![]() Regardless of whether Black Widow’s standalone film takes place before The Avengers or after Endgame, the franchise would be better served if she ends up alive again. And then she’d apparently be missing from her original timeline, though Endgame notably glosses over any effects that would have on anything other than an Infinity Stone. The only downside is that she wouldn’t be the latest, up-to-date version of the character - if the Avengers went back in time too far, they might meet a hostile Natasha who hadn’t yet joined S.H.I.E.L.D. That seems like one easy path to Natasha’s resurrection. She survives because she time travels from the past, skipping around the part of her history where Thanos sacrificed her. Sacrifices for the Soul Stone can’t be undone and yet Gamora is backīut the film itself contains a clue: Thanos killed his daughter Gamora in Infinity War to obtain the stone, and she’s alive and well by the end of Endgame. They fight over who gets to die, and Natasha “wins.” Her sacrifice wins them the Soul Stone, in a way that supposedly “can’t be undone” by any form of the time travel that winds up resurrecting the rest of the MCU fallen later in the film. In Endgame, Natasha Romanoff and Hawkeye are tasked with retrieving the Soul Stone from Vormir, which requires one of them to sacrifice themselves. So how would Marvel handle bringing her back from the dead? But there are plenty more MCU movies to come, she’s a fan-favorite character, and killing off the franchise’s most significant and central female character is a bad look for the entire series. There’s precedent in the comics for Tony Stark’s resurrection after death, but will Black Widow’s death be permanent? She’s set for her own standalone film soon, though rumor has it that it will be a prequel. So it’s natural to ask whether Avengers: Endgame’s big deaths will eventually be undone as well. Even Loki, a villain turned semi-hero, seemingly died in Thor: The Dark World, came back for Thor: Ragnarok, died again in Avengers: Infinity War, and is back in play due to time-travel shenanigans as of Avengers: Endgame. Bucky Barnes appeared to die in Captain America: The First Avenger, and came back as the antagonist in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Agent Phil Coulson died in The Avengers, and was resurrected for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Up until Avengers: Endgame, hero death in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was rarely permanent. Significant spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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