Black Widow Proves Endgame Killed The Wrong Avenger

Black Widow Proves Endgame Killed The Wrong Avenger

Black Widow shows that Avengers: Endgame was wrong to kill off Natasha Romanoff, as the prequel invites further stories that can no longer happen.

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Black Widow Proves Endgame Killed The Wrong Avenger

Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) finally gets an MCU solo movie with Black Widow, and it further shows that Avengers: Endgame was wrong to kill her off over Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). Black Widow may be a prequel, set in between the main action of Captain America: Civil War and Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) breaking his friends out of the Raft, but it also serves as a conclusion to Nat’s story so far. Much of the movie is about setting up the future – both in terms of what viewers have already seen with Nat and also what’s yet to come with Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) – but it does find room for a memorial of sorts, at least, doing what Endgame itself did not.

The death of Black Widow in Avengers: Endgame immediately proved controversial. Killing off any of the original Avengers was always going to be a tough story beat to accomplish, but at least Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) had the final heroic moment to save the entire universe, paying off his entire arc and getting a goodbye scene on the battlefield and a funeral service. Black Widow’s death came much earlier, making her the only OG Avenger missing from the final battle, and notably robbing the team of its only original female member too. The sheer amount of story to get through after Nat’s sacrifice meant there wasn’t much time to linger on it, and then Iron Man’s death overshadowed it by the end.

Of course, there are counterpoints – Nat made a heroic sacrifice, after all – but Black Widow makes her Avengers: Endgame death seem even worse. Throughout the MCU, Black Widow has been used in a variety of different ways, essentially to serve whatever Marvel needed at that time, from super spy to bit-part player to team leader. Her arc has been ill-defined, but it feels clearer than ever in Black Widow itself, with its central theme of family – or rather, families – properly explaining who Nat is and what she fights for, as well as fleshing out those long-teased elements of her backstory. While that arguably makes her feel more complete as a character, it unfortunately also makes it feel like she’s gone from the MCU too soon. That’s a bizarre situation to be in for a character who was around for seven MCU movies prior to her solo film, but speaks to the inconsistency with her development.

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In particular, the dynamic between Nat and her “sister”, Yelena, almost begs for a reunion at some point. Black Widow enjoys some of its best moments with Johansson and Pugh (and to that same extent, Rachel Weisz’s Melina Vostokoff and David Harbour’s Red Guardian) are on-screen together. The sisterly bond is something rare in the MCU, and indeed in blockbuster movies in general, and it would be great to see more of it. There have been seven movies to build Nat with the Avengers, so it hardly seems fair to only get the one with her Russian family. The idea of Nat and Yelena reuniting sometime down the road, forced into teaming-up by some new threat to their lives, is compelling, but it can never happen, adding to the sense of waste that comes with Black Widow’s Endgame death.

Similarly, Black Widow never makes a strong case for why Natasha had to sacrifice herself over Clint Barton. The argument was already at best very weak, since it was based around the idea of Clint having family, which sat incredibly uncomfortably with Avengers: Age of Ultron’s “monster” line with regards to the Red Room sterilizations. The shows that Nat herself did have a family, albeit not children, which thins the argument further since there’s no indication of them in that sequence, nor what might’ve happened to them, to imply that’s who she sacrificed herself for. It also reveals the red in her ledger, those events she had to make amends for, but it doesn’t make the argument that her misdeeds were any worse than Hawkeye’s.

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This doesn’t necessarily mean that Avengers: Endgame should definitely have killed off Hawkeye, but the decision to choose one over the other now feels more arbitrary than ever. In truth, the final battle in Endgame not including any of the original Avengers is a little bit of a shame no matter who dies, although far from movie-breaking (because it gets so much right). Hawkeye’s future, though, now exists in order to end his arc and pass the mantle on to Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), but an Endgame death likely would’ve been a fitting denouement for him as a redemption for his time as Ronin and as the ultimate sacrifice to bring his family back (or at least, more fitting than it was for Black Widow). While Yelena will likely become Nat’s replacement, she herself never got a true baton-passing opportunity (if anything, her taking the jacket is almost the inverse). Black Widow, its post-credits scene aside, leaves things open for Nat and her family, but Avengers: Endgame’s decision to kill her means that door is forever closed.

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