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Marvel’sBlack Widowmovie introduce Natasha Romanoff ’s Russian fellowship , and it may be retconning her past for the MCU . Directed by Cate Shortland , Black Widowwill give Scarlett Johansson ’s eponymic fighter a long delinquent solo movie , even despite the character ’s death inAvengers : Endgame . Largelyset between the effect ofCaptain America : Civil WarandAvengers : Infinity War , it finds Natasha on the run and going back to her family in Russia , which is comprise of Alexei Shostakov aka Red Guardian ( David Harbour ) , Yelena Belova ( Florence Pugh ) , and Melina Vostokoff ( Rachel Weisz ) .
Black Widowis expected to explore much more of Natasha ’s mystical yesteryear that former MCU movies have only hinted at , let in revealingwhat go on with her and Hawkeye in Budapest , and dig deeper into the red in her book of account . Alongside this is the family she had before she depart form for SHIELD and became an Avenger . Yelena is a babe figure to Natasha , and the others are a more spiritual fellowship like the Avengers were , but it ’s now been intimate that Melina is in reality her female parent .
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Inthe newBlack Widowtrailer , we once again see the familiar dinner party board scene betweenBlack Widow ’s aforementioned chief players , but this clock time with an tally act of dialogue . Melina tell Natasha not to slump , and when she begins to protest , Red Guardian says:“Listen to your female parent . “It ’s an challenging line , not least because it ’s unclear whether or not he is being serious ( and actual ) in bear on to Melina as Natasha ’s female parent . The most likely meaning here is that Red Guardian is just joking - this scene in particular looks like being mirthful ministration , and since Melina is serve as the mother figure at the tabular array , then it fit with what we ’ve understand of Alexei ’s humor to tongue-in-cheek call her Nat ’s mother .
That being said , it is n’t inconceivable Melina really is Natasha ’s actual mother . Rachel Weisz is 15 years older than Johansson , so with a moment of senesce graphic symbol up / down it ’s plausible that she could play her mother . There ’s also very little known aboutNatasha ’s origins in the MCU , and especially not her mother . WhileRed Skull ’s line about Ivan inAvengers : Endgamehinted at her father , as he calls her"Natasha , daughter of Ivan " , there ’s been nothing uncover about her female parent . Because of that , it was assumed that she never jazz who her mother was , and that she died when Natasha was immature . This is what happened in the pages of Marvel Comics : Natasha was left orphaned at a immature years , and raise by a world hollo Ivan Petrovich . Natasha ’s mother , meanwhile , was ostensibly kill during the Battle of Stalingrad , and her identity is unknown .
The MCU has gone further with Ivan by advise he is really Black Widow ’s nativity father , and so it could be making changes to her mother too . At the same clock time , though , Natasha very clearly knows and has a real history with Melina . It ’d be odd , then , if they drop all those old age together and yet she never learned her father ’s name from her , as she confesses inEndgamenever to have know it . If Marvel did want to determine a way around this to make Melina into Natasha ’s birth mother , then it may just about be potential , but also perhaps not necessary . Weisz ’s Melina may or may not be a villain like Iron Maidenin the comics ( the trailers so far suggest she unquestionably is n’t ) , but she is a Black Widow and thus connected to the Red Room ( the training appendage of which could entail Melina was unable to have children too ) . Calling her " mother " may be a reference to her role there , and how theother Black Widowsviewed her . It makes more sense as an in jocularity or more adopted name rather than Melina literally being Black Widow ’s mother .
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