Black Widow: 10 Huge Questions We Still Have
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After a longer than usual wait between MCU installments, with Spider-Man: Far From Home releasing all the way back in July 2019, Black Widow is finally on the horizon. The marketing campaigns have ramped up with new trailers and posters, and the wait is nearly over.
While Marvel have kept their cards close to their chest as always, we aren't going into the cinemas completely in the dark. Natasha Romanoff will return to Russia after the events of Civil War to team up with the figures from her past to take down Taskmaster and the Red Room in which she was trained.
However, there are certain aspects of the movie, with regards to character, story, and the future of the MCU, that Marvel have deliberately kept quiet about, and rumours and theories that make so much sense we can't help but keep asking ourselves the same questions over and over.
While the trailers may have shed some light on certain aspects, and we can make several assumptions based on the source material, there are still some huge questions hanging over Black Widow that can't truly be answered until May 1st.
10. What Happened In Budapest?
Not only is this one of the biggest questions heading into Black Widow, it is one of the longest standing questions throughout the entire MCU. First alluded to in Avengers Assemble all the way back in 2012, Marvel Studios have never elaborated on what actually happened between Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton in Budapest.
We can certainly piece together a rough picture based on a few puzzle pieces picked up over the years. Clint was sent to kill Natasha but had a change of heart, and ended up saving her from her previous life and putting her on a different, better path.
The conversation between the two in Endgame about how far they've come since Budapest seems to suggest that Hungary was the first time they had ever met. Why then would Hawkeye choose not to complete his mission? And why would Natasha even listen to the stranger sent to kill her?
It's been eight long years, but Black Widow in 2020 seems to be when we will finally learn how the titular character came to get so much red in her ledger.