the dreaded Red Room has become a vital
yet mysterious part of black widows
origins story in the simplest of terms
the Red Room made natasha romanoff into
the Black Widow we know we love and we
kind of fear but what exactly is this
terrifying Russian madhouse and how will
it tie in to the upcoming black widows
solo movie today we're going to be
talking about the Red Room and spilling
all of its many secrets but keep it on
the down low or else Russia might send
an assassin after us
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for this video it's super important to
understand what the Red Room is and
where it came from and there's so much
information behind it that it could feel
a little overwhelming like did you know
the Red Room isn't just a room that's
painted bright red crazy right it's
actually a highly secretive training
program determined to create the
deadliest and most dangerous female
spies in the world does it have red
walls it probably does but more likely
than not those red spots probably aren't
paint me if you catch my drift the
project hails from Russia and its
origins and the comics are tied directly
to the success of the Winter Soldier
like Russia took a look at the
brainwashed Bucky Barnes and was like
yeah we're pretty good at this sort of
thing let's keep it up but while we're
at it let's make it even more terrifying
and inhumane and involve children who
took a bunch of little orphaned girls
and started molding and sculpting them
to become dangerous assassins they
wanted agents who could infiltrate every
other country in the world so you could
imagine the time and effort it took to
create a spy like that in the MCU
what they do to recruits in the Red Room
is enough to make anyone sick sure
there's a lot of normal activities for
little girls to be doing like
hand-to-hand combat training weapons
training gymnastics tactical skills etc
wait all that doesn't sound right but
sometimes things get even more wild when
two girls are forced to fight one
another with a winner being rewarded and
the loser well let's just say the loser
doesn't have to worry about the Red Room
anymore but things get even creepier too
once you find out what other trading
methods the girls had to go through in
the MCU version of the Red Room they
were forced to watch movies like Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs which was
packed to the brim with subliminal
messaging with the purpose of
brainwashing little girls
words like fear and pain were inserted
into these videos so it could influence
and shape the little girl watching man I
thought Snow White was already sort of a
horror movie but that takes it to a
whole other level
oh and not because anyone would ever do
this because the Red Room sounds like so
much fun but every night they handcuffed
the girls to the bed just to make sure
no one
in the middle of the night that's a
little much don't you think who would
ever want to leave such a paradise that
made you do actual human target practice
that entire background brings us to the
most famous graduate of the Red Room
Natasha Romanov aka Black Widow aka the
one with the least amount of superpowers
but still ten times scarier than almost
anybody else Natasha was a standout in
the otherwise forgettable Iron Man 2 and
her role is slowly been increasing ever
since thinking about it it's absolutely
nuts to think how she started out in the
MCU
she went from side character in one of
the least liked MCU films to growing
enough to have an epic sacrifice on
Boromir in Avengers and Game two finally
getting her own solo movie this year
with Black Widow for all you worried the
Black Widow movie will just be shots of
Natasha's body at the bottom of warm air
for two hours might be happy to know
this is a prequel set in the two years
between civil war and infinity war we
learned a lot about Natasha and her time
in the Red Room in Avengers age of
Ultron we even got some disturbing
flashbacks thanks to some spooky Scarlet
Witch magic through these visions we
learned that Natasha became one of the
top students in the Red Room excelling
in just about every task they set before
her even if that meant executing an
innocent man we don't necessarily blame
her for her past actions given the
circumstances she grew up in though it
all sounds so awful the short-lived but
beloved series agent Carter had the
titular agent face off against Dottie
Underwood who was an assassin also
trained in the horrid training academy
it showed us just how awful the whole
process really was by showing how if you
were weak or lost a fight you'd be
eliminated and according to Black Widow
in age of Ultron there is one very
traumatic thing that really affected her
the most upon graduating from the Red
Room Natasha was sterilized so she
couldn't have children the reasoning
behind it was that the Red Room
performed these horrible surgeries to
help their recruits avoid any
distractions and focus solely on her
missions the sad thing is that she tried
to get out of it near the end of the
program Natasha pretended to fail her
physical exams but the people in charge
knew she was faking and forced her to go
through with the sterilization
process anyway talk about horrid and the
sad thing is it's the sterilization
process that made Black Widow think less
of herself the romance aspect and age of
Ultron between Black Widow and Bruce
Banner was a little clunky and
problematic but it gave a clearer
picture of how exactly Natasha thought
of herself she felt akin to Bruce
because she too felt like a monster
although that's frustrating in a lot of
ways for Natasha to see herself in that
regard
it made us hate the Red Room even more
but what exactly did the Red Room turn
Natasha into when asked what would
happen if she failed Madame B told her
that she never fails to her words have
never been spoken just about anything
Black Widow sets her mind to the
superspy can get done besides being an
expert in hand-to-hand combat where
she's very likely to wrap her legs
around your head and flip you over
before he could even blink
she's also great at disguise packing and
especially manipulation look at what she
did in the first Avengers movie even
tricking Loki into revealing parts of
his plan and a genius move in my opinion
that's one of the best scenes in that
movie
she's even great with weapons every
movie Natasha tends to get an upgrade in
terms of weaponry and each item she
proves to be incredibly deadly with and
just overall the one thing that the Red
Room trained her in the most was how to
be a deadly assassin it stripped away
all of her morals and values and as
Natasha likes to say put a lot of red in
her ledger it's super tough when you're
in that dark and twisted mindset to find
a way back to the light but thankfully
there was one SHIELD agent who saw the
good inside of Natasha and wanted to
help and that is of course Clint Barton
aka Hawkeye aka the Avenger that
everyone made fun of at the beginning
but now is a fan favorite when super spy
Nick Fury heard about Natasha he did
what he always seems to do in that
situation he sends some of the deal with
it by any means necessary Clint was
supposed to eliminate her
but as Black Widow puts it he made a
different call Clint disobeyed his order
and instead recommended her for shield
recruitment which Natasha later joined
when she affected from Russia but
sometimes we all just need some
to believe in us Natacha wasn't a bad
person
she was just brainwashed and
indoctrinated by a twisted and dark
organization they may have trained her
body to be one of the world's best
assassins but they couldn't snuff out
the inherent goodness inside of her the
fight to get Black Widow her own solo
movie has been going on for ages even
since she first showed up an Iron Man -
there have been talks about a spin-off
and origin story for the character but
as the years passed it seemed less and
less likely then finally after much
fandom and Marvel got the ball rolling
on a Black Widow solo film and I can't
imagine how exciting it was to finally
hear the news but then things got
confusing Natasha's solo film was
announced before Avengers and game hit
theaters so we were at least pretty sure
Natasha would make it out of endgame
alive but of course that's not what
happened her shocking demise and that
film was so sad but also calls into
question the necessity of an origin film
what's the point if she's not around to
the present day anymore well I would
argue that there's still so much to
learn about black widows past even if
she doesn't have that bright of a future
and just looking at the trailers for the
upcoming movie it seems like every
single question we have about where
Black Widow came from and how she got
started will be answered the plot of the
movie revolves around Black Widow
returning to Russia with other black
widows to find answers and stop a new
deadly threat it'll see her team-up with
Florence puke and Rachel Weisz as well
as stranger things David Harbor and if
that doesn't get you excited then maybe
you're a stone cold assassin trained by
the Red Room overall the Red Room was a
horrible traumatic experience for Black
Widow but it turned her into the beloved
character we know today what they did to
her was inexcusable and I can't wait to
see her confront and destroy her past in
her new solo movie
what do you think's going to happen when
Black Widow returns to the Red Room even
though this is a prequel are you happy
Black Widow spline aliy getting her own
solo movie I definitely am but let us
know your thoughts in the comments below
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