Screen Rant

  • Black Widow is set to introduce Natasha's Romanoff’s surrogate Russian family. 1 / 10

  • A group of super assassins and one particular super solider, Red Guardian (David Harbour). 2 / 10

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  • The film itself takes place between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War. 3 / 10

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  • This begs the question, why didn’t any of these characters help out during Thanos’ invasion? 4 / 10

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  • In a recent interview Harbour said he discussed this with Black Widow’s creatives. 5 / 10

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  • However, he has not asked Marvel Studios’ president Kevin Feige. 6 / 10

  • As the USSR’s version of Captain America, Alexei Shostakov a.k.a. Red Guardian has let himself go. 7 / 10

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  • He’s not the same super soldier in Black Widow that he was (presumably) during the Cold War. 8 / 10

  • That said, while fans can still question where the Eternals were in Endgame… 9 / 10

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  • Red Guardian was most likely sleeping on the job. 10 / 10

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