The 15 Best Quotes From Thunderbolts* (*The New Avengers)

Six years after Avengers: Endgame, the end of the original Avengers franchise that Marvel fans came to know and love, we have a new group of superheroes (or, maybe more accurately, antiheroes) banding together to join forces for the first time since Tony Stark’s departure. This time, we famously get Yelena Belova and Red Guardian (Black Widow’s adopted sister and father), Bucky Barnes (Steve Rodgers’ best friend), and John Walker (the anti-Captain America), who create chaos, pull plenty of punches, and earn laughs—and respect—from the audience.

Here are the best and most memorable quotes from the movie:

1.

Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh): There’s something… wrong with me. An emptiness. I thought it started when my sister died, but now it feels like something bigger. Just a… void. Or maybe I’m just bored.

2.

Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh): Bucky, you have the wrong people. We have all done bad things.

3.

Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan): Look, I’ve been where you are. The past doesn’t go away. So you can either live with it for ever, or do something about it.

4.

Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan): This ends today.

Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus): Congressman Barnes, wow. You know, I never really thought you’d have a promising political career, but less than half a term? Yikes.

5.

Robert Reynolds (Lewis Pullman): You were Captain America?

John Walker (Wyatt Russell): Yeah, why?

Robert Reynolds: You’re an assh*le.

7.

Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh): 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 I’ve done; and then I go to work, and then I drink, come home to no-one, then I sit and think of all the terrible things I’ve done again and ag…

Red Guardian (David Harbour): Yelena, stop. We all have things that we regret.

Yelena Belova: Yes. But I have so many!

Red Guardian: Yelena, when I look at you, I don’t see your mistakes.

8.

Red Guardian (David Harbour): Bob, if you hit me with that sign one more time…

Robert Reynolds (Lewis Pullman): I WAS ON M*TH!

9.

Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus): We’re brought up with this belief that there are good guys and there are bad guys, but eventually you come to realize that there are bad guys and there are worse guys.

10.

Red Guardian (David Harbour): Yelena, being the hero, there is no higher calling. Your sister understood something about that.

Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh): No, that’s just a fairytale.

11.

Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh): So none of us can fly? We all just punch and shoot?

12.

Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus): Righteousness without power is an opinion.

13.

Red Guardian (David Harbour): Yelena, do you know what you told me about why you wanted to be goalie?

Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh): So I wouldn’t have to run as much?

Red Guardian: No, it was because you could be the person everyone relies on when they make a mistake.

14.

Mel (Geraldine Viswanathan): I was in high school when the Avengers came. It’s kind of strange that it’s all over now

15.

Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh): This is why we’re The Avengerz with a Z.

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