Who is Valentina Allegra de Fontaine in Black Widow’s credits scene?

Marvel Studios’ Black Widow — the primary new film within the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the reason that onset of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic — is lastly hitting theaters and residing rooms this weekend, on the massive display and on Disney Plus.

However between the final Marvel film and Black Widow there’s been one thing new: Marvel’s Disney Plus tv reveals, that are tied rather more straight into Marvel Cinematic Universe canon than their predecessors like Brokers of SHIELD or Agent Carter.

Living proof: If you happen to haven’t saved up on Marvel’s TV collection, Black Widow’s finish credit scene is gonna throw loads of new stuff at you.

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for Black Widow and some Marvel television shows on Disney Plus.]

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What occurs in Black Widow’s credit scene?

The actual fact hanging over all of Black Widow is that the entire thing is a prequel — happening between Captain America: Civil Battle and Avengers: Infinity Battle — and its most important character is useless in trendy Marvel film continuity.

Through the occasions of Avengers: Endgame, Natasha (Scarlett Johansson) sacrificed her life on the planet Vormir so Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) might stroll away with the Soul Stone. Since she outright died, and wasn’t caught in Thanos’ snap, she didn’t return with the opposite characters when the Avengers used the assembled Infinity Stones to undo his work.

And whereas Black Widow correct stayed firmly up to now, the film’s finish credit scene give us a reminder of the current, as a current-day Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) and her canine Fanny go to Natasha’s grave. There, she’s cornered by a newcomer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).

Within the comics, Fontaine is a SHIELD double agent, who ultimately defected and rose to command her personal evil secret society as Madame Hydra. Her MCU incarnation remains to be largely shrouded in secrecy. Black Widow was initially going to be Fontaine’s first look within the franchise, however because of COVID-related launch date shuffling, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier premiered earlier than Black Widow, and debuted her first.

What appears clear is that she works for america authorities in some secretive capability, and she or he’s making ready for an upcoming battle by contacting her personal recruits. In TFatWS, she made contact with John Walker, and aided him in his transformation from Captain America to the U.S. Agent.

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From Black Widow’s last scene, it appears clear that Yelena has discovered a spot working for the U.S. authorities — or no less than for Fontaine, as she complains that she’s imagined to be on trip slightly than within the subject for Fontaine.

However Fontaine has arrived with a extra private mission, and she or he fingers over a file on Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff’s beloved companion. The Marvel Cinematic Universe viewer is aware of that Natasha sacrificed herself on Vormir as Clint yelled at her to let him do it as an alternative, however Yelena solely has Clint’s phrase for that. Fontaine explains that that is Yelena’s probability to go after the person who killed her sister, and the scene ends with that promise: Of an inevitable showdown between Yelena and Hawkeye.

That showdown is nearly definitely coming this fall in Marvel’s Hawkeye tv collection, impressed by Matt Fraction and David Aja’s 2012 comedian collection of the identical identify. Disney introduced that Florence Pugh had joined the solid of the TV present in late 2020.

So, if you wish to know every part there’s to learn about Fontaine, try The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. And if you wish to know what occurs with Yelena, maintain an eye fixed out for Hawkeye on Disney Plus.

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