Black Widow might not be out, but new leaked Funko Pops! from Marvel Collector Corps are showing us new looks at two of the biggest characters.
The Black Widow movie may be at a standstill right now as we wait for it to come out later this year. But given there’s a backlog of promotions that were scheduled to come out alongside the premiere of the Marvel movie (which should have released earlier this month), there’s a few more hidden surprises that have come out that are leaving a lot to the imagination. And that includes an upcoming Marvel Collector Corps box that’s currently themed around Black Widow.
Typically, new collector boxes leak before the box is released — but the boxes usually come out not too long after the movie comes out, so they can include Funko Pops! that include spoilers from the movie. For example, the Avengers: Endgame box included pops with Captain America wielding Thor’s Hammer, and the Spider-Man: Far From Home one included Peter Parker in the Netherlands soccer jersey.
From those two examples alone, you can see the post-movie Pops! range from mild to huge spoilers, and it looks like the leaked Black Widow Pops! will be on the milder side. On Instagram, @FunkoDojo originally shared the photos of the box. The two leaked pops include Black Widow and Alexei (a.k.a., the Red Guardian, played by David Harbour). Black Widow is scruffed up and holding a grappling hook, and Alexei is out of costume but holding a Red Guardian toy in his hand.
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Based on these two, it doesn’t look like there are any huge, major spoilers to tell just from these Funko Pops! alone. It looks like Black Widow’s wearing a green vest on this one, something that Florence Pugh’s character, Yelena, is wearing in the movie and on her Funko Pop!. There’s no telling when this scene may occur, but judging by how scruffed up Black Widow is looking, this could be from one of the best scenes in the movie.
As far as Alexei, it looks like he might be reliving the glory days when he was the Red Guardian. Supposedly being Russia’s answer to Captain America, it looks like the Red Guardian even got his own merchandise. (How meta.) A look at the past may be just what Alexei needs to get back into the game to help Natasha, but the toy also has us wondering how far the craze went. Was there a Red Guardian breakfast cereal, too?
You’ll also see in the picture that the box includes a Red Guardian decal which has the words that should stand for “Red Guardian” in Russian. And there’s also a Funko Pop! pin of Taskmaster and a Black Widow shirt.
Black Widow will open in the U.S. on Nov. 2, 2020, and will now open earlier on Oct. 28, 2020, in the UK.