Avengers: Endgame - Every Death Ranked Ranked Worst To Best

3. Black Widow

Avengers Endgame Trailer Black Widow
Marvel Studios

For all of the leaks and the speculation that came out over the past year, it's pretty incredible that very little was ever said about Black Widow's death. Perhaps that's why it ended up being one of the more divisive points of the movie?

Given that Thanos had to sacrifice Gamora to get his hands on the Soul Stone, we should have seen this coming when Nat and Clint Barton headed to Vormir to retrieve the Stone again. But even as they came face-to-face with the Red Skull Stone Guardian, it felt like they were going to find a loophole of some sort. Maybe Hawkeye's losses would cancel out the need for a sacrifice?

In the end there was no loophole and after the pair fought for the right to die for the other one - a great reflection of their friendship - Black Widow made her sacrifice, leaving Clint with his future with his family and all of the ghosts of the criminals he had brutally brought to justice via murder, presumably.

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