New Black Widow Footage Introduces The Terrifying Taskmaster

It's 2020, so you know what that demonstrates. It's finally time to soak up more Natasha Romanoff.


Marvel debuted a new trailer for the upcoming solo Black Widow film, and it also introduced a terrifying new villain for Widow to fully annihilate: Taskmaster.


The trained mercenary, as we all know, will be no match for Nat (Scarlett Johansson), nevertheless it won't be for lack of trying. Right after first appearing in the '80s in Avengers #195, he's been a sinister character who's capable of copying the abilities of these he faces. So while it can seem he's simply a Widow clone or something similar in the trailer, he's just putting his own powers to good use.


Although the new footage isn't all about carnage and destruction, despite the fact that we know our Ms. Romanoff is an expert at bringing the pain. It also as a family member reunion of sorts, as Natasha is seen alongside David Harbour's Red Guardian and Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova, who's apparently right now referred to as Romanoff's sister in this film – though she eventually becomes the second Black Widow immediately after Romanoff in the comics. It's unclear if the "sister" part is a cover.


If you haven't kept up with all of the Black Widow-centric news, this particular film will act as a prequel to Nat's adventures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it. This new outing for Widow looks like it's going to serve the serious spy movie realness we've been waiting for ever since she made the scene in the initial Avengers film. There's also still a whole slew of fan theories about what'll happen in the movie that we wish to explore.


Luckily, we won't have to wait much longer to get into any of that. Black Widow is set to drop into theaters on May 1, 2020. Better begin your training now.