Film Theory: Exposing Black Widows's Big Twist! (Black Widow Trailer)

okay how much time you got in etosha because I'm about to tell you the entire plot of your movie including all its big surprise reveals for months before it actually hits theaters who's the supreme intelligence officer now [Music] hello Internet welcome to film Theory the show where two minutes of trailer footage becomes 15 minutes of theory man talk about a great 2019 for Scarlett Johansson right she was nominated for Best Actress in the super-depressing marriage story she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the old so super depressing Jojo rabbit she had a key role in the highest-grossing movie of all time with endgame it also was in Captain Marvel we did one year that's for massive films to award nominations and an equal number of on-screen deaths I mean she is figuratively killing it and movies in turn are literally killing her and 2020 is just keeping her momentum going as Marvel rewinds back in time to tell a prequel story about the iconic Natasha Romanov in their upcoming movie Black Widow now can I just take a moment to say how much I love the name Black Widow for a deadly female spy I mean everyone knows that a bite from a black widow spider is unlikely to be fatal and most of the over 2,000 bites each year don't even need medical attention what has everything I've ever been told about spiders a lie I mean do they even eat their husbands yes okay but only in laboratories with unnatural conditions even in Australia they've only managed to rack up one death in 37 years okay somethings tell me that black widow spiders just have themselves a really solid PR team so I guess in all fairness the spider might not be all that deadly but Natasha certainly is and based on the trailers this new movie is gonna expose to us a bit more about our mysterious backstory the training program that made her into the widow she is today as well as other members of their little bloody ballet squad but there's one main question that the newest trailer is just begging for us to answer and that's the clip that I played at the top of the video is that guy who is our main villain who is the face behind the mask based on outfit the shield and past history with Black Widow in the comics we know that it's gonna be a character named taskmaster it'll get to a bit more about him in a minute the bigger question is who is under that mask in fact Marvel is so intent on keeping the true identity of taskmaster such a mystery that he doesn't even have a confirmed actor yet which is very weird for a company that's traditionally used villain positions for stunt casting I mean they've sent noted bad guys like Jake Gyllenhaal's Mysterio or Josh Brolin Santos out on the talk show circuit to push their movies hard so why why would they be Oh tight-lipped about black widows main villain well with this being a spy movie it means that the reveal of who's under that mask is gonna be a big twist for the audience except here's the thing I feel pretty darn confident I already know the answer scratch that I feel really confident I know the answer the trailers are very clearly trying to misdirect you about who is behind that mask so today I'm gonna look at the potential candidates to bunk them all and then tell you the reveal of Marvel's next massive superhero hit months before it hits the big screen what do you have to say about that Scarlett Johansson are you one of those people that goes online and then you look at all the screen grabs you are you're one of those people I'm not judging you who are completely judging me right now let's start by learning a bit more about who this guy is and what is traditional powerset consists of taskmaster in Marvel Comics is usually a guy by the name of Tony masters masters has an ability called photographic reflexes which is similar to having photographic memory except that beyond just recalling things with incredible accuracy masters can accurately reproduce the actions of anyone he sees it's an incredibly cool power that makes him a very difficult animated feat considering he can just always counter you with your own moves he's like the ultimate uno reverse card however his memory can be overwhelmed by this ability so we'll often forget simple things like the names of his loved ones or who he used to work for taskmaster is a mercenary and will work for the highest bidder without a care for their ideologies which means that sometimes taskmaster is as much a good guy as he is a bad guy he's worked for pretty much everyone from shield to Thunderbolt Ross who once you know it is also gonna be in this movie and that's far from all we know about this new Marvel movie thanks to Natasha's untimely demise and endgame we know for sure that this movie is gonna be a prequel the sentiments been echoed by everyone working on the movie Scarlett Johansson even gave us a more specific timeframe for the majority of the events of the plot it takes place after this almost 9 before the infinity war those all the words know he may have missed a couple there world war one world war two Vietnam War career war war the roses for my personal favorites spanish-american little cross-cultural excitement going on there so in a reflection of the comics and knowing that Thunderbolt Ross is making an appearance here it's likely that the story of this new black widow will at least in part revolve around Ross hunting down Natasha in the wake of her betrayal of Tony Stark in the sokovia accords if you can manage to remember that far back in the series you remember when the government was all like you superheroes are dangerous and need to be supervised Captain America was all like no man I'm a rebel and Tony Stark was totally you're right government you pay me a lot in government contracts so I kind of have to agree also for some reason I grew a conscience because the story demanded it and wouldn't you know it while we were all distracted by spider-man showing up Black Widow was there apparently somewhere back there cuz here if you squint you can see kind of the black blur just flashing across the screen yeah she's way back there fighting the other guy who doesn't have superpowers well anyway she had to choose a side right she chose one but then she ended up flip-flopping anyway she went against Tony and the government and so with this movie coming canonically after civil war if it's perfectly in the timeline that they'd now be looking to track her down we also know that at least some of its gonna take place even earlier in Natasha's career aside from flashbacks to her days training in the program we can expect to see at least part of the movie taking place before Natasha joined shield in the first place we know this because the very opening shot of the trailer shows the Liberty statue in Budapest if that's not ringing any bells let's take a brief trip even further back down memory lane to the original Avengers movie so we know that at least at some point in this movie they're gonna be in Budapest place where Hawkeye and Natasha have a long history we also know from that same movie that they met because Hawkeye was ordered to kill Natasha but Clint ended up ignoring the order and recruiting her instead I got on shields radar agent Barton was sent to kill me he made a different call so good taskmaster actually be Hawkeye it's a pretty loose connection but then fans spotted this scene in the trailer that seemed to make up for a real theory oh he's using a bow he's associated with Black Widow is this potentially how they met is Hawkeye the one behind that mask absolutely not remember taskmasters whole shtick is copying other people's moves the fact a taskmaster is using a bow means that Hawkeye is probably in the movie crafts just briefly in order to teach taskmaster usage of the weapon which in turn gives us a trailer shot that gets us to all think that it might actually be him I mean Disney has misdirected us plenty of times in recent history with their trailers but think about it if ScarJo was at least being partially honest when she said that the movie takes place between Civil War and infinity war well there's no way that Hawkeye is the bad guy Hawkeye as he might remember was part of Captain America's team during the Civil War and as a result ended up in house arrest which is why at the beginning of endgame we see him in an ankle monitor now has established an ant-man - these monitors are easy enough to slip off but pulling the same move twice seems pretty cheap for the MCU besides what mission could possibly be so important to Clint that he 1 escapes his confines two changes his entire appearance and three tries to kill one of his best friends all before calming down with his family and then doing it all over again an end game it's just a really muddled unclear story arc also this one be the first time Hawkeye was used as the bad guy and Marvel's been pretty upfront about avoiding that pitfall again done the whole mind control thing no fan no after looking at the evidence taskmaster isn't just some new villain of the week and he isn't Hawkeye but I do believe that he's an old friend who turned evil I also believe that this he is actually a she my theory is that taskmaster by the end of the movie will be revealed to be her this one sitting at the table Melina Bostic off yep the one with the killer comedy line from the trailer is gonna end up being our villain it's also why all the trailers are trying their darndest to misdirect you who the heck is that guy that's not a guy in etosha but Disney is trying their darndest to get us to think that it is no let me back up a bit and give you some history on milena Vostok off and why she's likely to be this film's big bad in the comics Laura Molina appears in the marvel fanfare series where she's shown growing up in the same training program as Natasha and the movie seems to keep this continuity in place together however Melina is not quite as skilled as Natasha and this too seems to be canon in the MCU your braixen only the breakable ones you're made of Marvel in fact in the comics having to live in the shadow of the Black Widow causes Molina to develop a deep hatred for Natasha eventually she leaves the surface of Russian becomes a freelance assassin by the name Iron Maiden where one of our targets is you guessed it Black Widow herself now clearly Iron Maiden and taskmaster are two different characters in the comics but if you look at their abilities they're actually fairly similar Molina is a master martial artist master assassin master spy and weapons expert basically everything you need taskmaster to be heck you would barely even need to change their costumes hood check bodysuit check mask done additionally Tony masters in the comics injects himself with a knockoff of the super serum that created Captain America and in turn becomes taskmaster Molina it seems may be involved in a similar kind of experiment she's also involved in some quite complicated scientific research which is at the heart of the film story given the Super Soldier Serum prevalence in the MCU so far it's certainly not out of the question that Molina could simply gain all her powers from the serum after failing the Black Widow program enough times she's been cycled through the Red Room Black Widow program five times there's also the surprising bit of physical evidence in fact the whole thing that got me started on this theory in the first place is this shot from the trailer here David Harper's red Guardian has taken on taskmaster and hand hand combat red Guardian goes in for the headbutt and you see quite clearly that he has itself some height on taskmaster in real life david harbour is 6 foot 3 inches tall well rachel weisz the one who plays milena basta cough is 5 foot 6 inches that would explain to us how red guardian could have himself nearly a full head of height over taskmaster lastly though let's talk about the family elements of this movie red guardian specifically calls Melina Yelena and Natasha family in the trailer Gimli big together but by endgame we know that this family no longer exists I just have nothing and then I got this this is John his family man Marvel made me need to start adding spoiler warnings to your trailers but this means that by the end of Black Widow the other members of Natasha's quote/unquote family here are either gonna wind up dead or no longer on friendly terms we know Yelena is likely to take over the mantle of Black Widow for The Avengers in the main line MCU movies going forward because well you know Natasha is dead and because Black Widow is scar Joe's final required movie in her contract also also we know this because something very similar happened to her in the comics so this right here my friends is gonna be the face of our new Black Widow for the next generation of movies that's pretty solidly in place Red Guardian meanwhile is likely gonna die because well we don't see him coming out of any Doctor Strange portals at the end of endgame I mean way to not show up for the party in Earth's biggest battle you goon which again leaves us alone with Melina who you know would have had a falling out of the family if she went around trying to kill everyone makes those Christmas get-togethers really awkward no I know what I'm suggesting here would be a big shift in Marvel more but then again this wouldn't be the first time that Marvel swapped a character's name or even their gender it's also something Disney in 2020 would totally do after years of people questioning the MCU for a lack of female representation for them getting made fun of of letting Wonder Woman get to at first to basically have Black Widow be females are strong the movie is totally unbranded Tasha unmasking taskmaster to reveal that whoa girls can be super cool villains too who are strong and independent that would just be a big twist but it would also be a strong message moment that Disney won't pass so when you look at all the evidence we get ourselves a pretty complete picture of what this movie is gonna wind up being and appearance by Hawkeye visit to Budapest chased by General Ross of passing of the torch to Yelena as the new Black Widow and the betrayal of a family member when it's revealed that under the mast taskmaster was Melina the whole time clearly I got that right that's why you're not answering my questions get on that Internet get on that but hey that's just a theory a film theory and subscribe to have all of Marvel's new movies spoiled for you by hardcore research induction sharing with a friend and show them how smart and cultured the stuff you watch online is where heck you know what just subscribe so you can rub it in my face when the movie comes out and I'm completely wrong about everything I predict it any way you slice it you should just subscribe the buzz on screen right now I've been Matt Pat and I'll see you all next week

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Length: 14min 6sec (846 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 23 2020

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[u/Visionary56]

This legit seems like his most plausible theory yet

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Molina fights Taskmaster in the second trailer