Black Widow: 21 WTF Moments

1. There's No Tony Stark Cameo

Black Widow Scarlett Johansson
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Honestly one of the movie's biggest surprises was what we didn't see. Back in 2019, credible reports suggested that Robert Downey Jr. would have a small cameo in Black Widow as Tony Stark via flashback.

It made total sense and would've been an elegant way to bring Stark back without literally resurrecting him, so surprising it was that, in the end, he was nowhere to be seen.

While it's respectable that the filmmakers perhaps didn't want to detract from Natasha's send-off by dropping a marquee cameo in the middle of it, given that the film was ultimately a little lacking on the emotional front, a Tony Stark cameo actually might've given the movie a visceral boost.

Then again, it's tough to be too mad about Downey Jr. actually staying away from the MCU and the franchise finally letting a character's death be totally concrete.

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