The MCU's New Black Widow Needs Her Own Movie Before Thunderbolts
The MCU's new Black Widow Yelena deserves her own solo movie before her potential return in Thunderbolts. The adoptive sister of Natasha Romanoff, Yelena has quickly become one of the franchise's most dynamic characters. In the earliest Black Widow scenes, she displays her fighting prowess and training that keeps her focused on her mission, always. She goes on to find Natasha after years of not speaking to her. Natasha assumed Yelena had gotten out of the black widows successfully and was living a normal life. Yelena, as it turns out, has been a trained killer for years before defecting from the Red Room thanks to a widow who freed her. In an affecting arc, she spends her time trying to save as many black widows as she can, eventually with the assistance of her family.
In Black Widow's end credits scene, Yelena visits Natasha's grave only to be confronted by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, asking her to kill Clint Barton. Yelena next appears in Hawkeye, where viewers learn that she was blipped while trying to save more black widows. In the show, she befriends Kate Bishop and has some hilarious banter, establishing her as a fully-fleshed-out character, one arguably even more charming than Natasha. She does try to kill Hawkeye, avenging her sister in her eyes, before he explains to her that Natasha's death was her own choice. In the end, Yelena forces herself to back off, which is the last time she's seen in the MCU. Now, with a Thunderbolts movie in the works and Yelena a part of that team in the comics, many believe that will be her next appearance in the franchise.
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However, given everything Yelena's been through up to this point as a character and the way she stood out in
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