{"id":532158,"date":"2026-07-09T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/532158\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:08:13","slug":"marvel-studios-officially-reveals-black-widows-new-design-in-2026-return-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/532158\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios Officially Reveals Black Widow\u2019s New Design In 2026 Return (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel Studios just officially revealed a new design for Black Widow, and the fresh look accompanies the super spy\u2019s on-screen return in 2026. Natasha Romanoff ranks among the most recognizable Avengers in Marvel\u2019s catalog, with Scarlett Johansson playing her in live action from Iron Man 2<\/a> through to the character\u2019s 2021 solo movie. In recent years, the hero\u2019s story shifted to animation, where a new actress inherited the role.<\/p>\n

Black Widow\u2019s comeback arrived in X-Men \u201997<\/a>, with the spy making her debut in the animated series during the post-credits scene of Season 2, Episode 4, which premiered on Disney+ on Wednesday. Lake Bell voices Natasha once again after playing her in Marvel\u2019s What If…?<\/a>, and the character wears a look unlike anything from her previous animated or live-action appearances.<\/p>\n

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The scene follows Wolverine to a rooftop in Paris, where Captain America and Black Widow approach him. The two Avengers recall a mission the trio shared roughly 50 years earlier, and Cap then hands Logan a file stamped “Weapon X,” the covert program that bonded adamantium to his skeleton. Both heroes caution him against chasing his past alone, but Logan assures them he already recruited backup.<\/p>\n

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As for Natasha herself, the new design swaps her usual black gear for a gunmetal gray bodysuit with a tall, popped collar. Gold trim runs down the sides of the suit, layered gold gauntlets wrap around her wrists, and a black spider emblem rests on her chest. Her red hair appears in a short, swept-back cut, a sharp contrast to the longer styles from most of her MCU outings.<\/p>\n

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Longtime comic readers will recognize Natasha\u2019s gray suit right away. The design pulls directly from artist Jim Lee\u2019s work in Uncanny X-Men #268, the 1990 issue he created with writer Chris Claremont that famously united Wolverine, Captain America, and Black Widow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lee drew Natasha in that same high-collared gray suit, and the issue\u2019s celebrated cover even features the three heroes together, much like the new post-credits scene.<\/p>\n

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The look also breaks from every previous screen version of the character. Bell\u2019s Black Widow wore dark tactical gear inspired by the movies<\/a> throughout What If…?, while Johansson introduced the hero in a black jumpsuit in Iron Man 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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By reaching back to Lee\u2019s artwork instead, X-Men \u201997 gives Natasha a design drawn from the comics rather than the MCU, which suits a series that leans heavily on \u201990s Marvel history at every turn.<\/p>\n

Black Widow\u2019s Role in Wolverine\u2019s Weapon X Mission<\/p>\n

Black Widow\u2019s cameo directly sets up the next episode, Weapon X, Lies, and DVDs, which streams next Wednesday. The title reworks Weapon X, Lies, and Video Tape, a beloved installment of the original animated series that dug into the false memories the program planted in Logan\u2019s mind. If any Marvel hero belongs in a story about lies, it is Natasha. The Red Room trained her to deceive for a living<\/a>, and the comics repeatedly rewrote her own memories, so she understands a manufactured past better than anyone Logan knows.<\/p>\n

Her shared history with Wolverine offers another thread worth pulling. In Uncanny X-Men #268, Captain America and Logan protected a young Natasha from the villainous Hand in 1941 Madripoor, decades before she became an Avenger. The post-credits scene nods to that past when the trio mentions working together 50 years ago, and the show could adapt those flashbacks outright if Natasha returns in a bigger capacity.<\/p>\n

Nothing confirms Black Widow appears beyond this one scene, so the cameo may stay a quick treat for fans. Still, her presence alongside the Weapon X file suggests the spy world will play a part in Wolverine\u2019s hunt for answers, and Bell\u2019s return gives Marvel an easy way to keep Natasha in play as the season continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios just officially revealed a new design for Black Widow, and the fresh look accompanies the super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28268,37366,242913,146,7167,85,46,397,15628,161,736,209552,219873],"class_list":["post-532158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-black-widow-character","tag-entertainment","tag-fantasy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-sci-fi","tag-superhero","tag-thriller","tag-x-men-97","tag-x-men-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}