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(This post discusses a pretty major spoiler for "Avengers: Endgame." I'm making an understatement here – this spoiler is actually massive.)
Everybody acts like Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) are the two main characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it's really the two of them and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson). She may not have had her own movie (yet), but she's a lot of a handstay as Steve and Tony and is really, if we're being honest, the true heart and soul of the Avengers.
With Evans and Downey Jr were talking about "endgame" de facto leaders of the Avengers. It would have made sense to have a few words in their minds, and they would have played a role in the franchise.
So why not Black Widow? After the big five-year-old skip early on in "Endgame" she's one of the many remaining superheroes. She is, in this movie, becoming the leader that the Avengers will need moving forward.
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But then "Endgame" sees her and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) head to Vormir in the past to retrieve the Soul Stone during the big Time Heist sequence, and they have to make a sacrifice in order to get it. And Black Widow chooses to kill herself so that Hawkeye can be with his family again after the Avengers get all the stones and save trillions of lives.
Yes, they are really fridged Black Widow for the remainder of "Endgame," and it does not appear to be back, even after Captain America returned the Soul Stone to the end of the movie by some means. Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) even mentions that he tried to bring back when he did not reverse, but that did not work.
And yet Marvel Studios has a solo Black Widow movie on the way next year, and it's only two real possibilities for a movie that could have a prequel, or it could be a "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock "Type of thing. Now, I guess, it could be both. We do not actually know anything about the movie yet, so right now we're left to make guesses.
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A prequel seems like the most logical answer, except that it would be a strange way to usher in the beginning of the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It would depend on what's happening, I guess, but there's no big cosmic stuff in Black Widow's backstory that we know of. A Black Widow original story or something would be an exceptionally strange concept in the present. Especially since Scarlett Johansson is set to star in the film, which would mean just de-aging her like Samuel L. Jackson in "Captain Marvel," but to her teenage years for the entire film, maybe? It's a headache just thinking about it.
The "Search for Spock" scenario, meanwhile, would likely involve Hawkeye and Hulk and whoever else embarking on a quest to retrieve her from the Soul Realm, which is presumably where the people who are sacrificed to Soul Stone go when they die, judging by Thanos' brief conversation with young Gamora after he did the snap in "Avengers: Infinity War."
But it would be exceptionally strange for a movie about "Black Widow" to focus largely on two male characters. So a prequel combination / "Search for Spock" thing, perhaps make more sense. Remember, the Avengers just had a time machine now, so it was not easy to find them. But even then the story would be focused on the men, which would not be ideal by any means.
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Until we know more about the movie – a post-credits scene after "Spider-Man: Far From Home" seems to be the most likely place for a hint. So guess away.
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