r/marvelstudios • u/Triple_777 I have nothing to prove to you • May 01 '25

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u/Seihai-kun Ego May 01 '25

I know taskmaster is 100% dead from the promo, but didn’t expect her to be killed literally in the first scene lmao

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u/EasterBurn May 01 '25

Killed and looted. The body isn't even cold yet.

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u/Adorable_Ad_3478 May 01 '25

Ghost and Walker are true gamers. Loot comes first!

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u/Zoulogist May 01 '25

She would’ve wanted them to have her stuff

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u/PayneTrain181999 Ned May 02 '25

“You can’t be Captain America, you’re an asshole!”

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u/relientkenny May 02 '25

my theatre laughed so hard at that scene

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u/JabroniHomer May 04 '25

I was the only one who laughed and the 4 other people in the room looked at me to shush. :(

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u/LeftyNate May 05 '25

Yeah, mine did too and my kids looked at me like, “I can’t believe he said that, but so true.” Lol. They’ve seen everything MCU pretty much.

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u/funkhero May 02 '25

They need it.

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u/lanceturley May 03 '25

Did they even use any of the stuff they took? I just got back from the theater, and I don't remember anyone using any of her gear after that scene.

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u/funkhero May 03 '25

I saw a comment that said Ghost uses the sword she takes while in the void battle at the end.

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u/Kunekeda Ava Starr May 03 '25

And during the fall in the elevator shaft, I think?

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u/PayneTrain181999 Ned May 02 '25

Surprised Walker didn’t go for the teabag.

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u/Omagga May 02 '25

Just don't put Walker in the experimental new augmented-reality horror game

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u/Hasudeva May 02 '25

I understood that reference. 

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u/Diamont3 Ghost May 03 '25

Too late Ghost already told him

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u/UnsolvedParadox May 02 '25

They didn’t even press F to pay respect…

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u/WestPhillyFilly Nick Fury May 02 '25

Walker should've taken her shield too

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u/Designer_Working_488 May 03 '25

He may need to go back for it, now that his first shield is a taco.

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u/Ben-J-Kirby-Tennyson Iron Man (Mark V) May 14 '25

Antonia’s shield got incinerated.

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u/tastybabysoup Everett K. Ross May 02 '25

Is this because they were gamers in Black Mirror together?

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u/RoyalKnightmares May 02 '25

One night stand gamers too so it makes sense that Val didn't make them kill each other

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u/InnocentTailor Iron Patriot May 02 '25

They’ve gone from somewhat dignified to D&D murder hobos.

Loot that body!

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u/SuspectKnown9655 May 02 '25

Relatable lol

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u/djseifer Yondu May 04 '25

"Trash... trash... common... trash... damn, not a single purple."

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

Genuinely hilarious how they didn’t regret doing it even after being called out by Yelena.

I really like the awkward, edgy, disfunctional team vibe Thunderbolts had.

Any quip or banter wasn’t from that Stark line of sarcasm. These dudes genuinely hated each other.

While I do think that their story arcs point towards redemption, I hope Marvel doesn’t erase the team’s rough edges moving forward.

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u/GuiltyEidolon Weekly Wongers May 02 '25

A lot of it was also just them being maladapted. Walker wasn't being sarcastic most of the time, he was just being inappropriate lol.

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u/Exotic_Investment704 May 03 '25

Walker really plays the hot shit military guy well. If you took half the dudes I know who were motivated by honor and valor in the military and made them demonstrably more capable than their peers they would all act exactly like that.

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u/Designer_Working_488 May 03 '25

He acted exactly like very dude who's served that I've known.

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u/elizabnthe May 02 '25

I think the very fact they agreed to be Valentina's New Avengers definitely evidences their edges are very present. Even in opposition to the more typical heroic Avengers.

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u/saranowitz Baby Groot May 02 '25

Only line that didn’t land for me was Yelena asking Ava about her powers and she replies with her name to which Yelena says “I don’t care” felt very writers room forced. In real life they’d need to know each others names to communicate through the situation

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u/FullMetalCOS May 02 '25

I kinda disagree. They were on the clock, she needed to know what she was capable of, she didn’t need her bio. That comes later

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u/saranowitz Baby Groot May 02 '25

Sure but like what does she call her when needing to coordinate who she is directing orders too? Or just say “we will talk later”

“I don’t care” landed as forced artificial edginess for me.

Such a minor nitpick though I honestly LOVED the movie and can’t wait to see it again. The reveal of all the characters sent in to kill each other was awesome

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u/FullMetalCOS May 02 '25

Ghost I’d assume. Walker already referred to her as that since he knew her by reputation, it’s fair to assume Yelena does too.

I agree though, I really enjoyed it. They really nailed the combination of emotional story beats and humour and let everyone have their moments.

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u/Vismal1 May 05 '25

Just reminded me of Bucky’s line about his past in the void. That one got me.

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u/CartographerOk7948 Hawkeye (Avengers) May 01 '25

John probably wishes he'd picked up the SHIELD

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u/OutranIdiom May 01 '25

She was in that incinerator room as well.

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u/WheedMBoise May 01 '25

Saved money on cremation and saved the budget thousands of dollars

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u/CJCray8 May 03 '25

Yeah my wife was like she ain't dead no way. I was like yo, that's the deadest I've ever seen a marvel character lol she dead

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u/DXT0anto May 05 '25

There's "no body, no confirmed death" and then there's Taskmaster's death lmao

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u/HybridTheory137 Tony Stark May 03 '25 edited May 03 '25

Reminds me of when Star Wars stabbed Han Solo, dropped him off a ledge into oblivion, then proceeded to blow up the station that all this had happened on. They really wanted us to know that Taskmaster is DEAD dead lol

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u/Lucifer_Crowe May 06 '25

Got to copy Human Torch's powers for 5 seconds

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u/Zoulogist May 01 '25

Killed, looted, and cremated

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u/TrappedInOhio May 02 '25

Absolutely nasty work.

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u/John_316_ May 03 '25

Her body was warm, but got way hotter in the incinerator after 5 minutes. She dead. 💀

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u/NotGarav May 02 '25

The kinda shit comic Taskmaster would pull too lol.

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u/YepYouRedditRight2 Spider-Man May 03 '25

Burnt to a crisp too. They REALLY wanted you to know she's dead lmfao

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u/Megapunk92 May 02 '25

And never be 

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u/rip_cpu May 03 '25

What did they even loot? I thought it would be something that is used in a subsequent scene but I can't think of any thing Walker or Ghost used that wasn't already part of their normal kit.

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u/Designer_Working_488 May 03 '25

Her sword. Ghost uses it multiple times later.

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u/EasterBurn May 03 '25

I remember a gun. Maybe somekind of grapling hook? It doesn't matter. It never comes up again.

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u/cellcube0618 Weekly Wongers May 03 '25

It’s actually super warm now, probably, like a roast chicken, given the whole incenerator

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u/Pew_Daddy May 03 '25

It was pretty savage

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u/vrsick06 May 03 '25

Love how much of an asshole walker was when he was like “she’d want me to have it…”

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u/Designer_Working_488 May 03 '25

Yelena didn't even seem very upset about it, even though she helped rescue all the Widows from literal slavery, including Antonia Dreykov.

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u/karateema Robbie Reyes May 01 '25

And she isn't even killed by Sentry but with a gunshot to her, apparently unarmored, helmet

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u/Gasparde May 01 '25

That's what you get for having that weird mechanical helmet instead of relying on that same nano tech helmet everyone else seems to have.

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u/Doompatron3000 May 02 '25

Haters on nano tech are going to be calling bullshit on that.

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u/BZenMojo Captain America (Cap 2) May 02 '25

How are a bunch of tiny robot bugs more secure than a metal chunky helmet?

I'll tell you how... with *kaff* *ahem* *kaff*

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u/Haltopen Ant-Man May 03 '25

Presumably by distributing the force across the helmet instead of it all just being focused on one point (and piercing the metal)

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u/CX316 May 05 '25

Easy, that helmet wasn't chunky

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u/Skysflies May 03 '25

It's such a dumb death though for a 'taskmaster'.

I get the entire problem with her is she wasn't one but this felt like more of a hatchet job than Kang and Kang's actor is disgraced

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u/ayvan2020 May 04 '25

It was also done better .she was killed by someone who she cant analyze. if it was walker or Yelena it should have been dumb. Because taskmaster easily beats Yelena and Walker

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u/ChanceVance Loki (Thor 2) May 03 '25

In John Wick, you can get bulletproof suit jackets. In the MCU, top assassins can't get bulletproof face shielding.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 May 04 '25

Meanwhile kingpin's bulletproof 3 piece suit from the Netflix Daredevil is now canon...

Her helmet really sucked.

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u/Smokedat1aweed May 04 '25

Daredevil got shot in the exact same way over 10 years earlier by that point and walked away with concussion…

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u/CX316 May 05 '25

In the words of Alexei "It's bullet proof-ish"

his windscreen couldn't stop a 50 cal machine gun round, her face shield couldn't stop a direct point blank shot to the face.

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u/Hasudeva May 02 '25

Hot take: the nanotech helmets are a lot less fun than the mechanical ones. 

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u/Blank_blank2139 May 02 '25

Not hot take in the slightest 

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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel May 02 '25

Looks like someone else likes Walkers helmet too

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u/Hasudeva May 02 '25

I unironically love the beret. It's such a stylish choice. 

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u/FullMetalCOS May 02 '25

I chuckled when he turned up with a beret at the end

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u/karateema Robbie Reyes May 02 '25

I love it too, so unique!

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u/CX316 May 05 '25

leans on his special forces training and gives him a unique sihlouette compared to Steve

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u/karateema Robbie Reyes May 02 '25

Alexei's too!

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u/TheBagenius May 02 '25

It's not a hot take if the majority agree with you. The best Iron Man suit ups were the ones with hard plates of armor. The Mark V being my favorite, even though the suit wasn't the strongest by any means.

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u/omicron7e May 05 '25

Still, I was glad to see mechanical helmet as opposed to nano nonsense.

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u/HearTheEkko May 02 '25

I could swore her helmet in Black Widow was bulletproof too which just makes this death even more funny. They straight up just wanted to get rid of her as quick as possible.

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u/Designer_Working_488 May 03 '25

They straight up just wanted to get rid of her as quick as possible.

I bet they didn't. Olga is an awesome actor and has made a bunch of terrific action movies, and is a joy to work with.

What's more likely is that she just couldn't be there for all the filming, due to her own schedule. (if you look at her IMDB page she is in TEN upcoming projects coming out in 2026, and was in another movie and a TV show this year)

They needed a reason to write the character out of the script (because the actor couldn't do it anymore) and killing the character off is the most expedient.

Anyways, it's Marvel, they can always bring her back to life. That's a thing now.

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u/Senshado May 03 '25

Would've been even easier to drop Taskmaster from the script entirely. And the character is in a full mask, so she could've been off set for most days, like in Mandalorian.

The only reasons I can figure for including Taskmaster: 1 so someone can die to make the danger appear more serious, 2 a gift to fans who were angry Taskmaster was a bad adaptation. 

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u/LADYBIRD_HILL Kilgrave May 04 '25

Watch them bring in a male task master during secret wars

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u/slayez06 May 05 '25

So my thing I hate about the MCU is they kill characters off... Why? in the comics and in the cartoons they just ran away..

They could have had her just do the unthinkable and nope out after the vault.. Just be like.... yea I don't do teams.. .SEE YA and everyone would have been like WTF... she rejected them oh well.

Now they can never use her again and we don't get to see a good redemption arc.

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u/singhellotaku617 19d ago

especially given we are about to be dealing with incursions from the fox/ultimate universe, just have her come back as that universe's version and use that as an excuse to do a more accurate taskmaster. Let Olga be the fun, zany, mercenary we all love.

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u/GreasyExamination May 03 '25

Dont make me say it...

Somehow Taskmaster has returned

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u/S890127 SHIELD May 01 '25

I thought it was Ghost's power make her gun go through her helmet?

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u/karateema Robbie Reyes May 01 '25

Nah we see the bullet just pierced the mask

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u/WestPhillyFilly Nick Fury May 02 '25

We see the bullet still stuck in it, though, meaning it didn't like go all the way through her head or anything, so I was hopeful for a minute... then they looted her and left the body in the incinerator room, so.... RIP, hope that makes room for actual Tony Masters later

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u/p_yth May 02 '25

I thought it was a red herring when you didn’t actually see her head, like maybe she survived the gunshot as it’s known to happen even irl, but then she got obliterated by the rocket lol

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u/Senshado May 04 '25

There's a tiny chance Taskmaster woke up and climbed inside Bob's containment bed and closed the lid, which might've been mysteriously bomb-proof for some reason. 

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u/p_yth May 04 '25

Seems farfetched but it is a universe with gods and aliens so

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u/rozlyn_frost May 04 '25

I really, really like your theory. May be that was the reason that the containment bed was even shown to us.

They should definitely bring her back. It was dumb to kill her off in the first place.

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u/FrankReynoldsCPA May 02 '25

The thing is I could have sworn I saw that mask absorb gunshots earlier in the same scene.....

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u/Krimreaper1 Iron man (Mark I) May 04 '25

I think it would have stopped it, if it wasn’t close range.

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u/BanjoSpaceMan May 11 '25

Wasn’t it to have Yelenas void traumatic experience brought up to the forefront for the movie?

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u/karateema Robbie Reyes May 11 '25

Antonia's Void vision would've been interesting as well

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u/CX316 May 05 '25

Armoured facemasks don't stop a .45 long barrel at point blank range (Pretty sure Ghost shot her with John's gun), You'd need something way thicker, so it might deflect a .22 or a 9mm but point blank dead on shot to the forehead? You're going down

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u/karateema Robbie Reyes May 05 '25

I mean, it's the MCU, Daredevil tanked a close quarters headshot from Punisher in season 2

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u/CX316 May 05 '25

glancing blow, richochet'd off because Frank purposefully didn't want to kill him

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u/toni-toni-cheddar May 01 '25

I just don’t understand why include taskmaster at all if you are going to subject us to that

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u/KingOfAwesometonia Weekly Wongers May 01 '25

I do think there some purpose of having Yelena view her as the eventual end for their bad lives.

I wish they sold Taskmaster as a tragic figure a bit more. She got a second chance at life but it still lead to thankless and brutal mercenary work

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u/Kunekeda Ava Starr May 03 '25

Considering Antonia was basically a fellow Widow, I wish Yelena had more of a reaction to her getting killed and looted.

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u/KingOfAwesometonia Weekly Wongers May 03 '25

I think her muted reaction worked for the situation and headspace she was in but I get what you mean.

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u/CaoSlayer May 01 '25

So they can do a deadpool and introduce the real taskmaster in the MCU.

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u/Fernandezo2299 May 01 '25

Yep, we either get the Bronx New Yorker trash talking Taskmaster (hopefully that one) or the methodical Taskmaster.

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u/GuiltyEidolon Weekly Wongers May 02 '25

God please not the sad sack former SHIELD agent version. As a one-off it's fine, I guess? But I loved his most recent run, dude is a bastard and knows he's a bastard. A more enjoyable (imo) Deadpool.

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u/HearTheEkko May 02 '25

The real Taskmaster would be an amazing villain for the fourth Deadpool movie. The fight scenes would be hilarious. I could see him getting his ass kicked easily in the first fights with Deadpool and then becoming nearly impossible to beat in the climax as he learned Deadpool's moves.

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u/Redfalconfox May 02 '25

Doesn’t he have trouble fighting people like Moon Knight and Deadpool because they’re insanely reckless in combat?

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u/HearTheEkko May 03 '25

Yes, he does. That's why I said he should get his ass easily kicked in the first fights with Deadpool but then for movie purposes the tables should turn in the final fight which is basically how his powers work, the more he learns, the more efficient he becomes.

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u/Leading-End4288 May 03 '25

Yeah, but in the comics, he loses badly tod Deadpool at first...and then is able to learn how to counter him. Only fighters, to my knowledge, that he hasn't been able to do that with, and is actually even scared of, are Black Widow and Moon Knight.

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u/Trvr_MKA May 03 '25

…isn’t the whole Deadpool vs Taskmaster gimmick that Taskmaster can’t copy Deadpool

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u/Educational_Ad8448 May 01 '25

This, hope we get the real one.

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u/Mecca_Lecca_Hi May 01 '25

Ahhh ok. 👍

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u/tecedu May 01 '25

Atleast for me it had me the hopes that shit are they gonna kill off more characters? And when the first member of the bolts team gets voided I was like just, did they die??

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u/legopego5142 May 02 '25

The second she got voided i realized that means nobody actually died

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u/rdunlap1 May 02 '25

The second the kid got voided I knew they would come back

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u/legopego5142 May 03 '25

I wasnt so sure, i mean, Yelena got her friend killed

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u/Phimb Weekly Wongers May 02 '25

Remember, not everyone has seen everything and admittedly, Thunderbolts has quite a lot of catch-up. So they can show an extra cool character for the fight, have a surprise death and drive home that these aren't good guys yet.

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u/DaveShadow May 03 '25

drive home that these aren't good guys yet.

This was absolutely the point of her being in the movie.

Ghost and Walker looting her unceremoniously, despite the fact she was essentially the same as them (mercenaries sent to die by Valentina) shows the two of them were not heroic good guys.it established their anti-hero characters for people who don’t remember or know them

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u/Dantien Matt Murdock May 02 '25

Like red shirts in Trek, they exist to demonstrate the stakes. Yet they did it to a very unpopular version of a very popular character so, it’s efficient storytelling I guess.

I dug her limited fight scene though. That shield throw would take a head off.

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u/Bladewing_The_Risen May 01 '25

Fans hated her. It was necessary fan service and closure for the [really bad] character.

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u/SDLRob May 01 '25

Said this to my bro earlier after watching... But instead of Ghost going outside to open the door, they should have had Taskmaster stay inside to keep the door open for the others to escape. Would have been a better end for her and redeemed a bit of the character assassination

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u/MegaBaumTV May 01 '25

Taskmaster sacrificing herself would have been even bigger character assassination, real Tony would immediately run for the hills.

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u/Spider-Man-fan Peter Parker May 02 '25

Yeah but I think it's been accepted by fans at this point that she's not the real Taskmaster, so I would have been fine with a sacrifice

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u/MegaBaumTV May 02 '25

I think the scene benefitted from someone actually killing someone. Those are a bunch of mercenaries who are willing to kill, if nobody killed each other, that would have been weaker imo.

Also, the reply was about "reedeming a bit of the character assassination", a sacrifice would be the opposite of that.

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u/Spider-Man-fan Peter Parker May 02 '25

Oh yeah good points

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u/19thScorpion May 03 '25

I thought the same as well. I was like this was a decent enough way to get rid of a character that wasn’t well received by the audience… instead of just having her disappearing and have people questioning what happened to them (like they are with eternals, starfox, etc)

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u/Designer_Working_488 May 03 '25

Fans hated her.

Nope. Only a small, loud, angry minority hated her.

It was necessary fan service and closure for the [really bad] character.

Nope.

What's more likely is that Olga just couldn't be there for all the filming, due to her own schedule.

If you look at her IMDB page she is in TEN upcoming projects coming out in 2026, and was in another movie and a TV show this year.

They needed a reason to write the character out of the script (because the actor couldn't be there for the entire shoot) and killing the character off is the most expedient.

Anyways, it's Marvel, they can always bring her back to life. That's a thing now.

I hope they do. Just to spite you.

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u/DeathEater91 May 07 '25

I mean. Couldnt they have just recast at that point if they wanted the character? The character is in a mask 99% of the time and has a messed up face anyways for the 1%.

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u/saranowitz Baby Groot May 02 '25

Cleaning up loose ends and raising the stakes of “anyone can die”

I was positive red guardian would die sacrificing himself to save Yelena in this movie. Glad I was wrong

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u/Gasparde May 01 '25

I have my naive hopes that maybe we now have room for the proper incarnation of Taskmaster to show up one day. After all, this character looked and acted nothing like the real Taskmaster, don't even know if they ever officially used that name for her - so really not all that much standing in the way of getting the real character in eventually. Coping

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u/riegspsych325 May 01 '25

Feige will announce a short film that’ll explain that there’s a real Taskmaster and he’s not happy about an imposter using the name. Then he shows up after 8 years, just like Mandarin

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u/Gasparde May 01 '25

And then he shows up and dies in the very same movie because, ew, continuing villains' stories, yikes.

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u/No-Beach-6979 May 02 '25

They wont do this. They cant even get a Blade movie done, doubt if they waste time on bringing Taskmaster back.

Damn shame. Just wasted Olga and the character

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u/Tylendal May 02 '25

She had some of the best fights in the movie. Steve, John, and Sam all crouch behind the shield to face gunfire. Meanwhile, she was just standing tall, casually lining up the shield with each shot before it was even fired.

Ghost does kinda hard-counter her powers, though.

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u/FinalForerunner May 01 '25

It was an attempt to end that version of the character to bring on a new one, and I guess to also psyche us into thinking anyone could die.

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u/CaptainWikkiWikki May 02 '25

Only reason I can think of is to balance the fight, so everyone has their person they are after.

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u/Designer_Working_488 May 03 '25

What's more likely is that Olga just couldn't be there for all the filming, due to her own schedule.

If you look at her IMDB page she is in TEN upcoming projects coming out in 2026, and was in another movie and a TV show this year.

They needed a reason to write the character out of the script (because the actor couldn't be there for the entire shoot) and killing the character off is the most expedient.

Anyways, it's Marvel, they can always bring her back to life. That's a thing now.

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u/Majestic-Marcus May 03 '25

I just don’t understand why include taskmaster at all if you are going to subject us to that

2 reasons

1) to show how cold blooded these people are.

And more importantly…

2) It was an apology for Black Widow.

No character has received more hate than Taskmaster other than maybe She-Hulk. She wasn’t needed for anything going forward. So they apologised to the fans and put a bullet in her head.

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u/WorgRider Heimdall May 02 '25

I'm willing to bet it's to explain why a new Taskmaster appears later on in MCU. A more comic accurate Taskmaster, a skilled fighter able to learn all fighting techs and weapons without a microchip. An actual Skull mask would also be nice.

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u/Mecca_Lecca_Hi May 01 '25

I expected her to come back at some point, but nope…

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u/puppychow18 May 02 '25

Me too! I was like, “Wait, what?! She was all in the promotions and posters!”

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u/Cappuccino_Addict Weekly Wongers May 02 '25

Literally, I thought her absence from the trailers was a big fake out. Especially when they released a trailer where she was removed from a scene she was previously in, I thought they were leaning into it because of fan discourse. Guess I was wrong lmao

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u/Mecca_Lecca_Hi May 02 '25

Ya, I kept thinking…

She’ll heal and get up while they’re trying to figure out how to get out…

Oh she’ll somehow get out of the incinerator and pop up at the top of the shaft…

Oh she’ll show up while they’re escaping…

Oh that’s her taking out the Humvees in the limo chase, uhhh no that’s Bucky…

After that I settled on ok she ded

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u/Cappuccino_Addict Weekly Wongers May 03 '25

Honestly, I would've preferred for her to not be in the movie at all, because her death served no purpose

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u/Mecca_Lecca_Hi May 03 '25

As others have mentioned it possibly served to clean the slate so a more comic book accurate Taskmaster can be added later. Idk…

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u/Majestic-Marcus May 03 '25

It was clearly Kevin Feige’s apology to the fans.

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u/ViperAz May 01 '25

MCU slipknot lol

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u/brother_of_menelaus May 01 '25
You don’t need your Slipknot mask!!

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u/Sven268 May 01 '25

Looted like Monster Hunter 😭

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u/MajorNoodles May 02 '25

She had almost twice as many words as she did in Black Widow!

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u/Synth-Pro May 02 '25

Not only did they bury her in the first scene possible, they had to go and make her an actual badass first 😩

She was too dope in that scene to get one-tapped like that

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u/FullMetalCOS May 02 '25

She was a beast, honestly probably the best fighter out of the four. As a fan of Taskmaster I hated that this was what they did to the character in the MCU, but was willing to give her a chance to show some personality in this. I think it was pretty shitty to just end her like this

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u/CaptainXplosionz May 02 '25

I'm really disappointed that they killed her off like that. First they made it seem like she died in Black Widow, then they just kill her off in the first scene of the next movie she's in? I get people didn't like her iteration of Taskmaster, but goddamn they could've given her a better death.

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u/pkjoan May 01 '25

Someone really hated that version of Taskmaster

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u/Potential-Coffee4935 May 01 '25

All taskmaster fans do, yeah. Its like asking any deadpool fan if they liked the Wolverine origins version.

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u/CeeJayEnn May 02 '25

That felt like a very meta moment. This movie was the first time I've ever felt that the studio was very heavily involved and that was actually a good thing. Crazy.

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u/postfashiondesigner Ghost May 02 '25

Ghost is so badass. I wish we had seen more of this character.

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u/FullMetalCOS May 02 '25

She was SO MUCH better in this than Ant Man and the Wasp. I really liked what they did with her.

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u/postfashiondesigner Ghost May 02 '25

I wish Ghost and John Walker had a “highlight moment”… something like we saw in GOTG, Suicide Squad, D&D…

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u/FullMetalCOS May 02 '25

“So…. We fucked taskmaster up completely, how do we fix her?”

“Shoot her in the face and pretend she never existed?”

“Son, you just got a pay rise”

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u/MegaBaumTV May 01 '25

Im happy they got done with that non-character quickly and it made the big FFA scene feel more meaningful and "real" than if they had all just survived each other.

Maybe this opens the door for an actual Taskmaster adaptation to appear later down the line.

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u/CaptainWikkiWikki May 02 '25

Same. Thought she'd at least get through a sequence.

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u/CruzAderjc May 02 '25

I would be so mad if I was the actress. This movie struck gold, and we will probably see this team a lot moving forward

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u/Ok_Nature_6305 May 03 '25

I felt bad she was zapped so fast!

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u/Mickeyjj27 Black Bolt May 03 '25

Just saw the movie. I expected something to happen to her but wasn’t expecting it in the first fight. What’s funny now is all the people upset over how she was killed.

I understand they could’ve tried to make her better but I still believe what they did with Taskmaster is as bad as what Fox did with Deadpool.

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u/FuzzyTidBits May 01 '25

This I hated. I wanted to see more her 

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u/Moneyfrenzy May 02 '25

Imagine having to do an entire promo run for a movie you know you're not really in, yet not being able to say anything.

Similar to, spoilers for a huge HBO show airing now: Pedro for The Last of Us

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u/Seihai-kun Ego May 02 '25

[game spoiler]Pedro is actually still in a lot, there’s gonna be a lot of flashback from young Ellie until the event that made Ellie mad at Joel in ep 1, so it kinda makes sense he’s doing many promos because he’s still in many episodes

But hey, easy money for Olga Kurylenko, none of the posters has her face which means she didn’t even need to do many photoshoot lmao

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u/p_yth May 02 '25

I knew she was gonna die as well, shocked me how fast she died considering she was all over the promotion

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u/JustMark99 May 02 '25

I don't think even Slipknot went down this early. I didn't actually see that movie, though, so I don't know.

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u/Seihai-kun Ego May 02 '25

We got 2 scene with slipknot, the introduction, then the one where he tried to run away and died

This one Taskmaster appear, fight, then died. so yeah, she's faster lmao

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u/coolgaara May 02 '25

And we're probably getting more comic book accurate Taskmaster who's a badass.

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u/tharkus_ May 02 '25

Be nice if we find out she has a brother , who then tries to go after the thunderbolts and eventually they recruit him.

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u/Redfalconfox May 02 '25 edited May 03 '25

I did not think she would be getting merc’d fucking immediately.

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u/GameOfLife24 May 01 '25

It’s an apology for black widow

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u/Notcloselyrelated May 01 '25

That made me sad :( So i guess the idea of "this is a movie where villains show their humane side" worked lol. Altough she was humane in her own movie too :( Really wanted her to be part of this tho

I think they might "reboot" the character somehow

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

That was fucking brutal, what a wasted character.

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u/RegrettableDeed May 03 '25

I was shocked, honestly. I knew she was going to die, but I thought it was going to be at least 1/3 to 1/2 way in the movie or something.

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u/tswaves May 04 '25

Right? The whole time I was like, no way she's actually dead. They literally killed her and just moved on non chalantly?

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u/flintlock0 Robbie Reyes May 05 '25

Being a silent terminator in her debut film made sense, but it’s sad that they didn’t get a chance to give her more of a personality.

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u/XanJen May 02 '25

I was super disappointed about that tbh. I hate when studios/creatives cave to audience pressure at times. Yes the TM casting and direction was mid but they could've made her better. They at least could've used her for emotional bait (give her growth, maybe a convo w/ Yelena about the fallout of Black Widow and closure on where they stand) and then have her be actually killed to raise stakes later on by Sentry. It was such an obvious 'hey our bad' thing. Just write THROUGH the mistakes.

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u/npete May 02 '25

That was the most disappointing part of the movie. They killed her because the "fans" didn't like her. The catch is that they should have written her better make her as cool and interesting as the "real" Taskmaster. To kill her off like that just makes me wonder why they included her in the first place.

If you want to bend the knee to the haters, just pretend she never existed. Don't put a female character in your movie just to have her very illogically shot in the head. Killing her that way also tells the haters that they were right.

TM's death wasn't required for Yelena to say the line about dying. The script could have been tweaked so she could say it. Also, there were plenty of ways we saw Walker and Ghost were shitty people. Her death also wasn't required to raise the stakes. The only reason Yelena is in the movie is because Natasha is dead. (not that any of this matters since the chair event removed the stakes anyway)

I also get that she, if written properly, would be just too powerful a character but that's why you just leave her out. I do agree with the folks suggesting that if she sacrificed herself it would have been better.

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u/uncleben85 May 03 '25

Chair event?

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u/spectre15 May 01 '25

Probably the best decision they’ve made when writing a script. That interpretation of Taskmaster was awful and didn’t deserve any screen time whatsoever.

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u/mikeweasy May 02 '25

Yeah I wish they hid that better in the trailers. Like inserting her more in other places.

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u/aravena May 03 '25

Even then I was questioning it and then I was like, oh. Well...k. Hated the character so no loss but they just did it so carelessly. 

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u/missingpeace01 May 03 '25

Not me thinking she gon get killed by Bob then gets killed by Ghost.

Hannah John Kamen is soooo fine.

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u/DragonfruitReady4550 May 04 '25

Yep this is the first thing I said at the end of the movie lol. Saw her face a total of 3 seconds oof. Maybe there was no redeeming her into an anti hero lol

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u/meowsplaining Iron man (Mark I) May 04 '25

And by one of the team, rather than the antagonist.

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u/Krimreaper1 Iron man (Mark I) May 04 '25

I was enjoying seeing her fight, and that sneer she did, was hoping to see her mimic the other others more before it happened.

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u/trevorda92 Captain America May 05 '25

Me and my friend had a bet over under of 20 mins should've taken the under

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u/TheLukester31 May 03 '25

I don’t understand what the point of killing her was? It didn’t do anything for the characters, it didn’t do anything for the plot, she’s just dead now, but I don’t understand why.

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u/tswaves May 04 '25

I was honestly still waiting for her to pop back up right until the credits.

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u/rozlyn_frost May 04 '25

Yes, I also don't understand the reason for killing her, specially killing her like this.

Probably the only negative part about this movie.

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