Here’s why Avenger: End game ignored Hulk and Black Widow romance

We noticed that Hulk and Black Widow’s romance was not included in Avengers: End game as it was in Age of Ultron, however, some details about why it wasn’t included has been shared on Empire by Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus. McFreely said:

“We certainly tried to,” he said. “In Infinity War we have [unused] scenes…wrote ‘em, shot ‘em…of them sort of hashing that out… You’ve been gone, I’ve moved on’ – that kind of stuff.”

“It became very clear that if a scene was not on the ‘A plot’, it could not survive Infinity War,” he added. “That thing has to be on rails just to get to the finish line… You couldn’t wrap up loose threads just because you wanted to.”

Christopher Markus said:

“He was smart Hulk in this movie and it did seem a little odd, in the midst of everyone’s mourning and his change to a 2000-pound genius, to go, ‘and they’re dating!'”

McFreely added:

“We thought it would be more elegant not to address that.”