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Marvel celebrates the women of the MCU for International Women's Day

Black Widow's Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh team up for another mission: Honoring our favorite female superheroes.

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Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET. She covered film and TV news and reviews. The movie that inspired her to want a career in film is Lost in Translation. She won Best New Journalist in 2019 at the Australian IT Journalism Awards.
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Black Widow's Florence Pugh and Scarlett Johansson are among Marvel's best female superheroes. And Black Widow hasn't even come out yet.

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Aside from excitedly screaming at each other on the red carpet, Black Widow's Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh have reunited for International Women's Day, marked on March 8 every year to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

Marvel's Black Widow twitter account tweeted a video of the two throwing back and forth the names of female superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe .

"From Pepper Potts to Gamora... Peggy Carter to  Captain Marvel ... to all of us from Black Widow... here's to another 10 years of kick ass women. Happy International Women's Day," the two said in the video posted Sunday.

Let's just add a few names to that list, all of whom appear in Avengers: Endgame's big women of the MCU moment: Valkyrie, Hope van Dyne, Okoye, Mantis, Shuri, Nebula and Scarlet Witch, who has a Disney Plus TV show on its way.

Not to mention the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder, which will introduce Natalie Portman as a female Thor. Plus, now that the X-Men have been swiped into Disney's  Marvel toy box, we can retrospectively add X-23, Jean Grey, Rogue and more.

After the delayed The New Mutants finally makes it to cinemas in April, Marvel's next blockbuster is Black Widow, crawling in May 1. Natasha Romanoff's origin story will take her back to events post-2016's Captain America: Civil War. As she takes on new big bad Taskmaster, Romanoff's past steps out from the shadows in the form of Pugh's Yelena Belova, David Harbour's Red Guardian and Rachel Weisz's Melina Vostokoff.

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