Tag: avengers

memoirsofanedwardianadventuress:

everyworldneedslove:

I may always reblog every gifset/imageset I see of this scene, if only to point out (over and over and over again) that Black Widow’s “very specific skillset” is not, actually, ass-kicking (as amazing as she is at that), because all the Avengers can kick ass to a pretty high degree. The Black Widow’s superpower (as it were) is emotional manipulation.

She is not interrogating this man not while tied to a chair. She is tied to a chair because that is exactly where she wants to be, because apparent vulnerability on her part is part of her interrogation. She uses the exact same trick on Loki later, when she leads him into gloating over having successfully pushed her buttons (and I have a theory that he did actually push her buttons, that she was genuinely distressed by the things he said to her because Loki is old enough and smart enough to know when someone is lying to him) and turns his gloating around on him, uses it to dig into the cracks of him, because that is what she does, and she can do it even when her target is expecting it. (Really, Loki knows that’s why she’s there. He was expecting to be physically tortured first, and for her to come be sympathetic later, if you recall, but Loki and Widow both know that wouldn’t work.)

And this is why she’s so unsettled by the Hulk. The Black Widow relies on emotional manipulation — and the Hulk, to the best of her knowledge, only has varying shades of a single emotion: anger. She doesn’t know how to manipulate a creature if it doesn’t have all the hooks to emotions like pride and lust and guilt and greed that she’s used to using.

This is a REALLY good character analysis of Natasha.

this is why it would make sense on some level for widow to be the one doing the hulk’s lullaby in age of ultron. like, she’s been working with him for a while now, she’s had time to learn how the hulk ticks. the hulk responds to calmness, and gentleness and she’s okay with him now she has worked that out. fine, yeah, great. but that really is the kind of development we need to see to believe. natasha basically had meaningful interactions with everyone on the team apart from bruce and thor prior to age of ultron, the romance came completely off the left field, it made no sense because the only basis we had was her being afraid of the hulk. the thing that irritated me about age of ultron most was that it would have been so easy to fix all the weird rubbishness. like, instead of a romance have bruce and natasha forge an emotional bond of trust based on the fact that they are both afraid of the hulk, and have banner help her work out how to manipulate him. that would have been so interesting. also, it literally would have just taken a throwaway line for the maximoffs to mention that they didn’t know hydra were nazis, and how disgusted they were once they learnt the truth, especially in the light of their heritage, and how by the time they did find out they were basically prisoners, and that they were trying to break out when the avengers arrived, and they can still hate tony and hydra. it was all so easily fixed i don’t understand why they didn’t do it???