>hype up this cool MCU adaptation of taskmaster with a cool new outfit
>it isnt actually the OG character but some boring and weak woman instead
Im literally not seeing thunderbolts because this c**t is one of the main cast in that movie. I fricking hate this trope, what are some other instances where a cool armored character is ruined by being revealed as nothing but a boring girl instead?
I'm not seeing Thunderbolts because it is not Thunderbolts. it's shit suicide squad. Who are shit to start with.
It's worse than that. Is basically Black Widow 2 in all but name.
Of course its not Thunderbolts, its pronounced "Thunderbolts*" just as Kevin Feige intended.
Well, they killed off every interesting villain they could have used, the frick did you expect?
>Cool new outfit
it's shit
Same, tbh I'm killing myself day of release
Should’ve just used a different black widow villain. Taskmaster is a very unique character. He has nothing against anyone he fights (except Moon Knight), he’s just in it for the oaycheck. He’s also the one guy where Marvel’s quips actually work. Some of these writers need to ask themselves when making changes “Does this change make the character more interesting, or less.” A similar thing happened in Wandavision. The Ralph Bohner decision was moronic because “it’s just some guy” was the least interesting decision they could’ve made.
All the more disappointing because he was depicted pretty well in other media. Even Ultimate Spider-Man, despite being based on the Ultimate universe, had a more faithful Taskmaster than Black Widow.
>except Moon Knight
I actually liked how in the recent Moon Knight run Taskmaster showed up to warn Marc about a hit put out on him, because frick dealing with that psycho better just to stay on his good side.
I think MCU Taskmaster is the only time this trope was outright bad
Samus being the most well known example and her being a woman is celebrated
Jac schaeffer should be female castrated
it still blows my mind that batroc of all characters ended up getting one of the best treatments in the mcu.
tws, yes
went out like a b***h in fatws
just because you have a stupid problem doesn't mean the character is bad
Though the character is indeed, bad.
The MCU character is bad tho
Maybe like they'll do a retcon switch like they did with the Mandingo in Shang-chi and we'll get a "real" Task Master.
>Change the secret identity
>Change the costume
>Change how the powers work
>"Taskmaster's inclusion is dumb because why would the guy running the Black Widow factory have to hire Taskmaster?"
THEN WHY DID YOU PUT TASKMASTER IN THE FRICKING MOVIE?
1. The character was ok, should have just been Widow themed
2. The color scheme reads as non-lethal, like Nerf, airsoft, toy aisle. The blue orange and silver looks so cheap, another MCU design frickup.
>The character was ok
What character, moron? It was a boring Winter Soldier retread, except not allowed to kill anyone because in the end they needed to keep it generic sympathetic dindu nuffin so the MAN is the evil one.
This thing had zero character. have a nice day, homosexual apologist.
>What character, moron? have a nice day, homosexual apologist.
>you massive wiener sucker. Frick you
Anon, anon, anon. What did the family therapist say? When you get this worked up you need to stop, take some deep breaths, and realize everything's going to be ok. It's just silly movies. We don't want another "incident," and for you to have to go back upstate. Hang in there.
Corpo bootlicker
>gets called out on saying something objectively moronic
>quickly turns the "smug redditor" mode without addressing any point and pulls a "it's just le movie" in a thread dedicated to discussing a movie
For you suicide would be mercy-killing, seriously.
I'm taking away your video games. Keep it up and see what happens. Try me.
homosexual shill c**t
Black Widow is tied with The Marvels for "Worst villain in an MCU flick".
The MCU isn't as villain-dependent as the DC movies, but it really really helps elevate an action film if the villain is cool and interesting.
It feels like good/great villains are a dying breed in the recent years. Especially in capeshit. We've had Ledger's Joker and since then you'd expect writers to try to one-up that, but what actually happened is that it's actually all downhill from there.
their will never be as good a movie as TDK again
The worst part is that the MCU guys dont even wanna explore all the cool villains in marvels roster. Like iron mans main nemesis was turned into a joke and alot of the other ones have this gay ass "for the greater good" shit going on like with thanos
I like some of the DC villains still. I thought riddler in the batman for example was kino. Starro in the suidice squad was also really cool. I also liked dr sivana in the first shazam and i was so hyped for mr mind till they cucked out and didnt use him in the sequel
I remember how everyone was praising Netflix Purple Man, how he was one of the best capeshit villains and was so scary and like Marvel's Joker and in reality it was just some whiny simp/generic stalker ex from movies for middle-aged women who gets repeatedly captured and humiliated.
I never saw jessica jones but i did love netflix kingpin alot
>he gets captured 4 times, final time culminates with his death. Nothing that requires doing anything super-intelligent either. Like at one point he literally walks up to Jessica just to get punched in the face and get KO'd.
Likewise he escapes either due to plot contrivances or characters being genuine idiots making it more frustrating than making him seem like some evil genius in control of everyone even without his powers
>JJ is immune to him all along, which is honestly foreshadowed with a subtlety of a brick. It's just she's moronic and never catches onto it until it's supposed to come off as a big reveal.
>he repeatedly gets mocked by main characters and other people, acts like an obnoxious and stupid manchild and looks more pathetic than threatening (and yes, I understand it's MUH THE POINT, MUH ENTITLED MANCHILDREN or whatever. Shitty villain on purpose is still a shitty villain.) Tennant's obnoxious overacting really isn't helping
I hope you can understand why I hate it. People have complained about Fisk being autistic as well, but he was never played as a joke as much as this guy did.
Yeah i understand it seems pretty shit how many times he literally gets away for seemingly no reason
The character was not okay you massive wiener sucker. Frick you
To call it a "character" would be giving it way too much credit, honestly.
For all intents and purposes it's just a robot with no real agency or personality for 99% of its screentime and the 1% is literally "I'm free of mind control, I'm good now". That's about as deep as the characterization gets. It's worse than Malekith, because as shallow as he was, at least he had his own goals and what little personality he had instead of being a puppet.
With Bucky there was actual history, you saw what he's like in TFA, there was actual buildup of Steve and Bucky being friends,
What does this version of Taskmaster have? A throwaway line in Avengers being used as an example of Widow's many atrocities and shady past?
I agree, i didnt see the movie after i heard the plot thru leaks but it just reminds me of the mandarin and how they fricked that up too in iron man 3. Like again what other anons have said why even use taskmaster when you dont even use him properly and change everything about him besides the costume
>but it just reminds me of the mandarin and how they fricked that up too in iron man 3.
And as bad as Mandarin was at least Kingsley got to ACT a little but. It wasn't good and it wasn't what anybody wanted but he at least interacted with Tony Stark on an important plot level. Marvel really needs to just go back and adapting actual material again.
I agree, the kingsley mandarin was actually cool too before the twist reveal that he was just an actor. From what i understand taskmaster doesnt even speak
The entire reason Marvel became successful is that they tried to make movies look as close to the comics as feasible. Why did they decide to change around so much shit?
The female Taskmaster fricking died In Black Widow, this is gonna be a surprise new person inside.
No she didn't. Natasha apologized to her and she went off with Nat's family and the other Widows.
>cool
he looks like a power ranger
>he doesnt think power rangers are cool
NGMI
The costume looked cool everything else about the character sucked just like everything else in the movie sucked too. My guess is that the director didnt even come up with the design it was more something keige developed but i dunno. I like my capeshit using actual far out costumes and i wish they did that more
Don't insult the Power Rangers like that.
Do we know the actress has been cast? This might be a bait and switch.
Yeah she was in the black widow movie previously
>cool outfit
I'm what universe does that even look remotely good?
Cry more, b***h
homosexual
See if they are smart just say that the real Taskmaster franchises out his identity
If you couldn't tell it was going to be shit from the first screenshot of this dumb airsoft lookin ass you are a silly head. Once again china's fear of skeletons ruins everything.
>he actually doubles down on his smug redditor bullshit
What a clown, lmao.
They really should've just gone with Iron Maiden instead.