Black Widow Suffers A Brutal Injury The MCU Would Never Have Allowed
Warning! Spoilers for Black Widow #14 ahead!
While Black Widow has taken plenty of hits across her MCU appearances, she just suffered an injury in her self-titled Marvel Comics series more gruesome than anything she's endured on-screen. Natasha has gone head-to-head against some of the toughest opponents in the Marvel films, including Winter Soldier, Hawkeye and the Hulk. Each time, she came out on top. While her death in Avengers: Endgame is certainly more final than her most recent comics injury, that was a willing sacrifice, whereas this is the result of a decisive loss.
Marvel Comicshas no shortage of skilled killers-for-hire in its roster, but a Black Widowcan strike fear into even the coldest of hearts and Natasha Romanoff is the deadliest among them. Her mere presence commands instant respect from earthly dictators to alien despots. Still, everyone has a limit, and Natasha has just learned hers in a very clear way after another run-in with the Bogeyman of her past: the Living Blade.
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Readers who have been following the Black Widow series by Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande will know that this fateful reunion has been built up for several issues now. The stage was tantalizingly set after the flashback in issue #13 introduced readers to this taciturn assassin and his grueling duel with Widowon the island of Madripoor. To say Natasha escaped with her life would be generous and borderline inaccurate—in truth the Blade spared it, knowing that they would come face to face again. In Black Widow #14, that prediction has rung true. But this time Romanoff’s luck runs out when, after a valiant fight, the Living Blade severs her entire right
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