The writers of Avengers: Endgame have revealed they ignored the apparent previous relationship between Black Widow and The Hulk.
After Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) set fans a flutter with a mild love story back in the day of Age Of Ultron, it was all but dusted when punters were keen for some closure.
There was nothing to complain about when it came to Endgame. In fact, just thinking about what came of our Avengers is giving us goosebumps.
But seeing as there was so much to take care of and a pesky Thanos to send back to where he came from, writers Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus explained they simply plum ran out of time.
That wasn’t before they gave it a red hot go in the previous instalment, but those scenes ended up on the cutting room floor (and we’d now pay very good money for them).
‘We certainly wanted to continue the story,’ Mcfeely told the Empire podcast. ‘In Infinity War we have scenes…wrote them, shot them…of [Hulk and Black Widow] sort of hashing that out. “You’ve been gone, I’ve moved on” – that kind of stuff.’
Hang on, no one moves on from this love story. We need to see proof of this. Scenes or it doesn’t exist, people!
Anyway, despite the flick clocking in the hours plural, McFeely added: ‘It became very clear that if a scene was not on the A-plot, it could not survive Infinity War.’
While fans would be pretty keen to see something, anything, that gave us a hint of closure as to where these two ended up, he added: ‘That thing has to be on rails just to get to the finish line. You couldn’t wrap up loose threads just because you wanted to.’
When it comes to Endgame, it just wasn’t going to happen seeing as the multiple threads the characters are cruising along makes for one tangled epic. A love story would muddy the waters and deep down (way deep down) we know that.
Markus said of the idea: ‘It [would] seem a little odd, in the midst of everyone’s mourning and [Hulk’s] change to a 2,000-pound genius, to go, “And they’re dating!”’
Now knowing what we know about Black Widow, we suppose it would have added another tier to the heartbreak.
No one wants to see Hulk cry.
Avengers: Endgame is in cinemas now.
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