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Captain America Vol 1 6
(cameo)
Modern Comics:
Avengers Vol 1 3
(first full appearance)
History
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- — Black Widow
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Early Years
Natalia Alianovna Romanova was born in the spring of 1984 in Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, USSR, and was raised by the Red Room to become a world-class spy for the KGB. She reportedly began training towards the life of an assassin when she was just a child, and her ruthless effectiveness in later years earned her the codename: Black Widow. While she was only a child, her mother Daria Romanova repeatedly asked to see her daughter, a habit that would prove a potential risk of the Red Room getting exposed to the public and a disruption to Natalia's development into mastery. Unbeknownst to Natalia at the time, its heads had her mother killed in secret and had the incident get blamed at the agency S.H.I.E.L.D., framing her mother as an enemy to the state, much to Natalia's devastation who grieve such great loss in her young life.
As an act of revenge, her enraged father, a KGB agent, tried to infiltrate the Red Room Academy and planted it with explosives as men of bringing the headquarters down and killing its heads with it. The mission was mostly successful, but it ended with the surviving Red Room heads finding and capturing her father before executing him before Natalia's eyes, with the Red Room trying their very best to gaslight a traumatized Natalia by justifying his execution as a result of her father's betrayal towards the Red Room. After finding out all about the truth about the Red Room and her father's affiliation with S.H.I.E.L.D., Natalia decided to run away and escape the Red Room only after she underwent with the final ceremony of her training and completion: sterilization, as to avoid any distractions and focus solely on her missions, something she deeply regretted later in her life.
She was tracked down by several assassins from the Red Room but was saved by her late father's colleague, Ivan Petrovich, who eventually became her foster father. Growing up, she was trained by her foster father to become highly skilled and an expert of martial arts and acrobatics in similar ways she learned at the Red Room Academy, but newer techniques were introduced as Ivan would later reveal himself to also be a secret agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., an agency which were pointed by the Red Room as the ones responsible for her mother's death. After Ivan's unfortunate death at the hands of several Hydra agents who were masquerading themselves as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Natalia continued her career as a ruthless assassin and a world-class spy under the Red Room's influence who — from the shadows — took advantage over her vengeance and determination by acting as one of her major employers,. Inside, Natalia hoped that one day, she would get her revenge against the perpetuators who were responsible for her foster father's death.
Deadly Encounters
Despite growing up as an orphaned assassin, she was nevertheless taken under the care and tutelage of Alexi Shostakov (Russian's first successful super-soldier Red Guardian) and Melina Vostokoff (veteran spy and assassin known by the codename of Iron Maiden), two top-notch agents and heroic figures who were secretly affiliates of the Red Room hired to watch over Natalia despite her defection from the academy. Not long in this chapter of Natalia's life, she became close with her guardian's younger adoptive daughter Yelena Belova, whom she would find out to be one of the best candidates and latest participants in the Red Room program.
Despite this, it didn't stop the two young assassins from developing both a rivalry and sisterly bond along the two sisters starting to somewhat care for her guardians for the next few years as they watch over her grow up. She became their best operative since she had a long-time experience being trained in the infamous Red Room Academy, becoming excellent at fighting and information gathering as the Black Widow. However, Natalia was forced to part ways and go solo once more when she found out the truth to why Shostakov and Vostokoff were working with her all these years, holding an unforgiving grudge towards them for a long time, although it wouldn't be the last time she would see or work with these three.
Joining S.H.I.E.L.D.
This life underwent a dramatic change when she was targeted for assassination herself, and the agent sent to kill her was the similarly gifted soldier, the master archer Clint Barton, codename Hawkeye. Instead of killing her, Barton spared her life and the pair developed a lasting partnership and best friendship from that moment forward. Following Barton, the Black Widow was drawn into a new life as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., moving on from the Red Room when she figured out the truth about their discreet and diabolical schemes which led to her parents' and many other lives' deaths. Her dark past, however, would still remain a touchy subject for her for a while to her new colleagues and future teammates, and Widow tried to start a new life going by her anglicized name: Natasha Aliana Romanoff.
In the mid-2000s, during a mission to protect a Nigerian scientist who was going to be hired as a consultant to S.H.I.E.L.D., Natasha was confronted by the ruthless and merciless Winter Soldier, who eliminated his target by literally shooting through Natasha when she tried to shield him, leaving a small scar on her hip. After this encounter, Natasha would go on to attempt to track down the Winter Soldier for an unspecified amount of time, but was forced to give up after accepting that he was more elusive than any other enemy she had encountered.
Watching Tony Stark
On one mission around the late 2000s, Natasha momentarily assumed the alias of Natalie Rushman, in order to infiltrate Stark Industries and assess Tony Stark's mental, emotional, and physical states ever since he publicly debuted as the suit-wearing superhero, Iron Man. She assisted Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan, and Stark himself, under the guise that she was working in Stark's legal department, all the while feeding information to S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nick Fury regarding Stark and his activities.
Joining the Avengers
Having already extensive mastery in the martial arts and armed with her pair of wristed gauntlets known as the Widow's Bite, Black Widow still remained as one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most talented agents in the modern era. When the rogue and mischievous Asgardian prince Loki Laufeyson had declared war on Earth with the assistance and armada of the deadly techno-organic extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri, Black Widow eventually and voluntarily joined the Avengers and helped to defend New York City from the great invasion.
The War Against Hydra
After the Avengers defeated Loki, she continued her work with S.H.I.E.L.D., this time working with fellow agent Captain America. Together, they uncovered a conspiracy following an assassination attempt on Nick Fury, which had eventually led to them discovering that Hydra had been infiltrating their entire organization for centuries. It wasn't long after that their discovery has led to their reunion with the Winter Soldier, and despite his deadliest efforts to stop them, Natasha helped expose the agency's evil schemes to the world with the help of their winged-soldier Sam Wilson along with Maria Hill and Fury. As a result, Natasha was forced into dropping off the grid again until S.H.I.E.L.D. would later recover under its new director Phil Coulson.
From Russia with Love
Following the Hydra Uprising, which resulted in all of her morally dubious history being revealed to the world, she dropped off the grid to begin rebuilding her cover. Natasha later rejoined the Avengers, working to bring down various Hydra cells across the world and the rogue artificial intelligence Ultron. Unlike most members of the original roster of the Avengers, Black Widow remained a member of the second incarnation of the team after the global event of Ultimate War, which led on to the subsequent Civil War which sprouted from the disagreement of the superhero community regarding the Superhero Registration Act, eventually forcing Black Widow to go on the run once more due to her secretly helping out the faction of Captain America who were against the Act in finding and confronting the fugitive who destructively ended the Ultimate War, thus becoming a fugitive of the state like the rest of them in the next few years while they find a way to fight against the registration in the shadows.
The current state of affairs of being a fugitive at the time has led to her becoming partners with a redeemed Winter Soldier when they came to Russia for a private investigation, leading to her unexpected reunion with her former family figures and comrades: Red Guardian, Iron Maiden, and one of the last Black Widow: Yelena Belova (whom Natasha had previously have reunited and worked with as members of the Registration Act Initiative, notably against the Spymaster and the Thunderbolts), whom she reluctantly joined forces with to deal with taking down the modern incarnation of the Red Room, rendering Natasha to face her past one last time to avenge her parents' demise and prevent more young girls from ending up and becoming a tragic and cold-blooded assassin like her through the Red Room Academy. The Black Widow and her team would face the Russian superhero team Winter Guard, who were hired to protect the Red Room, but after a series of chases and conflicts, misunderstandings were cleared and truths were exposed, leading to some of the Guard to assist them in defeating the Red Room and its heads once and for all.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
As the Black Widow, Natalia possesses no superhuman abilities. However, the Black Widow is a high level trained combatant, a master spy and assassin, and S.H.I.E.L.D. operative. Because of her abilities, Nick Fury's intel classified her as power level 8.
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Abilities
- Master Martial Artist
- Expert Acrobat
- Multilingual
- Expert Marksman
- Gifted Intellect
- Graceful Dancer
- Expert Tactician
- Talented Hacker
- Master Seductress
- Expert Spy
Strength level
Class 8
Weaknesses
- Human Vulnerabilities
- Compulsory Sterilized
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Costume Specifications
Transportation:
- Widow's Line - a grappling hook with a retractable line, to swing along rooftops for increased mobility.
- Quinjet
Weapons:
- Black Widow's Bite
- Black Widow's Batons
- Glock 26
- Glock 19
- Colt M4A1
Notes
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- ↑ Modern Comics: Avengers Vol 1 1
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Natalia Romanova (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Natalia Romanova (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Natalia Romanova (Earth-61615)
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