Spider-Man: Far From Home, fans were quick to theorize about Phase 4 and what it would look like. The ultimate inclusion of Black Widow as a starting point is confounding, considering Natasha Romanoff's demise in Avengers: Endgame.
Giving her life in order to secure the Soul Stone for the Avengers, Captain America: Civil War which looks to be setting up 'younger sister' Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) as the next Black Widow. Where the Marvel Cinematic Universe has always been about teasing the films yet to come with its post-credits tags, a prequel seems to be a weird choice for the start of the next, grand phase of producer Kevin Feige's master plan. Why go backward when Marvel can move forward?
For example, the beginning of Avengers: Infinity War, so likely will not have the same impact on the rest of Phase 4; especially as its main character is dead (a storytelling decision which may have been the wrong one) in the present day of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
of the Galaxy Vol. 3 at the forefront of it, it most likely would have made for a much different amount of table-setting for the rest of Phase 4 as opposed to Black Widow.
Black Widow's plot looks to be a deep-dive into Natasha Romanoff as a character and her ties to her Russian super-soldier 'family', with a view to introducing her successor in Yelena Belova. It's hard to see how a prequel with a currently deceased main character could be a 'table-setter' for the rest of Phase 4, as Marvel are fond of doing, making Black Widow a weird choice to start Phase 4.
