[ SECRET POST #3395 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3395 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Writing questions!

[kallanda_lee]

I find it hard for the same reasons! (and I do need to drop her cool).

I'm still slightly holding out for her being older than she appears, even in MCU.

Re: Writing questions!

[sparrow_lately]

I mean...to be totally reasonable, she'd have to be at least, lets say, 17-20 to be an assassin with enough of a rap sheet to merit a) her reputation and b) sending Clint to take her out. So even if she did her work for the KGB in the last year of its existence alone, that makes her at the YOUNGEST 17 in 1991--and that's a very, very young estimate, which puts her birthday around 1974, and makes her 36 years old by the time of Iron Man 2, and *41* by Age of Ultron. Putting aside that Scarlett Johansen is only 31, this doesn't quite make sense in universe either (not to invoke that awful Bruce/Nat baby-making talk, but it would be weird for a woman already in her forties to be stressing about not being able to become pregnant in a new relationship, seeing as her window for safe baby-making is already closed or at least well on its way to getting that way). Even if her aging is slowed down like in the comics, it's still a little weird.

For awhile I reconciled her youth and the fall of the Soviet Union by saying the movies are set maybe ten years earlier (so, IM1 is ~1998, Avengers is ~2002, etc.), and that the MCU is just more technologically advanced than our universe (which absolutely makes sense!), but that leaves Nat still too young if she was born in 1984 and raises a lot of questions in and of itself.

TL;DR: they just didn't care, but I'm obsessed w Cold War history and Hurt.

Re: Writing questions!

[kallanda_lee]

I wonder how the cold War thing will play out with Bucky, too. He DOES still have that Soviet star, even though his handlers were shows to be Hydra in WS.

On one hand I do feel Cold War stuff gets overused in American media, but for both Bucky and Natasha - we could do with a bit of context and backstory.

Re: Writing questions!

[sparrow_lately]

And he's speaking Russian in his first speaking scene!

My headcanon for Bucky, who is at least contemporaneous with the Soviet Union, is that he passed back and forth from Hydra and the USSR/there was a Hydra presence in the USSR/Hydra encourage the myth that he was Soviet to deflect suspicion.

I agree the Cold War is done to death and a half, but like you said it's pretty necessary for Bucky and Nat.

Re: Writing questions!

[kallanda_lee]

He does! (Sebastian Stan's cute when he tries to speak Russian).

I just like backstories in general! Not sure if you watched Agent Carter, but I'm wondering if Hydra is somehow linked to Leviathan.

Re: Writing questions!

[sparrow_lately]

I was wondering the same--though given that Hydra is (supposedly?) already "inside" Shield, maybe not.

Re: Writing questions!

[kallanda_lee]

I really am curious about the timeline, and hope we find out more about it!

Re: Writing questions!

[sparrow_lately]

TBH I doubt we will, but I have not given up hope :P

Re: Writing questions!

[kallanda_lee]

tbh I'd watch the shit out of either of their backstories - but which I mean entire trilogies.

Re: Writing questions!

[sparrow_lately]

Hnnng



By which I mean a resounding SAME