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Black Widow Final Trailer Debunks Theory that Rachel Weisz is Taskmaster


With very little emphasis on who is playing Taskmaster, a lot of fans (including myself) were convinced that Rachel Weisz's Melina was secretly the villain. With the final trailer out for Black Widow though, it's been confirmed that Melina and Taskmaster are not the same people.

In one shot, where Taskmaster is fighting with Widow in the air, you can see that it's Melina driving the plane that TM is blown off of. Check it out:

Though this debunks that Melina is NOT Taskmaster, I still think that she'll be the true villain of the film. With the other Widows said to have been mind-controlled into doing someone else's bidding, I have a feeling that the same is being done for whoever is behind Taskmaster's mask. Maybe it's Melina pulling all the strings, but that's just my theory.

If you think this story is familiar, you'll notice it was the villain's MO in The Incredibles II. Though Screenslaver was marketed as the villain, it was revealed that the guy behind the mask was just being mind-controlled by the actual villain—Evelyn Deavor (as in, Evil Endeavor). With Melina being the villain Iron Maiden in the comics, it's likely that the story would make her a villain in this movie as well.

Of course, Marvel is always welcome to blow my expectations out of the water. I'm always a fan of films that manage to surprise me, that's why I loved Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Catch Black Widow when it hits theaters May 1.

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