--- title: Mark Ruffalo: Marvel Should Sell Black Widow Merchandise description: The Hulk demands more female representation canonical: https://time.com/3840017/mark-ruffalo-avengers-age-of-ultron-marvel-black-widow/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-29T15:43:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:33.529Z og:title: Mark Ruffalo Wants Marvel to Sell More Black Widow Merchandise og:description: The Hulk demands more female representation og:url: https://time.com/3840017/mark-ruffalo-avengers-age-of-ultron-marvel-black-widow/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb383369304d5807/6987806055a8594bdca85f23/mark-ruffalo-infinitely-polar-bear.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1701 og:image:height: 957 og:image:alt: "Infinitely Polar Bear" Premiere - Arrivals - 2014 Toronto International Film Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mark Ruffalo Wants Marvel to Sell More Black Widow Merchandise twitter:description: The Hulk demands more female representation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb383369304d5807/6987806055a8594bdca85f23/mark-ruffalo-infinitely-polar-bear.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mark Ruffalo Would Really Like Marvel to Sell More Black Widow Merchandise > Sponsored content. 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A new Avengers trailer has been released!_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 29, 2015 3:43 PM UTC  TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 10: Actor Mark Ruffalo attends the "Infinitely Polar Bear" premiere during the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 10, 2014 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 10: Actor Mark Ruffalo attends the "Infinitely Polar Bear" premiere during the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 10, 2014 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) Jason Merritt—Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 29, 2015 3:43 PM UTC When Mark Ruffalo isn’t busy doing Mark Ruffalo things like [protesting fracking](http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/16/mark-ruffalo-obama-ban-fracking-shale-gas-un-summit) and being handsome, he’s kindly asking Marvel to sell more merchandise representing female characters. Several people have noticed that Marvel [excluded Black Widow](http://www.themarysue.com/black-widow-ultron-merch/) (played by Scarlett Johansson) from nearly all of its _Avengers: Age of Ultron_ merchandise. That includes shirts, toys and other products. A [#WheresNatasha ](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WheresNatasha&src=tyah)hashtag (referring to Black Widow’s alter ago Natasha Romanoff) made the rounds on Twitter to point out the lack of representation. Mark Ruffalo, who plays the Hulk in the _Avengers_ franchise, noticed Black Widow’s absence too, and called Marvel out on Twitter: > [](https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/593222325325209601) Ruffalo has also been retweeting comments from fans, who bring up some good points: > [](https://twitter.com/attila71/status/593414002908135425) > [](https://twitter.com/anonymousaspie/status/593410176331419648) > [](https://twitter.com/abbey%5Fmaree/status/593222692297318401) _Read more:_ [_Watch Mark Ruffalo Answer the ‘Sexist’ Questions Scarlett Johansson Always Gets_](http://time.com/3834654/scarlett-johansson-mark-ruffalo/) ### See All the Avengers: Age of Ultron Character Posters  Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man Marvel/Disney  Chris Evans as Captain America Marvel/Disney  Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk Marvel/Disney  Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow Marvel/Disney  Chris Hemsworth as Thor Marvel/Disney  Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye Marvel/Disney  Paul Bettany as Vision Marvel/Disney  Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury Marvel/Disney  Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch Marvel/Disney  Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver Marvel/Disney  James Spader as the voice of Ultron Marvel/Disney ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:08] This vulnerable world needs something more powerful [00:12] than any of us. Everyone. Creates [00:16] the thing they [00:21] dread. Voltron. In the flesh. No [00:26] matter who wins or loses, trouble [00:31] always comes around. You've meddled in something [00:35] you don't understand. We have no [00:41] place [00:43] in [00:46] the [00:49] world. [00:52] [ MUSIC ] [00:54] I'm [00:57] gonna [01:00] tear [01:03] you [01:05] apart. [01:08] [ MUSIC ] [01:11] From [01:14] the inside. [ MUSIC ] Oh boy. 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