Clintasha

Clintasha is the het ship between Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Marvel comics fandoms.

Iron Man: Armored Adventures
Their first appearance is in episode 2x09 "The Hawk and the Spider", where they worked together as mercenaries. Episodes later, Fury recruits Natasha as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and Clint works as a kind of guardian. In the episodes where they appear, they're constantly flirting and showing concern for each other.

Relevant episodes:


 * 2x09 "The Hawk and the Spider"
 * 2x18 "Iron Man 2099"
 * 2x26 "The Makluan Invasion Part 2: Unite!"

Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
They make their debut in the third episode "Hulk vs. The World". They work together as agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. until Natasha betrays Clint, as Clint spends his time here chasing after her. Later, in the episode "Widow's Sting", she saves him, which makes Clint doubt her betrayal, then in the episode "Hail, Hydra!" Natasha tells the Avengers that Fury sent her to infiltrate Hydra; at the end of the episode they kiss and then Natasha leaves to find Fury and Clint returns with the Avengers. In the comics based on this series, they go on a date after defeating some Hydra agents.

Relevant episodes:


 * 1x03 "Hulk vs the World"
 * 1x12 "Gamma World, Part 1"
 * 1x13 "Gamma World, Part 2"
 * 1x16/19 "Widow's Sting"
 * 1x21 "Hail, Hydra!"

Avengers Assemble
They appear since the first episode. While they don't have a real proof that they are dating like a kiss, there is a high possibility that they are. Throughout the show, it's common to see them together, almost isolated from the rest of the team. They know each other better than anyone else, and they trust each other completely. Sometimes they flirt, but it's usually a joke or part of the mission. In some episodes, Natasha looks a little jealous when Clint is talking to other women. The moments where it's most obvious that they're more than just friends are when one of them puts the other first, like in "Crime and Circus," where Clint only saves Natasha when the whole team is in danger, or in "Back to the Learning Hall," where Natasha runs to help Clint when Loki attacks him. And of course the many times they save each other. As partners, they have a lot of combo attacks. Relevant episodes:


 * 1x05 "Blood Feud"
 * 1x07 "Hyperion"
 * 1x08 "Molecule Kid"
 * 2x05 "Beneath the Surface"
 * 2x12 "Widow's run"
 * 2x18 "The Ultron Outbreak"
 * 2x19 "The New Guy"

Marvel Cinematic Universe
Before working for S.H.I.E.L.D., Natasha earned a reputation as one of the world's greatest assassins. Recognizing her as a threat, Nick Fury sent Clint to kill her. Instead, seeing her skills, he recommended that she be considered for S.H.I.E.L.D. recruitment. She subsequently defected from Russia and joined S.H.I.E.L.D., beginning a lifelong friendship with Clint. The two were partners on countless missions. She was one of the few people who knew about his family.

The Avengers
Natasha is on a mission to gather information on General Georgi Luchkov when she receives a call from Agent Phil Coulson asking her to come in. She initially refuses, saying that she's "in the middle of an interrogation". When Coulson mentions that Clint has been compromised, Natasha immediately changes her mind. She shows concern for him while he's under Loki's control, even asking Loki himself what he plans to do with him.

Natasha fights a mind-controlled Clint as he infiltrates the helicarrier. The two are evenly matched until Natasha resorts to guerrilla tactics, slamming his head against a metal bar to disorient him. She then punches him in the face, knocking him out. When Clint wakes up, he's free of Loki's control; Natasha hit him hard enough to free him. She stays by his side as he recovers, comforting him with his guilt over what he did during the brainwashing. They fight alongside each other during the Battle of New York and leave together afterwards.

Avengers: Age of Ultron
When Clint is injured in battle, Natasha rushes to his side to tend to his wounds.

After the battle at the salvage yard in Africa, Clint finds Natasha, still dazed from the nightmare vision Wanda gave her, and helps her to the Quinjet. After flying the team to his farmhouse, he helps Natasha enter. His children run up to her and greet her as Aunt Nat.

Later, during the Battle of Seoul, when Natasha is captured by Ultron, Clint refuses to leave without her and has to be ordered to do so by Steve. He becomes concerned while she's missing and resorts to old-school spy techniques to find her. They fight alongside each other during the Battle of Sokovia, and Clint mentions to her his plans to work on his house.

Captain America: Civil War
Though retired at the time of the Sokovia Accords, Clint joins Steve Rogers' team of rebel Avengers. He and Natasha later fight at Leipzig-Halle Airport. According to Wanda Maximoff, the two hold back during the fight because they don't want the fight to get in the way of their friendship.

Avengers: Infinity War
Clint does not appear in Infinity War, but he is mentioned. When the team reunites, Bruce Banner inquires about his whereabouts. It is Natasha who replies, telling him that Clint and also Scott Lang have been placed under house arrest after the situation with the Sokovia Accords.

Avengers: Endgame
Clint is with his family when the snap happens. Five years later, Clint is a non-stop killing machine, hunting down and executing every bad guy he comes across. Natasha is heartbroken that she couldn't reach him in his grief and keeps an eye on him, even though Rhodey tries to dissuade her to save her the heartache. In the status report where Rhodey tells Natasha this, she insists she's fine and they hang up, causing Nat to burst into tears. Steve comes in and also tries to convince Nat to move on, though he admits he is having a hard time with it himself. Most of Nat's pain from the snap seems to stem from the feeling of losing Barton to his grief, so when Scott shows up and presents a solution, Nat is adamant that it work and is almost devastated when Tony is unwilling to help.

Steve, Scott and Nat go to Bruce for help, but have mixed results. Meanwhile, Tony has figured out the mechanics and feels he must try to get everyone back. They bring in reinforcements, including Thor. Nat goes to Tokyo to find Clint and catches up with him as he executes a Japanese mobster. He senses her presence and says, without turning around, that she shouldn't be there. She tells him they have a possible solution, and Clint is nearly destroyed by the thought, and agrees to come with her to Avengers headquarters. Scott feels unprepared for the test jump through time, and Barton volunteers, which no one objects to despite his murderous crusade. He makes the jump successfully and comes back confused, lying on the floor, shaking. Nat runs to him and slides to his side, telling him that he's back with them, that he's okay. Clint tells her and everyone else that it worked.

When Clint and Natasha arrive at Vormir for the Soul Stone, they argue about who should sacrifice themselves. When Clint jumps off the cliff, Natasha jumps off moments after him and uses his own equipment to prevent him from falling she also gains the upper hand as the only thing keeping her from falling was him holding her. Clint tries to get her back on the cliff, but he cannot. Natasha tells him to let her go, and he refuses, begging her not to, but she only responds by telling him it's okay. She lets go of his hand and falls off the cliff, and Clint eventually retrieves the Soul Stone.

Black Widow
In a flashback scene of Natasha planning to kill Dreykov in Budapest as her final step in defecting to SHIELD, Clint talks to her on the radio and asks if the bombs they rigged are ready to go off. Natasha also mentions that they had to fight Hungarian special forces and hide in the city for ten days before escaping. Two of those days were spent in the vents of a subway station, and the walls of those vents are covered with games they played, including Tic Tac Toe and Hangman.

Comics
Before they were heroes, Natasha and Clint met and fought Tony Stark and Peter Parker. When Natasha was injured during one of their fights, Clint stepped back and brought her to safety. As she recovered, she began to fall in love with Clint, which weakened her loyalty to Russia. When her employers learned the truth, they had her shot and hospitalized, which convinced Clint to abandon his criminal ties and join the Avengers.

They continued their relationship when she joined the team, though it became strained as Clint was usually too busy with the Avengers to pay attention to her. They eventually decided to end the relationship, although Clint still loved her.

In Avengers Assemble (2014), Natasha kisses Clint and he follows her, but he was in a relationship with Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew).

In Secret Empires (2017) they are in a relationship again until Natasha dies. Some time later he searches for her with the help of the Winter Soldier, when they find her Natasha leaves him a letter calling him "Dearest Clint" and signing with "XOXO" as opposed to the letter she gives to Bucky where she doesn't have those kind of details. Then, in Black Widow (2020), Natasha doesn't choose either of them and they stay friends.

Moments
The Avengers Captain America: The Winter Soldier
 * Natasha insists that the mission she is on is important until Agent Coulson mentions Clint. As soon as she hears that he has been compromised, Natasha's demeanor changes and she drops what she is doing.
 * Natasha wears an arrow necklace as a sign of friendship.

Quotes
"Agent Barton was sent to kill me. He made a different call."

- Natasha, to Loki

"Are you sure he's gonna be okay? Pretending to need this guy really brings the team together."

- Natasha, teasing Clint

Fanon
Many shippers claim that the way Clint talks to her and the way Natasha immediately helps when she hears that Clint has been "compromised" are signals of their love. Loki, the villain, also seems to notice their relationship, saying, "Is this love, Agent Romanoff?"

Many shippers say that Natasha is in denial. Shippers have also noted that Natasha wears an arrow necklace in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The necklace reappeared in Avengers: Endgame and can also be seen in the trailers for the upcoming Black Widow movie.

Those who supported the pair were disappointed when Avengers: Age of Ultron revealed that Clint was married and had a family. Nevertheless, the ship remains very popular in the fandom.

On AO3, Clintasha is the second most written ship for Clint and the most written for Natasha. It is also the fifth most written romantic pairing in The Avengers (Marvel Movies), fourth in The Avengers - All Media Types tag, and sixth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe tag.

Because of Natasha's red hair and Clint's archery skills, some fans had them as the parents of Merida from Brave. Just as there were those who had Loki as the father of Elsa from Frozen and Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians because of their ice powers.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Clint/Natasha (Avengers Movies) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Clint/Natasha (Marvel Comics) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Hawkeye/Black Widow (Avengers Cartoon) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Natasha/Clint (Avengers Comics) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Natasha/Clint (Avengers Comics) tag on FanFiction.net

TUMBLR

WIKI

Trivia

 * Clint named one of his sons Nathaniel, after Natasha.
 * There are a lot of other universes where they're so close, but without confirming that they have a relationship, for example in "Marvel's Future Avengers," "Disk Wars: Avengers," "Iron Man: Rise of Technovore".

Media

 * 'Avengers' Star Jeremy Renner Reveals How Long Relationship Between Hawkeye and Black Widow Will Last (COMIC BOOK • APRIL 2019)


 * Black Widow & Hawkeye Have The Best Friendship In The MCU (GAME RANT • JANUARY 2021)

Variations

 * WinterWidowHawk refers to the ship between Bucky Barnes, Natasha and Clint