While both Marvel and DC have superteams formed by villains, the Thunderbolts are nothing like the Suicide Squad.

In exchange for lighter sentences, just like the anti-hero team in Suicide Squad (2016), a new batch of Belle Reve's meta-humans strike a deal with the cold head of Task Force X, Amanda Waller.

What are they, some kind of Suicide Squad?” is what one might have asked about Marvel’s Thunderbolts* movie. There’s a misfit team of redemption-seeking villains and anti-hero types (Florence Pugh’s ...