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This is gonna be another long thread, mainly because I have a lot of beef with her Endgame storyline. And I am firmly on Team It-Should’ve-Been-Hawkeye.
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But I can’t discuss this without discussing how the MCU as a whole lead us to that extremely disrespectful moment.
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Natasha in an OG Avenger. One of the original six. The only female one, in fact, before we got Wanda. She has always suffered somewhat from Smurfette syndrome/The Athena Complex (I will post articles to this at the end of this thread)...
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...because as I said before, many male writers cannot write women [or POC] to save their fucking lives.
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That said, homegirl still managed to have some pretty wicked arcs for a minute, & the writers—at the time—seemed to somewhat understand that part of what makes Natasha dangerous is her ability to wield her femininity and brains as a weapon because she knows...
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....the men around her, even those in power, all lose their common sense and assume an upper-hand they don’t have when they see a nice pair of tiddies or a juicy bum.
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Case in point: one of my favorite moments of her doing this is turning a painfully misogynist moment in The Avengers between her and Loki (i.e meuling quim) into a dub. Loki sees her “emotional display” at losing Clint, thinks he’s won, and totally spills...
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...his master plan to trigger the Hulk. So it was pretty satisfying to see her stop, straighten her back, and go “Gotcha bitch!”
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My point so far? Natasha is a stone cold, calculated killer and strategist with Uncuffed Fenty Stunna Lip Paint to match!
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This is somewhat amended when she joins S.H.I.E.L.D. and becomes friends with Yeehaw Barton. She’s still wickedly efficient but now she’s using it for good.
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Or so she thought...which she doesn’t find out in until Winter Soldier. And there she learns all of the “good” she did was still being used and abused from the evil, neo-Nazi organization known as Hydra.
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AKA she was still a part of everything she fought to escape and wipe her ledger clean of.
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By the end of WS, that’s still what she’s after, but she wants to be able to do this good without compromising what makes the infamous Black Widow great. But she knows she has to do something radical to do it.
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So she gives up the comfort of her shadow & her privacy to give way to radical transparency against the wishes of several [American] government entities. Because it is the right thing to to do.
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And then tells them to kiss her lily White ass because she KNOWS they’re gonna call her up next week to save their ass again.
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This—the combination of Avengers Natasha and Winter Soldier Natasha—is Ms. Romanoff at her finest. Calculating, but empathetic. Steadfast, but not uncompromising. Strategic AND conscientious. Always willing to get her hands dirty for the right cause.
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Always thinking ahead. Always ten steps ahead of you. Stronger than she looks, but with just enough vulnerability to remind you that she is a living, breathing human being. You underestimate her, this tiny woman, at your own risk.
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A fantastic character right??? Right...until Age of Ultron took a big fat shit on her
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I have...many feelings about AoU but most of it can be summed up in the fact that J*ss Wh*don was really feeling himself & was doing this...odd self-insertion between his self and Bruce Banner.
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And unfortunately, Black Widow—of all characters—ended up being mischaracterized the most as a gross consequence (Thor too but lol).
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AoU does Black Widow dirty in a lot of ways (I’m having war flashbacks just thinking about it) but perhaps the biggest way is when, she, from her own mouth (gotta love these writers) implies that she is a monster and an incomplete human...
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...in a conversation with Bruce because she cannot bear children. Because that part of her was removed by the Russian spy entity that made her in order to make her an effective killer and spy.
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Mind you, Natasha has always been self-reflective. And it would have been IN CHARACTER for her to call herself a monster for the THINGS SHE HAS DONE. She’s practical like that.
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And even then, she has a general “it is what it is” attitude about these things and merely seeks to do better
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But no, her self-value is reduced to her inability to become pregnant, even though this has never been a desire/want she has expressed and even though we know Natasha has better things to do than become someone’s doting housewife.
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She is THE super spy for crying out loud (after Fury). WS Black Widow would laugh at this cheap, Dollar General AoU Black Widow.
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And on top of that, she’s always been the “cool aunt” type (as evidenced by her great relationship with Yeehaw’s kids) and finds her true family in the other Avengers, but AoU sees that and seeks to make it “tragic” in a very cruel way.
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And by doing this...it sealed her Endgame fate.
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To be clear, as soon as it was mentioned BW couldn’t have kids in AoU and therefore had no “traditional” or “biological” family, I always knew her ass was on the chopping block. It just didn’t happen as quick as I thought it would...
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