Disney's CEO Bob Iger has admitted the company's film slate has struggled in post-pandemic times by focusing too much on quantity and not enough on quality. Marvel's Cinematic Universe, in particular,

Disney's CEO admits that Marvel Studios flooded the market and Thunderbolts* is an example of their new "less is more" strategy.

Ideally, a marketing plot like this would result in a nice split… but that doesn’t feel true in this particular case. The Thunderbolts, being a surreptitious way of assembling a new version of Earth’s Mightiest Heroe,s always seemed like the most obvious answer to the presented riddle, and I was hoping for something a bit more advanced.