The cosplayer, who goes by ’laurossbw’ on Tik Tok, uploaded a before and after video of themselves in the cosplay. She’s also wearing Black Widow’s new white suit, which can be seen in the trailers. A deadly KGB-assassin-turned-superhero, Black Widow, a.k.a. Natasha Romanoff, made her live-action debut more than a decade ago in the 2010 sequel Iron Man 2, where she was portrayed by Johansson.
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In Iron Man 2, Johansson plays a disguised S.H.I.E.L.D. operative assigned to keep tabs on the always-volatile Tony Stark. From there, Johansson returned for the first Avengers film, making her a founding member of the famous Marvel superhero team. Even though it’s taken over a decade for the character to get her own solo film, Black Widow has appeared alongside her fellow Avengers in other MCU films such as Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Avengers: Infinity War.
Sadly, Black Widow died in Avengers: Endgame when she sacrificed herself to obtain the soul stone, one of the six infinity stones that the Avengers needed to reverse the blip. Some fans felt that her death was unceremonious for a character who dated back to the beginning of the MCU. Black Widow was, after all, one of the founding members of the Avengers, and some fans felt her death should have been just as tragic as Tony Stark’s. Some even felt that her counterpart Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) should have been the one to make the sacrifice, but clearly, Marvel had future plans for the archer. It didn’t help that Natasha Romanoff was the only female founding Avenger and that Guardians of the Galaxy character Gamora, another strong female MCU character, received the same death in the previous film.
While the MCU has a tendency to focus more on the male superheroes, they did finally have a female-led film with Captain Marvel. Still, some fans felt a Black Widow movie should have come first and that the character had earned her own solo adventure. More than ten years later, Marvel is finally pursuing a Black Widow film, which will have to be a prequel due to the character’s death in Endgame. The film is reportedly set after Captain America: Civil War and before Avengers: Infinity War, exploring Natasha Romanoff’s complicated past as she goes up against a new villain, the dreaded Taskmaster.
Black Widow is scheduled to be released on July 9, 2021, simultaneously in theaters and through Disney Plus with Premier Access.
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