One of the key relationships director brothers Joe and Anthony Russo have advanced throughout their Marvel movies, is that between Captain America (Steve Rodgers) and Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff). The duo was thrust together as an unlikely pairing in the Russo’s first Marvel movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. This relationship was further developed in Captain America: Civil War, which found the pair on different sides of an internal Avengers conflict, only to end the movie as part of the same Secret Avengers team.

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By the time of Avengers: Infinity War, the pair have spent years in secret with the likes of Falcon and Scarlett Witch and they have certainly bonded as a more hard-edged team in that period it seems. In a video for Wired, The Russo Brothers extensively talk about each and every one of the many heroes that appear in Infinity War. Here is what the sibling directing duo said about Steve and Natasha.

“In Winter Soldier, what we found so compelling about pairing her up with Captain America was that he is this paragon of morality, and she is a paragon of gray. But they’ve grown together, and I think when you find them in [Infinity War], they’ve been the Secret Avengers for two years… they’re like a tight-knit family now. Her, Sam Wilson, and Steve Rogers. It’s hardened all of them in a way.”

It’s going to be interesting to see how this relationship develops further and many fans have predicted a possible romantic link developing between the pair. Personally, I don’t think there’s any need to force the pair together on a romantic level, but I do feel like they have grown as characters together over the course of these movies. Cap has become wiser and more world-weary, whilst Nat has become less self-focused and morally stronger. The pairing certainly feels more natural than that devised by Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon between Bruce Banner and Natasha. To me whilst I didn’t dislike it as such, it felt a little forced into that movie from nowhere. It also seems to be a pairing that the Russo’s did not care much for as it was given short shrift in Infinity War, though admittedly there was not much time for it in that epic movie.

Are you a fan of the Cap/Widow dynamic? How would you like to see this relationship develop further if at all? Share your thoughts and theories in the usual place below.

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SOURCE: Wired

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