Yeah. I found Loki's attack to be really sexual and hurtful (he talked about making Hawkeye torture her "in the most intimate way.") And then the quim comment. I cheered when she flipped on him, but it was still really hurtful.
She also kind of sat there huddling after the Hulk attack (which she again tried to deflect by appearing feminine and vulnerable as Bruce was changing), and had to visibly pull herself together to go rescue Hawkeye. Needing a minute after being attacked by the Hulk seems totally valid, but she's the only character in the entire movie who needed time to recover and pull themselves together.
I guess I was mostly happy Natasha wasn't as bad as she could have been. I've read a lot of Black Widow comics (all of them? Tonnes, anyway) over the years, and her character, as per the name, is frequently heavily sexual. She sleeps and seduces her way to information not infrequently, and in the hands of the wrong writer it can be an objectified mess (for example, Black Widow #6). So this... was way better than it could have been?
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Date: 2012-05-08 05:17 pm (UTC)She also kind of sat there huddling after the Hulk attack (which she again tried to deflect by appearing feminine and vulnerable as Bruce was changing), and had to visibly pull herself together to go rescue Hawkeye. Needing a minute after being attacked by the Hulk seems totally valid, but she's the only character in the entire movie who needed time to recover and pull themselves together.
I guess I was mostly happy Natasha wasn't as bad as she could have been. I've read a lot of Black Widow comics (all of them? Tonnes, anyway) over the years, and her character, as per the name, is frequently heavily sexual. She sleeps and seduces her way to information not infrequently, and in the hands of the wrong writer it can be an objectified mess (for example, Black Widow #6). So this... was way better than it could have been?