Black Widow was the third Avenger to be introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Iron Man and the Hulk. She remained one of the core members of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – eventually becoming its co-leader with Steve Rogers – until she made the ultimate sacrifice on Vormir to ensure their victory against Thanos in Endgame.
During her stint on the Avengers (and afterward in prequel form), Natasha teamed up with such iconic Marvel heroes as Captain America, Nick Fury, Okoye, and her on-and-off sister Yelena Belova.
10 Hawkeye
From the beginning, Black Widow’s greatest ally in the MCU has always been Hawkeye. They made a great pair in the Battle of New York and insinuated it was their umpteenth such experience with an off-the-cuff quip about a mission in Budapest.
Black Widow and Hawkeye have always bonded over being the only two Avengers with no real superpowers, but they were also working together for Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. long before that.
9 Iron Man
Since Nat’s MCU debut in Iron Man 2, she’s shared a strong friendship with Tony Stark. They have the same dry sense of humor, which results in a cutting back-and-forth whenever they’re in a room together.
In Captain America: Civil War, she joined Tony’s side in the Sokovia Accords debate. They both felt that the legislation was a step in the right direction and that superheroes should be policed (although they turned out to be wrong when Thanos showed up).
8 Red Guardian
Red Skull revealed in Avengers: Endgame that Nat is the “daughter of Ivan,” something that even she didn’t know. After Ivan abandoned her and she became an undercover government agent, she was raised by Alexei Shostakov, played by David Harbour.
Better known as Red Guardian, Alexei was the Soviet Union’s answer to Captain America, given one of the many knockoff super-soldier serums that were created around the world. In the Black Widow movie, Nat reluctantly breaks him out of prison so he can help her and Yelena to find the Red Room.
7 Ant-Man
After Thor decapitates Thanos and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are left to wallow in a half-populated world rocked by their failure, Steve and Nat are out of ideas for how to bring everybody back.
And then, Scott Lang arrives at Avengers HQ with a pitch for a “time heist” that would see them traveling across the spacetime continuum to collect the Infinity Stones to do a finger-snap of their own. If it wasn’t for Ant-Man and his knowledge of the Quantum Realm, then the Mad Titan might’ve triumphed for good.
6 Agent Coulson
Agent Coulson was retired from the MCU’s big-screen output after his “death” in the first Avengers movie (which was quickly retconned in the pilot of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), but in Phase One, he was Nat’s “guy in the chair” during many of her S.H.I.E.L.D. missions.
When she’s first introduced in The Avengers, being interrogated while tied to a chair, Coulson calls and reveals that there’s a fighter jet ready to demolish the entire block if they don’t hand the phone to Nat.
5 The Hulk
While Fury handled most of the Avengers recruitments, Nat was the one who enlisted the help of Bruce Banner. She tracked him down in Kolkata and convinced him to join the team and let the Hulk out for the greater good.
From Age of Ultron onward, Nat became the go-to Avenger to calm the Hulk down and bring Banner back. She approaches the green meanie at the end of each battle and tells him, “Hey, big guy, sun’s getting real low.” This line was later parodied in Thor: Ragnarok when Thor tries and fails to calm the Hulk down mid-brawl.
4 Okoye
On the whole, the Battle of Wakanda in Avengers: Infinity War is a messy, frenzied set-piece – especially compared to its cross-cutting companion, the Battle of Titan – but there’s a triumphant moment when Wanda is trying to protect Vision and Proxima Midnight arrives to kill her.
Proxima says, “He’ll die alone, as will you,” but an off-screen Natasha quips, “She’s not alone.” Nat and Okoye team up to annihilate Proxima before she can get near Wanda.
3 Captain America
It may have taken a decade for Natasha to get her own solo movie, but she played a supporting role in Captain America’s post-Avengers solo movies. They teamed up to take on modern-day Hydra in The Winter Soldier and, although they took separate sides in the Sokovia Accords debate in Civil War, she ultimately allowed Cap to escape with Bucky as a personal favor during the airport skirmish.
In addition to sharing hilarious banter about Steve’s struggles with dating and pop culture references, they’re well-matched battle buddies – she often bounces off his shield to take out henchmen.
2 Yelena Belova
The long-awaited Black Widow movie opened with a prologue revealing Natasha’s backstory. She was in an Americans-style fake family of Soviet plants in the Cold War. When they were made and had to return to Russia, Nat and her “sister” Yelena Belova were recruited into the Red Room.
In the bulk of the movie, the pair reunited to bring down the Red Room program. Following Nat’s death, Yelena is primed to take over as the new Black Widow.
1 Nick Fury
Way back in Iron Man 2, Black Widow was initially introduced to MCU audiences as a confidant of Nick Fury. She infiltrates Tony Stark’s life in the guise of a Stark Industries employee and keeps an eye on him at Fury’s behest.
Described by Quentin Beck as “the most paranoid person on the planet,” Fury only trusts a small handful of people – and Nat is one of them.
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