10 Most Underwhelming Reveals In Recent Movie History
4. Taskmaster Was Dreykov's Daughter - Black Widow
Like every other movie studio in the world, Marvel Studios was hit hard by the global pandemic of 2020. Schedule reshuffles, production delays, and more, meant that between Spider-Man: Far From Home and the first episode of WandaVision were 18 long, MCU-less months.
Black Widow was one of the most affected movies. Originally supposed to open Phase Four in May 2020, Scarlet Johansson’s swansong kept getting put back and put back. This led to fans having nothing but the trailer to get them by for a very long time.
In this time, the mystery of who was behind Taskmaster’s mask may have built up to more than it would've done otherwise. How could it not? It was essentially the only thing MCU fans had to cling to at the time. Regardless, Natasha Romanoff almost wasn’t the biggest draw of the movie when it eventually released - it was finally finding out who was behind the mask.
Since the MCU purposefully avoided showing the character’s face, and with them using several different characters’ styles in the marketing material, there were some great fan theories that were born. Most of them would have been a damn sight better than it being Dreykov’s daughter, an underwhelming character that fans had never even met before. Sigh.