Thunderbolts vs Suicide Squad: Battle of the Bad Guys

Ash Walker • 14 May 2025 Features

Which team of antiheroes will come out on top?

The Thunderbolts and Suicide Squad logos, split down the middle with a 'versus' to show them pitted against one another

Marvel’s Thunderbolts* is now in cinemas, and fans are absolutely loving the ragtag group of C-list bad-guys-turned-good.

But they’re also noticing a few… similarities between the Thunderbolts and another team of super-powered antiheroes - DC’s Suicide Squad.

Both groups are made up of reformed (and not-so reformed) supervillains. Both have close ties to top secret organisations. Both have a sort of scrappy, dysfunctional family dynamic.

They’re so alike in fact that, in classic comic book tradition, we’ve decided to pit the two teams against each other - character versus character, skills versus skills, all decided by an arbitrarily assigned points system.

May the best (or worst) team win!