Marvel's Deadliest Weapon

Let's start this off with a fan favorite : Black Widow aka Natasha Romanoff played by Scarlett Johansson. We first meet Natasha in Iron Man 2 (directed by Jon Favreau) when she is introduced as Natalie Rushman who is a notary. She of course was undercover to gather intel on Tony Stark aka Iron Man for Nick Fury who is the head of Shield. Besides an awesome fight sequence towards the end of the movie and her amazing beauty we don't really know much about Natasha or how much of a role she will come to play in later films, but she leaves a great impression. And we can't wait to see her again.

Sexy hair!

The next time we see Nat is in the Avengers movie and she has a different hair cut too. She is given a bigger role as a main member of the Avengers and we see more character development. And here is where things get interesting. Many fans like to say that there were subtle hints about a romantic relationship between Nat and Clint Barton aka Hawkeye as well as Steve Rogers aka Captain America. But I think Joss Whedon (the director) had always intended for Nat and Bruce Banner aka Hulk to get together. In the Avengers Nat is the one sent to collect Bruce and bring him to Shield. They have few interactions throughout the movie but I think Joss meant to throw some subtext at us through them. Here we find out she use to work for the KGB (Russia) and was recruited to Shield in exchange for not being taken down by Hawkeye. And we get more awesome fight sequences near the end of the movie and with Hawkeye himself where she beats him out of being mind controlled. It's great to see her character get built upon in the movies through each addition and she quickly becomes a fan favorite. 

Such a bad-ass

We next see Nat in Captain American: The Winter Solider directed by the Russo brothers. Here she has a bigger role by being a co-lead and this is where we see more of directors having different ideas of how to handle the Black Widow character. For one they changed her hair...again and developed more on the Nat/Clint interesting friendship (without even having him in the movie) and the friendship between herself and Steve Rogers. Natasha is more snarky and love-able in this movie and has an great friendship with Steve with her trying to find him a date while simultaneously flirting with him, but we know this is just the way their friendship works. But she does wear an arrow necklace, which could be nothing or could have something to do with an certain archer we know....hmmm. Apparently the directors don't get together to discuss what they have planed for characters or how they can compromise on everyone's incarnations of them. Anyway this movie shows us a different side of Nat through her interactions with Steve and Nick Fury. We see the caring and humorous side of Nat as well as her ,as always, amazing abilities to kick ass. This has to be the movie where Natasha really shines as a co-lead character without its being her own movie and this is Natasha's most developed role as well. Its seems the Russo brothers are the best at handling the Black Widow character so far.

So majestic

Now the most resent appearance of the Black Widow was in Avengers: Age of Ultron directed by Joss Whedon. Here we go back to short hair and get Natasha's and Bruce's relationship thrown in our face. It seems hints aren't gonna cut it and we can't have other directors create relationships that don't fit with the rest of the movies. Which makes the whole arrow necklace that Nat wore in Captain America really strange, especially when we find out that Clint is married and has two kids with a third on the way.....awkward...let's just say they're really awesome friends who like to gift each other personal jewelry. But we also get to see Natasha's back story from when she was in the Black Widow program in Russia (yes there are more Black Widows) when she is hexed by Scarlett Witch aka Wanda Maximoff. And we also learn that she was made infertile by the Black Widow program in the Red Room. Here the movie tries to make it seem like being infertile is the worst thing that can happen to a woman. And the character of Natasha never seemed the type to even want or even think about children, but of course this scene plays out while Bruce and Natasha are considering running away together and are in a room filled with children's artwork (Clints children). This is the most we have seen of the background for Natasha's character so far as the movies slowly peel back her layers. And like all the rest before we get great fighting sequences and Nat is just purely amazing as always (aside from the Bruce/Nat thing). 

Beautiful beast

Speaking of which, where is our Black Widow movie? Some people say we won't ever get one because nobody wants to see a woman lead a superhero movie and yet we have Wonder Woman. Or that's it's because she doesn't have any powers but that never stopped Batman. And some even say It's because Scarlett Johansson can't carry a movie but Lucy has already grossed $458,863,600 worldwide. So none of those reasons are valid. And yet we still don't have a movie. Not only that, we barley have any merchandise of Black Widow. But that won't stop us because there is talk about a Black Widow movie although it seems to be far away. We'll continue to love and support our wonderful Nat and the studios and companies will see that they'll have to give us what we and Natasha deserve. Have a great week everyone!