An alternate Black Widow ending might have given Nat a sweeter send-off
A deleted scene sees Scarlett Johansson playing a more wistful side of her MCU superspy
This year’s Black Widow sits at an awkward position in the timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s a flashback movie that never really acknowledges its nature as such—beyond a mid-credits scene that’s as much about trying to set up a future franchise opportunity, as it is a reminder that the film’s lead character died during one of the most successful movies ever made. (For Hawkeye! The indignity.) The film—set between 2016's Civil War and 2018's Infinity War—attempts to bring Natasha Romanoff’s story full-circle, ending on her departing to go help Captain America (and bidding farewell to O-T Fagbenle’s fixer character, who sort of has to stand in for all her other espionage-world friends). But an alternate ending scene for the movie has now been revealed, one that might have made a little more of the fact that we all knew this would be Scarlett Johansson’s final turn as the character (even before her legal disagreements with Disney made that fact a straight-up certainty).