those pasts and people who were forced, and those who chose darkness (Alexei and Walker) are outnumbered. that makes the Thunderbolts an unlikely “team”, to the point where i hesitate to even call them one.

however, i feel like the asterisk is an oversimplification of the group dynamic. Ava, for example, has no previous interaction with any of these people and thus no reason to metaphorically aim her “bullet” at any of them. Alexei, on the other hand, is likely to be hated by both Yelena and Antonia, so his “bullet” should have two others aiming at it.

anyway i’m probably overanalyzing but i’d love to hear others’ thoughts on this!