Final Black Widow Trailer Secretly Reveals How To Beat Taskmaster

It's almost time for the MCU to return from its traditional early year hiatus with a slightly longer delay than usual this time out thanks to no February release.

We can actually all be thankful that the Coronavirus pandemic hasn't meant a delayed release for Black Widow as there was some speculation it might happen. Other films have been affected by it and a blockbuster of this size might have genuine concerns about box office impact.

But no, as the final trailer confirms, the film will go ahead on May 1st, bringing Natasha Romanoff back to the MCU and delving deeper into her past. Here's the trailer...

There's more details in there, like the clarification of Taskmaster being the HEAD of the Red Room and not just an assassin sent by them to clean up Black Widow and the other "mess" threatening them. There's also flashes of some so-far-unseen action sequences too.

But the most important thing here is the way this trailer frames the idea of family and what it means both to Black Widow's arc across the entire MCU and also how it will work towards bringing down Taskmaster.

In the comics, the villain is the most adaptable character in the Marvel Universe, thanks to his ability to learn the skills of his enemies. So far, there's no concrete confirmation that the MCU version will have the same skillset, but the fact that he has a Captain America-like shield, Hawkeye-like bow and arrow and even a Black Knight-like sword suggests he might have encountered and borrowed from heroes.

If that is the case, the Black Widow alliance that teams up to take down Taskmaster and the Red Room should take a lead from the only hero in the comics who had no problem taking down Taskmaster: Deadpool.

Because of 'Pool's unpredictability, Taskmaster's powers were rendered redundant. And Nat and her fellow Red Room graduates should take a lead from that in a very specific way - a way, in fact, that is all over this trailer. By being a family.

Think about it - in Widow's world, everyone is trained to be a lone wolf, a mindless drone trained to the extreme degree and stripped of all true individualism. Or more importantly, stripped of humanist concerns like hope and love and family. That's why Age Of Ultron revealed that Nat underwent enforced sterilisation - it was another means of control and isolation.

So by following Deadpool's lead and defying their Red Room conditioning and sticking together as a family - something Natasha learned as an Avenger - we will get to see her fight back against the Red Room and take down Taskmaster. Because what's more unexpected and unpredictable to someone like that than the idea of self-sacrifice for family members or unity through loyalty and not fear?

That too would fit in with Widow's arc in the MCU in a wider way. In a deleted story thread from Endgame, Natasha was going to look after a group of orphans as a way to bring her infertility story full-circle and show her casting off her monstrous Red Room past. When that was removed, it looked like we would lose her sense of closure, but now that we know she got her family in the wake of the events of Civil War (and no doubt came to realise the Avengers were her true family too), it too becomes a little redundant.

It's a clever way to write a true ending for Natasha and hopefully the hints that there may be more Black Widow in future - with Florence Pugh in the lead - come true. Because the idea of a legacy for Nat is just as important as her having family. That was her chief concern after all. It's not just about wiping red from her ledger, it's leaving something more meaningful there too.

And Yelena's history changing to parallel Nat's as a potential new hero would fit that perfectly.

What do you think?