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Natasha and Clint going to Vormir to get the Soul Stone is just a terrible writing choice, because Marvel spent basically no time at all developing their relationship other than in the first Avengers movie and small moments in Age of Ultron and Civil War.
Also, Red Skull being guardian of the Soul Stone is kind of meaningless other than as a “Hey, remember this character?” moment because there’s not any damn history between him and Thanos, Natasha, or Clint.
You know who did have a developed relationship? Steve and Bucky. You know who did have history with Red Skull. Steve and Bucky. You know who would have been a better narrative choice to go after the Soul Stone? You get where I’m going here, but Steve and Bucky.
Can you fucking imagine Steve and Bucky not trusting Red Skull, thinking it’s some sort of sick joke, but then coming to realize one of them has to be sacrificed. Can you imagine that fight as they try to be the one to sacrifice for the other? Bucky has his hand locked around Steve’s arm to try and keep him from falling, Steve looks him in the eyes, and says- “I told you, I’d always be with you until the end of the line” and slips free to fall? It would have been a heartbreaking moment that actually did some justice to them.
Meanwhile, in fucking New York, when you’re trying to steal something from under the eyes of superheroes and SHIELD and the world in general, you have actual spies trying to steal it and being able to use some fucking stealth. And seeing Natasha fight herself, past-Natasha wary as hell, present-Natasha trying to talk some sense into her, that would be awesome.
And then, fighting Thanos at the end… Well, if Steve isn’t there to pick up the hammer.
Let Natasha do it. Give her the answer to the question she didn’t want to ask.
And leave Natasha, the one who has been running the Avengers facilities and teams since the Snap, as the one to rebuild. As the two most prominent faces of the Avengers have fallen, let the one who likes to work in the shadows be the one to pick up the pieces. She’s got ties to the survivors- she’s worked with Sam, with Wanda, with Clint, with everyone. It would make sense for her to be the one helping rebuild things.
And then they could actually give her a solo movie in a way that makes sense- when her character is still alive.
OP, I would love to write this. Can I please please please write this???
I am super-late in replying here, but: yes, please, absolutely go for it, @chickwhodoesthethingwiththestuff, if you want to write it, go for it.
Oh fuck me I was looking at the tags people have made on this, because I’m a fiend who derives serotonin from the tags of anguish people leave in response to what I write sometimes, and then I caME ACROSS THIS:
@jacyevans, how dare you hide that in the tags, that is beautiful and the continuity and she’s like the one regular person on the battlefield, no powers, no super-suit, just training and reflexes and this shield that belonged to a good man, and above all of that, she plays that she’s the most cynical of them all, but she’s got her faith and her dedication to who the Avengers are, who they should be, she’s holding on so fucking tight to that faith, and then she hears her best friend’s voice after five years and that strength and that persistence and that faith is vindicated. I am fucking crying at this, holy shit. Well done.
Note to everyone fired up as hell about Hydra Cap, Hydra Magneto and Nazis Should Have Won World War 2.
For a long time Ike Pearlmutter (Trump supporter) and a creative group at Marvel comics were harming the films made under the Marvel Cinematic Universe banner, through things like being notoriously cheap and deciding Black Widow merch was a bad idea.
Kevin Feige led a push to separate the movie and the comics divisions last year, and probably the offensive idea of making Cap a Nazi on the part of the creative group to celebrate Cap’s 75th anniversary had something to do with it.
So please, go see Thor Ragnarok and Spiderman Homecoming and our beloved Chris Evans as Cap in Infinity War if you were planning on it.
By boycotting the comics around the Secret Empire event, you’ll insure it never makes it to a screen in the future, but keep on getting those Squirrel Girl and Ms Marvel and America Chavez books, to prove diversity is not the problem with Marvel Comics.
And there’s nothing the comics division hates more than being eclipsed in the public mind by the success of the movies division.
Thank you for this post - I really DO NOT want to support the terrible shit coming out with Secret Empire, but I’ve been unsure how the MCU ties in with Marvel comics, and how the varies lines of Marvel merch tie in with Marvel comics etc etc.
“Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people’s well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them – even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.” -Stan Lee.
