The More I Think About It
the angrier I get. Why isn’t there a Black Widow movie yet, and why have no concrete announcements been made?
As of August 2014, she has been in no less than three mcu movies (that’s as many as Thor, and one away from the tally of Steve Rogers and Phil Coulson appearances–one-shots and tv shows excluded).
Unlike Bruce Banner, her character has been played by the same person in each movie. Unlike Hawkeye and Coulson, her involvement always means at least one creative action scene with her playing a part that is larger than a cameo.
She’s a spy, an assassin, and an avenger, among other things.
Her tools include guns, knives, and Widow’s Bites to name a few. But her greatest asset is her intelligence. She has tricked Georgi Luchkov, Jasper Sitwell, and even Loki, a master trickster, into confessions.
She helped arrest Justin Hammer and Whiplash, bested Loki (twice!), stopped a Chitauri invasion, and kept the Winter Soldier and H.Y.D.R.A. from murdering thousands of innocent civilians, effectively saving the world twice in two of her three appearances.
She has an intriguing and mysterious backstory involving the Soviet Union, the K.G.B., and S.H.I.E.L.D./H.Y.D.R.A. Her past has been teased in The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Her backstory deserves more development than dialogue explanation in someone else’s film.
Her solo movie has a wide array of genre possibilities. To name a few:
Marvel has not released an espionage movie, so that’s a definite option.
Natasha faces the consequences of releasing her past (complete with plot-related flashbacks) to the world.
A mission with Clint Barton goes awry and now it’s up to the fandom-favorite master assassins to save the day and reveal what actually happened in Budapest.
Natasha teams up with Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers again in a hunt for Barnes.
The Black Widow has a long and rich comic history that includes super-soldier experimentation, mind-wipes, romantic relationships with Clint Barton (Hawkeye), Matt Murdoch (Daredevil), and James Barnes (the Winter Soldier), and coming into her own as a spy and avenger able to take her own missions and form her own persona.
In pop-culture terms, she is Batman and James Bond rolled into a commentary on the Cold War, sexism, and Intelligence. Her character has been introduced (Iron Man 2), fleshed out (The Avengers), and complicated (Captain America: The Winter Soldier). Now it’s time to let her show us her own story and be the official heroine we all want.
To quote Natasha, this woman has blood on her ledger. We deserve to see her wipe it out.
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