whereismyblackwidowmovie:

This rings truer to me than the spoiler going around that some of the film will take place around the fall of the KGB, because Nat was under ten, and while kids can absolutely have moral crises that impact them throughout their lives, it doesn’t really fit what we’ve seen so far, with Nat being sterilized in the Red Room as the implied culmination of both her “studies” there and her adolescence. Teenage Red Room Nat being behind something that was supposed to be a huge thing in the world and then wasn’t rings true, whether she was on the side starting the problem or solving it before we ever heard about it.

I really don’t know that they can possibly de-age Scarlett that much
without going into the uncanny valley (it’s not like she was an unknown at the time; we’ve all seen Ghost World), but the idea that Nat was involvd in a Y2K plot actually deepens her
storylines in at least three films:

Iron Man 2: If they’d
shown her tech skills early in this movie, she would have seemed like a
bigger threat to Tony, which still seems like one of their biggest
missed opportunities out of MANY missed opportunities in this movie. But
we do see her hack the systems in Iron Man 2 to get Rhodey’s armor back
to Tony, which would be a way she’s using computer skills for the ‘good
guys’.

Captain America 2: We see her use her tech skills
several times here: getting info on the Lemurian Star, to triangulate
the source of the file in the Apple store, in the hidden Hydra office
within the hidden SHIELD office in Jersey, and taking down Pierce by
releasing information online. This was kind of held up as generic “spy skills” but Nat specifically being tech-savvy would retroactively make this movie feel more balanced in a few ways. For one, it makes the things she accomplished more impressive if it required that level of skill; for another, it shows she really was putting all of her skills on the line.

Age of Ultron: That whole thing where Ultron captured her (and the internet’s ensuing debate over whether she was actually stuck or whether she was biding her time to bring everyone back to her) becomes more nuanced.

It also plays into the way that Marvel wants to emphasize its female characters’ connections to STEM. They’re clearly not erasing Nat’s history of ballet- we saw that in Ultron and it was iconic enough imagery that they won’t undo it- but making young Nat interested in both ballet and computers may appeal to the way they’ve marketed, e.g., Thor.

Anyone else have thoughts on this one?

RUMOR: The Black Widow Movie May Involve Y2K (Exclusive) – MCU Cosmic