'Black Widow' - End Credits Scene Explained!

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!

Stick around for the end of Black Widow, because there’s an end credits scene you don’t want to miss!

In the film, Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) reunites with her old crew, including Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) who trained in the Red Room at the same time as Natasha.

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As we know that Black Widow is set in the past, the end credits scene seems to tease something in the future, or at least present day in the MCU.

In the scene, Yelena is visiting Natasha’s grave (“daughter, sister, Avenger”) where she’s joined by Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), also known as Val, who first appeared in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. (She technically would have made her debut in this movie if the release schedule wasn’t altered amid the pandemic.)

There are still many questions left lingering, like whether Yelena was Snapped by Thanos and came back, or if she’s been working with Val for a while.

Val reveals she has a new target for Yelena, the person responsible for Natasha’s death: Hawkeye.

“Kind of a cutie, don’t you think?” Val says as she shows Hawkeye’s photo, suggesting that Yelena will possibly be on the hunt for Hawkeye in the upcoming TV show.

The scene also seemingly sets up a future appearance of the Thunderbolts as Digital Spy points out, a team of villains who pretended to be heroes before eventually having a change of heart. It does also seem to suggest that Val is set to continue to appear throughout Phase 4 in the MCU.

Find out what Scarlett Johansson said about playing Black Widow in the future.

Black Widow will be released in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access on July 9.