But Wait! There’s One More Bullsh*t Excuse for Natasha’s Death inAvengers: Endgame.

According toa recentVanity Fairinterview，摄制组的妇女为漫威的船员Avengers: Endgameapparently asked the writers not to take Natasha’s death away from her. Since the movie’s debut, the screenwriters forAvengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, have justified a lot of their decisions with excuses that we just didn’t need. If they just let the movie live and said that was that, okay, but instead, they doubled down on everything so much that we begged for them to stop talking.

But one thing that has continued to weigh on me is their line of excuses for why Natasha Romanoff sacrificed herself for the Soul Stone over Clint Barton. InEndgame，必须将灵魂交换为灵魂之石，因为Gamora的死仍然是他们的谜，所以没有人真正知道的信息。当克林特（Clint）和娜塔莎（Natasha）出现时，他们试图决定谁将以最多的克林特（Clint）和纳塔莎（Natasha）风格的方式死亡，但是克林特·巴顿（Clint Barton）能够继续生活，而纳特（Nat）则没有吗？仍然很糟糕。

As they toldVanity Fair, Markus and McFeely went around to the female crew to ask them about what would happen if Clint died instead, and their supposed response sounds like a load of bullshit to me:

“A number of women on the crew, when we said, ‘Hey, we’re thinking maybe Hawkeye goes over,’ said, ‘Don’t you do that! Don’t rob her of this!’”

Rob her of … an entire movie of growth and understanding and fighting alongside her friends before her death? Rob her of a funeral? All of that was okay to “rob her of,” but her serial killer friend who murdered a bunch of people of color for four years because his family died gets to live and fight alongside the Avengers when Natasha doesn’t?

The idea that Natasha had to sacrifice herself to make herself a hero is also kind of insinuated here. Sure, she thought that her red ledger was still weighing on her, but the good that Natasha had done with the Avengers, the fights she put herself through for the greater good? All of that helped make her into a hero who deserved more than falling to her death for the Soul Stone at the halfway mark of this movie.

所有的这些都是驱动的home by the fact that Natasha Romanoff isn’t even getting her own movie untilafterher death and that she has constantly been sidelined for the storylines of the men in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So, to have her death be an emotional beat for Clint Barton? Yeah, that’s not as honorable as the “jump[ing] on the grenade” Markus and McFeely may have thought it was, and whoever they polled on her death should have also maybe thought about serial killer Clint Barton before saying that the death belonged to Nat.

(image: Marvel Entertainment)

想要更多这样的故事吗?Become a subscriber and support the site!

—玛丽·苏（Mary Sue）有严格的评论政策that forbids, but is not limited to, personal insults towardanyone, hate speech, and trolling.—

Have a tip we should know?[电子邮件保护]