Captain America: Civil War featured a lot of face-offs between different Avengers from Team Cap and Team Iron Man. However, there's one pair of Avengers who we didn't get to see battling it out with each other – Black Widow and Captain America.
Earlier last month, Civil War scribes Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely explained why this didn't happen, citing time as the main reason. It looks like a storyboard sequence video unearthed by Cinema Blend, courtesy of Civil War storyboard artist Darrin Denlinger, but which has been pulled at the studio's request, reveals that fight between Steve and Natasha that was originally planned to be included in the movie.
As described by the Cinema Blend, the scene goes:
[It]starts out with Ant-Man and Captain America pulling the old "enlarge the truck" attack on War Machine and Black Panther. Captain America and Ant-Man then make a run for it and agree to rendezvous later. Ant-Man shrinks down and gets a ride out on one of his flying ant allies, but Cap is soon stopped by Black Widow. The fight has a lot of rhythmic beats: Cap blocking her projectiles with his shield, Black Widow breaking out her electric gauntlets, her stealing Cap's shield, etc.
Eventually they have a similar encounter to the one they had in the movie outside of one of the hangars, where Natasha Romanoff asks Steve Rogers if he's ever going to stop. Just like in the theatrical cut, Steve says no. Soon after, he asks if she brought her gear, and when she respond affirmatively, he tosses her off the building, leaving her to break out her grapple gun and uses its hook to break her fall.
Of course, even while the Avengers are fighting in Civil War, nobody really wants to kill each other, which is why Cap broke Natasha's fall to make sure she's not harmed.
Despite Natasha's pro-registration stance, it was clear from the beginning that Steve's friendship and welfare is very important to her. In the end, she chose to look out for him, even allowing him to escape the battle at the Leipzig/Halle Airport to track down Helmut Zemo in Russia.
Personally, I don't think it was much of a letdown that their fight wasn't shown in Civil War. The two also had a close relationship unseen in the other Avengers, and Natasha letting Bucky and Steve go made much more sense than them fighting and trying to kill each other off.
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