‘Avengers: Endgame’ – What Is Marvel Doing With Black Widow

(There are main spoilers for “Avengers: Endgame” under)

I’m gonna put forth a probably controversial thought proper now — Black Widow, aka Natasha Romanov (Scarlett Johansson) is the true fundamental character of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She’s been round virtually so long as Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), having been launched in “Iron Man 2.” She’s a constitution member of the Avengers and was a part of the group that took down Hydra in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” She was the one one who was on each sides in “Civil War.” Black Widow is the guts and soul of the Avengers.

So with Cap and Tony on the way in which out — Chris Evans and Robert 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 assorted 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 prior to now to retrieve the Soul Stone through the massive Time Heist sequence, and so they need to make a sacrifice in an effort to get it. And Black Widow chooses to kill herself in order that Hawkeye may be along 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 seem like coming again, even after Captain America returned the Soul Stone on the finish of the film somehow. 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 may entail: it could possibly be a prequel, or it could possibly be a “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” kind of factor. Or, I assume, it could possibly 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 might be an odd approach to usher to start with of the following section of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It would rely upon what the precise plot is, I assume, however there’s no massive 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 useless within the current. Especially since Scarlett Johansson is ready 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 complete movie, possibly? It’s a headache simply fascinated about it.

The “Search for Spock” situation, in the meantime, would doubtless 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 once they die, judging by Thanos’ transient dialog with younger Gamora after he did the snap in “Avengers: Infinity War.”

But it could even be exceptionally unusual for a film about “Black Widow” to focus largely on two male characters. So a mixture 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 hunt to seek out Black Widow they may…