Black Widow’s self-sacrificial death in Avengers: Endgame is one of the movie’s most heartbreaking scenes, but fans have always wondered if it could have been easily avoided. After all, Natasha Romanoff and Hawkeye had no idea that one of them has to die in order to claim the Soul Stone on Vormir, even though it’s heavily implied in Avengers: Infinity War that Nebula worked out what happened when Thanos and Gamora went there and only the Mad Titan came back.

Endgame‘s creative team have finally confirmed, however, that this is not the case. Nebula didn’t pre-warn Nat and Clint because she didn’t realize that Gamora’s death was linked to the retrieval of the Infinity Stone. As co-writer Stephen McFeely put it on the movie’s audio commentary:

“It should be noted, I’ve seen this on the Internet, that Nebula doesn’t know...