We've been hearing about Black Widow's alternate death scene from an earlier cut of Avengers: Endgame for a while now, and the full sequence is now available to watch online.
In the theatrical version, Natasha (Scarlett Johansson) manages to sacrifice herself to gain the Soul Stone on Vormir after incapacitating Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), but things play out very differently here. Widow still ultimately makes the jump, but not before taking heavy fire from some Sakaaraan warriors sent by Thanos to retrieve the stone.
In the emotional final moments, Nat saves Clint from by blasting his attacker, before coming to the realization that she must plunge to her death upon seeing The Mad Titan arrive in the background.
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Directors Joe and Anthony Russo previously revealed that they decided to reshoot this sequence because they wanted Nat's noble sacrifice to be less convoluted and "awkward," and felt having just her and Clint in the scene added more weight to it.
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Hulk and Dum-E in Tony Stark's Lab
We'll start with a shot of Professor Hulk getting annoyed with Dum-E while working in Tony Stark's lab.
This is a deleted scene from
Avengers: Endgame, and while we don't have all the details of what the sequence would have entailed, it's believed that some of Stark's earlier Iron Man armors would have been involved.
Hank and Janet Pym
A shot of the de-aged Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer from
Ant-Man and The Wasp.
In this scene, we would have learned that The Pyms were more directly involved in the accident that resulted in Hannah John-Kamen's Ghost developing her unstable powers than the theatrical version of the movie would have us believe.
Ant-Man and The Wasp V1
A look at the pair in their costumes as the original Ant-Man and The Wasp.
"Smart Hulk" In Infinity War
As we know, Professor Hulk was originally going to make his debut in
Infinity War during the battle with Cull Obsidian, and this pre-VFX shot shows Mark Ruffalo interacting with Scarlett Johansson.
In the scene, Black Widow would have attempted to clam Hulk down with a lullaby before realizing that the Green Goliath and Bruce Banner had merged into one.
Hawkeye
Although he didn't wind up appearing in the theatrical release of the movie, Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye was originally supposed to feature in
Infinity War.
This is an unfinished test-shot of Barton protecting Vision from some Outriders.
Bad Zemo
Although Helmut Zemo went to great lengths to get his hands on the Hydra code diary in
Captain America: Civil War, the character was originally going to commit a far more heinous act to acquire the book.
Worse Zemo
We would have caught up with Zemo at a black market auction for illegal weapons, where he would have used a gas to kill everyone in attendance before stealing his prize.
Odin on Earth
We don't have many details on this deleted scene, but it seems there was going to be a sequence involving Odin (Anthony Hopkins) paying a visit to his son (Chris Hemsworth) in
Thor: The Dark World.
Captain Marvel Stand-In
It's been well documented that Joss Whedon wanted to introduce Captain Marvel in
Avengers: Age of Ultron before Kevin Feige nixed the idea, but a scene featuring a stand-in for the character was filmed, and we have our first look at the mysterious actress here.