WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Thunderbolts #1 from Matthew Rosenberg, Juan Ferrerya and VC's Joe Sabino, on sale now.

With the King in Black storyline enveloping most of the Marvel Universe, Wilson Fisk wants to save the Earth. In Thunderbolts, he's brought the team back to be his own personal Suicide Squad. Their job is to recruit a mysterious person who can help stop an alien invasion -- something the target has done in the past.

However, while Kingpin thinks Ripley Ryan (aka Star) is going to be his heavy-hitter, this evil version of Captain Marvel fizzles out in battle and proving that she might not have a place on the team after all.

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After recruiting the new team, Fisk has the Thunderbolts unmask and sends them to Ravencroft Institute with Taskmaster, Mr. Fear, Batroc and Ampere among the villains he hires. It's a nice-paying job and their role is to protect Star, who Fisk believes to be the trump card to killing Knull once and for all. However, Fisk needs this target, who turns out to be Norman Osborn (the savior in Secret Invasion), to help guide Star and direct her as a weapon.

Sadly, Star does not appear to be up to the task. When they head through the New York war zone, Star passes out after killing one of Knull's dragons with an assist from Mister Fear. This may indicate that she's still getting fatigued and having panic attacks after using her powers to maximum potential. Also, she seems a bit frightened and out of her element, which may explain why she entertains the thought of asking the Defenders for help. Her crew says no, which may leave them wondering whether or not Star is really cut out to complete the mission at hand.

This new team of Thunderbolts aren't exactly a well-oiled machine like previous incarnations of the team, but they still seem able to get the job done. Star, though, seems to be lucking into things. She's a human-Kree hybrid that Minn-Erva created in the last Captain Marvel run, capable of siphoning off Carol Danvers' powers into her own body which should make her very formidable, especially considering that her body also hosts the Reality Stone.

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In the past, her powers of teleportation, reality augmentation and her energy blasts have made her a one-woman army. But here, she simply flees when more symbiotes attack. Star should be able to face the creatures head on and easily destroy them if she's really the savior Fisk says she is. Batroc is the only member of the team who even tries to put up a fight, and his power is substantially less than Star's.

Hopefully, Star will morph back into the warrior who took on both Captain Marvel and the Black Order. If she shows any sign of mental weakness, Osborn will have no problem with manipulating her...which just might be precisely what Wilson Fisk is counting on.

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