I’ve heard lots of people debate the relative hotness of the various male characters, but never to the detriment of those characters, whereas practically every mention of Widow’s/Johansson’s legendary sex-appeal is accompanied by some kind of snide implication that it’s the main reason for her presence in the movie. If you want to be really annoyed, take a gander at this moment in the Avengers press tour (around 3 minutes in), which says a lot about the kind of questions actresses habitually have to answer when promoting their films. While Robert Downey Jr gets a complex question about characterisation, Johansson gets asked what she ate in preparation for her role. Black Widow isn’t just a body. Scarlett Johansson isn’t just a body. — The costumes and characters of The Avengers: Black Widow and Hawkeye.





