As Yelena and The Thunderbolts explode into cinemas, MVM takes a look at the ORIGINAL Thunderbolts and what the team means in the Marvel Universe! In this episode we bring you the history of The Thunderbolts, one of the best Marvel Comics of the 90's, how it evolved over 20 years and led to the latest MCU movie! In this episode we explore a time when the Avengers and the Fantastic Four were DEAD and a new team of Marvel heroes had to step into their place! Packed with tons of history and trivia about The Thunderbolts, Baron Zemo, and The Masters Of Evil!

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To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! The runaway winner of our Year 5 Top 5 with more votes than any other episode on the list, is our episode looking at the 1978 Superman episode. From September 2021, this was the first time we ever looked at a DC character and it gave us a chance to explore the history of comic books from the 1930’s, and deep-dive into a truly perfect movie. In this episode we bring you not only the history of Superman, but the history of DC Comics, and the history of comic books themselves!

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We continue our Apocalypse Takeover month with a Special Release of one of our Bonus Episodes from 2022, featuring Cable And Apocalypse! We take a deep-dive into the twisted timeline of Cable, and the horrific future he comes from, where the Marvel Universe is ruled by Apocalypse! We explore the despotic leaders who serve Apocalypse, the rebels who fight against him, and we meet one of the most EVIL Marvel villains ever created - Stryfe! Cable’s timeline is anything but a straight line as he bounces between the X-Men’s present and their future, in a bid to stop Apocalypse once and for all!

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To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Our deep-dive into the failed 90’s Captain America movie is the most recent episode to feature in the Year 5 Top 5, from February of 2025. Listener Graddlecakes said “the behind the scenes section is maybe the very best you’ve ever done”.

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To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Our deep-dive into the failed 90’s Captain America movie is the most recent episode to feature in the Year 5 Top 5, from February of 2025. Listener Graddlecakes said “the behind the scenes section is maybe the very best you’ve ever done”.

How and why did this Marvel movie become a complete low budget disaster? We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on how Cannon Films got into the Marvel movie business, how JD Salinger’s son was cast as Steve Rogers, and how the whole production lost its entire six million dollar budget right before filming! It’s a crazy story of a film being re-written on the fly, cameras running out of film, and the studio hating the finished movie so much they re-edited the entire thing … and made it worse! We’ll also explore Captain America in the 1980’s to uncover perhaps the most interesting and political time in the history of the character. And we’ll deep-dive the movie scene-by-scene as only MVM can!

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We continue our Apocalypse Takeover month with this fantastic companion piece to the X-Men: Apocalypse movie! So many people were excited for the 2016 movie because they were first exposed to the character in the brilliant X-Men Animated Series of the 90s! So join Rob and Will for a deep-dive into the 2 episodes that introduced the world to Apocalypse for the first time! We’ll bring you the full story of how Angel became Archangel, the history of the Four Horsemen, Apocalypse’s connection to Wolverine and the Hulk, the Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants, and we’ll answer the question “is the cartoon Apocalypse better than the movie Apocalypse?”

This episode covers the Season 1 episodes “The Cure” and “Come The Apocalypse”

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To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Rob and Will take a deep-dive into the smash-hit Marvel animated series X-Men 97 and ask the question - is this the greatest X-Men project of all time? Should the MCU learn lessons from this cartoon show?! We take you behind the scenes on the making of this series, how and why a revival of the classic X-Men cartoon from the 90’s was needed, and what this series does BETTER than the X-Men movies! We’ll explore the history and trivia behind Magneto leading the X-Men, the relationship between Rogue and Gambit, just how overlooked Cyclops has been as a character and leader, the Sinister story of Jean Grey and her clone The Goblin Queen, the origins of Morph, Storm, Forge, Mojo, Jubilee, Bastion, and so much more!

In part four we explore the episodes;

To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Rob and Will take a deep-dive into the smash-hit Marvel animated series X-Men 97 and ask the question - is this the greatest X-Men project of all time? Should the MCU learn lessons from this cartoon show?! We take you behind the scenes on the making of this series, how and why a revival of the classic X-Men cartoon from the 90’s was needed, and what this series does BETTER than the X-Men movies! We’ll explore the history and trivia behind Magneto leading the X-Men, the relationship between Rogue and Gambit, just how overlooked Cyclops has been as a character and leader, the Sinister story of Jean Grey and her clone The Goblin Queen, the origins of Morph, Storm, Forge, Mojo, Jubilee, Bastion, and so much more!

In part three we explore the episodes;

To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Rob and Will take a deep-dive into the smash-hit Marvel animated series X-Men 97 and ask the question - is this the greatest X-Men project of all time? Should the MCU learn lessons from this cartoon show?! We take you behind the scenes on the making of this series, how and why a revival of the classic X-Men cartoon from the 90’s was needed, and what this series does BETTER than the X-Men movies! We’ll explore the history and trivia behind Magneto leading the X-Men, the relationship between Rogue and Gambit, just how overlooked Cyclops has been as a character and leader, the Sinister story of Jean Grey and her clone The Goblin Queen, the origins of Morph, Storm, Forge, Mojo, Jubilee, Bastion, and so much more!

In part two we explore the episodes;

To celebrate our 5th Anniversary we asked listeners to vote for the five best episodes we’ve done in the last five years, so throughout April we’re releasing The Year 5 Top 5! Rob and Will take a deep-dive into the smash-hit Marvel animated series X-Men 97 and ask the question - is this the greatest X-Men project of all time? Should the MCU learn lessons from this cartoon show?! We take you behind the scenes on the making of this series, how and why a revival of the classic X-Men cartoon from the 90’s was needed, and what this series does BETTER than the X-Men movies! We’ll explore the history and trivia behind Magneto leading the X-Men, the relationship between Rogue and Gambit, just how overlooked Cyclops has been as a character and leader, the Sinister story of Jean Grey and her clone The Goblin Queen, the origins of Morph, Storm, Forge, Mojo, Jubilee, Bastion, and so much more!

In part one we explore the history of the original X-Men Animated Series from the 90’s, and the story behind how and why Marvel have returned to this animated universe so many years later!