The first look at Marvel's Black Widow has confirmed a classic comics villain will feature in the movie.

The confirmation comes from Marvel's concept artist Andy Park, and depicts Scarlett Johansson's secret agent doing battle with a super-villain that any comics super-fan will recognise. Take a look below:

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After some on-set photos sparked speculation last month, this concept art finally unveils that Black Widow will be facing off with the infamous Taskmaster.

The alias of Tony Masters, Taskmaster is a notorious sleeper agent and assassin with an expert ability to recreate the movements of anyone he comes into contact with — meaning he can use his opponents' hand-to-hand combat styles against them.

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Taskmaster was created by Marvel Comics back in 1980, and has morphed from classic super-villain into an anti-hero over the years.

In fact, he's even been a member of SHIELD — just like Black Widow — at times. He often carries his own actual shield, which is sure to bring to mind Black Widow's close bond with Captain America.

Casting for Taskmaster hasn't yet been revealed. At Comic-Con over the weekend, i t was announced that Florence Pugh will play Nat's surrogate sister Yelena Belova while Rachel Weisz has been cast as the leader of the Russians' Red Room super-spy training facility.

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Stranger Things star David Harbour will play a version of Red Guardian, a super-soldier who is essentially the Russian counterpart to Captain America.

The film is set between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, so it doesn't undo that tragic moment from Endgame involving Nat.

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Black Widow is out on May 1, 2020.

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