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In the Black Widow film, Yelena Belova makes a prediction about Natasha Romanoff’s life that almost came true recently in the Marvel Universe.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Black Widow, now in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow was originally slated for release in May 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the film’s release back 14 months. Now, the film has finally arrived, and fans get to experience Nathasha Romanoff’s final apparent adventure in the MCU. In the film, audiences are introduced to Natasha’s surrogate family, which is comprised of her “mother” Melina, her “father” the Red Guardian and her “sister,” Yelena Belova.
When Natasha was a child, she and her “family” were stationed in Ohio as part of an undercover mission that lasted three years. While they were ultimately separated, Nat’s family is reunited in the present day. First, Natasha reconnects with Yelena, who explains that she made up her very own version of her family’s backstory — a story that just so happens to predict what has happened in Marvel’s latest Black Widow comic series.
In the MCU film, Black Widow is reunited with her sister, and they are both hunted down through Budapest by Taskmaster. After they make their escape, they spend some quiet time together, and ultimately decide to work together to destroy the Red Room. During their conversation, the two discuss their separate lives, after their years as a family. Natasha briefly brings up the mother she never knew, while Yelena explains that, to her, Natasha, Melina and Alexei were her real family. In fact, after they were all gone, she made up her own family history: her parents still lived in Ohio, while her sister had moved out west. There, she believed that Natasha worked as a teacher, that she was in love and that she had a son.
Of course, none of this was true: Natasha was an agent of the Red Room before she defected to S.H.I.E.L.D., and later became an Avenger. But while this is just a story that Yelena came up with, it’s extremely similar to what has happened in Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande’s Black Widow series.
In September 2020, the new Black Widow comic kicked off with a major status quo shift: a group of Natasha’s most dangerous enemies united to get rid of her by erasing her identity. Natasha was kidnapped, brainwashed, and given an idyllic new life in San Francisco. There, she had no recollection of her past life as a spy and superhero. Instead, she had a happy life where she worked as an architect. She was in love with a man named James, and the couple had a son named Stevie, who was artificially grown by the villains using the couple’s genetic material.
Eventually, Natasha regained her memories and, in order to protect her new family, faked their deaths and agreed never to see them again. This sparked a new beginning for Black Widow, who adopted San Francisco as her new base of operations.
Therefore, in the comics, Natasha did indeed move out west, and she did have a son. She even had a quiet and normal life for a few months. Of course, there are differences between Yelena’s story and the comics, but there are plenty of similarities that make her prediction particularly noteworthy.
After all, the Black Widow film was supposed to be released in May 2020, four months before the release of Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande’s Black Widow #1. Had the film kept its original release date, Elena’s story would have come first and it would have predicted Natasha’s comic book future.
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