10 Behind The Scenes Reasons For MCU Characters' Quirks

10. Yelena's Hatred Of Superhero Poses

One of the funniest and most memorable running gags in Black Widow is Yelena's (Florence Pugh) mockery of Natasha's (Scarlett Johansson) tendency to pose while performing a superhero landing.

This culminates of course in Yelena doing a pose herself after dropping out of a vent and immediately recoiling with self-loathing, even calling it "disgusting."

The joke actually wasn't part of the original script at all but added to a subsequent draft by screenwriter Eric Pearson after he heard Florence Pugh and Scarlett Johansson talking during pre-shooting rehearsals.

During an interview with MTV, Pugh confirmed that during stunt training she learned that the superhero poses you see in movies aren't realistic and "everybody would die" if they tried to land that way in reality.

Pugh then passed this piece of information onto co-star Johansson, which was overheard by Pearson, who found the banter amusing enough to shape into a gag in the movie.