On Black Widow and Marvel’s Gaps (or, Why We Need a Black Widow Movie)
On the recent Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) episode of The Skiffy and Fanty Show, I argued that part of what bothered me about the Black Widow scene wherein she reveals having been sterilized in the Red Room is that it clarified what was an obvious gap in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. We need a Black Widow movie, I said — more so now than ever. This is a somewhat complicated position, and I’d like to explore that in-depth here. For those that don’t know, I’ll spoil the bit everyone is talking about: