Marvel's latest team-building exercise, Thunderbolts* — the asterisk is part of its title for reasons I'll leave you to discover — is a decently effective blend of misfit mercenaries and pop psychology. After a series of Marvel Cinematic Universe misfires, that's at the very least, a relief.

It begins with Yelena, who we met a few years back as Black Widow's spiritual sibling, decidedly down in the depths. Or rather, as a Cole Porter lyric would have it, "down in the depths on the 90th floor."

She stands on the roof of a skyscraper, looking glum and musing that there's something wrong with her ... "an emptiness, a void."