Black Widow Trailer Review: 8 Ups & 3 Downs

7. The Promise Of Answers

Ever since we met Nat in Iron Man 2, the mystery of her backstory has loomed large without us ever really knowing too much about her. We've had breadcrumbs since then with the hints at what happened in Budapest with Hawkeye, flashes of the Red Room and her training in Age Of Ultron and then the briefest mention of her father in Endgame, but that's all it's ever been.

Marvel have guarded her story and that loaded "red in my ledger" comment, while drip-feeding the fact that she has some things in her past that she needs to protect as well as others that need to be resolved and it's all been a clever path to this point. As long as the answers were coming, anyway, and now they finally seem to be.

With Widow's future wiped out (though rumour has it that might end up being undone too at some point), we HAVE To dive back into her past and that's definitely where the most interesting story opportunities are. This trailer confirms as much, adding characters who mean a lot to her, a villain with an obvious vendetta (which implies history) and a whole nefarious organisation for her to battle.