Death has always been something of a revolving threshold in the superhero musical genre . There ’s an old joke that death only stick for Bucky and Uncle Ben - and , of track , these days it does n’t even last for Bucky either . stagnant is n’t idle any longer . Black Widowwas one of those characters raise in the comic - and could Marvel Studios take a similar approach in the MCU ?

of course , all this mean Marvel fans   have been watchingAvengers : Endgamewith a fair academic degree of scepticism . It ’s honest that Marvel has insistedBlack Widow has diedfor real ; but just over a year ago , they were insisting the same matter about everybody Thanos kill when he erased half the life in the universe with a snap of his finger . Comic book proofreader are resorting to the original comics , attend for clues there .

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And there ’s a good reason to   reckon . Over in the comics , Marvel really kill Black Widowas latterly as 2017 , when Natasha Romanoff come down foul of a twisted Hydra version of Captain America . So how did Marvel get her back , and is there any possibility Marvel Studios could be suit ?

Black Widow Was Resurrected By The Red Room

The story of Natasha Romanoff ’s inscrutable resurrection was told inTales of Suspense#100 - 104 , in a superhero undercover agent drama told by Matthew Rosenberg and with art by Travel Foreman . It all began with a roseola of mysterious killings , with umbrageous espionage types found dead with a telltale Black Widow callsign left behind at the tantrum of the murder . These attract the attention ofHawkeyeand Winter Soldier , both Black Widow ’s exes in the comics , and they get to investigate . All that signify they wound up see in the line of fire .

Hawkeye and Winter Soldier finally discovered Natasha Romanoff really was alive again - after a style . It turned out the Red Room had reinvented themselves using modern cloning technology and with the avail of a mutant psychic called Epsilon Red . They had obtained genetic samples from every one of their honest-to-goodness Red Room federal agent , and they had Epsilon Red transcript their mind into a databank . Whenever one of the Red Room ’s people die , the ringer was activated and Epsilon Red implanted store within the master of ceremonies body . Of naturally , they also had Epsilon Red carefully redact those retentivity , removing all recollection of treachery and treachery . When Natasha Romanoff was killed by a varlet Captain America , they thought they ’d spark off a unexampled version who would once again process for them .

Unfortunately for the Red Room , they had reckoned without a furious batting order ; a Russian superintendent - soldier namedUrsa Major , who have the power to transform into a mammoth , anthropomorphic bear . The Red Room had taken him for experimentation , but they countenance to freely drift the residence hall of the Red Room . He secretly struck a deal with Epsilon Red to check Natasha Romanoff regained all her memory , rather than just the one the Red Room O.K. . In his position , what they were doing was dismaying , and he want the Red Room burned to the background . But it took time , and first Natasha had to get ahead a position of trust , which she accomplish by cleverly misrepresent the Red Room to send her against former Hydra agents . In the end , though , Natasha bring the Red Room down .

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Could The MCU Resurrect Black Widow In A Similar Way?

All this raises the intriguing interrogative sentence of whether or not the MCU could take the same approach to rise Black Widow . The Red Room is already established as part of the MCU , after all , and it ’s currently shadowy and undefined ; it ’s reasonable to assumeBlack Widowwill reveal a flock of their secrets , but there ’s no reason the Red Room would need to be completely shut down by the end of the film . A post - credits scene could tease a return for Black Widow by demo a concealed laboratory , and a cloning ad valorem tax bearing the name " Romanoff . " It would be stylistically similar toCaptain America : The Winter Soldier ’s post - credits scene , which usher in Quicksilver andScarlet Witch , and comic book readers would immediately understand it .

Of naturally , the Christ’s Resurrection technology in the comics depends upon a dyad of fundamental elements that do n’t yet exist in the MCU ; namely mutants and psychics . But Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has teased that it wo n’t be long till mutants come out in the MCU , and it ’s quite possible they ’ll be retconned to have survive in the shadow all along . If so , there ’s absolutely no reason a similar approach could n’t be hold . In fact , Marvel has hire   the world ’s tallest bodybuilder ,   Olivier Richters , for an unknown role inBlack Widow ; one democratic theory is that he ’ll cameo as the Russian superintendent - soldier Ursa Major , who played such an important role in Black Widow ’s resurrection in the comedian .

But would Marvel want to fetch back Scarlett Johansson ’s Black Widow as a poor boy or as a villain ? It would be fascinating to see history restate itself , with Natasha Romanoff going on a rampage and becoming the public ’s most wanted once again . No doubt both Hawkeye and Winter Soldier would be highly motivated to   rescue her from the Red Room ’s control . depend on howBlack Widowends , they could even wind up working alongsideFlorence Pugh ’s Yelena Belova , as she essentially set about to redeem Natasha - a perfect inversion of the comics .

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Black Widow ’s return is one of the more interesting resurrections in comics , and strangely enough Marvel seems to have decided they like the idea ; Jonathan Hickman’sX - Menrelaunch has pretty much copied it , make similarresurrections and psychical downloadsthe secret to the subjection of death . What ’s more , there ’s absolutely no reason the same conception could n’t make its elbow room into the MCU . Black Widow ’s   much - criticized death inAvengers : Endgamewould be completely deepen because it would n’t be a final goodbye for the super - undercover agent at all . AndBlack Widowwould become the first in a franchise of movies , explain the return of Natasha Romanoff and exploring her role in   Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe .

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