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InMarvel ’s Avengers : ignominious Widow#1 , Natasha Romanoff encounters the man who will become the Taskmaster and inadvertently teaches him the saltation - base skills which he will by and by use against her . The one - guesswork narration is a prologue for the upcomingMarvel ’s Avengersvideo biz from Square Enix , release as a association - in through the Gamerverse depression . Intriguingly , a key plot thread turns on a strong-arm training regimen already demonstrate in Black Widow ’s origin : concert dance .
Both theAvengersvideo secret plan and theBlack Widowfilm have been late defer ( the latter straightaway due to thecoronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic ) , so this narrative offers a welcome coup d’oeil of Agent Romanoff ’s coming into court in next non - comics media . For the purposes of the television game ’s independent story , this issue details her first meeting withTaskmaster(the main villain of the movie , and likely the first hirer battle in the video game ) , and mite at the basis for their adversarial relationship .
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Early inBlack Widow # 1,Romanoff is a new recruit to S.H.I.E.L.D. and begrudgingly agrees to an officer training session with " Combat Cohesion " specialistTony master key . After dismantling some dummy golem , she reveals the base for her distinctive flair .
For fans ofBlack Widow , the aesthetic fusion of ballet with warriorlike nontextual matter is dead uniform with her undercover agent origins and past concealment identity operator as a Russian concert dance dancer . Also relevant here is Taskmaster ’s principal ability , his so - called " photographic reflex " which enable him toreplicate others ' physical actionson spate . Later in the story , Masters tries to ensnare Romanoff for penetrate a S.H.I.E.L.D. adroitness using concert dance - derived footwork ( redolent of the optical maser - grid - avoidance dance scene inOcean ’s 12 ) , when in fact the intruder was ( Task)Masters himself , copy dance move learned from the former Prima Ballerina Romanov .
The ballet - breeding theme continues with Black Widow let out that her secondary object glass was to extricate Iosif Stepanov , a Russian secret serving operative who taught her ballet inher childhood . She makes a spate with Nick Fury to free Stepanov from S.H.I.E.L.D. ’s detainee surgical incision and provide the now - older military man a new identity .
Even if one is not a fan of the notoriously - rigorous artistic creation of ballet , this modishly - woven tale of spycraft addresses question about Black Widow in all her various incarnations . The ballet class flashback inAvengers : eld of Ultronseemed ripe for revisiting in thenow - delayedBlack Widowfilm . Her confrontations with Taskmaster in both the photographic film and the TV game gain a new rhythmical dimension , mainly because we would thirstily bonk to have a playable melee attack establish onglissade , or a finishing move modeled onplié . Most significantly , this story confirms that Black Widow ’s literal metahuman ability may be suppose of as a dance expertise that verges on an artistic power .
Marvel ’s Avengers : Black Widow # 1(from writer Christos Gage and artist Michele Bandini ) is uncommitted now from all o.k. comic book outlets .
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