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I was rewatching BW some days ago and just realized something about Taskmaster. Even if I'm disappointed he didn't share the same story from the comics and was turned into a woman for no particular reason (or just to make the "misogyny is bad" message even more blatant), they could have made her a brilliant villain even as a woman. They could have said she and Natasha were part of the Red Chamber, were friends and supported each other, then they escaped and got separated and lived their own life, only to become killers once again because of their tragic past, except whereas Natasha betrayed the RC because she wanted to stop their atrocities and atone for her crimes, Taskmaster would have betrayed them only to gain her own freedom. That would have been a brilliant set up, with a very personnal enimity between the two women, two rivals who had the same experience, endured the same horrific past but chose different ways, and could have given us an excellent opposition between two characters about the idea of freedom, with Natasha trying to use her freedom to do good while Taskmaster wanted freedom for herself and herself.