Here’s Why Black Widow Didn’t Get a Memorial on the End of

(Major spoilers forward for “Avengers: Endgame” and the entire state of affairs with Black Widow aka Natasha Romanoff, however you in all probability already knew that given the headline)

The previous few scenes in “Avengers: Endgame” are all about honoring a pair massive heroes who have been key in saving all these trillions of dwelling issues from Thanos after his snap in “Infinity War,” what with the massive funeral for Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) and that entire factor with Captain America (Chris Evans) retiring to the previous. It’s been fairly irritating that Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) didn’t get a lot in the way in which of a goodbye, contemplating how lengthy she’s been round within the MCU and the way essential an element she performed on this story.

If she hadn’t killed herself on Vormir in order that Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) may return to the current with the stone, then they wouldn’t have been in a position to save all these folks Thanos snapped, after which Tony Stark’s snap to wipe out all of Thanos’s forces wouldn’t have been attainable. Her sacrifice mattered simply as a lot as Tony’s did.

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But after we get to the tip of the film, we get a giant memorial for Iron Man with an enormous variety of well-known heroes displaying as much as pay their respects, whereas Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) hand around in the nook having their very own personal mourning ceremony for Natasha and Vision, who apparently no person aside from them — and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), I assume — cared about.

It would have been an awesome second to raise a personality who all the time operated from the shadows, by no means getting the acclaim that Tony all the time acquired. The one time Black Widow stepped into the highlight was on the finish of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” when a US Senate committee threatened to place her on trial. The folks of the MCU lastly had an opportunity to offer Natasha the respect she was due, they usually simply didn’t.

On the commentary observe on the house video launch of “Avengers: Endgame,” co-director Joe Russo addressed this concern, and blamed subsequent yr’s “Black Widow” film for the shortage of a memorial for Natasha.

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“People have asked why Natasha didn’t get the same amount of screen time post-death as Tony did,” Joe Russo mentioned. “Well, Tony does not have another movie. Tony is done. And Natasha has another film. And Marvel Universe obviously does not have to move forward linearly anymore. But that character still has more screen time coming.”

So there’s your reply — Natasha Romanoff didn’t get a giant memorial in “Endgame” due to the prequel film popping out subsequent May, whereas Tony Stark will not be gonna be within the MCU once more for the foreseeable future. Though they didn’t point out Vision particularly, there’s in all probability an analogous cause for the shortage of affection for him after he died in “Infinity War,” since he’ll be again one way or the other within the “WandaVision” Disney+ present in 2021.

There is an attention-grabbing sentence in that reply, although, that triggered a giant exclamation level to pop up over my head, although: “And Marvel Universe obviously does not have to move forward linearly anymore.” Since the MCU has completed a number of prequel films that didn’t contain time journey, together with the primary “Captain America” film that was the fourth movie general on this franchise, it appears incorrect to say that the MCU ever “had to” transfer ahead linearly.

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To me, this means that the “Black Widow” film can be extra than simply one other prequel like “Captain America: The First Avenger” or “Captain Marvel,” which took us to the previous to arrange heroes that might have an effect on the current. To me, the implication is one thing I’ve lengthy suspected about “Black Widow”: that it’s going to contain characters from the MCU’s…