![]() ![]() “I like Natasha because she’s a deep enough character that she has both the kick-ass ability to take people down and to analyze a problem and really understand,” Borah said. UC’s Borah said she is eager to see a Black Widow origin movie, perhaps one framed in the present with a new looming crisis to advance Marvel’s overarching storyline. ![]() “Hawkeye before Black Widow? Naaah!” one fan replied. One Marvel fan site tweeted an April Fools’ Day announcement about a stand-alone Hawkeye movie that generated a strong reaction. Marissa Cortes with ComicsVerse said a stand-alone Black Widow movie would be “a great chance to establish Natasha Romanoff in the Marvel Comics universe beyond her relationships with other male characters.” “If ‘Wonder Woman’ star Gal Gadot, Charlize Theron’s Furiosa in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and Daisy Ridley’s Rey in ‘Star Wars’ haven’t convinced Marvel Studios that fans really, really want to see women leading action movies more than once in a blue moon, what will?” asked writer Laura Bradley in Vanity Fair. It’s a sore point with Marvel watchers as the studio rolls out “Avengers: Infinity War” on April 27. But Marvel Studios hasn’t given the character a chance to carry her own film. The former Russian spy in the films is one of the founding members of the Avengers, a group of superheroes fighting for justice against tyranny and terrorism as they grapple with the complications created by abilities that place them beyond the reach of the law.īlack Widow is a Marvel favorite, appearing in at least six films because she appeals to a diverse audience ranging from feminists to fanboys, Borah said. She hasn’t gotten the same recognition of having her own solo movie.”īorah, an associate professor of English and comparative literature in UC’s McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, addressed this omission and the reasons why the character inspires such fan loyalty in an April presentation to the national Popular Culture Association conference in Indianapolis.īorah’s paper, titled “Red in Everyone’s Ledger: Marvel’s Black Widow Difficulties,” chronicles the character’s story arc as portrayed on screen by actress Scarlett Johansson. ![]() Marvel is getting better at diverse representation, but at the same time they haven’t done this character justice in a lot of ways. ”She’s the one who has been around the longest in the films. “How Natasha is handled is important because she is the first female Avenger,” Borah said. In between, the University of Cincinnati English professor has followed the lives and times of Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner and a parade of other male heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, most of whom are advised, encouraged or saved by one of the original Avengers, Natasha Romanoff or Black Widow. Pop culture critic Rebecca Borah was in the theater cheering when Tony Stark welded together his first Iron Man suit and T’Challa fought for the future of Wakanda. Photos by Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services ![]()
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