Marvel’s toy line just erased Black Widow from her own scene in ‘Age of Ultron’

Via The Daily Dot:

If you were one of those people who’s been witnessing the continued exclusion of Black Widow from Marvel‘s product lineup, then you’ve probably been looking forward to the toys accompanying Age of Ultron. 

After all, there’s no better way to counter-balance the previous erasure of the only woman in the Avengers ensemble than by Marvel inevitably putting out a toy motorcycle to go along with that great, truly memorable scene of Natasha kicking into high-gear as she rides a Harley out of a plane.

Right?

No such luck.

Even though Age of Ultron gave Natasha one of the coolest moments in the film, the toy licensors at both Hasbro and Mattel have opted to completely erase Natasha from their toy versions of the «Quinjet,» the plane from which the bike launches.

Instead, as John Marcotte at HeroicGirls first pointed out over the weekend, Natasha has been replaced as the bike rider by Captain America in the Hasbro version…

..and Iron Man in the Mattel version.

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