Marvel Studios’ AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR..Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson)..Photo: Film Frame..©Marvel Studios 2018
Black Widow is one of the first women characters in the MCU. While she hasn’t had the most screentime (unfortunately), she’s accumulated many memorable moments across the MCU.
WARNING: This slideshow contains moments from Avengers: Endgame, so click out to avoid any heavy spoilers about Black Widow or any of the other characters in the MCU.
As one of the first women of the MCU, Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow, portrayed by Scarlett Johansson) has many titles. Her spy training, courtesy of the Red Room and numerous organizations thereafter, landed her a spot with the Avengers. Her long transition from her days as a KGB agent to a hero was mostly done somewhere in the vast and vague world off-screen, but we love her all the same.
We wish Black Widow had more iconic scenes in the MCU and that writers had developed her characterization as much as the men in the cinematic universe, especially since she sacrificed herself in a Russian roulette to help build the Infinity Gauntlet. While we deserved many more scenes and her own trilogy, we’re commemorating 10 of Nat’s most memorable moments in the MCU. (After all, it’s what she deserves).
You can probably agree that Natasha’s fight scenes have the best combat choreography in the history of the MCU. However, we’re not focusing our list on just her fight scenes (even though all of them make us wish Nat would teach us to fight and simultaneously punch us in the face). She always needs more screen time to delve into her mythos both during and after her fighting sequences, but nonetheless, she has a softer side. Even fighters have lives outside of the battle.
As a result, our slideshow of memorable moments will focus on every aspect of her journey throughout the MCU. This is a tough task, considering the MCU has yet to write any fully thought out Black Widow content, despite the fact that she has at least a trilogy of stories left to tell and a decade of subtext to clarify. One movie is not enough.
Natasha is many things. She’s a proficient intelligence operative and trained killer with evenly-matched empathy and restraint to show villains mercy. She’s a friend and a fighter. Above all else, she’s a kick-butt Avenger, and we wish she was still alive.
She deserves to have her reign throughout the MCU commemorated properly. If Tony Stark is the heart of the MCU, Natasha Romanoff is its soul.