Taskmaster should have not died early in thunderbolts

I think taskmaster should have been in the entire movie as planned and not killed this early she was on the posters and marketing and got a new suit. They should have went with the story where she and ghost got along. And should have had a story where she wanted to die. Or something. And I think she should have died in the final fight in the hospital. Where the team were in the back of the room trying to stop Bob from beating void she should have got impaled. if you were going to kill her off anyways do it at the end or something if you do promote her in the posters

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mrmonster4592026-01-21 14:53

One thing I'm PRAYING for is that her being killed off is a sign that we're actually going to get a comic book accurate Taskmaster down the line in phase 7.

Taskmaster could be, no exaggeration, the single most botched character in the entire MCU. It's time for a better attempt.

dcooper86622026-01-21 15:11

Season 2 of Moon Knight featuring comic book accurate Taskmaster facing his nightmare scenario would be amazing. Too bad we’ll never get a season 2 of that show.

BartleBossy2026-01-21 16:20

> Taskmaster could be, no exaggeration, the single most botched character in the entire MCU.

idk... Gorr the kidnapper would like a word

BlackJimmy882026-01-21 16:32

They could have brought him in without killing her, though.

In fact, if she were alive, they could have at least given them an on screen connection to explain why he's taking over the mantle. Instead any connection now is going to feel tact on.

I also don't think we're getting another shot. It was either make that work, or nothing, I think.

spidervenom6192026-01-22 05:02

Antonia didn't need to stay as Taskmaster, there are plenty of other characters in the Marvel comics that she can be instead of staying as her Father Weapon name.

Crimson Widow, Scarlet Widow, Red Widow, Yelena isn't using the White Widow name so she can used that or she can just go back Antonia Romanoff or Antonia Romanova.

richard-5642026-01-23 16:44

They could have Tony Masters come in and take over the mantle, to the confusion of the Thunderbolts.

PalOfKalEl2026-01-21 14:57

I don't think she meant to.

leytonscomet2026-01-21 15:05

They killed her off that early to show that no one was safe and to raise the stakes.

Not arguing with your point but that’s what the director said in some interview

ddixonr2026-01-21 15:22

And then nobody else died. The rest of the entire movie. Not even Val's assistant, a minor side character.

Icy_Teach_25062026-01-21 15:43

I don’t necessarily find anything wrong with that. Just because no one else died doesn’t mean that the stakes weren’t higher.

BlackJimmy882026-01-21 16:26

At no point did I feel anyone was at risk of dying. It was the most artificial death in the MCU.

Taking one of the most tragic characters in the setting, then just offing them to artificially up the stakes feels weak as hell.

It's such a poorly implemented death that it distracted me the whole film wondering if she was going to make a surprise reveal, because they couldn't have dropped the ball *that* badly in an otherwise great film.

Icy_Teach_25062026-01-21 16:41

Then we just disagree on that, I thought it was good for the narrative.

NicoleIlieva2026-01-21 17:08

>it distracted me the whole film wondering if she was going to make a surprise reveal

Why would you possibly have wondered that when she got shot in the head and incinerated?

Anyway, I liked the *"She had a hard life. She killed a lot of people and then got killed herself. Same as all of us someday."* Being a tragic character doesn't mean you get better, sometimes it means dying a pointless death.

ipostatrandom2026-01-21 15:49

Tbf, besides killing taskmaster, Ghost did so little in the movie she might as well have been dead.

richard-5642026-01-23 16:43

I mean no main character died in GotG 3, and it still had high stakes. I honestly didn't mind all the fakeouts.

Realistic_Sound9132026-01-21 15:25

tbh, it's very lazy writing and making up excuses just for the sake of killing her because there are much bigger stakes in the Sentry fight and with Void too, yet no one dies. they should have committed and kept killing off characters until only Yelena, Bob, and Bucky survived if they really want to raise the stakes.

Intentionallyabadger2026-01-21 15:32

Tbh you only feel the impact if it’s a character that people really care about.

Cantthinkofcoolname22026-01-22 01:55

Tbf though nobody in this movie is someone general audiences actually care about lol.

redmerchant92026-01-21 15:22

Her dying at the hands of the Void in the finale would've made no narrative sense since the entire point of the final scene is about Bob learning to leave his depressing thoughts and heal through the help of his friends. Her getting randomly impaled in such an emotional moment would've been anticlimactic.

Wooden-Radish-90082026-01-21 19:18

People don't really care about things in a movie like themes or arcs, they just want aura moments that they can watch edits of on tiktok

mdavis87102026-01-21 15:25

Her dying I think was meant to show that no, these characters are not heroes at the beginning. It’s further shown when Ghost and Walker start stripping her corpse for equipment. It’s also in service of Yelena’s arc.

ipostatrandom2026-01-21 15:51

Nope, the director himself said it was to "raise the stakes", nothing to do with heroes or not.

NicoleIlieva2026-01-21 15:29

Her dying because of the Void would have made Bob feel way worse ☠️ (Also, you don't die while in the Void)

She was an acceptable casualty, she had a part in a cool fight scene but she was the least developed of the characters, filled a combat role that was already overstaffed, and was generally a controversial take on the actual Taskmaster.

CommunityDragon1842026-01-21 15:36

Why?

dominion10802026-01-21 15:39

Marvel made that decision when they created that pathetic excuse for Taskmaster.

Mindfulness1172026-01-21 16:41

Thanks for the spoilers in the title.

eagc72026-01-21 22:43

I mean the movie has been out for several months now, at this point if you haven't seen the movie, note that it increases the chances of coming across spoilers.

richard-5642026-01-23 16:46

The mods only require a certain amount of time for there to be spoiler tags. Otherwise, you need to avoid the sub until you watch the movie. Thunderbolts came out almost 9 months ago.

juances192026-01-21 18:34

> I think taskmaster should have been in the entire movie as planned and not killed this early she was on the posters and marketing and got a new suit.

IMO it was all for the sake of having the twist land. You wouldn't expect someone on the poster dying early, this way it was guaranteed to be a surprise for everyone.

If she was not there, then it would've been too obvious that she'd die.

Wooden-Radish-90082026-01-21 19:21

It allows the viewer to understand early that this is a movie where people could very much die. Which you could argue no one else really does, but setting that precedent early, at least to me, added gravitas to the scene of The Void voiding a bunch of people. It allowed me to think like "woah, are these people fucking dead?"

It also is necessary for Ghost's arc of whether or not she is a good person. We need to see her do something "bad" so we understand what she is wrestling with the rest of the film.

CynicalRaps2026-01-21 22:16

I don’t like how everyone is pretending to care about Taskmaster when they completely dogged her out when Black Widow came out.