>In an interview with Jenna Anderson and Brandon Davis on the Phase Zero podcast, Black Widow writer Eric Pearson touched on the Taskmaster reveal. Responding to criticism, Pearson talked about the kind of pushback he's been receiving from some fans online:
>'I made the mistake of looking in direct message requests, and someone said, 'I don’t mean to be out of line, but Taskmaster was the biggest betrayal of my life.' And I was just like, I got mad for a second and then I was like, well you’ve had a pretty good life then. If that’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you, then you should be psyched, cause like, you know. Someone in a movie wasn’t who you wanted them to be?"
>Asked if there was concern in the writer's room about a fan backlash like the kind that erupted over Iron Man 3's Mandarin reveal, Pearson said no, also noting that he "looked very, very far for like, how do we get this Tony Masters guy to believably be an agent of the Red Room."
>"No, I mean, it was more discussion of how do we make-- cause Taskmaster was going to be involved and there was versions before I came that was Tony Masters. And it felt, I kept thinking, I was like, can this guy somehow not just be a goon, like, I don't want, like. Cause Dreykov and the Red Room is the thing that’s tied into Natasha personally and her past. A giant, nefarious, as we learn, spy station that is circling the globe in the atmosphere. So why is there this guy, like why would this guy be an arm of them? That’s what I kept trying to be like, what is, I, trust me, I looked very, very far for like, how do we get this Tony Masters guy to believably be an agent of the Red Room."

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So from a writing and marketing perspective what was the purpose of adapting Taskmaster without any of the things people like about Taskmaster?