#Vengeance avenger takes up full screen movie
So there’s your answer - Natasha Romanoff didn’t get a big memorial in “Endgame” because of the prequel movie coming out next May, whereas Tony Stark is not gonna be in the MCU again for the foreseeable future. But that character still has more screen time coming.” And Marvel Universe obviously does not have to move forward linearly anymore. “People have asked why Natasha didn’t get the same amount of screen time post-death as Tony did,” Joe Russo said. On the commentary track on the home video release of “Avengers: Endgame,” co-director Joe Russo addressed this concern, and blamed next year’s “Black Widow” movie for the lack of a memorial for Natasha.Īlso Read: 'Avengers: Endgame' - Who Is That Random Kid At the End of the Movie? The people of the MCU finally had a chance to give Natasha the respect she was due, and they just didn’t. The one time Black Widow stepped into the spotlight was at the end of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” when a US Senate committee threatened to put her on trial. It would have been a great moment to elevate a character who always operated from the shadows, never getting the acclaim that Tony always received. Indeed, Tony’s sacrifice wouldn’t have been possible at all had Natasha not made her sacrifice first.Īlso Read: 'Avengers: Endgame' - That Last Scene Makes No Senseīut when we get to the end of the movie, we get a big memorial for Iron Man with a huge number of famous heroes showing up to pay their respects, while Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) hang out in the corner having their own private mourning ceremony for Natasha and Vision, who apparently nobody other than them - and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), I guess - cared about. Her sacrifice mattered just as much as Tony’s did. If Black Widow hadn’t killed herself on Vormir so that Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) could return to the present with the Soul Stone, then they wouldn’t have been able to save all those people Thanos snapped, and then Tony Stark’s snap to wipe out all of Thanos’s forces wouldn’t have been possible. It’s puzzling also just within the context of the movie - Natasha’s sacrifice made everything that came after, including Tony’s own sacrifice, possible. So it’s puzzling that “Avengers: Endgame” didn’t really spend any time memorializing her at the end of the movie, which spends so much time saying goodbye to Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) and Captain America (Chris Evans). She was introduced back in “Iron Man 2” and has been instrumental in so many major events. (Major spoilers ahead for “Avengers: Endgame” and the whole situation with Black Widow, aka Natasha Romanoff, but you probably already knew that given the headline)Įven though Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) didn’t get a movie with her name on it in the first decade of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she’s been just as central to the franchise as anybody.