(Major spoilers forward for “Avengers: Endgame” and the entire scenario with Black Widow, aka Natasha Romanoff, however you most likely already knew that given the headline)
Even although Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) didn’t get a film together with her identify on it within the first decade of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she’s been simply as central to the franchise as anyone. She was launched again in “Iron Man 2” and has been instrumental in so many main occasions. So it’s puzzling that “Avengers: Endgame” didn’t actually spend any time memorializing her on the finish of the film, which spends a lot time saying goodbye to Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) and Captain America (Chris Evans).
It’s puzzling additionally simply throughout the context of the film — Natasha’s sacrifice made every thing that got here after, together with Tony’s personal sacrifice, doable.
If Black Widow hadn’t killed herself on Vormir in order that Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) may return to the current with the Soul 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 doable. Her sacrifice mattered simply as a lot as Tony’s did. Indeed, Tony’s sacrifice wouldn’t have been doable in any respect had Natasha not made her sacrifice first.
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But after we get to the top 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 non-public mourning ceremony for Natasha and Vision, who apparently no person apart from them — and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), I suppose — cared about.
It would have been an amazing second to raise a personality who all the time operated from the shadows, by no means getting the acclaim that Tony all the time obtained. 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, and so they simply didn’t.
On the commentary monitor 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 stated. “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 isn’t gonna be within the MCU once more for the foreseeable future. Though they didn’t point out Vision particularly, there’s most likely the same purpose for the shortage of affection for him after he died in “Infinity War,” since he’ll be again by some means within the “WandaVision” Disney+ present in 2021.
There is an fascinating sentence in that reply, although, that prompted 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 performed a number of prequel motion pictures 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 will probably be extra than simply one other prequel like “Captain America: The First…
