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[[File:TBolts_TVTropesImage.jpg|frame|Marvel's Most Wanted]]
{{quote|''Justice, like Lightning, should ever appear''
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Not to be confused with the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Wonderbolts]], who manage to be even more colorful while facing far less drama.
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* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Retool]]: Sometimes it is just small tweaks, other times it is full blown revamps, but Thunderbolts basic premise or direction is usually always changing at some point to find new ways to get its casts together.
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* [[Anti-Villain]]: Meanwhile, even Baron Zemo himself discovered some heroic tendencies from his time on the team.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Jolt is an Ascended Fangirl.
* [[Back
* [[Badass Normal]]: Citizen V
* [[Barrier Warrior]]: Songbird
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* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Kind of the point of the original series.
* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: ''Graviton'' -- a supervillain who is to gravity what Magneto is to magnetism, held back mostly by his personal inadequacies. Became a recurring opponent to the team, mostly because of Moonstone repeately manipulating him -- only for the attempts to backfire.
:He later becomes a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] villain for [[Iron Man]] and [[Took a Level
* [[Badass Decay]]? He takes out the entire team, with outside reinforcements, ''twice''. They never won a clean fight against Graviton.
* [[Black Like Me]]: Abe (MACH-1) Jenkins was technologically disguised as a black man to cover up the fact he'd been released from prison around the time he upgraded to MACH-'''2'''.
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* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Atlas has one of these.
* [[Deader Than Dead]]: Zemo atomized Photon and scattered him across space and time, claiming that he was like this. [[Word of God|Fabian Nicieza]] confirmed that Zemo is merely [[Genre Blind]], because [[Death Is Cheap|Photon will return as soon as Marvel feels like using him again]].
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Blizzard, who spent so much time whining about his suit's freon supply that he was ineffective. He eventually [[Took a Level
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Charcoal
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: The vast base within Mount Charteris.
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* [[Evil Plan]]: The first reason for suspicion whenever Baron Zemo comes up with a new plan to "save the world" is that every one looks exactly like a villainous plot to ''take over'' the world. At least Zemo has stylistic consistency.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
{{quote|'''Moonstone:''' [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?|What does "Growing Man" do]]?
'''Jolt:''' [[Eureka Moment|He GROWS]]! }}
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Humorously, this was both the reason that Genis-Vell (Captain Marvel/Photon) was added to the team ''and'' the reason he was killed off.
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* [[Think Nothing of It]]: Spidey and MACH-1
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Moonstone. While the rest of the teammates who betray Zemo do so as part of their [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turns]], Dr. Sofen does so for her own agenda. Though she occasionally flirts with becoming a better person, she never really stops being a manipulative schemer.
* [[Two Aliases, One Character]]: Just about the entire team.
* [[Unreliable Voiceover]]: The first Annual, in which Citizen V tells Jolt about how he brought the team together, without mentioning the parts about them all being supervillains.
* [[Warrior Therapist]]: Moonstone
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* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: American Eagle and Shadow-woman(Sepulchre).
* [[Badass]]: While most of the team fit this trope, a special mention goes to Jason Strongbow, AKA American Eagle. He impales Moonstone's arm with his Grapple Gun, fights Venom to a standstill, escapes without a scratch from the entire team, then proceeds to beat the crap out of frickin' ''Bullseye'' without breaking a sweat!
{{quote|'''Strongbow: '''You might do okay with those New York city boys. But you and me are in Phoenix, Arizona. [[Badass Boast|So you take a swing at a real American and see what happens]].
'''Bullseye: '''You done?
'''Strongbow: '''Not till I'm paddling in your blood, little boy. C'mon, first shot's free.
'''Bullseye: '''First shot's all I need.
''Bullseye goes in for said first shot, Strongbow ducks, then beats the hell out of him until he's vomiting [[Blood From the Mouth]].''
'''Bullseye (weakly): '''What happened to the first shot?
'''Strongbow: '''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I lied]]. }}
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: The head shaving of Swordsman marked [[Took a Level
* [[Batman Gambit]]: The telepaths letting themselves get captured to get inside Thunderbolt Mountain.
* [[Boxed Crook]]: The more blatantly psychopathic members, like Bullseye, were kept under control this way.
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* [[The Starscream]]: Both Moonstone and Songbird qualify. Moonstone secretly switched [[Norman Osborn]]'s meds (and he's dangerously psychotic while on them), while Songbird tricks Bullseye into an escape attempt that leaves him paralyzed and later blackmails her way into Moonstone's leadership position.
* [[To Catch Heroes Hire Villains]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: [http://i.imgur.com/2TPrw.jpg "Steel Spider, man."]
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Norman Osborn
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Eric O'Grady, who, just to remind you, is ''The Irredeemable Ant-Man'', fulfilled the Headsman's desire to go back to Louisiana and show his brother what he became, extolling Cleavon's virtues all the while.
* [[Retirony]]: {{spoiler|Headsman}} - While he isn't literally a day from retirement, in the issues leading up to his death we start to sympathize with his character a lot more as more details on his background are revealed.
* [[Sunglasses
** Lampshaded by Paladin
{{quote|'''Paladin''': And you sound pretty cocky for a guy who wears shades ... indoors ... at night! }}
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