Warning: This post contains spoilers for Black Widow.
Scarlett Johansson knew just where Natasha’s grave should be in Black Widow. After several COVID-related delays and even more years of fans calling for it, Natasha Romanoff’s first (and likely only) solo adventure in the MCU has arrived. Black Widow debuted this past weekend, over a year after it was first expected to premiere. The film, which scored the best opening weekend of the pandemic, doesn’t focus on Natasha’s origin story, but instead explores the adventure she went on in the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, when she revisited her assassin roots.
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Even before Black Widow premiered, it carried with it a sense of loss. Natasha sacrificed herself in Avengers: Endgame, thus shutting the door on any future story possibilities for the character. A common complaint leveled at Endgame is that it doesn’t show any kind of memorial for Natasha. Black Widow attempts to rectify this by showing her grave, which is a simple headstone in an Ohio cemetery. Her sister Yelena (Florence Pugh) visits it during the Black Widow end-credits scene.
It turns out that the idea to give Natasha a modest grave was Johansson’s. In an interview with Variety, Black Widow director Cate Shortland responded to the decision to give Natasha a smaller…
