Here we go again. As we’ve reported before, there is a major lack of Black Widow (and Scarlet Witch, for that matter) featured in Disney’s officially licensed Avengers: Age of Ultron merchandise. Even with Mark Ruffalo asking Marvel for more female superhero toys for his daughter to play with, the companies refuse to take a hint. Further stirring the pot, Disney and Marvel have left Black Widow out of new toy sets featuring one of her most badass moments in Avengers: Age of Ultron. It’s like they’re doing this on purpose or something — oh wait, they are.
As you’ll recall in Avengers: Age of Ultron, there’s a scene in which Captain America is busy fighting Ultron, distracting the sentient robot from the team’s real mission. Meanwhile, Hawkeye pilots the Quinjet, dropping Black Widow out of the hold on a motorcycle. It’s Black Widow who ultimately accomplishes the goal (with some teamwork, obviously), and it’s Black Widow who gets to ride around on the motorcycle and be a badass.
But not according to these new Avengers play sets (via iO9). According to Disney and Marvel’s revisionist take for their merchandise, it wasn’t Black Widow who dropped out of the Quinjet on a motorcycle — it was Captain America. Apparently, in the highly fictional fantasy world of superheroes, it’s still just a little too unbelievable that a woman could save the day. Based off of these toys, it seems as though Disney and Marvel have very different ideas about who should have been on that motorcycle.
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