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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.
There was a display of those coke bottles with names on them at the store, so of course I had to put Clint and Natasha next to each other.
“She’d drink Iron Man under the table, but she’d have more fun with Black Widow because they’d just be raging alcoholics and in a gutter somewhere having the best time ever. Peggy would definitely be drinking an Amaretto Sour and Natasha would be drinking absinthe.”
— Hayley Atwell, “Which Avenger would Peggy love getting drunk with?” (via atwellling)
