Black Widow’s Scarlett Johansson Comments on Potential MCU Return

Scarlett Johansson has given a new comment regarding whether or not she’ll reprise her Black Widow MCU role at some point in the future.

Johansson’s Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff made her official Marvel Studios debut in 2010’s Iron Man 2. She reprised the role in a number of other projects, though the character ultimately met her demise in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.

What did Scarlett Johansson say about a potential MCU Black Widow return?

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Johansson confirmed that Natasha truly is dead in the MCU and, while Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Hemsworth may be starring in the new Avengers: Doomsday movie, she won’t be.

“It would be very hard for me to understand in what capacity [returning] would make sense for me, for the character that I play,” Johansson commented. “I miss my buddies and really would love to be with them forever, but what works about the character is that her story is complete. I don’t want to mess with that. For fans, too—it’s important for them.”

Following Iron Man 2, Johansson’s Black Widow was featured in 2012’s The Avengers, 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, and 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, while she also had an uncredited cameo in 2019’s Captain Marvel.

Natasha may have died in Avengers: Endgame; however, Johansson still reprised her MCU role one more time following that in a Black Widow prequel movie, which was released in 2021.

Florence Pugh, meanwhile, plays Natasha’s sister Yelena Belova in the MCU, and Marvel has steadily been giving her a bigger and bigger role in that world as time moves on. Having recently starred in the 2025 Thunderbolts* movie, Yelena is now a member of the New Avengers and will return for Avengers: Doomsday, which will be released on May 1, 2026.

Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net