Black Widow and Captain America Should Have Been More Than Just Co-Workers
SPOILERS await within the coming text so please do not continue if you are behind on MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) full length features. We’re talking plot details and probably even endings.
Today is May 1st, 2020 and it is a day in which Black Widow was slated to be released in the United States. Also in the realm of delayed releases, this piece, which was supposed to be published a year ago before the release of Avengers: Endgame and titled “Am I the Only One Looking Forward to a Sex Scene Between Black Widow and Captain America in the Upcoming Avengers: Endgame?” Due to pure indolence and procrastination, that did not happen. However, it does not change the validity of the core thought: Should Black Widow and Captain America have ended up together?
We sit here post Endgame knowing that, Steve got to fulfill his rudimentary desires and live a regular life with Peggy Carter (though I doubt it was very “regular” for a super soldier), and Natasha... well, Natasha made the ultimate sacrifice for the Soul Stone. Given that canon, our endeavor holds less thrill and anticipation than it would have if before those two character endings were thrust upon us. This will then be more of a look into ‘why it should have’ opposed to ‘why it should’.
Before we get into it, it needs to be declared that this article is written from the perspective of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies only. It does not reflect any plot or dialogue from the comics, television, web series, or any other Marvel material.
The foundation of this argument begins with chemistry. Black Widow and Captain America’s on screen chemistry was not only effortless but it was undeniably engaging. Every time they exchanged playful banter or teamed up to kick the hell out of a bad guy, with hand to hand combat nonetheless, my Spidy sense perked up with a “Oh yeah, these two are definitely going to ‘wink-wink nod-nod’ at some point”. It was a match made in heaven; or, at least, in a Stark Industries laboratory. The filmmakers did not see it as such. Instead, they did their worst to have us accept that Natasha and Bruce Banner somehow made sense and that Captain America’s best life was cemented in the past with Peggy Carter. The simple problem with those schemes is, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) and Captain America (Steve Rogers) are two souls born of the same fire and any other conclusion is bull headed and dim-witted.
Let us begin not with Steve and Natasha but rather with Bruce and Natasha. If you missed it or need a refresher on their first encounter, here’s a basic breakdown: Natasha tricks Dr. Banner into meeting her with the use of a young girl, she lies to him about being there alone, and then Bruce scares the ever living shit out of her with his “Stop lying to me!” ‘joke’. Despite all that, she convinces him to come aboard, find the Tesseract; and, in essence, become an official card carrying member of The Avengers. This first contact between the two is crucial as it lays the ground work to their impending “romance”. What a way to kick off a relationship. Lies and fear. Now that the Doctor and the Widow have officially met, let’s cut to the Helicarrier with Natasha and Steve’s first interaction. Admittedly, it’s nothing special. A very Captain America-esque “Ma’am” from Steve and a “Hi.” from Natasha. Maybe they both were trying to be “cool” about it when the truth was their insides were screaming out with attraction and lust. Either way, it wasn’t nearly as intense (in the wrong kind of way) and tense as Black Widow and Bruce Banner’s inaugural chat. In fact, it seems like most every interaction between Mr. Banner and Ms. Romanoff is intense. After Bruce, Tony Stark, and the others learn about S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Phase II plan and after Black Widow learns of Loki’s plan to let loose The Hulk, Natasha asks Bruce to “remove himself from the environment.” He responds sharply by accusing her of manipulating him. Another good, solid relationship foundation brick, manipulation. Here’s the basic reason we are led to believe that Bruce Banner and Natasha Romanoff make sense as a couple - Guilt. Natasha feels guilty about convincing the angriest Avenger to join the cause and risk his Hulk sobriety. Lies, deceit, fear, manipulation, and guilt. These are the things as we are shown the Black Widow and The Hulk’s match is built upon; rickety at best. Maybe it was the intention, to lead the viewer down a path that was Victor Von Doomed from the beginning only to bring us to a climatic, half the universe ashed away, romantic, classy, sex scene in Avengers: Endgame. As we know, that amalgamation between the two never came to fruition. The ultimate case of blue Infinity Stones. Now, did I believe Marvel was going to include a romantic scene involving intercourse, with two of its main characters, in their cherished cessation? I did not. But as I sat there in the theater, I held out hope until the very end, until Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff’s final breath.
Why did I hold out hope for so long? It made too much sense not to. This was our last chance (theoretically) to see these two attractive, beloved characters on screen together. What better way to reward your loyal, adult, fans who had supported your ambitious silver screen comic book endeavor for eleven years (Iron Man 2008 - Endgame 2019) than to show a little skin? I wasn’t looking for anything graphic or vulgar, more along the lines of tasteful and tender. But a question which needs answering, why do I feel this way? Why so hung up on Black Widow and Captain America being more than brothers in arms? The answer, Captain America: The Winter Soldier... This is the eighth feature (not counting The Incredible Hulk, no one counts The Incredible Hulk) in the MCU, and it is the feature where Steve and Natasha have the most contact. Aside from some minor dealings in The Avengers (Black Widow uses Steve and his shield to launch herself onto a Chitauri cruiser - Cap is awfully impressed and, using conjecture, dare I say smitten?), Winter Soldier is where the two, not only shine together, but also display the vulnerable sides of their characters. Right off the bat in, Steve receives a text message:
MISSION ALERT.
EXTRACTION IMMINENT.
MEET AT THE CURB. :)
If you look closely there is a non-emoji style smiley face. Colon and closed bracket. Why is this flirtatious punctuation present in such a weighty message? And more importantly, who sent this message? We discover who the herald is not but eighteen seconds later when Black Widow - Natasha Romanoff - Nat, shows up in a smoking hot Corvette Stingray. Arriving with this playful little quip, “Hey fellas, either one of you know where the Smithsonian is? I’m here to pick up a fossil.” (a reference to Captain America’s seventy year nap in the ice) the tone of the two S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s relationship is set. It’s a remark that is unnecessary and, quite honestly, a little insubordinate if we want to get into workplace hierarchy. We don’t so we won’t. What we will do is continue to the very next scene where the two are conversing about Steve’s leisure plans for Saturday night. Encouraging Steve to ask Cristen out from statistics Natasha quickly learns that Steve is not interested in Cristen from statistics, stating he is too busy. It doesn’t stop there. The moment after parachuting down to join Captain Rogers on the ship (the site of their mission) she immediately brings up the nurse that lives across the hall. Why so interested in Steve’s love life Natasha? Is it because he’s your friend and you care about him and his well-being? Or is it because of your secret, and maybe even unperceived to yourself, desire to explore a passionate relationship with the world’s greatest soldier? At this point, any rational audience member has to be thinking, ‘Man, Black Widow is into the Cap.’ Setting aside surface level flirtations and confirmation theory, the point where the relationship truly begins to build with some real substance is the moment of Nick Fury’s “death”. I don’t think I need to explain what the experts say time in and time out about shared experience and shared trauma. Now, of course, Nick Fury was only playing around, but Cap and Nat don’t know that at the time. The delve wasn’t deep into the bond between Fury and Romanoff or even Fury and Rogers so we’ll bend the stick a bit and make an educated guess that: Fury could easily be viewed as a father figure to Natasha, a young Russian girl, bred to be a spy, Nick gave her a place where she could both use her skill (whether she wanted that skill or not) and be part of a family, as evidenced by her comments at the beginning of Endgame, “I used to have nothing. And then I got this. This Job, this family.” With Rogers, he was Steve’s first connection to a new world and offered him familiarity in the area of military type of lifestyle as well as the opportunity to join the greatest armed forces team in the world. After the “passing” of Fury it begins... Steve lands himself in some shit at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, escapes, and heads to the hospital to retrieve the drive Fury had given him before his untimely “demise.” Steve had cleverly hidden it in a vending machine but when he arrives to recover it, he finds the drive to be absent, and in its place, a bubble gum popping reflection of Natasha. He takes her by the arm into a nearby room and holds her against the wall. He’s not playing around. She tells him the drive is safe and, following some persuasion, about an intelligence legend called The Winter Soldier, an assassin who is credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last fifty years. After a story about her escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, in which The Winter Soldier killed the engineer by shooting him through her, she shows Steve a scar on her belly and drops this diddy on us, “Bye bye bikinis.” And if that isn’t enough, Steve replies, “Yeah, I bet you look terrible in them now.” I mean... come on! If this isn’t evidence of an underlying thirst for one another... The next chapter in Steve and Natasha’s blatant romance novel, and the point where the justification for the treatise begins to pick up speed, is the whole ‘we’re engaged’ moment in the ©Apple store. Black Widow (the writers) could have literally said anything for a cover and she chose a fantasy where she and Steve are getting married and going on a honeymoon. Comedic purposes? Partly. The real purpose? Clearly to establish that Natasha has some kind of deep rooted feelings of affection towards Steve. But if you think that was compromising to Black Widow’s veiled feelings, wait until we get out in the open. As our two leads elude the Strike Unit, Natasha tells Steve to, “shut-up and put your arm around me, laugh at something I said. Do it.” Good evasion tactic while also fulfilling primal desires. Then on the escalators as Rumlow is going up and Cap and Black are going down she says, “Kiss me. Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable.” They kiss and avoid the future villain and Natasha walks away in a cheerful manner. From the ©Apple Store to the escalator, the entire sequence is basically begging the audience to consider that Natasha has a taste for Captain Rogers. I’m telling you, this Winter Soldier movie is riddled with evidence for an eventual Black Widow / Captain America union. And it doesn’t stop there. We then move into some more concrete support of the argument with the scene in the truck. After teasing Steve about the kiss, she asks him directly, “Nobody special though?” in which he replies with a laugh and a, “Believe it or not, it’s kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience.” There it is, right from the Captains mouth - shared life experience. Does Natasha know what it’s like to be frozen for seventy years and then plunged back into a human culture that probably feels alien? No. She does, however, know what it’s like to be a soldier. To be trained from a young age to do one thing, fight. It’s not a perfect mirrored experience but it is a hell of a lot closer of a relation than to that of a nuclear physicist. Add upon the experiences of Winter Soldier with: The Battle of New York, countless missions we’re presumed they have been on off screen, the future challenges they will come to face together (that f***er Thanos) and you have a treasure trove of things to talk about in your aged years. They go on to discuss truth and trust. Steve tells her, “You know it’s kind of hard to trust someone when you don’t know who that someone really is.” She asks, “Who do you want me to be?” “How ‘bout a friend?” he replies. She looks away, clearly have had wanted him to say lover (elevated assumption). After some more shared experience: discovering S.H.I.E.L.D. is basically HYDRA, and Steve protecting her from the bombardment on the bunker, they scurry off to Sam Wilson’s place where we are exposed to some openness from Black Widow,
“When I first joined S.H.I.E.L.D I thought I was going straight. But I guess I just traded in the KGB for HYDRA. I guess I thought I knew whose lies I was telling... but I guess I can’t tell the difference anymore.”
It’s a pleasant bonding and trust building moment for the two, specifically Natasha. She then tells Steve that she owes him for saving her from the missile strike and worries that if it had been the other way around would Steve trust her to do it, “I would now.” he says. Trust effectively assembled. From there: they battle The Winter Soldier, Robin shows up and takes them to Nick Fury, and they accomplish the take down of the HYDRA head of S.H.I.E.L.D.. This one ends similarly to how it began; Natasha leaves him with another push towards the “nurse” across the hall and a kiss on the cheek. This chapter of the saga is complete while undoubtedly setting up the franchise’s most hardened male/female relationship. (Except maybe Pepper Potts and Tony Stark. Possibly maybe even Peter Quill and Gamora...)
From the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier to Avengers: Age of Ultron - What. The. Hell. Happened? We’re greeted in the second Avengers movie with Black Widow as The Hulk’s handler and the infamous, “Hey big guy. Sun’s getting real low.” It goes on from there to insinuate that Natasha and Bruce are involved in some kind of love affair. Without much evidence or support, it is clear that we are supposed to accept the fact that these two are doing more than just battling Baron von Strucker’s goons together. The tattered yarn attempted to be woven includes some minor dialogue, on the Quinjet after the title screen, “How long before you trust me?” Natasha asks Bruce, he replies, “It’s not you I don’t trust.” and a conversation at the bar during the ‘We-got-Loki’s-staff!’ party. Paraphrasing: Natasha tells Bruce she likes him because he’s not a fighter like her other friends and because he’s a dork, “- chicks dig that.” Funny enough, Captain America happens to be surveilling this conversation and at the end of it, basically gives Bruce his blessing as the “-authority on waiting too long, you both deserve a win.” This Hulk + Black Widow thing feels forced and underdeveloped. It’s as if the people involved with the plot construction said to themselves, ‘Well, we need someone to calm The Hulk down and since Betty Ross is ghost in all this, our only other female option is Black Widow (or agent Hill, yeah right) and the audience is never going to believe that one of the best spies in the universe is good at manipulating a hulking monster just for manipulations sake... (insert side eye emoji) so we’re going to have to make the two a couple.’ Okay, fair enough. But if you want to go this route, why not mention something about Bruce and Natasha in Winter Soldier? Was it premeditated at that point? Probably not, and if it wasn’t wholly vetted beforehand, why force it? You are writing about a man who transforms into a giant green brute when he spills coffee on his shirt first thing in the morning (don’t you hate that), your plot options are quite literally limitless. Also, why not introduce (or re-introduce if you are one of the rare ones who counts The Incredible Hulk) Betty Ross in Age of Ultron? It’s not worth diving into now or getting upset about because we have what we have and what we have is a Bruce Banner Natasha Romanoff affaire de coeur. To describe their relationship as a love affair might be unfair, but there in lies the problem. We really don’t know what that relationship is or how it developed. Between the Battle of New York in The Avengers and the raid on Strucker’s base in Age of Ultron we are left in the dark, barring a future flick set in the past. Continuing with Avengers: Age of Ultron, the only real scene of significance between Bruce and Natasha, and categorically their best, is back at Mr. Barton - Hawkeye’s - farmly abode. Remember that indolence I mentioned? Well here’s a little taste of it as I will quickly summarize that interaction:
Bruce Banner comes out of the shower to find Black Widow waiting the bed: things are said, Black Widow proposes to run away with him: he’s like “what the fuck are you talking about, there’s no place for me to go (you know, ‘cause of the whole Hulk thing): she’s like “I don’t give a fuck. I’ll go with you.”: he’s like “damn girl I can’t have a family and shit.”: she’s like “Neither can I, I’m sterile.”: he’s like “Whoa... so we just like, disappear?”
Okay, her telling him that she had been sterilized as a young girl is some real heavy shit, no joke. In terms of trust building, that’s uh... that is a good one. This is by far the strongest moment they have on screen and the only time I can slightly, maybe, possibly, one-in-a-million-chance, believe that they could be together. That feeling is fleeting however, as their next encounter occurs after Natasha is captured and Bruce Banner, of all the Avengers, is the one to slip into Ultron’s lair and rescue her from lock up. Before we get to that though, let’s revisit a Captain America/Black Widow interplay, less we forget, that’s what this is all about. Almost immediately, immediately after her pretty serious talk with the Doctor up in the bedroom, she’s back to flirting with the Captain in the Barton family kitchen. As the gang thrashes out Ultron’s motivations and their plan of action against those motivations, Nick Fury refers to Ultron as “the platinum bastard.” Natasha teases, “Steve doesn’t like that kind of talk.” “You know what Romanoff...” he returns as they both smile like damn teenagers. Also, doesn’t it seem a little odd of a comment to make from someone ready to leave everything behind and disappear? Consistency issues aside, let’s get back to finishing things off between Natasha and Bruce. So Natasha gets captured by Ultron, Bruce shows up to free her, and then intends to tuck tail and run. “Our fight is over.” he tells her. Natasha looks at him, “So we just disappear?” Cut to some evacuating Sokovian citizens, some action stuff, the city detaching from the Earth’s crust, a message from the platinum bastard himself, and then back to the “lovers.” At this moment, as Ultron is preparing to obliterate the world, Bruce is still trying to flee. His purpose is noble, “I can’t be in a fight near civilians.” but come on Banner, you’re the strongest Avenger. Get your head out of your ass and do some smashin’. Black Widow plainly believes the same as she baits him with a kiss, “I adore you”, and then pushes him down a huge hole that happens to be right next to where they are standing. She then delivers the line that puts the final nail in the Black Widow / Hulk love affair coffin, “But I need the other guy.” The Hulk magnificently comes roaring out of the hole and Black Widow smiles, “Let’s finish the job.” The team does work and mostly neutralizes Ultron and his minions. It’s time for a lullaby. B Dub nearly succeeds in putting the Hulkster to bed when that c*nt Ultron comes through with the Quinjet he apparently hi-jacked, blasting away on anyone or anything he sees. Hulk absorbs the rounds before grabbing Romanoff and tucking her away safely on the Helicarrier. He then hops on the Ultron piloted Quinjet and unceremoniously tosses the silver prick out and back onto the floating chunk of terrain. Scarlet Witch tears out Ultron’s mechanical heart while Iron Man and The God of Thunder annihilate the hunk of planet suspended in the air. The day has been saved, at least from a non political standpoint, and The Hulk cruises along in the Quinjet. Natasha tries to persuade the green fella to go ahead and turn off the stealth mode and come on back home. He says no thank you and flies away to Sakaar. That’s it folks, that’s all she wrote for ‘ol Brucie and Nattie. Here’s the rub, even if The Hulk doesn’t fly away (which, is The Hulk making conscious decisions? What the hell is going on there?), when push comes to shove, Natasha is a warrior who cannot run away from the fight and Bruce is doing everything he can TO run away from the fight. The obvious thing to point out here is the parallel between Black Widow and Captain America’s soldier like mentality. Before the final showdown with Ultron, when referencing the group’s possible demise, Steve says, “I have no plans tomorrow.” Then, when Sokovia is being lifted into the atmosphere and it’s beginning to look like the squad might have to go down with it, Natasha states, “Not a bad way to go. Where else am I going to get a view like this?” Two soldiers ready to lay down their lives for the cause. Bruce and Natasha’s romance came out of Knowhere and never left the ground; but hey, at least she was able to calm the Hulk down, that one time.
The bulk of this case is carried within The Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron, but there are some important pieces to the conversation that lay with Captain America: Civil War. After the sub-Avengers, we’ll call them (Captain America, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, and Falcon), do a little good and do a little bad in Lagos, Tony Stark and Secretary Ross show up with some un-welcome paper work for the team to consider. As they discuss whether or not to sign the Sokovia Accords, Steve is steadfast on his position to refuse the accords. He disagrees with Tony and Lieutenant Rhodes and even the insightful Vision. However, once Natasha speaks in favor of the accords Steve listens, “I’m reading the terrain. We have made some very public mistakes. We need to win their trust back.” Though everyone in the room is listening, she means this for Steve. This shows the Captain’s willingness to listen to Natasha when other highly regarded individuals make the same point. Another demonstration of trust between the two. After Natasha’s poignant observation, Steve receives a message notifying him that his beloved Peggy has passed. At the funeral, Sharon Carter, the “nurse” from across the hall we met in Winter Soldier, has some nice words to say about her aunt Peggy and echoes her sentiments about compromise, which could not have come at a better time given Cap’s current predicament regarding the Sokovia Accords. Natasha is at the funeral to show her support for Steve stating, “I didn’t want you to be alone.” A showcase on the close bond between the two. The movie progresses along: the accord ratification ceremony is bombed, Steve and Sam track down Bucky (with the help of Sharon Carter), Black Panther makes his first appearance, the four of them get detained by the police and War Machine/Iron Patriot, Tony Stark tries to convince Steve to sign the accords one more time to no avail, Helmut activates The Winter Soldier, The Winter Soldier escapes, Steve pulls The Winter Soldier out of the water, The Winter Soldier is now again Bucky Barnes, Secretary Ross wants Captain Roger’s head, Tony Stark asks for 72 hours for that but he gets 36, Peter Parker comes into play, and then we arrive under the bridge. A very, minute almost, part of Captain America: Civil War is Steve and Sharon Carter’s budding courtship. Again, everything you have read so far and the lexis to come is based on the MCU movies only. It might be worth mentioning here though, that in some of the comics I believe, Captain America and Sharon Carter share a traditional boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. I do not know much about those comics and I will not claim that I do. So Sharon meets the boys - Steve, Sam, and Bucky - under the bridge to give them their tools (shield and bird costume) before they head off to the airport. (Sharon is really coming through in a major way in this one.) As Steve retrieves the items from Sharon’s trunk, he thanks her and then goes in for the kiss, she reciprocates. The kiss is kind of out of the blue but hey, give the people what they want. I’m absolutely fine with the Captain America / Sharon Carter romance because it makes sense. Simply put, two people with similar lifestyles and backgrounds. But why not develop that storyline a little better as well as follow through with it? For example, in Captain America: The Winter Soldier when Black Widow and the Cap are being held in the back of the van after going a couple of rounds with The Winter Soldier in the street, why not have Sharon Carter be the one to show up with the cut-through-anything device and bring them to Nick Fury? Instead, we get agent Hill, thanks Robin, thanks for ruining another thing. Or better yet, why not just replace Black Widow’s role in The Winter Soldier with Sharon Carter? But, what’s done is done and you gotta move on, you gotta move on. So Sharon helps the guys out, Steve plants one on her, and the lads head off to the airport for one of the better (opinion) MCU fights. Natasha tries to sway Steve one last time before taking up the opposing side. The brawl ensues and some cool things happen - “Buckled In?” “Yeah. No, I’m good. I’m good, Arrow Guy. Let’s go, let’s go!” - “We haven’t met yet. I’m Clint.” “I don’t care.” - before Steve and Bucky make for their escape towards the Quinjet in hanger five on the north runway. The two chums make it under some falling debris, with a little help from Scarlet Witch, into the hanger when they are greeted by Black Widow. The jig is up. Just as it is about to look like she is going to zap them, she nails an oncoming Black Panther. She was on the Caps side the whole time! Yes! Bucky and Steve find the other Winter Soldiers and have some fisty-cuffs with Iron Man. Cap gives up his shield, Tony is back at the compound, Steve liberates his friends, and the credits roll. A final thought with this one: I appreciate the fact that it was attempted to establish the Steve Rogers/Sharon Carter coupling, but it was obviously quickly scrapped as Sharon Carter does not make an appearance in this film, or any subsequent, since the kiss under the bridge. Again, another poorly developed relationship that seemed to only exist for the purposes of the lead hero. Maybe they ought to get Nora Roberts on retainer for Phase IV.
The next abridgment will be brief as not much occurs between Steve and Nat, or Bruce and Nat for that matter, in Avengers: Infinity War. Captain America and Black Widow don’t even make their appearance until forty minutes into the film. The biggest question that arises with these two from Infinity War is, what were they up to between Civil War and Infinity War? Steve’s hair is long and his beard is full. Natasha’s hair is short, straight, and blonde. What’s going on there? There’s got to be some good stuff that went down during that time period. The only other notable instance in this one is when Natasha and Bruce see each other. It’s the first time they’ve seen one aother since she pushed him into that huge hole in Age of Ultron. She says, “Hi Bruce.”, “Nat.” he says and she cracks a little smile. That’s it. More important stuff going on in this one I suppose.
Avengers: Endgame moves along much in the same way as does Infinity War, not much business between our two (three) characters of study. There is an instance of note toward the beginning when Natasha is distressed about the current state of affairs. Steve listens and offers a piece of advice, “I think we both need to get a life.” She says “You first.” Here’s a novel idea, why not use the two-bird one-stone gizmo and the duo can get a life together.”? Ant Man then shows up and the movie turns into a whole ‘let’s bring everyone back we lost and keep everything we found or whatever’ type of movie. In pursuit of that goal, before the gang heads off through the quantum realm, Natasha looks at Steve (not Bruce/Hulk/Professor Hulk) and says, “See ya in a minute”, they share a smile. Unbeknownst to all of us, that was last time Steve would ever see Nat.
It doesn’t take much science or magic or thunder or gamma radiation to see that Black Widow and Captain America belong together. From their super soldier-like origins (we only have a peek into Black Widow’s origin story, courtesy of Wanda Maximoff) to their readiness to lay it all on the line in the name of duty, these two kindred sprits were more than primed to consummate their alliance in Endgame. The filmmakers teased us and toyed with us during Winter Soldier. They even doubled down by introducing Sharon Carter, only to take her away after Steve got his kiss. (It’s quite sick if you really take the time to think about it.) But all would have been forgiven. All would have been excused, if you would have just followed through with the most obvious of outcomes. An outcome that we all watched being built throughout the duration of the Infinity Saga. It was a no-brainer, Steve and Natasha - Great chemistry: check. Excellent rapport: check. Shared life experience: check. Soldier like mentality: check. Trust: check. Instead, you left us with an old Captain Rogers and a dead Natasha Romanoff. The good news however, is that on November 6th (for now) 2020, Black Widow will be ready for its theatrical release. And because it is set between the events of Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, there is a chance - Steve and Nat may not have ended up together - but there is a chance that we will be treated to an intimate tryst between Black Widow and Captain America. Never lose hope.
