It’s official. With the opening of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now the highest grossing franchise in movie history. So I guess Jeremy Renner decided he had nothing to lose when he visited Conan O’Brien to promote the film. To recap, Jeremy gleefully called Black Widow a “slut“ as Chris Evans laughed and added “wh*re!” Then Marvel made them both apologize. Jeremy said, “I am sorry that this tasteless joke about a fictional character offended anyone. It was not meant to be serious in any way. Just poking fun during an exhausting and tedious press tour.” A non apology.

Chris Evans went into hiding after the tour ended. Officially, he held a funeral for his beard and is preparing to shoot Cap 3: Civil War. But dude is terrified of saying something dumb again (as he should be). In contrast, Jeremy decided it was time to celebrate. He told Conan all about his little internet problem:

“It was a joke, off-color, whatever. I’m unapologetic about alot of things. Yeah, I got a lot of Internet trouble. I guess that’s the thing now … I was asked a question, ‘So Black Widow has been linked to Hawkeye, Iron Man, Bruce Banner and Captain America and so what do you think of that.’ I said sounds like she’s a slut. Mind you I was talking about a fictional character and fictional behavior. But if you slept with four of the six Avengers, no matter how much fun you had, you’d be a slut. Just saying. I’d be a slut. Just saying.”

[From Team Coco on YouTube]

Conan and his audience laughed along with Jeremy’s story, which sucks. The sad part about this whole mess is that Jeremy still thinks he said nothing wrong. He truly believes that any guy who slept with four Avengers would be called a slut, which isn’t true. Tony Stark has quite the reputation, but he gets labeled as a “billionaire playboy philanthropist,” which sounds much more respectful than “slut.” Guess what? Black Widow isn’t even sleeping around in these Marvel movies! She kissed a few of these guys and mentioned Budapest when talking to Hawkeye, so of course Renner thinks she’s sleeping with everyone. Not that it matters. She could sleep with every Avenger, and Renner still shouldn’t judge.

People are saying that Renner’s only peeved with the situation because no one wants to sleep with Hawkeye. It’s funny, but only because Renner is behaving so unapologetically. Here’s the Conan clip.

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