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Scarlett Johansson remains adamant that Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow's death in the Marvel Cinematic Universe should not be undone.

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[-] DaChrissy@reddthat.com 9 points 9 hours ago

Disney really made the MCU great up to and including Endgame. It should have ended after that but Disney could not stop ass fucking that cash cow to tears. Now we are left with garbage. I followed the MCU since the beginning with hulk/iron man. I miss the old MCU. Never cared for black widow though

[-] jerryh100@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

But… but we’re still waiting for the Black Widow and Deadpool crossover…

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 112 points 1 day ago

Even the actors are exhausted with the MCU.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 32 points 1 day ago

I mean, that's the negative POV. It may simply be that she said goodbye to the character and has no interest in revisiting it again

[-] sepi@piefed.social 23 points 1 day ago

It's the same effing thing over and over. Same with dinsey beating the dead corpse of Star Wars. Don't they have any new, different ideas? Or are they gonna make 5000000000000 movies about the same shit?

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 points 10 hours ago

Disney paid $4.05 billion for star wars. you bet your bottom dollar they're going to beat that dead horse until there's nothing left

[-] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Lol nobody clamoring for you to come back lady, you're the forgettable avenger

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 8 hours ago

People downvote this a lot, but the "writers" have to bend over backwards to find a way to make her useful. Imagine she was a guy and didn't bring the sex appeal and the ass shots. Disney adults would boo him in the cinema.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Then explain Hawkeye

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

She's just so goddamn hot. Love a strong, capable redhead.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's weird to think Scarlett Johansson is strong and capable? Lol

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

It's weird to say you think celebrities are super hot in public

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago

If they really want her back, they’ll do it. “Whoa, I can’t believe the Russians cloned her, then turned her into a man, then the obvious dysphoria stemming from it caused her to turn traitor and join shield. I can’t believe she looks completely different now!” Far from the weirdest comic plot line

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 9 hours ago

RDJ being Dr. Doom makes me think it's just going to be Tony Stark "but what if he was evil" since Iron Man and Dr. Doom have relatively similar schticks. (Keyword: relatively. Nobody should read this and feel the need to tell me why they're different. I only mean they're both egotistical geniuses in metal armor.)

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

This is just me, but I always felt her acting talents were wasted in the MCU. Same with Brie Larson.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

They got her early. She had a few solid credits to her name when she did Iron Man 2, but the smart MCU move at that point was to recruit young-ish talent and get them signed on for multi-movie contracts relatively cheap. Hopefully what we all get out of that sort of arrangement is that talented actors make enough MCU money to go off and do whatever out-there artsy stuff that creatively appeals to them and fosters their talents, rather than having to plug away in garbage movies just to pay the bills.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

She was definitely a name before Ironman 2 with movies like "Lost in Translation", "The Island", "Girl with a pearl earring", "Black Dahlia" to name a few.

I remember people being excited about seeing her in Ironman 2.

You are right that they grabbed cheaper people originally, but they werent unknown names.

[-] HadOwenKiRoast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I agree on Scarlet but not on Brie Larson, I find most characters she plays to be bland or not move me as much.

While Scarlet in Lucy, Dark Blue and ghost in the shell really really make it clear how good of an actress she is.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

What about when she played Envy Adams on Scott Pilgrim!

https://youtu.be/1xcSDYy3Dl4

I mean it was a smaller role years ago, but I loved it.

For Scarlett, I think she was amazing in Marriage Story.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

Great song by Metric. Black Sheep

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Larson did the vocals in the movie version of the song. Sounds just like Emily Haines.

I didn't know it was actually her in scott pilgrim, tought it was a good imitation. That is amazing.

Will add marriage story to my watchlist, can't remember having seen it.

[-] SnotFlickerman 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They brought her back over and over in the What If? series.

Maybe the real issue is that the whole MCU just needs to die.

Personally I feel like it died with the resolving arc from Infinity war Part 2, when Thanos got beaten. I'm good to have it left there.

GOTG3 ended their arc pretty neatly too.

And even if I watch every marvel movie moving forward, I imagine it as being alternate timeline to the true ending. (a bit the same thing as the zelda timeline with hero defeated/hero won things)

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

As director she gave us several glorious ass shots to remember her by. Her work here is done.

[-] kurikai@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

When did black widow die? Either i didn't bother to see the movie or i forgot

[-] TheColonel@reddthat.com 11 points 1 day ago
[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 8 hours ago

It happened in the boring 2 hours

[-] kurikai@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I watched end game. Dont remeber her dieing. Heh

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

!She dies when they go back in time to get the soul stone. Gamora was sacraficed by Thanos to originally get the stone, Black widow gives her life so Hawkeye can live the second time around.!<

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, and there was a similar plot line I think in the comics in infinity war 2 where something similar happened to Gamora but she was actually >!trapped inside the soul stone and they went in to break her out !<

[-] treyf711@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

It’s probably shameful for me to mention it, but I don’t think that I have seen Endgame more than the single time I saw it in theaters. It’s two very long movies to keep up with and then there’s so much going on that I’m not able to focus on a single character. I think that’s one reason that I’ve really enjoyed Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Stakes are much lower and there’s several characters, but they are manageable to keep track of because most of them are just normal supporting characters and not main characters in other movies about them.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm with you .... I don't need every MCU movie to be about the end of the world. I would be happy watching Spiderman trying to make rent while just handling some small time hood.

[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Spider-Man: Almost Homeless

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