The MCU Skipped the Darkest Part of Captain America & Black Widow's Friendship
Captain America and Black Widow have a closer relationship in the MCU than in the comics, but the films skip the darkest part of their friendship. In the comics, Captain America saved Black Widow as a child from becoming a trained assassin, but it turns out she was actually there to carry out an assassination herself. Captain America's act of saving Natasha didn't make much of a difference, as she still became a child assassin, representing his ultimate failure in the comics. The MCU didn't explore this aspect of their relationship.
Captain America and Black Widow are fellow Avengers and life-long friends in both the comics and the MCU, though their relationship is a bit closer in the movies than how the comics usually portray them. Despite that, Rogers and Romanoff actually have a much more complicated history in the comics than they do in the MCU, as the films...
Captain America and Black Widow are fellow Avengers and life-long friends in both the comics and the MCU, though their relationship is a bit closer in the movies than how the comics usually portray them. Despite that, Rogers and Romanoff actually have a much more complicated history in the comics than they do in the MCU, as the films...
- 9/29/2023
- by Spencer Connolly
- ScreenRant
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