Why Didn't 'Avengers: Endgame' Feature This Key Black Widow Scene?
This article contains spoilers for a film you have almost definitely already seen multiple times, but better to be safe than sorry.
Avengers: Endgame was a super-long film, and managed to squeeze in tons of characters, time travel and even a scene of a man-made of rocks playing Fortnite.
But there is one scene – one that fans would have loved to have seen – that didn't make it into the final product: a funeral scene for Black Widow. After all, Iron Man got one. Why not Natasha Romanoff, too?
"Well," director Joe Russo told Entertainment Tonight, "Natasha has another movie coming out. Tony does not have another movie coming out.
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"When you’re dealing with storytelling real estate in a three-hour movie, there’s only so much of it, and someone else has another film coming, there’s always the opportunity to bring closure in that other movie. In this movie, we had to bring closure to Tony Stark."
Makes sense, even if the fans may not be over the moon about it.
Screenwriter Christopher Markus previously explained the decision to not give her a funeral, stating: "Tony's this massive public figure and she's been a cipher the whole time. It wasn't necessarily honest to the character to give her a funeral."
He also said the decision to kill her off rather than Hawkeye came from their visual effects producer, Jen, who asked them not to "take this away from (Natasha)" and that it would be "melodramatic" not to reunite Clint with his family.
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