BLACK WIDOW: Every EASTER EGG and Marvel Reference | Full MCU BREAKDOWN

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Black Widow is finally here! Marvel has filled in the gaps of what Natasha was doing between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War. In the movie she confronts her past through the Taskmaster, and reunited with her surrogate Russian family, including Red Guardian. There are tons of MCU Easter Eggs in the movie and references to the larger MCU.
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[@ScreenCrush]

What did you think of the movie?

[@chidaluokoro9104]

It's fine

[@brucelau2023]

@Gibran Camus well it’s out tonight

[@Lanosrep]

Easily top 10 for the MCU

[@Col.Smitty]

4 out of 10.. it made zero sense..

[@ssamuel649]

It's not out in my country yet bud... Still delayed . Even the Disney+ premier is delayed .

[@aarxn82]

It's also worth noting that during the stinger, Yelena has the dog she always wanted as well as clearly been able to buy her own clothes. Her outfit? A yellow plaid coat and a belly-out sweater. An obvious nod to "Clueless" that was released in 1995....the year the opening of the film takes place and the last time Yelena felt normal. She likes fashion but doesn't know much about it, hence her backdated style.

[@spdewertton]

Well red room agents are trained to blend in. We saw training ballet and even watching Cartoons so they'll be able to pretend to have had an normal childhood if needed. So her wearing weird ass clothes at the end is more her showing her weird sense of fashion, and being free from the need to blend in like a spy at all times. I mean this would all have landed a lot better if all the red room agents in the movie weren't wearing god damn comic book costumes in broad daylight. Black Widow went with that look because she wasn't trying to be covert; the agents trying to snipe the girl at the start should have been wearing plain clothes.

[@iCaramba0815]

And didn’t she name the dog after Natashas alias that Mason gave her on her 22 passports/drivers licences?

[@bob2shred894]

maybe that is the fasion we will have in a few years when this scene took place

[@aarxn82]

@@bob2shred894 AS IF!! haha

[@hansenriquez1810]

90s style is pretty in with zoomers nowadays.

[@katiec3434]

Alexei has Natasha (наташа) and Yelena's (елена) names tattooed on his (right?) arm! Literally broke my heart

[@davidramirezf90]

great catch!

[@sureshmakwana8709]

18:01 wait ! Is Hawkeye releasing this August??? 😳😳 I thought it's scheduled for late 2021

[@t0xichunter919]

@@sureshmakwana8709 haven’t watched the video yet, but I’d say august is late 2021

[@IceCold_Carter]

@@sureshmakwana8709 August is considered late in the year

[@sureshmakwana8709]

@@IceCold_Carter oh really?😂 I didn't thought so... Cause aug is just 3/4 into the yr so I would consider late 2021 from Oct month onwards and it's very stupidic to say that Hawkeye is coming this August when clearly whole 2 series r yet to premier which r What if and Ms. Marvel

[@YasonYou]

I didn't think Red Guardian was making his stories up. (if memory serves) He didn't ask Nat what Cap is like, but rather asked her if he ever mentioned him. I took this to mean that he fought a different Captain America, maybe Isaiah Bradley or someone else. If this film was to come out before FaTWS it would have worked as foreshadowing.

[@fivestatedrive]

As someone else pointed out it also could have been time traveling Rogers.

[@fivestatedrive]

Aside from Steve Rogers' adventures out of time, other people who have officially assumed the mantle in the main continuity in the comics that haven't yet in the MCU include Jeffrey Mace, William Burnside, Bob Russo, Roscoe Simons, Scar Turpin, Clint Barton, Bucky Barnes, and David Rickford. As is in the MCU we've now seen Steve Rogers, John Walker, and Sam Wilson as public Captain Americas and Isiah Bradley as a secret one. It's absolutely possible there were additional covert Captain Americas if they're not going to retcon a more public one who was around to fight the Red Guardian in the '80s.

[@MrJakePaddy]

Yeah I don't see it like that. I think he's just arrogant enough to believe the whole world knows who he is and what he's about. He was probably big in Russia but nowhere else. Also with Alexi believing himself to be the only other super soldier, then he would be sure that Cap knows about him and considers him a threat.

[@YasonYou]

@@fivestatedrive that's not how conventional time tavel works, though. They went to great lengths to explain that to us in End Game. Unless Steve randomly joins the TVA and discovers a way to jump between time lines at will, I highly doubt he fought the actual Steve Rogers.

[@fivestatedrive]

@@MrJakePaddy if he had just said that in the Prison I might have agreed with you but his comment with Natasha made me think he was being honest with her. As is he was honest with everything else with his “family.” If this had been released when originally intended before Falcon and the Winter Solider I think it would have then recontextualized his claim when they got to the Isiah Bradley storyline since it confirmed they were using Captain America without Steve Rogers even before they found him in the ice.

[@jamo3976]

Whoa I had no memory of Loki dropping drakhovs daughter in the avengers

[@maxarias1567]

Mind: blown

[@gusn4652]

When I heard that line come up again and again it sounded familiar but couldn’t figure where it came from

[@sureshmakwana8709]

18:01 wait ! Is Hawkeye releasing this August??? 😳😳 I thought it's scheduled for late 2021

[@spdewertton]

@@sureshmakwana8709 Yeah official sources just say "late 2021". The release scheduled for August is the What If series.

[@sureshmakwana8709]

@@spdewertton yes ik by Ryan said wrong

[@SpaceBeatsYT]

F9: It’s all for family Black Widow: Hold my beer

[@SpaceBeatsYT]

@Justin Febrer 😂

[@rblue120]

natasha was eating caviar and drinking champagne when she was watching moonraker like how her mom said she wanted to in the beginning

[@sureshmakwana8709]

18:01 wait ! Is Hawkeye releasing this August??? 😳😳 I thought it's scheduled for late 2021

[@MrJakePaddy]

@@sureshmakwana8709 you put this on another comment thread, what gives?

[@rebecaisabellaladeraboliva3335]

Omg i did not notice that 😯 great catch 👍🏻 and its a little sad 😭🖐🏻

[@sureshmakwana8709]

@@MrJakePaddy cause Ryan said that and it's wrong I guess !

[@sureshmakwana8709]

@@rblue120 so isn't Ryan upto date with the updated schedule which was revealed by Kevin Fiege back in Dec 2020 lol? Edit : oops you Americans are enjoying the non-lockdown phase but buddy there are still Covid restrictions and lockdown going on around the world

[@jokerqueen1515]

I was shocked when Valentina showed up after credits. She's framing Clint Barton

[@prof-eon]

The thing is, Natasha sacrificed herself for him so technically he's part of the reason she died so she technically only half lied. I have no idea how she learned what happened though

[@Vor567tez]

@@prof-eon she probably doesn't know , the time travel information is kept deep under secret , she might have partial info but I don't think she cares , it just works well enough for her

[@prof-eon]

@@Vor567tez Barton is retired tho, he's not much of a threat to her, so I don't think she'd have sent her after him if she didn't

[@nizzleprizzle9783]

Can’t wait to see Hawkeye brutally die by the new widow. And then his daughter becoming the new Hawkeye

[@ChrisValera]

@@adansanchez5978 In WandaVision, it Jimmy Woo, Darcy, and the douchebag agent guy were all talking about what happened in the events of Endgame. So probably everything is public record.

[@LordJYM]

A few “mirror” things I noticed were when Natasha lets out Taskmaster it’s very similar to her interaction with Hulk in the first Avengers movie, also in the credits scene, the dog is named Fanny which was Natasha’s fake alias similar to how the pig was named Alexei. Also! Did the red cured for the mind control remind anyone of Wanda’s mind controlling power?

[@elicooper6751]

that's what I thought it was at first

[@Oone2023]

Yes I immediately thought of her and the hulk's first interaction in the first avengers movie!

[@lawlew923]

JYM, so glad you mentioned the red serum. The red “serum” that is driving Draykov to pursue Natasha is a major plot point no one is talking about. It seems to break “mind control” or could be causing the mind control used in the widow program. Could this be related to Scarlet Witch? What if this stuff was somehow extracted or collected from Wanda when HYDRA was experimenting on her.

[@Lanosrep]

I personally loved this movie. It was the closest the MCU has ever come to a James Bond-style spy movie, the story and performances were great and it really did justice to the character. I thought the twist was so clever considering it ties back 9 years

[@maxarias1567]

Also really dug some of the cinematography as well.

[@davidramirezf90]

I thought this as well. This is a spy movie, as few as we have, told thru the eyes of Marvel's MCU and one of its most beloved characters. It had emotion, character development, many action sequences very well done. On the contrary, it didnt have a love interest, sex scenes or out of character romance. It had comedy! and well put as well. It really was a great experience. I must say that even if it doesnt expand on the universe, it really didnt have to. It was a well told story, didnt prepare the land for Infinity War, or Falcon and the WS, but it somehow feels directly inside the MCU, like it is in its very heart.

[@ghiggs8389]

An awesome addition to the Russo Brothers (I know, this isn't a Russo film, but definitely has the feel and look) films and a great segue between Civil and Infinity Wars.

[@andrewshandle]

I'd say it was way more Jason Borne than James Bond

[@Izzboticus]

I felt like it was a mix of Moonraker and Atomic Blonde. Which is a good thing.

[@elmacho2789]

“Sever the nerve” creeped me out But it was pretty cool

[@MrJakePaddy]

Yeah I didn't like the whole pheromone bit... they should have just gave Drakov a hostage or Taskmaster tied Nat up before leaving and then Nat breaks free.

[@ufokkenwotm8]

Fr caught me off guard. Initially thought Natasha had done a less blunt method of “severing the nerve” beforehand and was acting like she was affected by it when she couldn’t kill Drakov just so she could get more information and time. But when she just proceeded to slam her schnoz on the table and I was like “huh.” Plus the movie was pretty gritty by Marvel’s standards, so the pheromone thing was kinda odd but apart from that, it was a pretty damn good movie.

[@skyelovesmilfs]

@@ufokkenwotm8 do you agree that yelena had some bad dialogue? like i think she was played well but she had terrible script writing

[@ufokkenwotm8]

@@skyelovesmilfs I mean, Florence didn’t have that great of a script to begin with, which definitely limited her acting prowess. Howev’s, I enjoyed her screen time much more than with the other cast members and even her Russian accent (albeit slightly iffy) was convincing. Most of the writing and jokes didn’t land well but her delivery did make me expel gated air through my nostrils a couple of times. Also understand that when I said “it was a pretty damn good movie” in my previous comment, I have very low standards.

[@Vasharan]

Fractures of the cribriform plate can cause loss of smell as it can sever the olfactory nerves which provide your sense of smell. It's most commonly seen in head trauma and in professional boxers, so it's nice to see BW pull that bit of real-world medical knowledge.

[@Dom380]

Someone else may have suggested this, but I don't think Red Guardian was lying about fighting Cap. We still have no idea what Steve got up to on his time travel adventure to return the stones.

[@fivestatedrive]

I didn’t even think about time traveling Steve, I just assumed someone else had assumed the Captain America identity in the ‘80s.

[@GabrielSouza-ie1tt]

That might have happened man, when Steve came back he could've met the Red Guardian, he didn't seem to be lying when he was talking about that.

[@stuartdownes7312]

I don't think he was deliberately lying, but instead I think his memories were either created for him by Drakov or that he's internalised some propaganda photoshoots and now thinks they were real.

[@essteex4656]

Maybe it was Isiah Bradleys cap

[@fivestatedrive]

@@essteex4656 he would have known that was not Steve Rogers and Bradley was in prison in the ‘80s.

[@nates1414]

Idk what catches me off guard more, the “Your Mom” burns or the fact that I’m 30 seconds into an ad before I realize it’s an ad

[@codyx6560]

The your mom burns absolutely. I forget that he does it and makes me laugh every time

[@ShadowHwkX7]

Dom: I have a family. Natasha: I have 2 of them. Dom: No... Impossible

[@dame8195]

the end credit scene shocked and saddened me and now i cant wait for hawkeye

[@antonissa8345]

I wonder how it will be for Yelena. That I mean is what’s a head of her, I mean she will eventually fight aliens or something else to the point where it’s another Tuesday kinda. I also wonder on how Hawkeye will react since not even he himself seemed to know about Natasha’s family. So now someone that says she’s the (adoptive) sister of his best friend, wow. I also wonder how we will get introduced to Kate Bishop, like what will make it that she meets Clint and decides to become his trainee? And what will make Clint agree to come out from retirement (AGAIN)? And the last thing is that I’m worried that all future marvel movies will be bad and it will eventually be like family guy or the Simpsons where the old version was better. The only hope that the MCU is safe to continue is that these future movies will be good and the series. That reminds me, which series do you think/calculate come first? Hawkeye or Ms. Marvel?

[@davidramirezf90]

@@antonissa8345 Ahead of her is forming part of the dark avengers, as Valentina is forming that group, possibly to fight one of the fantastatic four, or molecule man or something like that, for when things get really weird. About the MCU, having seen the 3 shows so far, WV-F&TWS-Loki, I don't have any more doubts. They are producing the best there is for entertainment as of today, with the highest quality, being true to the comics but also trying new things, new twists, new ideas. For me, BW was on par with Civil War, so Im not worried in the least, they are getting better at this. Have a good one

[@sureshmakwana8709]

18:01 wait ! Is Hawkeye releasing this August??? 😳😳 I thought it's scheduled for late 2021

[@Nevermore093]

@@antonissa8345 Clint was already training Kate, I think he just continues her training after endgame.

[@DP-nl4uq]

It was the one redeeming quality of the film

[@Cluis.]

I think the Red Guardian might be fighting Isaiah Bradley as Capitan America, which would make sense because both fought in the Cold War, and then Red Guardian didn't lie about fighting Capitan America. This would also explain his reaction in the Prison, because he really beliefs that he fought "THE" Capitan America, but he really did just fought one Capitan America.

[@kobraunit]

Could be him, or could be William Burnside, a fake Steve Rogers that acted as captain America during the Cold War in the comics, or could be time traveling Cap. There are many possibilities.

[@MrLee-cy1pw]

I'm convinced that this was a variant timeline where Steve was thawed sooner.

[@nnamdiede1180]

7:11 I mean Tony said in civil war “Tchalla told Ross what you did” to Natasha. Also to be fair I don’t think he saw it as tattletaling that she’s the one who let who he thought was his fathers killer get away

[@ghiggs8389]

Exactly. He was detailing how/why he didn't succeed.

[@taylormcc]

The points on Natasha that Taskmaster sees through her visor aren't pressure points. They are pivot/orientation markers so that Taskmaster can anticipate and interpret her opponent's moves.

[@ragingfiip]

8:08 When we first see Taskmaster, she was NOT watching Black Widow's fight from Iron Man 2. That was only in the trailers. She was actually watching Black Panther vs Hawkeye's fight at the airport in Civil War.

[@mattthestormtrooper3239]

I think the inmate named "Ursa" is an easter egg to Ursa Major, the Bear in the Russian Avengers or The Winter Guard team.

[@lordrayden3045]

I caught that right away too Dude was huge

[@DikaWolf]

Yeah, I caught that right away too, but seems like most youtubers doing Easter Egg breakdowns missed this.

[@Ellestra]

This is also another example why Americans should consult someone before naming anyone in any foreign language. Even Latin. Because Ursa means female bear. For male it'd be Ursus. And I know this is a pun on constellation and rank but it only works in English. On the other hand Russian like Latin is much more gendered and this would not be something a guy would want as a codename. Or a nickname.

[@PopCultureFunMY]

@@lordrayden3045 Yea! He was unusually huge to miss xD But again, i was thinking how... Marvel could tease us. After all it is a prison and as @Ellestra said 'Ursa" means female bear, it could be a prison nickname for an unusually huge inmate xD

[@dustcat420]

Same I thought the same

[@SoChilled1]

Taskmaster was wasted. Florence Pugh was amazing yet again.

[@mikepointfive]

I think I caught an Easter egg that I haven't seen mentioned in any videos. I believe I saw a portrait of Rasputin on the wall in Drakov's office. It would make sense since Rasputin was into mind control.

[@oneman9121]

Much, much better film than I ever expected. It's definitely right up there in the upper echelon of MCU films. The family dynamic was real, and felt very natural.

[@Izzboticus]

The four main family characters had insane chemistry with each other.

[@Disbelief_]

bruh this movie was trash idk what your talking about one red guardian didnt even do anything besides be a loser two task master was wasted three task masters suit is terrible four task master is a fucking male and theres no fucking reason for him to be female and five the actual villain was not a good villain at all

[@yanuwwuu]

@@Disbelief_ 1. Of course he's a loser, he's AN OLD MAN 2. What did u expect from Taskmaster? Did you think this movie was an Avengers movie? 3. It's almost exactly the same as the Comic version, you're just nitpicking at this point 4. Legit Taskmaster has no reason TO BE MALE OR FEMALE, her Sex doesn't matter, her character trait is "Can copy moves" not "Is a male" 5. THIS IS LITERALLY A SPY MOVIE, why tf do you need a fkn Thanos lvl Antagonist in a spy film, and Dreykov was a pretty menacing Villain and did his job as "Mastermind" perfectly

[@danielej5856]

@@yanuwwuu yeah yeah it makes sense for the vials to not break while all of those jumping in all lf those action scenes . Also taskmaster speaks in the comics :)

[@tonyabrookes9931]

See it in theatres if you can! There's so much scenery to take in and the fight scenes look super cool on a big screen!

[@rethablair6902]

I did😁

[@rubberducky4074]

Especially that snow scene in IMAX

[@dayshiftnowknd7853]

I absolutely loved the Yelena Belova character.

[@sameaatmodimedjo9886]

That moment when Nat (or really Melina) woke up in the cell next to Alexei, the way she was positioned really reminded me of the position she was in after she sacrificed herself for the Soul Stone. Anyone else who saw that?

[@arthurcordoves5048]

“Thank you for your cooperation”!! Ccmon can’t miss that one, did it to Loki in Avengers and here again haha

[@DonOmarRamiro]

"Can you wipe out THAT much red?"... Tom Hiddleston is a BEAST of an actor. Thats a 4 seconds line in a 2 and a half hours movie that can go without even noticing it, but doesnt. I LOVED that line back then, i love even more now.

[@amcaesar]

Ever Gabo Anderson, who plays young Natasha, is the daughter of Mila Jovovich -- and a scale model of her, at that.

[@rockero1313]

she's Mini Mila

[@djchristinad]

Thank you, I didn't know that, I love Mila!

[@muyhiram]

10:46 "The quip doesn't really land anymore" proceeds to show a clip of why the quip still lands.

[@fivestatedrive]

Also Budapest wasn’t just about that bombing but Natasha and Hawkeye hiding out and being on the run against impossible odds. It’s that part they’re referring to in the quip.

[@gabehcuod7017]

@@fivestatedrive Maybe Natasha was referring to being shot at. And Hawkeye remembered Budapest differently because he was shooting at Natasha before she defected.

[@spdewertton]

@@gabehcuod7017 Nah Budapest was after the defection. It was the final job before she was taken on by Shield, but for it to reach that point they would have had to been collaborating for a while. Enough for her to give Shield intel and come to an agreement with them. So this was after Clint was sent to kill her and decided to bring her in instead.

[@gabehcuod7017]

@@spdewertton Clint still could've gone after her in Budapest before they went back there later. She pointed out that the holes in the walls in the safehouse of the Widows were caused by arrows.

[@claudinelord2471]

When they’re breaking Alexei out of prison, as he’s trying to get higher, he jumps off some guy’s shield, just like Natasha jumped off Cap’s shield to get on a chitauri ship to get up to stark tower

[@eldridgebrown3907]

When Alexi talks about Captain America, he says "Does he ever mention me?" Implying that he has met and interacted with Captain America. I think he is telling the truth about meeting A Captain America. There was the Marvel Superhero Patriot, who for a time took on the role of Cap. What if, in the MCU, while Steve was in the deep freeze, Patriot was acting as a clandestine/Top Secret Cap in Spy/SHIELD circles. If so, then Alexi could have fought a Captain America and not realize it was a different guy in the suit? Alexi is not really that smart and he's been in prison for a very long time. As recently, with Falcon & the Winter Soldier, we have just found out that there was a secret Captain America of color. So maybe Patriot/Cap and Alexi did fight each other and what he said was true from his POV.

[@MrJakePaddy]

Nah, I think he's just arrogant enough to think Cap knows all about him, especially with (I think) Alexi assuming that he and Cap are the only super soldiers. He was probably big shit in Russia for a small time and assumes the whole world remembers him.

[@TheWizardOfJim]

Or it could be that Steve just couldn't resist the urge to "help out" on his second trip around the timeline after going back to be with Peggy.

[@cheeseisjar3058]

@@TheWizardOfJim wouldn’t that mean that this movie takes place in an alternate timeline?

[@ChrisValera]

He did mention he fought Cap once when he was arm wrestling everyone and got offended when the big guy called him a liar. Maybe he really did meet A Captain America. It’s possible the government did something to keep the Cap image alive while Steve was frozen. I mean, they quickly replaced him with John Walker as soon as he retired.

[@kevintobin9743]

@@cheeseisjar3058 That or they are Re-conning that decision.

[@qidn7775]

I loved how the whole widow project was so old, that the inside of the red room (the flying one), all interior was old Russian styles, and all very sovjet union vibes. Like the elevators looked so old from the inside

[@nickolasjackson4902]

It’s crazy how no one has talked about how shitty the building leveling explosions were in Budapest. They intended to use a child take the target down… yet NEITHER of them actually died

[@spdewertton]

Yeah I was thinking about that. It basically painted Black Widow as the worst assassin ever. I was waiting for the bad guy to reveal that she had killed his body double or something, but apparently not. She just... failed.

[@yanuwwuu]

@@spdewertton Yeah that's one thing weird about this movie, but i did have my disbelief suspended so it does it's job for an origin story....decent i guess?

[@Krisz01777]

Well I think she just felt so bad for killing a child that she was afraid to even check if she really did it

[@spdewertton]

@@Krisz01777 I can see that happening. But if Dracov isn't dead the kid died for nothing, so she should at least have sent someone else to check the site.

[@spdewertton]

@@yanuwwuu oh yeah it was definitely decent and competent. We've definitely seem worse in the MCU. Plus this movie's production was super messy, so I'm more inclined to give it a pass.

[@muyhiram]

No, Steve would've been just as upset as Alexei for not being in the field, for different reasons of course, Alexei for fame and glory, and Steve for duty. Steve Rogers finally felt like he could retire after knowing the Earth had so many defenders, but he also made sure to leave a good replacement.

[@ebchoi79]

When Natasha and Yelena meet in the apartment in Budapest, Yelena asks what kind of gun made the bullet holes in the wall, and Natasha said those were from an arrow... was that a Hawkeye reference?

[@version2media]

Taskmaster used the arrows too. during the car chase, yelena says...."him again" ...(i can't recall if TM/her had a segment bit earlier in the movie)

[@ebchoi79]

@@version2media Thanks! I need to see it again!

[@automotivebuff3202]

@@ebchoi79 it's a callback to Clint Barton and Natasha's time in Budapest together. Also in Avengers when she says to Clint "Just like Budapest" she's referencing the fact that they were outnumbered and facing waves of enemies, like they faced the Hungarian Special Forces, before hiding out in the subway ventilation system.

[@seanj3667]

No. It was a reference to her other friend who shoots arrows.

[@MerrickTheOtter]

Alexei also had KARL MARX on his fingers, that was a funny inclusion!

[@Glitch-qj3nj]

I don't think so

[@d34dR0d3n7]

@@Glitch-qj3nj Well...maybe not "funny" but a very good detail to add to a character that is the Soviet version of Captain America. It would be like if Rogers had "Uncl eSam" inked on his knuckles, lol.

[@elmandarin1002]

It’s just Russian prison tats

[@devintariel3769]

Lenin read a book on Marx

[@sentteri]

When Taskmaster first shows and gets shot by Nat she hides behind the shield just like Cap did when Peggy Carter shoots at him and the vibranium shield in The First Avenger.

[@kevinddsstt1585]

I was really hoping to see a post credit scene with Captain America's stop on Vormir exchanging the Soul Stone for Natasha...

[@moviesmusic6936]

The one we got was pretty good tho

[@graydenday3760]

Yeah I dont really feel like her story is over yet.

[@ghiggs8389]

This was a passing of the torch, much like Falcon and the Winter Soldier was the passing of the mantle of Cap to Sam.

[@Stonecoldinsummer]

@@graydenday3760 I guess we might get an alternate universe Nat like in What If?

[@redline297]

Black widow is already out is Australia, saw it last night 😎

[@heytimgreen]

Everything tries to kill you in Australia, so checks out.

[@fatcat8033]

Do u want a cookie ?

[@dathird2279]

Who would have known, one of those widows was my mom. Thank you, Natasha, for freeing her.

[@LimoneSoda]

Bwaahahah!

[@alisonlim3300]

😹😹😹😹

[@Arjun-xz9ev]

Valentina blowing her nose at the end credits spoiled the whole scene. It was meant to be heartfelt and emotional , it felt like an insult to Nat. It was something Nat got close to a farewell. A surprise element like Val's appearance shouldn't have been introduced in that scene.

[@humanity600]

I think Val is literally designed to piss everyone off tbh...

[@Rolend666]

I love the "not the beeees" clips 😂, you put in in every marvel video but still kills me

[@christ5131]

It’s cringe when he does that

[@garibaldilebeau]

I took the wire-pattern plot in Taskmaster’s readout to be a plotting of body shape/position to help with prediction, rather than a weak point indicator. It explains why it has larger “key” indicators at the shoulders - key joints - and maps across the collarbones with the two inner marks corresponding with the sides of the neck

[@giuliazoli7361]

he says that antonia knows all her (natasha) friends moves. the next scene is antonia replicating black panther, cap and bucky's moves. i really liked that scene when i watched

[@Dark-ki7lf]

Who did he copy to learn swordfighting? Seems connected to Black Knight

[@jacquicollins8826]

She’s also still wearing her Hawkeye necklace from Winter Soldier in this film.

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

Man you missed the Rob Liefeld call out with the vest having to many pockets.

[@mon_nobi]

I caught that too! I don’t know if Rob had worked on any Black Widow properties so I thought it was just me, but glad to see it wasnt

[@nicholasgarrick3165]

Task master was such a badass character in the comic, but I hope marvel does the character justice in the future as we didn't saw the character at his most best.

[@griffenmuth6280]

His?

[@griffenmuth6280]

Ik it’s a he in the comics

[@ReliableMyke]

First of all, Taskmaster is a she (in the MCU) and second, she's no longer brainwashed so she's no longer Taskmaster. The character is pretty much done already. Which I think is dumb. MCU doesn't know how to hold on to villains for longer than 1 or 2 movies.

[@revengeofthesith.]

@@ReliableMyke well the “taskmaster” in the film was pretty stupid anyway

[@NekoHibaCosplay]

They are probably give him the Mandarin treatment in a few years or so, Taskmaster has such a huge potential that having him (her) just this chance to shine is just a waste. We have already supernatural forces to reckon with in the MCU, but there are plenty of "human" foes to draw from the Marvel comics for more grounded heroes, but Taskmaster is special

[@Pikachu-Gaming1764]

16:16 "Your mom" Love that sense of humor screen crush has in his vids lmao 😂

[@Joe-gu8hg]

@@isangkayumanggi No he didn't, stupid.

[@ayana9252]

@@isangkayumanggi he said "your mom" because it's a running joke with screen crush. If he was serious he wouldn't have just said it and moved in so quickly.

[@isangkayumanggi]

@@Joe-gu8hg What's that, stupid?

[@isangkayumanggi]

@@ayana9252 huh?

[@ayana9252]

@@isangkayumanggi Oh so you are just trolling to be mean. nvm then.

[@1odham]

The levee was a bar called the Levee and was serving no alcohol. Hence the line right after it.

[@Iron_Wolf_365]

good job on the breakdown. always love the screencruch take on screenwriting and directing!

[@bandenboy]

He didnt mention Nat catching that widow in there fall that mirrors the hand grabbing of her and Hawkeye in End Game

[@TheOGLegoGuy]

I feel like everyone was surprised by taskmasters reveal everyone thought he was that one guy on the poster

[@fivestatedrive]

At the first encounter with Natasha I got the feeling Taskmaster was in fact a woman, and a woman Natasha has a past with. My guess was Rachel Weisz though.

[@timbeckley9972]

I watched a review and was told it was the fella helping, so yeah I was shocked, I liked the movie, it was alright..

[@sureshmakwana8709]

18:01 wait ! Is Hawkeye releasing this August??? 😳😳 I thought it's scheduled for late 2021

[@ibapreppie]

I knew who taskmaster was when they first showed drakovs daughter. Was pretty obvious. Woman empowerment.

[@spdewertton]

I was 100% sure it was a woman, I just didn't think it was the daughter. This movie really paints Natasha as the worst assassin ever -- she collapsed a whole building and somehow the two people she expected to die survived. And they never even confirmed that the Bad Guy was somewhere else and she had killed a body double or something -- apparently she did collapse a building with the Bad Guy and his daughter in it and they both survived.

[@TheGr8tPlays]

The clubs that the widows faught Natassia with looked like the pruners from Loki but just red.

[@djofftheshit]

I know it was accidental but "Cyro Freeze" had me laughing at 3:50

[@john51551]

Florence performance 🔥🔥🔥.

[@JackSmith-ns1uq]

I thought it was great except Taskmaster who I was most excited for. The reveal gave me X-Men origin nightmares. I hope they give us a real Taskmaster 😕

[@Murdokstankfoot]

I'm calling the 1980's red guardian battle with cap was with old man cap.

[@DR.64A9]

I'm thinking he's from a different timeline/universe.

[@ericawillis.]

I'm thinking Isaiah Bradley.

[@DR.64A9]

@@ericawillis. Idk, Steve Rogers is famous in the MCU's world. His face would be all over the news. Plus Red Gaurdian asked Natasha if Cap had talked about him. He wouldn't have a reason to think she knows Bradley... or he's just lying about the whole thing.

[@vinckduck9690]

@@DR.64A9 I'm pretty sure its Isaiah Bradley. I forgot what time he was imprisoned and when he got out,but this was suppose to be released before the falcon and winter soldier come out,so that works as a foreshadowing for Isaiah but now.. it's like "what?" Type of situation.

[@GabrielSouza-ie1tt]

Oh shit! It could be really that, when Steve came back he could've met The Red Guardian and maybe even fought him, that's why it doesn't seem he's lying when he says he knows Captain America.

[@ssotkow]

9:18 Another correlation with James Bond was the Castle in the Sky where final battle took place before crashing to Earth.

[@taylorkozak9730]

Yes, first thing I mentioned to my husband was how Drax's clandestine lair in Moonraker is a space station, just like Dreykov's lair is high above the clouds. Hell, even their names are similar. Good foreshadowing.

[@jordanstatler4661]

3:22 A super soldier! An adorable...fuzzy...super soldier.

[@baidyanathsahoo6885]

In the Avengers game, Natasha did fight taskmaster in a similar environment with skydiving and stuff

[@luckyDancer100]

I don’t think we can use agents of shield as a reference point anymore. Kevin Feige said they’re no longer canon.

[@ghiggs8389]

🤫🤫

[@waltascher]

He never said that

[@NekoHibaCosplay]

he never said that, but it's heavily implied it is not anymore, because as far as of today in multiple series and movies (including Black Widow) events that would mean differently by the inclusion of AoS timeline are no longer mentioned, i.e. in Loki episode 1 Mobius shows to Loki the murder of Phil Coulson, and Loki himself remarks that action by saying that nothing matters for a dead man, and Mobius doesn't correct him about Coulson's being revived shortly after (in TVA times flows differently so everything already happened) Disney just swept the dust under the carpet, pretending it just didn't happened. This would of course fuck up a lot of past things, including Age of Ultron [the attack on Struker's castle for retreiving the scepter started with a tip from Shield in episode 2x20, among other things]

[@Glitch-qj3nj]

@@NekoHibaCosplay it's say James Gunn

[@waltascher]

@@NekoHibaCosplay Nothing has implied the shows are no longer canon. At best, they’ve ignored them, but you could say the same about the One-Shots and no one calls their canonicity into question. Even the Mobius example you give; he doesn’t correct Loki, but he doesn’t confirm either. Whether Coulson was brought back to life later has no bearing on that scene, so it’s not mentioned. Agent Carter at the very least is canon, as evidenced by Endgame and Black Widow, and it has references to some of the other shows. I could point to some other times the other Marvel Studios stuff has arguably referenced the shows as well.

[@41Vega]

Killing it with these uploads! Nice!

[@metroidpewb3445]

loki dropping drahkov's daughter in avenger's hits different because i originally thought (and possibly other's as well) that he was referring to natasha as the daughter of drahkov and was just trying to get into to her head by bringing up her family that she may not like. now it means so much more and makes that scene even more badass for nat when she doesn't fall for it

[@lolatucker6086]

IT WAS AMAZING

[@Moncriefs]

Lmao I live for these “Your Mom” jokes man😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lizbajjalieh9841]

I appreciate the subtle nod to Florence Pugh's role in Midsommar in the opening credit scene, the cartoon of the little girls dancing around a may pole. Very cool.

[@jona3684]

The Arya Knife Drop AKA The Winter Soldier "did it without CG" Knife Drop.

[@seannorton69]

When Guardian breaks the big guys forearm, he calls him "big bear", reference to Ursa Major?

[@jackmcklaine7405]

I think ur right he also called him Ursa when he sat down

[@Judah_da_shoota]

100%

[@leonvanklink2669]

he's played by 7'2" Dutch actor/bodybuilder Olivier 'The Dutch Giant' Richters, who also confirmed on his Instagram page (@thedutchgiant) he was indeed Ursa Major.

[@hemoa.h.417]

13:20 I read that in Russia, guards cant shoot at pictures of soviet leaders so prisoners started tattooing them on their bodies.

[@worldoftancraft]

Oh, really, phoreigner? What about trying the read bullshit on the practice? Also... hmm... what should you do to be shot at a colony or even in prison ? :)))))))))))))))0))))))))))))))))))))

[@randomfandom8073]

I think one of the easter eggs I saw was all the old Disney shows playing on the TVs to help kind of set the 90's tone. IN the house in the beginning of the movie, on the tv, and in the montage, you can the original Ducktales opening. But it makes me think about how they kind of made Beakly(the Maid/Webbys Grandma) a kind of nod to Black Widow and the Spy movie genre throughout the new Ducktales series.

[@TheGamesNexus]

This was a thorough list, thank you! I've included a link to your video in our article about the film

[@madmax408SJ]

It's not out til tonight

[@littledude6669]

It is in other countries

[@dame8195]

rip lol in australia it came out like 3 days ago

[@littledude6669]

@@dame8195 yeah most countries

[@jinxie712]

They had to fight their way out of Budapest for 10 days. Probably what reminded her of it.

[@redpanda9367]

I also noticed that Task Master punched Red Guardian with her shield during their fight, just like Cap did while fight Iron Man at the end of Civil War. Could be where Dracov first saw Tony’s fight analytics software.

[@articulatrix6548]

One easter egg you missed -- during the arm wrestling/tattooing scene, Alexei calls his opponent "Ursa" and described him as a big bear. That's a reference to the comic character Ursa Major, a bear who was a part of the Winter Guard (the Russian Avengers) along with Red Guardian.

[@RSumm22]

JUST LEFT THE THEATER, LET'S GO

[@Breidablik06]

Dude, the movie ain’t event out yet you are fast

[@ubermatic1821]

Seriously 😳👏🏻 (Magnificent!)

[@littledude6669]

It is in a lot of other countries

[@havitheone]

😂😂

[@tonyabrookes9931]

Google showtimes in your zip code...I bet it played somewhere near you today

[@geraldokoroafor9321]

You forgot to mention the fact that the Red Guardian keeps saying he fought Captain America might be a nod to the fact that Old Man Cap existed in the MCU before and during all the events of the MCU. His story that he fought a "Captain America" in the 80s could verify that Steve Rogers worked in the shadows after going back and marrying Peggy

[@MassielZ]

Great video, thank you. Dante’s hell (Inferno) has nine circles, not seven.

[@y0sh188]

The whole skydiving scene feels like the intro to Saints Row the Third

[@scifimom42]

I wonder if Red Guardian isn’t crazy because fought Old-cap-who-stayed-back-in-time?

[@joshcowart2446]

There’s also a slight nod to the last crusade. Henry Sr mails the grail diary to Indy to keep it safe and Indy takes it to find him and rescue him and hijjnks ensue. In this Florence Pugh mails the vials to Natasha to keep the vials safe and Natasha takes the vials back to her instead. Maybe when you’re mailing something that’s super important, a little note might help.

[@user-hi7vh6yv3w]

Also, in Red Guardian prison scene where he compits with others in armwrestling we can see a big guy called Ursa, who is a reference to another member of Winter Guard called the same way.

[@Jo-fe1cy]

I wish I could watch this but I haven't seen black widow yet :(

[@MrJayateabug]

Spoilers are badly named. Did you ever NOT watch something that someone "Spoiled" for you? Probably not. To me spoilers give me even more incentive to watch something.

[@Matt-bg5wg]

So weird. I read and watched a ton of reviews and my expectations must’ve been quite low because I really enjoyed Black Widow. Sure the ending wasn’t that great but everything else was very enjoyable.

[@Okhi_Zumi]

The jokes about all the pockets on Yalena's vest is a great joke about 90's Marvel comic books costumes.

[@bradyterry2164]

"Does a face turn" love the subtle wrestling references in your videos lol

[@brucelau2023]

ScreenCrush nice to see you do a Marvel Movie again after two years since Spider-Man Far From Home in July of 2019

[@roguequakewitch]

AWESOME MOVIE! ALSO THEY WERE WATCHING DUCKTALES! PLUS - IO!

[@EeliOo]

Best Black Widow Review!! 🙌🏽👍🏽👌🏽

[@tonythesuperperson]

Absolutely loving the ambient cats

[@haitianstatham4869]

who else "likes" ScreenCrush's videos as soon as the video starts?

[@Pikachu-Gaming1764]

Everyone

[@eriklehnsherr5784]

Damn SC you didnt waste not time.

[@ColeMayes]

Awesome! Thank you so much, Ryan, for giving us the link between American Pie and Black Widow! Marvel are masters at connecting to all the different points in the stories told to us. IMO, this is a great strength, and most likely why the fan-base loves them dearly. 🥰

[@EricD_]

Thx Ryan

[@CMMaddenJr]

13:54 RG actually says almost word for word what Loki says to Nat in Avengers. “Your ledgers must be dripping, gushing red”

[@imnobody1906]

I like how he says things you might have missed despite the film not even being out yet

[@staplejack5336]

Wym I just came back from seeing it😂

[@BlackHedgehog]

It released July 7th here in the UK. I've already seen it.

[@paddymcelligott5375]

Maybe not where you live

[@Batcow-1138]

Because I will miss this movie

[@matthilderbrand7269]

0:24 -IO! Glad to see you've still got that Peebles Pride!

[@MichaelSmithATX]

Actually wrong about when we first see Taskmaster… So the footage of Taskmaster watching Natasha fight in Iron Man 2 was from a trailer of Black Widow. Marvel took the actual scene of her standing in that room and changed the footage he was watching to Nat from Iron Man 2 just for the trailers. The actual footage in the movie where we first see Taskmaster is her standing in that room but the footage she was watching was of Black Panther and Hawkeye fighting from Civil War.