Helpless Black Widow...or is she?

This scene, from the first Avengers movie (can you believe that it's been eight years already?) has become iconic for me in how it's the perfect introduction of the character of Black Widow.

She already had her introduction in the dreadfully dull Iron Man 2, in which she had a kick-ass scene where she took down armed goons in a hallway.

But her very first scene in Avengers is better, and not because it presents her as being a damsel in distress--no, this scene shows Black Widow to be both devious and intelligent by pretending to be a damsel in distress.

It's only when she gets the call about Hawkeye that Nat decides to cut short this session with her 'captors,' whom she pretended to be helpless only for as long as she was getting information from them.

Of course the fact that Black Widow has her shoes removed throughout this scene was a big plus for me.

Scarlett Johansson was superb as BW, but I'm actually looking forward to the release of her stand-alone movie with mixed feelings. Let's just say that I really didn't care for what happened in Avengers: Endgame. But at least with the Black Widow movie we'll see her back at the top of her game once again.