this is stuff you like you can call me Ursa and Natasha is the member of the
Avengers who gets things done. Oh Natasha or Natalie or Black Widow, your first two
names are apparently the same name because Russian, but regardless. Our first
introduction to Natasha is when she's undercover is Natalie Rushman. Rushman
Russian I just got that, and Tony is... well it's Iron Man 2
Tony's dying and he's losing his marbles and he's really just not very stable at
the moment, so shield sent Nat in to keep an eye on him. Mostly she gets along fine
by employing the cunning combination of 1. being really hot "she is from legal
and she is potentially a very expensive sexual harassment lawsuit if you keep ogling her
like that" 2. being really smart "very very impressive individual she's fluent in
French Italian Russian Latin who speaks Latin?"
and 3. being hilariously competent at beating up grown men "rule number one
never take your eye off your" [Thump] "oh my GOD!" In the Avengers as I said Natasha is the one
who gets things done, she is one of the main drivers of the
plot and her character development is almost incidental. of course the fact
that Natasha now gets to have a character beyond hot and competent is a good thing too.
Coulson calls her, she digs up Bruce, she introduces Bruce to Steve, she
outsmarts a god and we'll come back to that, she gets Clint back, she keeps it
together when Bruce Hulks out, she gets to the portal, she works out how to close
it, she saves the world. Obviously not single-handedly because this is, you know,
an ensemble movie, but she contributes a lot to the resolution of the plot which
in the film landscape containing more than a few boring perfect female
characters who contribute nothing... it's always gonna make me happy. she's not
boring or perfect or disposable she is ridiculously competent and she does have
some serious issues "I have a very specific skillset.
I didn't care who I used it for" Her thing is outsmarting people, outthinking
them. Her damage seems to be that quite often she lets them beat up on her to do
it. Like Captain America she's more than willing to take the hits... almost too
willing actually. She's chosen this is her pathway to redemption as her penance
She won't go in for self-flagellation but there are so many people willing to
do it for her. And she will let them in order to get what she wants. And what she
wants is to save the world, and she will do it using every trick and skill at her
disposal "so Banner, that's your play" "what?" she and Bruce have that in common
they use their weakness as strength when Banner gets angry he loses control,
instead of fighting it he's learned to make it into a strength
people underestimate Natasha consistently because she's only human or
because she's only a woman and she uses that as a strength. how else do you trick
the trickster god even if you know he's not exactly at the top of his game at
the moment. You sly dog you got him monologuing! Avengers Natasha is vastly
more interesting than Iron Man 2 Natasha for three reasons first of all
because Iron Man 2 is about Tony not about Natasha, second because the
Avengers is just a better movie than Iron Man 2, and third because Natalie
Rushman isn't Natasha. The only thing we really learned about agent Romanoff in
Iron Man 2 is that she's very good at undercover work and that not sleeping
with Tony. Oh, and at this
Girl has mad skills. And lack of character development aside I was
totally smitten with Black Widow in Iron Man 2 because first of all she was
competent second of all she wore clothes that I
for the most part could imagine wearing third of all she was ginger and best of
all four didn't fall for Tony Stark "you were gonna tell me you really were
dying? you didn't tell me?" "I was gonna make you an omelet and tell you" "hey save
it for the honeymoon you got incoming" I mean Natalie Rushman flirts with him
in an offhand kind of way but she's an illusory threat to Pepper and Tony's
relationship but we talked about that already
Avengers Natasha gets much more time as herself, with hair that makes sense
seriously I love her hair but who takes their hair down before an epic battle?
Nobody, nobody does that. Okay except for Emma Frost, Emma Frost is a special case.
and Black widow's a valuable team member like Hawkeye in spite of the fact that
neither of them really have any special powers or fancy suits. She's my favorite
because she's as broken and scarred as the rest of them and because that will
never prevent her from doing what needs to be done. "you know what it's like to be
unmade" "you know that I do" and isn't that the definition of a hero? next time
we're talking about the star-spangled man himself see you soon guys! "it was
quite the buzz around here finding you in the ice
thought Coulson was gonna swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Captain
America trading cards yet?" "trading cards?" "they're vintage, he's very proud"