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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
You unstrike that right fucking now dammit! Darkest hour, Peter gets his hands on the Time or Soul Stone somehow, and bam! Out comes Uncle Ben, played by nine other than Toby Maguire. After all, what better time for a “with great power comes great responsibility” speech than when presented with the power of a god? I need these feels, dammit!
Alternately, go with the normally impossible cameo idea and give Chris Evans a F4 suit
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That would be the ideal way to do it, IMO. The more recent Black Widow series in recent years will usually be set in the present but with liberal flashbacks to her past.
The structure of Deadpool could conceivably serve as a template for a Black Widow movie: starting in the present, before flashing back back to relevant parts of her origin.
Reminds me of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon where Johnny got indignant that Skrull Rogers didn't recognize him
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHaving someone or something from her past catch up with Natasha would work to a degree but I am honest here, I would prefer a story which also moves the plot forward, not just a character piece. character pieces are fine when you introduce a character, but at this point it would feel like just piling on more. I am not against the occasional flashback, but it shouldn't be the purpose of the story.
My favourite idea is that Marvel does the secret invasion storyline and Natasha goes on a mission which leads to her discovering what is going on. Because that is the perfect role for her.
You're almost certainly not going to get that from Widow regardless, even if it takes place in the present. The only characters who move "the plot" of the MCU forward are the ones connected to whatever the next big crossover event is, which has always meant Tony, Steve and Thor, and now includes the other cosmic characters as we move into a cosmic climax.
Everyone else has movies that primarily explore their personal mythos first, if not almost entirely (as with Ant-Man and Strange, and Black Panther looks to be heavily isolated - as it should be - as well) and Widow isn't likely to be the character to break that trend. As a protagonist, she arguably works best with something comparatively out of focus, because much about her character is in working behind the scenes.
edited 11th Jan '18 4:55:25 PM by KnownUnknown
One in front is Widow, the one on the far left (with the claw) is Black Panther. I have no idea who the red hand in the middle is. Red Hulk? Mephisto? Devil Dinosaur not skipping arm day at the gym?
Sony doesn't have purview over Jessica Drew. It was revealed a while back that they are perfectly free to use Jessica as long as they don't use the Spider-Woman name (same with Julia Carpenter and Madame Webb).
As for the "why," because Jessica Drew has history with the Skrulls they can adapt, even if they don't adapt that history she still has a connection they can use for the plans they're currently undertaking via her friendship with Captain Marvel, and is ability and power-wise more equipped to carry an alien invasion storyline in general.
For Widow, it's much preferable to use her to explore the terrestrial side of Marvel, especially given that going forward they're have basically nobody doing that in general. As the MCU's most textbook spy character by far, it's the kind of genre only really she can explore and it'd frankly be a waste not to. Cap was their go-to for that sort of thing before now and his trilogy is over: the closest they have now is Ant-Man, whose series is intentionally covers a far smaller corner (no pun intended) than any of the others.
edited 11th Jan '18 7:06:26 PM by KnownUnknown
Oh god don't tell me Black Widow meets a talking snowman along the way,that's ridiculous
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverAn interesting way to incorporate the X-Men rights
Building up to Champions against everyone's better judgment maybe
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

I could see a story set in the modern day with a villain who was related to one of the people Black Widow had to kill, hell, have the villain literally be that daughter from that story! The flashbacks would just be a natural product of Natasha's past coming back to haunt her.
edited 12th Jan '18 12:50:05 AM by PushoverMediaCritic