My money is that they will show flashbacks or reference him having spied on all the Civil War stuff. Likely was watching the airport fight.
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My money is that they will show flashbacks or reference him having spied on all the Civil War stuff. Likely was watching the airport fight.
Would fit with the rumors about him copying other characters that were there
Well, we've already seen him use Cap, Hawkeye, and Spider-Man in the trailers, and his action figure has Black Panther claws. That's just about everyone at the Airport fight who has copy-able skills if you assume some of his martial arts come from Bucky and you factor in his obvious use of Widow's moves.
But Cap didn't pull off that move at the airport. He did it in the elevator inside Shield HQ in The Winter Soldier.
Tasky swings on a web in the second trailer, look in the top left and you can see it:
I didn't say he was ONLY watching Civil War. Besides, Taskmaster's powers include the ability to 'fill' gaps; if he sees you do half your moveset, his powers extrapolate and allow him to do the rest. He doesn't have to see Cap do that specific technique to pick it up if he's seen Cap use the shield a lot. And that's just going by the comics, let alone what they might come up with for the movie.
Also, if my theory about Taskmaster being Mason is right, it's possible he saw SHIELD footage anyways.
As an archer myself, I noticed inmediately that Tasky loads his bow exactly like Hawkeye.
Yeah they actually did a really good job with Taskmaster's copying, I'm pleased.
It looks like Winter Soldier 2, which itself wasn't that generic and safe for this genre.
Of the Airport Battle's combatants, Taskmaster could realistically copy...
- Captain America (confirmed)
- Winter Soldier
- Hawkeye (confirmed)
- Black Widow (confirmed)
- Spider-Man (confirmed)
- Black Panther (confirmed)
Yeah, my 'spying' thing mostly is based on my personal theory that he's working for Ross and has been since before Civil War. I don't think Task is gonna be someone 'new', I think he's going to be introduced as someone Ross has been using to do his dirty work for awhile.
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I thought the theory was that Taskmaster was one of the Widows.
lol. nah. Canon only.Or also fits with the theory for:
So they're going the (U)MvC3 route of having Taskmaster imitate Peter's webs with rope rather than energy webs like in the UDON run.Tasky swings on a web in the second trailer, look in the top left and you can see it:
It's a theory I see a lot on Tumblr/Twitter but I think it's silly. It mostly just stems from people without comic knowledge who went 'TASKMASTER DOES WIDOW MOVES HE MUST BE A WIDOW!'
Mason makes a LOT more sense. I won't be surprised if he's a Widow, some MCU TWIIIST like Mandarin, but until proven otherwise, I'm going with Occam's Razor.
Mason has the build/height, the right bio, and he hasn't appeared in any trailer/poster.
Nope. After Civil War, before Infinity War. There will likely be pre-Avengers flashbacks to Nat's training, but the bulk of the movie is post-CW.
who the fuck is Mason?
(I've seen every MCU film at least twice.)
"I'm done running from my past" is probably the most generic blockbuster hook I can think of.
OT Fagbenle was cast as a new character named "Mason" for this film but is conspicuously missing in all promotional material and trailers.
O-T Fagbenle's character. He's the fifth member of the main cast:
His bio is that he's an ex-SHIELD agent who's got a past with Natasha, possibly romantic. He's conspicuously missing from all marketing so far, and his SHIELD roots line up well with Taskmaster's own comic canon history. He's obviously a reference to Rick Mason, a minor comic character, but I find them fusing Rick and Taskmaster into one character a lot more feasible than the theory about Widows/Melina, considering Rick is basically a nobody who does nothing.
I bet its not him and they are doing this to twist it. Its probably the Mum or something.O-T Fagbenle's character. He's the fifth member of the main cast:
His bio is that he's an ex-SHIELD agent who's got a past with Natasha, possibly romantic. He's conspicuously missing from all marketing so far, and his SHIELD roots line up well with Taskmaster's own comic canon history. He's obviously a reference to Rick Mason, a minor comic character, but I find them fusing Rick and Taskmaster into one character a lot more feasible than the theory about Widows/Melina, considering Rick is basically a nobody who does nothing.
The action bits looks very average. You can totally see where Marvel stepped in and did the work instead of the director.
Popular theory yeah. I don't buy it, I don't see Melina pulling double duty as two major Marvel canons. Iron Maiden is already important to the Black Widow mythos and she's present in so many scenes already. I will eat my Crow if I'm wrong but I don't think I am. The MCU really doesn't do twists that often. People are just paranoid and wanna "outwit" the movie.
Tasky swings on a web in the second trailer, look in the top left and you can see it:
Holy fuck. Didn't catch that.
Unless they have a "Hydra is behind everything" level twist that completely redefines the MCU going forward... no comparison. I guess we'll see.
Those lines are always recorded for the trailers and never actually in the movie.
In Civil War's trailer I think Iron Man actually exclaimed "You Just Started a War!!"
It's still the hook Marvel has decided to use to promote the movie. It's generic.
It truly was a Black Widow.
Literally what I just said.
Never liked black widow so it's hard to get excited for this. Trailers haven't really changed that for me.
I wonder about the point of making a prequel pertaining to a dead character. Are they going to important one of the other characters for the next arc/phase of Marvel's superhero saga?
This movie has a lot of potential for setting up pieces for the future, especially since the Thunderbolts SHOULD be a thing by now.
Zemo in Falcon &TWS, the Leader is still around, Abomination too, Yelena, Taskmaster, Ross... they are pretty much all you need to get Thunderbolts off the ground.
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Same. This has everything going against it. The Disney+ shows blew it out of the water and Eternals is so "out-there" that this just... exists.
this taking place before Infinity War makes it not interesting to me. Sucks because I always wanted a film for her since they kept her so shallow. This seems low stakes.
Feels like they screwed the momentum of her up and waited till she wasn't a notable part of the coming films. The Disney+ shows and Eternals are more intriguing new eras.
Feels like they screwed the momentum of her up and waited till she wasn't a notable part of the coming films. The Disney+ shows and Eternals are more intriguing new eras.