‘Avengers: Endgame’ – We Need to Talk About This Black Widow

(We’ve received a serious spoiler beneath for “Avengers: Endgame.” In case you have been questioning.)

Black Widow, aka Natasha Romanov (Scarlett Johansson), is absolutely simply as a lot of a mainstay of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as another character — we are likely to act like Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) are the 2 essential characters of the MCU, but it surely’s actually them and Black Widow. Over the course of the previous 9 years, since her first look again in “Iron Man 2,” Nat has developed into the true coronary heart and soul of the Avengers.

So with Cap and Tony on the way in which out — Evans and Downey Jr have been speaking for some time about how they’re out after this one — we got here into “Endgame” watching to see who the film would set as much as take their locations on the de facto leaders of the Avengers. It would make sense for somebody who has been round so long as they’ve and has performed simply as central a job within the franchise to fill that void, and presumably such an individual would start shouldering that burden on this film.

So why not Black Widow? After the large five-year time skip early on in “Endgame” she’s the one sustaining ties between the varied remaining superheroes. She is, on this movie, changing into the chief that the Avengers will want transferring ahead.

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But then “Endgame” sees her and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) head to Vormir previously to retrieve the Soul Stone in the course of the huge Time Heist sequence, and so they should make a sacrifice with the intention to get it. And Black Widow chooses to kill herself in order that Hawkeye may be together with his household once more after the Avengers get all of the stones and save trillions of lives.

Yes, they actually fridged Black Widow for the rest of “Endgame,” and she or he doesn’t look like coming again, even after Captain America returned the Soul Stone on the finish of the film come what may. Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) even mentions that he tried to carry her again when he did his reverse snap, however that didn’t work.

And but Marvel Studios has a solo Black Widow film on the way in which subsequent 12 months, and there’s solely two actual prospects for what such a film might entail: it may very well be a prequel, or it may very well be a “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” kind of factor. Or, I suppose, it may very well be each. We don’t really know something agency in regards to the film but, so proper now we’re left to make guesses.

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A prequel looks like essentially the most logical reply, besides that will be a wierd technique to usher to start with of the subsequent part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It would rely upon what the precise plot is, I suppose, however there’s no huge cosmic stuff in Black Widow’s backstory that we all know of. A Black Widow origin story or one thing could be an exceptionally unusual idea to roll with after she’s lifeless within the current. Especially since Scarlett Johansson is about to star within the movie, which might imply simply de-aging her like Samuel L. Jackson in “Captain Marvel,” however to her teenage years for your entire movie, possibly? It’s a headache simply desirous about it.

The “Search for Spock” situation, in the meantime, would probably contain Hawkeye and Hulk and whoever else embarking on a quest to retrieve her from the Soul Realm, which is presumably the place the people who find themselves sacrified to the Soul Stone go after they die, judging by Thanos’ temporary dialog with younger Gamora after he did the snap in “Avengers: Infinity War.”

But it will even be exceptionally unusual for a film about “Black Widow” to focus largely on two male characters. So a mix prequel/”Search for Spock” factor, maybe with a while journey thrown in, would make extra sense. Remember, the Avengers simply have a time machine now, so whereas on the search to search out Black Widow they might work together with previous variations of her. But even then the story…