The folks at NOW are probably firing up their fax machines as we speak …

Scarlett Johansson, so beguiling as Black Widow in The Avengers, was a no show when the film’s (all male) heroes gathered to present an award tonight.

Now, it’s bad enough that my son’s Avengers comforter set lacks a lycra-clad ScarJo (and Hawkeye, to be fair), but this absence is just tough to ignore. Maybe she’s shooting a film at the moment … or she’s on assignment gathering more heroes for Avengers 2.

Either way, she didn’t miss much. The playful bantering between the fellas was hardly super.