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Fictional Women Around the World: Yelena Belova · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I hope for stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've never told you, production by her to you, and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to another sub subsub subsube segment fictional women around
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  Speaker 1: the World. This is one I always hesitate with these
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  Speaker 1: episodes because we're doing a character wherein a lot of
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  Speaker 1: more information is about to come out about her, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't have it yet. Sometimes I don't do that,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes I'm excited, so I do it, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where we are. I'm excited, so we're talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, the Thunderbolts, the Marvel movie The Thunderbolts, which
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  Speaker 1: is not a sponsor in any way, is coming out
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  Speaker 1: soon as we record this, and so that means we
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  Speaker 1: have another slightly less complicated episode for Marvel episode for
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  Speaker 1: you about Yelena Belova, who is played by Florence Pugh.
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  Speaker 1: No spoilers for that movie since it hasn't come out
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  Speaker 1: and I haven't seen it yet, but spoilers for the
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  Speaker 1: Black Widow movie and Hawkeye this show, all right. So
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  Speaker 1: diving into the history, Yelena is the adoptive sister of
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  Speaker 1: Natasha Romanov aka Black Widow of the Avengers, which, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, we have done a Black Widow episode if
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  Speaker 1: you want to check that out for more information. As
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  Speaker 1: a young child, Yelena was born in the USSR and
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  Speaker 1: was placed with adoptive parents and USSR operatives Alexei Shostakov
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  Speaker 1: and Melina Vostakov and the US with Natasha posing as
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  Speaker 1: her older sister, so they're kind of like a a
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  Speaker 1: cell family. Since Yolena was so young, she didn't really
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  Speaker 1: understand what was going on and thought that they were
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  Speaker 1: her quote, real family. She didn't know this was sort
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  Speaker 1: of a government operation. After three years undercover, the family
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  Speaker 1: is discovered by Shield, the Marvel operation or organization, and
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  Speaker 1: they managed to escape. The family managed to escape on
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  Speaker 1: a plane to Cuba, a very daring escape. The two
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  Speaker 1: sisters were separated in the so called Red Room, which
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  Speaker 1: is this notorious training facility for women assassins in Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Jumping ahead many years to the events of the Black
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  Speaker 1: Widow film the main events because this is in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yolena was one of the many brainwashed Red Room Black
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  Speaker 1: Widow operatives. Because Black Widow is sort of like a
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  Speaker 1: James Bond title. It's like a thing that many people carry,
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  Speaker 1: and this kind of brainwashing is a procedure that started
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  Speaker 1: after Natasha defected. After a liberated black widow freeze Jolena
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  Speaker 1: up the brainwashing with something called red dust before Elena
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately fatally stabs her. This black widow makes Elena promise
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  Speaker 1: to free the others. Realizing the depth of what she
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  Speaker 1: has done while she was controlled, Yelena agrees. She goes
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  Speaker 1: to Budapest, where she has a surprise confrontation with Natasha.
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  Speaker 1: They fight and eventually arrive at a stalemate and agree
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  Speaker 1: to a truce. Yelena explains about the Red Room, which
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  Speaker 1: Natasha believed had been destroyed. The pair are then attacked
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  Speaker 1: by a bunch of brainwashed black widows. They managed to
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  Speaker 1: escape after an encounter with a mysterious big bad task Master,
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  Speaker 1: and they are now on the run while hiding from
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  Speaker 1: task Master. An event, Natasha finally explains the infamous Budapest incident,
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  Speaker 1: which is not nearly as fun as they made it
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  Speaker 1: sound in the original Eventures movie. Real not nice, nos traumatizing.
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  Speaker 1: This is a very traumatizing event. I think maybe they
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  Speaker 1: were talking about being an event and having a bonding moment. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it was a traumatizing event that I guess spoilers led
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  Speaker 1: to task Masker being created. So Yelena and Natasha's relationship
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  Speaker 1: is very strained in the beginning, like they're awkward around
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  Speaker 1: each other. Yelena ask while why Natasha never looked her up,
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  Speaker 1: and Natasha reasons that they weren't really family and that
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  Speaker 1: she believed that Yelena was living a normal life without
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  Speaker 1: her and was kind of better off. Yelena accused her
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  Speaker 1: of just wanting to hang out with the cool kids
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  Speaker 1: aka the Avengers, but they do bond and the pair
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  Speaker 1: decides to work together to bring an end to the
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  Speaker 1: Redroom once and for all. Here is where Yelena buys
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  Speaker 1: a vest, which is the first thing she's ever purchased
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  Speaker 1: on her own, and she's very excited about it. They
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  Speaker 1: then go on a mission to rescue their adoptive father,
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  Speaker 1: believing that he may know the location to the constantly
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  Speaker 1: moving Red Room, which they do rescue him, but the
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  Speaker 1: reunion is also a bit rocky. Yelena punches him in
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  Speaker 1: the face. He accuses her of being on her period
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, actually, they forcibly removed all of my
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  Speaker 1: reproductive organs in the Red Room. Try again. They then
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  Speaker 1: go try to find their adoptive mother, and when they do,
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  Speaker 1: they all have very awkward family dinner. Their adoptive mom
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  Speaker 1: Orville's that their mission in the US all those years
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  Speaker 1: ago had been about perfecting the technology that they used
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  Speaker 1: to control all black widows. Fight breaks out, with Natasha
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  Speaker 1: dismissing any claims to their family, while Yelena says it
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  Speaker 1: was real for her. She isolates herself away, but her
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  Speaker 1: adoptive dad and her share a bonding moment where he
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  Speaker 1: sings her favorite song when she was a kid, which
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  Speaker 1: is American Pie. The family's attacked by black widows and
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  Speaker 1: Yelena wakes up in the Red Room facility about to
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  Speaker 1: be operated on. However, her mother had put a communication
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  Speaker 1: device in her ear and informed her about a blade
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  Speaker 1: in her suit that allows her to escape. She locates
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  Speaker 1: some red dust, finds the widows that are attacking Natasha
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  Speaker 1: in the Big Bad's office, not Taskmaster but the other guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yelena tossed a grenade wrapped with the vials of red
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  Speaker 1: dust into the room, where it exploded and freed the widows.
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  Speaker 1: Yelena evacuated them while Natasha extracted data on where the
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  Speaker 1: rest of them were around the world, so the Big
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  Speaker 1: Bad dre Cough was attempting to escape on a helicopter,
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  Speaker 1: but Yelena managed to climb onto it, intending to stick
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  Speaker 1: her baton in it and take them all down, and
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  Speaker 1: Natasha arrives just in time to hear her say basically
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  Speaker 1: like it's been fun, but I'm going this is the
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  Speaker 1: end for me. She starts free falling as the helicopter explodes,
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  Speaker 1: Natasha jumps after her, catches her and deploys her parachute,
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  Speaker 1: guaranteeing Yelena a safe landing. Later, she apologizes to Yelena
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  Speaker 1: for not coming for her sooner, and that she also
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  Speaker 1: felt that their family was real. Due to governments slash
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  Speaker 1: Avengers reasons, Natasha has to go on her own path,
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  Speaker 1: but not before Elena gives Natasha her best Yolena spent
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  Speaker 1: the next few years freeing black widows while Natasha was
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  Speaker 1: doing Avenger things until Sanos's snap erased Helena from existence
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  Speaker 1: for five years. When she was brought back during the Blip,
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  Speaker 1: as it's called, she learned that Natasha had died. She
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  Speaker 1: is approached by a woman named Valentina Alegra de Fontaine
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  Speaker 1: or Valve for short, who tells her that Clint Barton
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  Speaker 1: slash Hawke killed her, so Jolena sets off on a
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  Speaker 1: mission to kill him in revenge. She confronts Clint on
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  Speaker 1: several occasions as he attempts to get her to believe
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  Speaker 1: the truth of Natasha's sacrifice because she basically sacrificed herself
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  Speaker 1: Clint did not kill her, and also encounters and sort
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  Speaker 1: of befriends Kate Bishop, who we've also talked about on
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  Speaker 1: the segment, who is Clint's protege. Bishop continues only defends Clint,
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  Speaker 1: and they have her and Yelene have a very fun
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  Speaker 1: relationship in my opinion, but it isn't intel. Clint uses
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  Speaker 1: the secret whistle Natasha and Elena used when they were
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  Speaker 1: kids that she starts to believe him, and they share
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  Speaker 1: an emotional moment grieving Natasha. So that's where we are
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  Speaker 1: as this movie comes out. I know, like in the
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  Speaker 1: most recent trailer they show they have behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: of how they did this Stint where she jumps off
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  Speaker 1: the highest building in the world, and a quote playing
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  Speaker 1: during it is like, I think something's wrong with me,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe I'm just bored. I think that kind of
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  Speaker 1: captures a lot of her personality. She's very in the
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  Speaker 1: shadows as compared to Natasha. She even has a quote
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  Speaker 1: about that. She says, pain and suffering is every day
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  Speaker 1: and we are both still trained killers, except I'm not
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  Speaker 1: the one that's on the cover of a magazine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not the killer that little girls call their hero. She
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  Speaker 1: also kind of pokes fun at Tatasha for having the
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  Speaker 1: superhero landing. That's a running joke, even though she does
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  Speaker 1: end up doing it. She's very cynical, sarcastic. She's also
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  Speaker 1: incredibly skilled, but I've find she's a really genuine in
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  Speaker 1: a way that I enjoy it. She really was moved
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  Speaker 1: by like this is my family and I want to
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  Speaker 1: fight for it. So she's a character I like and
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  Speaker 1: I'm interested to see what happens. Wee Shlsey. Maybe this
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  Speaker 1: will be an update in future in the future, but
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