Black Widow (Earth-11584)

Black Widow is a 2010 film released in the Earth-11584 continuity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Released on August 6, 2010, it features the character of Natalya Romanoff, aka Black Widow, who was first featured in Iron Man 2. It also marks the first onscreen appearance of Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye. The film was directed by Doug Liman and is the 4th film in Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Despite being released to generally favorable reviews, the film had the lowest gross of any film in the MCU to date, making only just over $250 million at the global box office.

Plot Summary
Told in flashback from the point of view of the titular spy, Natalya Romanoff, we learn of her training and background in the Soviet Red Room at the close of the Cold War, before being hired out to a man only known as Taskmaster to serve as his personal assassin. Though Widow carries out her actions without question to her boss, a particular job in Buenos Aires seems to haunt her. Intertwined we also meet Clint Barton, a former Army Sniper and survival expert who is a master archer and has joined SHIELD as a field operative, along with his girlfriend, fellow former Ranger Barbara Morse. Taking the codenames Hawkeye and Mockingbird respectively, in 1999 they are dispatched to stop a cache of biological weapons from the old Soviet Union from falling into anti-government forces in Russia. It is there that they come across Taskmaster and Widow, with Widow eventually being captured. Though they are ordered to terminate her by SHIELD director Wolfgang Strucker, Hawkeye and Mockingbird decide differently. This makes all three of them fugitives on the run from both Taskmaster and SHIELD. It is eventually revealed that Strucker and Taskmaster are actually working together to sew the seeds of discord in Russia, blaming the US and starting another Cold War if not a World War, so that they can profit from the arms race that would follow. Together, along with a SHIELD deputy director named Nick Fury, to stop this World War from occuring and expose Strucker for the traitor he is...

Post-Credits Scene
After sending Widow on her next mission, to shadow Bruce Banner in Calcutta as he is in hiding, SHIELD agent Phil Coulson is seen coming into the Arctic, where the profile of a large aircraft located under the ice has been found. After being told that it's been down there for some time, he requests a probe be sent ahead of any men. The probe sends back video, and when they reach the cockpit Coulson orders everything brought to a halt and to contact director Fury right away. When someone mentions that it's three in the morning there, Coulson replies that it's alright, "This one has waited long enough."

The camera cuts to the video feed from inside the carrier, to reveal a red white and blue shield frozen in solid ice.

Synopsis/Script
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Cast List
In addition, Stan Lee cameos as one of the examiners who tests Hawkeye and Mockingbird's skills and accuracy with firearms. Hawkeye demonstrates his deadliness with a bow and arrow by piercing a Coke Can that Lee is holding in his hand.
 * Scarlett Johansson as Natalya Romanoff/Black Widow- A Russian Master Spy in the employ of the Taskmaster, who eventually turns on her employer and joins SHIELD.
 * Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye- A former Army Ranger and Master Archer who joins SHIELD as a field operative, and in his first assignment is told to stop Taskmaster and hunt down Black Widow.
 * Cote de Pablo as Barbara Morse/Mockingbird- Another former Army Ranger who joins SHIELD as a field operative, and also is Hawkeye's girlfriend in the film.
 * Titus Welliver as Taskmaster- A master criminal warlord who, through eidetic muscle memory can accurately predict the moves and actions of whoever he is fighting or trying to outwit, who hires Black Widow as his personal assassin.
 * Thomas Krestchmann as Wolfgang Strucker- A German Baron who serves as the director of SHIELD, recruiting Clint Barton and Barbara Morse and assigning them to hunt down the Black Widow, who has compromising information about his connections with Taskmaster and him using SHIELD to start a World War.
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury- A deputy director of SHIELD who is appointed director at the end of the film. Jackson portrays a younger version of the character he played in the previous MCU films.
 * Clark Gregg as SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson- A special agent of SHIELD who appears in the closing minutes of the film to give Widow her next mission, as well as in a post-credits scene.