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All around, this is a key film in Natasha’s story arc. in Winter Soldier - also does a great job of showcasing Natasha’s heroism, as she works to save every human she can as Sokovia is being flown up into the sky, and ends the film as co-captain of the Avengers with Steve Rogers. It’s a devastating scene that further dimensionalizes Natasha, but this film also marks both the beginning and end of her romantic flirtation with Bruce as he ends the film heading off into space and future Avengers installments pretend like the whole thing never happened.īut Age of Ultron - which is set in the wake of the dismantling of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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She refers to herself as a “monster” in relating to Banner’s struggles, not in reference to the fact that she can’t have children, but in how both she and Banner do not have/have not had full control or agency over their lives and bodies. Most divisive is a scene in which Natasha reveals that as part of the “Red Room” training program in Russia, she was forcibly sterilized. I’m pro-BruNat, and I find their scenes in this film particularly enchanting, as they also give color to both characters. At the end of 'Captain America: Civil War,' Tony Stark tells her that TChalla/Black Panther told US Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross that Black Widow helped Captain America make an escape from the government. This is a fairly controversial film in the Black Widow chronology, as it introduces the romantic relationship between Natasha and Bruce Banner ( Mark Ruffalo). Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, has been on the run and undercover with a new identity and look. So while this is technically Natasha’s introduction to the MCU, it’s a bit of a shaky one to be honest, and somewhat inessential. Three years ago, when the mighty threat of Thanos was at its peak in Avengers: Infinity War, the Avenger super-spy Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) appeared on camera with a new look. But Iron Man 2 is notable in that it was a stumbling block for Marvel – they realized they were trying to set up too much, too inelegantly in one movie, and learned their lesson. In truth, Iron Man 2 does a fairly poor job of dimensionalizing Black Widow – even by Johansson’s own admission the character is overly sexualized in this particular movie, and she doesn’t really do much beyond serving as “eye candy” while she hacks her way into computers and shows off a bit of her fight skills. Jackson) and S.H.I.E.L.D., and the majority of the film finds the character leaning hard into the “spy” aspect of her role. The first time we meet Natasha Romanoff is in Iron Man 2, where she’s first introduced as Tony Stark’s personal assistant “Natalie Rushman.” As it turns out, Natasha has been tasked with spying on Tony ( Robert Downey Jr.) by Nick Fury ( Samuel L.