A Captain America vs. Black Widow fight was cut from Civil War

Captain America: Civil War was supposed to feature a fight between Steve Rogers and Black Widow, but the footage ended up on the cutting room floor.

Captain America: Civil War originally featured a fight between Steve Rogers and Black Widow that was filmed but never made it into the final cut of the film. Civil war sees Chris Evans’ Cap take on Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark/Iron Man over an ethical dilemma when a botched Avengers mission results in the loss of civilian lives. Factions form and moral lines are drawn as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes choose between registering with world governments or retiring.

On opposite sides of those lines are Scarlett Johansson’s Captain America and Natasha Romanov/Black Widow. Cap is strongly opposed to the prospect of being a government puppet team, while Natasha argues that they could at least still do some good by agreeing to the terms. The friction between the pro and anti-registration camps eventually escalates into an all-out brawl at a German airport that pits Avenger against Avenger. Black Widow begins the fight on Tony’s pro-record side, however, as the chaos subsides, she changes her mind and helps Steve escape. But apparently the two were originally meant to face each other first.

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In a video posted to the Corridor Crew YouTube channel, James Young, who has worked in Marvel Studios’ stunt department for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, says Cap and Black Widow were originally supposed to face off during the epic scene. Young explained that while conceptualizing the fight, he and his team came up with a list of hundreds of scenarios in which the various heroes could potentially face off one-on-one. One of these couples was between Nat and Cap. According to Young, they actually shot the fight, which took place on the roof of the airport, but that didn’t make the final cut. He gave no explanation as to why.

From the sound, there could have been a number of matches in the sequence, as Young says the filmmakers frequently changed sets on the fly. However, he doesn’t mention any other fights that ended on the cutting room floor. Seeing a true reversal between the two founding Avengers would have been interesting, as Nat has been one of Steve’s closest allies for almost as long as he hasn’t been frozen. Regardless of who won, it would surely have been an emotional affair.

With Natasha dead and Steve now a senior citizen, it’s unlikely fans will ever get to see the fight that was meant to happen. However, with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness it looks like this is going to upend the status quo of the MCU, really anything is possible at this point. If three Spider-Men can co-exist, there’s no reason young, living versions of both characters can’t be reintroduced. But until that happens, audiences can only imagine what their fight would have been like in Captain America: Civil War.

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Source: Corridor Crew

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