I would say what Chadwick meant as T'Challa and what T'Challa represented was very important to people, both hardcore and casual, but that's a whole separate topic of conversation.
Although I feel like a supporting character would be easy to just let pass away off-screen than the literal main character of the franchise (especially when it seems like Valentina is running things), unless Marvel Studios wants to still commit to whatever plans they may have had with Ross. Maybe as part of the World War Hulk buildup?
Just get Sam Elliott back. There were plenty of issues with Hulk 2003, but he wasn't one of them.
Yeah, I didn't mind her either. The difference between the responses to a lady Taskmaster and a lady Ghost is night and day. (Ghost, IMO, has been more interesting than Taskmaster, in the comics, and yet I *love* the MCU Ghost and Hannah John-Kamen.)
I do wonder what *other* second-stringers from various MCU properties could have shown up as Thunderbolts.
Dr. Strange - Mordo?
Spider-Man - Vulture?
Black Panther - both Klawe and Killmonger are dead, although either could have made a good Thunderbolt.
Iron Man - some random Extremis goob, Justin Hammer in some knock-off Iron Patriot suit
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It would be a funny sort of 'take that' at the first Suicide Squad, where Amanda Waller explicitly tells the DOD that she wants to build a team of meta-operatives to deal with a threat the likes of a rogue Superman (and then promptly recruits a nutjob with a bat, somebody with boomerangs, a dude with a rope, a gunman, etc. a whole range of jobbers that would do exactly bupkiss against a Superman-tier threat), to have the more 'street-level' Thunderbolts actually have to take on a Supermanalogue!
And it would certainly be a surprise, since we'd generally expect to see a team at that power level take on super-soldiers or rogue chitauri or Hand ninja or something.
God, please no. Not Sentry. He's suffered enough lately. XD
Earnestly not sure that the MCU can do him any good.
Sentry needs to be a disney plus show where it's the golden age type hero tales than reality starts to break. A wandavision / Twighlight zone type tale.
Putting him in thunderbolts as a generic bad guy without the comics twist is a huge waste. Then again, they are using a team with one of the biggest twists in comics and wasting it by using the later ss rip-off over the originals so guess it makes sense.