Black Widow Trailer Review: 8 Ups & 3 Downs

6. A Lack Of Spoilers, Mercifully

Look, it's fair to say we know how this plot goes because it isn't the most complex framework Marvel have ever put together. The trailer confirms the entire plot in one line "we need to go back to where it all started" or words to that effect. This is about Natasha going back to the Red Room and where she was conditioned. We don't know why, but the fact that she turned on them and defected to SHIELD suggests she was disgruntled and the conditioning we saw in Age Of Ultron suggests it was all very traumatic, so there's motive already there.

We now know that she pulls together other Widows - specifically Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova and Rachel Weisz's Melina Vostokoff - and David Harbour's Red Guardian (who appears to have been locked up in some sort of gulag prison) to help her take down the organisation that created them all. And that there's a villain and an army of other bad guys to face, but none of this counts as spoilers. It's just story seeding.

The best thing here is that the inevitable spoiler that COULD have been hinted at - the mystery of the villain - WASN'T overtly teased in any way at all. Anyone coming to this completely fresh wouldn't necessarily see the links and that's pretty key to protecting valuable secrets when the plot appears so incomplex.