Josh Whedon has hinted that the Black Widow is not going to be the only female character in The Avengers. The Avengers cast has been assembled and Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L Jackson are all going to join forces as Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye and Nick Fury and they will be joined by Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. But she will not be the only female in the ensemble cast according to the movie’s director Josh Whedon. Talking to the Sunday Herald-Sun [via Moviehole] he said, “It is true that the movie is only going to have one female Avenger. But she will not be the only female character.” However Whedon didn’t go further to suggest who would be joining Johansson on the cast list but characters such as Pepper Potts from Iron Man, Peggy Carter from Captain America and Jane Foster from Thor could mean an appearance from Gwyneth Paltrow, Hayley Atwell and Natalie Portman. Speaking about working on the adaptation Whedon said: “It will be a new story that has many things from different arcs of the comics in it. There is no one Avengers story that you can just do the way that you can do the origin of Spider-Man. “You really have to cull from the original and The Ultimates, which is one of the Avengers titles.”

Source: FemaleFirst