or, as I like to call it… It was, indeed, love and Whedon was an idiot
Warning 1:this post will contain minor and major spoilers from the Black Widow movie as well as details from all the other movies so read at your own risk if you haven’t seen the movie already. The spoilers will be in italic.
Warning 2: this post WILL shit on Josh Whedon and the Russo Brothers, just like every post I made about Clintasha since we found out Clint is (allegedly) married.
So, I am going to start by saying that me, personally, as a person whose been reading, writing and living for Clintasha since the first Avengers movie, I am very, very happy with how things went in the Black Widow movie.
Quick summary: we learned, since the first Avengers movie, that there was something going on between Nat and Clint in Budapest and they remembered things differently, Budapest MEANT different things for both of them (I’ll get there). We also learned back then that Nat felt bad for what she did before SHIELD, we learned that Clint was sent to kill her, that he chose not to and instead Natasha joined him and SHIELD. And so on, so on, you know the story. And then in Captain America: The Winter Soldier the arrow necklace appeared and I am fully convinced, to this day, that when Nat died in Endgame she was still wearing the necklace (especially since we have no indication that she didn’t had it on Vormir!).
Black Widow, the movie, takes place right after Civil War and we are remembered once again, that Clint is in jail. We see Nat, even then, wearing the necklace. And she’s been wearing it the whole time during the movie. Believe me, I’ve paid close attention to this detail.
One of the biggest mysteries in my life is when and how and why Nat got the necklace. We know why SCARLETT gave Nat the necklace, to remember people of her conection to Hawkeye, but it’s never been explained in the movies, and I am not complaining about that because it leaves a lot of room to the imagination. But the fact remains, that Natasha Romanoff is wearing an arrow necklace and there is only ONE person in her life who has any link to arrows in general.
She’s been wearing it since before WE knew Clint had a wife and kids (and I suspect they didn’t know it yet either at that time) and she’s been wearing it in Endgame as well. The necklace has been spotted over different movies and time periods so I guess it’s safe to say it’s been a constant and it was meant to be something more than just a beautiful piece of jewelry. Might I remind you Clintasha was going to be an IT after Avengers?
But let’s go to the elephant in the room: BUDAPEST.
Yes, we FINALLYlearn what happened in Budapest. It’s maybe the most important part in their shared history and I, for one, am happy that it wasn’t what I expected.
Budapest it’s important because Budapest it’s where Nat left (or tried to, whatever) behing her Red Room life and at the same time proving SHIELD that she’s with them. And Clint was there. They’ve been in Budapest for 10 days, two of each they hid in the vents and the rest spent in an apartment with Clint throwing arrows at a wall.
It’s like a fanfic coming to life. How many times have we read and wrote about them in Budapest? Clint in the vents? Them fighting their way out? Sharing an apartment while hiding?
And yes, they do remember Budapest very differently.
Nat remembers hiding and fighting for their lifes and taking down Red Room and this being (most likely) her first mission with Clint. Clint, we don’t know for sure, but he probably remembers the vents and the game they never finished.
I LOVED that it was mentioned. I loved that we heard Clint (yes, so Renner WAS in Black Widow, just not how we thought he will be), I love that Natasha talked about him with Yelena. I just loved it.
Clint Barton is important in Natasha Romanoff’s story, maybe more important than Cap and Tony and definetly more important than some people want to admit and this movie didn’t backed down from showing it to us.
Even at the end Nat says her family is in jail and please, out of everyone who was in jail after Civil War, Clint was the most important one.
I’ve said it many times and I will go down with this but Marvel made the biggest mistake ever when they let Whedongive Clint a family (still not relevant to any plot) and not make or keep teasing us with Clintasha as being a thing in the MCU. This would have made even more sense in Endgame when they went to Vormir.
We got close to canon in Endgame… we did, the Russos tried to do something by sending Nat and Clint on Vormir where to get a stone you have to “give the soul of someone you love in order to take the stone” but they failed miserably because they ended killing one of them and they failed making them canon because… well because Clint had a family and, again, FUCK WHEDON.
Clintasha was supposed to be a thing in the MCU, I know it, you know it, Stan Lee knew it… and it would have worked so well…
That being said, I suspected for a while that Natasha will somehow be involved in the plot of the Hawkeye series. I suspected because Nat was as important to Clint as he was to Nat and I happy we will see Yelena go after Clint because I fully believe that will end in an admision of love of some kind (and hopefully a divorce) and also because Renner, bless his heart, is still pushing it hard on social media with spiders and Black Widow and Nat.
If there is one thing Black Widow did right, then that’s Nat and Clint’s relationship with each other because yes, they mention the other Avengers in passing and yes, the family theme IS THE MOST IMPORTANT in the family, but again… Clint is the one that gave Nat a family to begin with.
“The Hawkeye Assembled episode features conversations with Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner as they discuss the genesis of Marvel's Black Widow movie and the Hawkeye Disney+ series.”
Now I really looking forward to the making of~~
This better not to fool us around, and please at least 10mins…
