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Join us in ranking all 53 Marvel projects. Now this doesn’t include the Netflix stuff but it maybe should. Let us know your rankings in the comment section. And which one is the biggest shocker for you thus far?

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I hope that you are enjoying the podcast. If you are, there are a few ways that I always talk about that you can support 10 Minute Marvel. Firstly, please consider sharing it with your friends as word of mouth really is a great way to help more people find the podcast, and personal recommendations are always great. As well as then subscribing or leaving a rating and review. Both of those make the podcast easier to find for people looking for a fun Marvel podcast. You can find the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcast, and Spotify or wherever you get your friendly neighborhood podcasts.

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Join us in ranking all 53 Marvel projects. Now this doesn’t include the Netflix stuff but it maybe should. Let us know your rankings in the comment section. And which one is the biggest shocker for you thus far?

You can let us know all of those things down in the comment section below, or tweet them to me @TheScando or by using #10MinMarvel. And there is now the Facebook page, as well, where you can join in the conversation here. And follow us on YouTube for more content here.

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Plus the news including talking about the Marvel Zombies trailer. And as normal more Spider-Man: Brand New Day to talk about as well such as where Tom Holland is getting inspiration, and is it a good spot?

Marvel Zombies Trailer Thoughts

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Join us in ranking all 53 Marvel projects. Now this doesn’t include the Netflix stuff but it maybe should. Let us know your rankings in the comment section. And which one is the biggest shocker for you thus far?

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Then I spend some time talking about season 2 of What if .Where that show could go, what episodes might be coming and more. There is room to speculate with the rumors for the second season. And it might actually help that first season make more sense if they decide to do the missing episode.

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Comments or Questions?

Let me know your thoughts on the news. Are you interested in a spin-off show from WandaVision? Is Will Poulter a good fit for the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 role? How might you want to see Venom get folded into the main MCU timeline and did you see Venom 2?

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I’ll see you next time.

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If you’ve been listening as I go through my MCU rankings, you know the three movies that are left on my list. Let me know down in the comments below or over on Twitter what order you think they’ll be in. You can tweet them to me @TheScando or with #10MinMarvel.

Also let me know what content you want covered post this MCU list. We’re a week away form me wrapping my MUC rankings so should I talk about comics again, break down some characters, what content would you like to see start up again. You can also tweet those thoughts to me or put them down in the comments below.

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And you can checkout the Hawkeye trailer below. I’m really excited for this Christmas Disney+ Marvel show.

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Comments or Questions

Let me know your thoughts on Hawkeye. Do you like that it is set at Christmas time? What are your expectations for the show? And have you read the Matt Fraction comic run that this seems to be borrowing from?

Plus, of course, let me know what you thought of my 11 through 8. Do I have any of the MCU properties too low? Or maybe you think I have them too high?

You can do both of these things in the comments below. Or you can let me know your thoughts over on Twitter. Tweet them to me @TheScando or with #10MinMarvel. And let me know if you want me to cover the Matt Fraction Hawkeye before that show comes out.

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And the BoardGameCo video, you can watch it here, but head over to his channel and give the video a thumbs up. If it hits 1000 likes, as he said, his wife will do her list as well.

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Comments/Questions

Let me know where I’m wrong on my list and ranking of all the MCU properties. I’m sure that a lot of people will consider it to be off, and let me know how you rank out the Marvel movies and shows. Let’s see where we might have stuff the same or where things might be different.

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If you want to do the rankings that I did, you can enter in the information on Pub Meeple. You need to enter in the movies and shows but there are good lists of all of the MCU properties out there. Let me know what yours looks like compared to mine.

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Comments or Questions?

Let me know how things get ranked out for you with the Marvel properties. Where do you overlap with me, where might you be pretty different? I’m guessing I’ve already had some pretty different opinions on the four properties that I’ve talked about.

You can let me know over on Twitter. You can find me there @TheScando or with #10MinMarvel. Also down below you can leave your rankings in the comments. Keep up with more of these next week as I plan on doing my 23 through 20. And let me know more things to be reading on Marvel Unlimited.

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Black Widow Spoilers Ahead

As that says, there are going to be spoilers ahead of this film. If you are interested in seeing, I suggest going to a theater to see it, if you can, or checking it out over on Disney+ with their premiere access. That should give you some idea if I like it, but you can make that determination yourself.

The Plot

The Black Widow, it has a pretty straight forward plot. In the movie, we start immediately after the events of Civil War and the battle at the German airport. Black Widow is on the run and using some of her contacts to find a place to lay low. She finds a spot, but a delivery of mail from her old safe house in Budapest brings unwanted attention from the Taskmaster and the Red Room. This is because Yelena, who was under a drug induced mind control by the Red Room was given a drug that caused her to break free.

Black Widow goes to Budapest where she teams up with Yelena. Natasha finds out that when she was there last time and she thought she took down the red room, she hadn’t. The man she’d been trying to kill, to prove her loyalty to SHIELD, Dreykov had survived. And he was still running the Red Room and the widow program.

Yelena and Natasha go to Siberia to break their “father”, who had played their father when they were undercover in the US, out of prison. Alexei, the Red Guardian, was the Soviet’s answer to Captain America. Their own super soldier. He, unfortunately doesn’t have any connection to the Red Room anymore. But he knows that their mother from their time undercover, Melina, likely does.

They go to her, she does indeed and that gets them into the Red Room. Though, not the way that they had planned, being captured, instead, by the agents of Dreykov. However, it turns out that Natasha and Melina had hatched out a plan. They swapped faces, and Natasha was able to get her revenge and take down the Red Room. Along the way finding out that Taskmaster was Dreykov’s daughter, whom she had used to find Dreykov and thought she’d killed originally in Budapest.

What I Didn’t Like

Now, that was a pretty long winded recap. Normally I sum this up better, especially for something that has a straight forward plot, but I wanted to explain things up there for the plot, versus down in what I did and didn’t like.

The main thing that I didn’t like was the use of Taskmaster. There is little to no reason that Taskmaster needed to be turned into a cyborg, basically, or that they even needed Taskmaster for the plot. Natasha has enough past trauma to go through with taking down the Red Room to get closure that you don’t need a notable villain besides Dreykov. And then Taskmaster ends up getting deprogrammed and set free. But what does that even look like? She isn’t going to behave like a normal person in the real world.

But, honestly, that’s about it that I didn’t like. Now, keep in mind, I am talking about likes and didn’t like, not good, bad and average. Average is going to be everything else.

What I Liked

I thought that Florence Pugh was amazing in this. Her portrayal of Yelena really worked and she was the main reason to watch this movie. And with the end credit scene, is the main reason to have watched this movie. She just worked really well as a jaded figure who was out of the Red Rooms control, but doesn’t know how to live. Yelena is a good counter point to Black Widow. She is fairly jaded with everything, and harbors resentment but now has new freedom.

And then that End Credits scene. Florence Pugh is going to be showing up in the Hawkeye TV show. So it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out. Clearly going to be a continuation of that end credit scene. Also, this was supposed to be the first time we met Val. I actually think it works much better that we met Val in Falcon and the Winter Soldier before we met her here. It gives us more context for her and makes this scene play better.

I also like David Harbour as the Red Guardian. He was mainly there for comic relief and to do a bit of fighting. But that worked for the film. It needed someone who could help balance out what would have been a very serious and dark movie. Marvel does a good job of adding characters who help keep their films from diving too dark, which I like. A good superhero movie should have that balance, because the comics have that balance, at least from Marvel and DC.

Finally, I liked the balance that it got. This is the type of spy action film that I want. Now, I know I’m in the minority, but I felt like the previous Marvel attempt, Captain America: Winter Soldier, got caught being half a spy movie and half a superhero movie and not doing either amazingly well. This is more of the spy action movie that I like. Now, I know that people will disagree, but for me, that’s how I feel about it.

Black Widow Final Thoughts

Like I said before the spoilers started, this is a movie that is very much worth checking out. The action is really good throughout. I feel like it has some Bond elements to it. It actually has some direct parallels to Moonraker. A Bond Film that I haven’t seen in a long time, if ever. But now I want to watch it. The action is really good and it balances that level of humor and seriousness really well. I am excited to see more Yelena in the MCU.

This, isn’t a Top 10 Marvel movie for me, but probably Top 15. And I really only have a three or four that I don’t think are good movies. So Top 15 is a really enjoyable movie still. Where does it rank in the Marvel movies for you?

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Plus, there is a Marvel board game on Kickstarter right now, Marvel United X–Men. This is a follow-up to a successful Kickstarter last year for Marvel United which focused more on the Avengers characters. This is a very fun cooperative board game that the whole family can enjoy. If what I talk about sounds interesting I would definitely check it out before the Kickstarter is done in under 48 hours.

And the video I promised:

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Any Questions or Comments?

Let me know in the the comment section below or over on Twitter. Find me on Twitter @TheScando or use #10MinMarvel. I want to know which Marvel movie you are most excited for? And what did you think of the first look at The Eternals?

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