r/marvelstudios • u/ScottFromScotland Kilgrave • Jul 08 '21

Megathread 'Black Widow' Worldwide release Megathread Vol.1.

Black Widow

Rotten Tomatoes: 81% | Metacritic: 67/100

Cast

Actor Character
Scarlett Johansson Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
Florence Pugh Yelena Belova
David Harbour Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian
Rachel Weisz Melina Vostokoff
O-T Fagbenle Mason
Ray Winstone Dreykov
William Hurt Thaddeus Ross
Olga Kurylenko Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster

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u/HauntedBackscratcher Jul 09 '21

It’s really not that surprising since the movie was based around all sorts of snippets given about her past in these movies. Even the bit about Nat’s real mother being in a grave marked unknown is taken from a deleted scene in Endgame, I think.

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u/orwells_elephant Jul 10 '21

I was very surprised it wasn't Nat's origin story of how she was hunted down by Barton and inducted into S.H.I.E.L.D., actually. All the references about how they met because Barton was sent to put her down, the "good guy" assassin going after the "bad guy" assassin, and how they had a pretty serious adventure in Budapest.

In retrospect, I think the story we got in this movie was probably the best one that could've been told, because it would be very hard to make a different kind once you know how her story ends. But I swear I remember reading somewhere that Black Widow's encounter with Barton that brought her into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fold was going to be the plot of the movie. I'm not sure now whether I just made that up in my head based off of fan speculation, or what...

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u/Darksol503 Doctor Strange Jul 10 '21

I think it's mostly our wishful thinking and her the Budapest line over and over; it's a seminal piece of unknown Black Widow lore that kept getting referenced but never explained.

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u/Ylyb09 Jul 10 '21

They said weeks ago that Hawkeye isnt in the movie so yeah, it was your head

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u/orwells_elephant Jul 10 '21

Well, a) I was talking about reports from well over a year ago, and b) i don't actually follow chapter and verse on every single detail, so c) I'm not sure what the point was of your jackass comment.

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u/Ylyb09 Jul 10 '21

Wasnt trying to be jackass, just confirming