Jul. 16 2021, Published 9:09 p.m. ET
Warning: This tale comprises spoilers about Black Widow.
In the long-awaited film Black Widow, moviegoers can see Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) making her authentic MCU debut. While the prequel used to be released years after Natasha Romanoff's demise in Avengers: Endgame, it offers Scarlett Johansson's character her solo hero journey that is smartly deserved, as well as a formal introduction to Yelena. Black Widow is no longer an origin tale — it's extra of a superhero vignette.
It highlights a hole in the Avengers timeline when Natasha was once briefly separated from her crew. The majority of the film offers with the fallout of Natasha's disastrous faux-family legacy, as she reluctantly seeks out her now-adult sister, father Alexei (David Harbour), and mother Melina (Rachel Weisz) in a bid to take down the Red Room as soon as and for all. The film also has post-credits. The scene starts with a second fanatics had was hoping for since Natasha's loss of life was once briefly handed over in Endgame.
Yelena takes a shuttle to a cemetery within the Midwest the place Melina and Alexei raised the girls. The movie then displays Natasha's tombstone, which reads that she was once a daughter, sister, and Avenger. The scene seems to be heartfelt as Yelena will pay her respects to her sister but gets interrupted by Valentina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Valentina offers Yelena her next mission, which confirms to viewers that she'll be within the sequence Hawkeye. Is Yelena going to kill Clint Barton aka Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner)?
In the post-credits, Val says to Yelena, "Maybe you'd like a shot at the man responsible for your sister's death?" and then displays her a picture of Clint. Did he in reality kill Natasha? Both Hawkeye and Natasha talk over with the planet of Vormir to obtain the Soul Stone wanted to defeat Thanos. The most effective way anyone may access it is via sacrificing a beloved one, and the 2 heroes struggle it out in an epic race to see who may just kill themselves first.
Hawkeye tries desperately to forestall her from falling, but in the end, she makes her choice. Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) does check out bringing Natasha again to existence with the Infinity Gauntlet, however it does now not work. So despite the fact that Natasha is useless because of Clint, Valentina fails to leave out some major key portions. Such as the whole struggle between him and Natasha, that one in all them wanted to die to save part of the universe, and most significantly, Clint didn't directly cause her loss of life.
It's relatively clear that Clint would have slightly died himself instead of Natasha once he returned. We do not know if Yelena is going to kill Hawkeye when she joins the sequence, however we all know that Val is an expert when it comes to emotional manipulation. If she's prepared to tell the precise lie to Yelena that she needed to hear to pass after Clint, who knows what lies she'll tell to other MCU characters. If Yelena does kill Hawkeye, this may give Val the entire power, which might be horrifying.
It appears that she's making an attempt to substitute all the Avengers, and she'll hotel to doing no matter it takes to take out certain ones. This can be a huge mistake for Marvel to cross on this path solely, but a power struggle between Val and the Avengers would make for attention-grabbing storylines sooner or later. It can be thrilling to see if Yelena does kill Clint and why precisely Val needs him offed.
The similar deadly other folks have educated Yelena in the similar fatal ways as her surrogate older sister Black Widow, so it would make sense that she can be taking on. We don't know precisely if her character name going ahead will be Black Widow, but we do know that Yelena shall be taking the reins. In an interview with ComicBook, Florence Pugh showed that she would be taking on the function from Scarlett Johansson.
She explains, "First of all, I think when I came on board, there wasn't even any conversations of whether there'd be this scene or that scene or a future Yelena. It was just like, 'Get involved, get stuck in.' And I was so grateful to be invited. Going forward, I think the most wonderful thing and the scary thing is that, obviously, I've got major shoes to fill."
She is going on to say, "It's just been really wonderful seeing all the ways that Scarlett's changed the conversation about her character. And I think for me, whatever future there is, I would love to, follow in her footsteps in that way. How do we make Yelena different, how do we make her stand out? How do we make her powerful? And that's going to be an ongoing, I hope, conversation. Yeah, I suppose to follow in Scarlett's footsteps in that way, changing it."
We can't wait to see what's in store for Yelena.
Black Widow is now in theaters and on Disney Plus Premier Access.
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