Black Widow Trailer Review: 8 Ups & 3 Downs

2. The Comic Hints (And The MCU Links)

As this is a Marvel film, you already know that it's going to know its lore and where it came from and the hints in the trailer suggest that we're going to get lots of references from Black Widow's comics.

On the surface, the appearance of Widow's alternate white costume, Taskmaster being involved and the broader hints at the Black Widow programme are all deeply rooted in the comics (and so is Red Guardians' appearance), which is what we all live for as Marvel fans.

And then of course there are the reminders that this is also an MCU movie with the briefest flashes of Nick Fury and Hawkeye in there. But crucially, the links in that respect are quite subtle and not distracting. It's existing footage, hinting at it all being memory and the film not over-relying on cameos to sell it. They might be in there, of course, but if it's all too heavy-handed it will be a mistake, because it will be a betrayal of the idea of Black Widow getting her own movie.