Black Widow Canonically Spent the Time Between Iron Man 2 & Avengers Fighting Shang-Chi’s Father

Given her lack of a standalone project in the MCU’s first three phases, there’s been a lot of mystery surrounding Black Widow within that period of time. Fans know exactly what Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America were up to between the events of their own films and the Avengers movies, but have no idea what Black Widow was doing during those times. Sure, she was featured in two out of the three Captain America films as well as in Iron Man 2, but that still doesn’t account for her whereabouts in between the events of Iron Man 2 and the first Avengers. At least, until now, as it was revealed in a canonical MCU tie-in comic exactly what Black Widow was doing: fighting Shang-Chi’s father.