Black Widow's Villain Taskmaster Causes Controversy Online
The big Taskmaster reveal in Black Widow is that the person inside the suit is the evil Colonel Dreykov’s daughter. Natasha had thought her killed as a child in Budapest, collateral damage for what Nat saw as the greater good of bringing down Dreykov. But Dreykov is still alive, chewing up all the scenery in the Red Room, and he’s turned his badly injured daughter into a brainwashed killing machine. One could argue that Dreykov is the true villain of the piece—he is—but he’s also only part of the film for a scant amount of time, so it’s not as though he is shown to be a well-dev...