Natalia Alianovna Romanova, commonly known as Natasha Romanoff, was one of the most talented spies and assassins in the entire world and a founding member of the Avengers. As a child, she was indoctrinated into Leviathan as part of the Black Widow Ops Program under the leadership of General Viktor Egorav, and lived as the surrogate daughter of Alexi Alanovich Shostakov and Melina Vostokoff while they were undercover in the United States of America. After the Destruction of the North Institute, she underwent extensive psychological conditioning, before graduating from Leviathan's Red Room Academy as a Widow. Working as an operative for the K.G.B., she was targeted by S.H.I.E.L.D., before given the chance to ultimately defect to the organization by Clint Barton by assassinating General Egorav. Natasha succeeded, although having to use his daughter Anya's life as collateral damage, but this would haunt her for the rest of her life.
Having extensive mastery in martial arts and armed with her Widow's Bite, Natasha Romanoff became one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most efficient agents, using the title given by her former organization as her codename, "Black Widow". During one mission, she was sent undercover into Stark Industries as Natalie Rushman to watch Tony Stark due to the fear that he was dying. During this mission, Romanoff assisted Stark with defeating Ivan Vanko's terrorist plots against him.
When Loki declared war on the Earth, Natasha was among the candidates that were recruited into the Avengers after her friend and partner Clint Barton had just been enthralled by Loki's scepter. Under the orders of Director Nick Fury and Agent Phil Coulson, she assisted in recruiting Tony Stark and Doctor Bruce Banner into the team while they tracked down and attempted to capture Loki, eventually saving Clint from his grasp. Once Loki's entire plan had been uncovered, Natasha joined the team during the battle of New York and was instrumental in destroying the portal over the city which had been created by the Tesseract, effectively ending the entire invasion while Loki was defeated and deported back to his homeworld by his brother Thor.
In the wake of the Avengers successfully defeating Loki, Romanoff continued her work with S.H.I.E.L.D., this time working with Captain America. While working together, Romanoff and Rogers uncovered a conspiracy following an assassination attempt on Nick Fury, which had eventually led to them discovering that HYDRAhad been infiltrating their entire organization since its foundation. Despite the efforts of the Winter Soldier to stop them, Romanoff helped expose Alexander Pierce's evil schemes to the world, which also resulted in all of her own morally dubious history being revealed. As a result, Romanoff was forced into dropping off the grid again and began rebuilding her cover.
Romanoff eventually rejoined the Avengers, working to bring down various HYDRA cells across the world and assisting in the capture of Baron Strucker. However, before she could form a romantic relationship with Banner, the rogue artificial intelligence Ultron was created by him and Stark, forcing Romanoff and the rest of their team to join together and defeat him. Despite being captured, Romanoff was able to inform the team of Ultron's location on Sokovia, resulting in a final battle in which the Avengers had defeated Ultron once and for all, though Banner fled into self-exile. Along with Captain America, Black Widow remained a member while forming the second incarnation of the team.
As many of the world governments demanded the Avengers to sign the Sokovia Accords in the wake of their recent battles, Romanoff agreed to their terms and signed the Accords. She later joined Iron Man in a fight against Captain America due to his disagreements with the Accords and his criminal activities with the Winter Soldier who Rogers was attempting to protect. As the two Avengers' factions fought against each other, Romanoff betrayed Iron Man's team to assist Captain America in finding the one incriminating the Winter Soldier, inherently violating the Sokovia Accords.
As a result, the fugitive Romanoff worked with Rick Mason to escape the government for aiding Rogers. In the process, Romanoff intercepted messages from her former surrogate sister Yelena Belova about the Red Room's resurgence. In possession of the Red Dust, Romanoff and Belova were relentlessly pursued by Taskmaster, who worked for Dreykov, who was believed to have been killed. Reuniting with her surrogate parents, they worked together to bring down the Red Room once and for all. Upon learning Taskmaster was actually Antonia, who had survived all these years but was mind-controlled by Dreykov, Romanoff freed her from Dreykov's enthrallment, and put an end to Dreykov's plans for world domination. Romanoff soon joined Rogers in freeing the incarcerated Avengers.
With the Avengers broken up, Romanoff, Rogers and Wilson went on the run for two years as international fugitives, working alone to stop terrorist cells in Syria. When the threat of Thanos approached Earth, Romanoff, Rogers, and Wilson protected Vision, who had the Mind Stone, which Thanos was after. They later defended Wakanda from the attack, but were ultimately defeated when Thanos destroyed half of all life with the Infinity Gauntlet, where Romanoff emerged as one of the survivors. Romanoff was part of the Ambush on Thanos in an effort to retrieve the Infinity Stones and undo the Titan's snap, with no success.
Five years later, Natasha had been leading the Avengers alongside Steve Rogers, now formed by Okoye, Rocket Raccoon, Nebula, War Machine, and Captain Marvel. With an opportunity to undo the Snap presented by Ant-Man, the remaining Avengers split up into teams to retrieve all Infinity Stones from several alternate timelines in the Time Heist. Sent to retrieve the Soul Stone on Vormir with Barton, Romanoff, against Barton's insistence, willingly jumped off the Vormir mountains into the abyss below, sacrificing herself in the process in order to obtain the Soul Stone for the Avengers.
Biography[]
Time Heist[]
Possessed by the Red Skull[]
In the wake of her self-sacrifice, Natalia's body continued to remain irretrievably lost on Vormir within another timeline. The Red Skull, who had been wanting to be free himself from his curse, was deeply enraged when his old foe Captain America returned the Soul Stone following the battle of Earth, causing his curse to be restored once again. Seeking retribution for being cursed again, Johann learned a lot of his power ever since he'd been living in exile and found the answer on how to escape this world. The answer was for him to possess a body.
Taking measures into his own hands, the Red Skull chose to possess the body of Natasha Romanoff. As he now inhabited Natasha's body, which had healed ever since his possession, the Red Skull infused his mind with her and took his time to access all her memories. Seeing that Natasha still had the Pym Particles to go back in time, the Red Skull took this moment to escape Vormir and travel to the timeline where the Avengers defeated Thanos. Johann continued to inhabit Natasha's body as he arrived and snuck away while Bruce Banner and Bucky Barnes weren't looking.
Attributes[]
Powers[]
- Black Widow Serum: Like all other Widows that were brought and trained to be part of Black Widow Ops Program within Leviathan, Natasha Romanoff was injected with the Black Widow Serum as part of the Graduation Ceremony.
- Athletic Reflexes: Natasha's reflexes are similar to those of an athlete.
- Athletic Stamina: Natasha's stamina is similar to that of an athlete.
- Enhanced Immune System: Natasha has been enhanced by biotechnology that has slowed her aging and augmented her immune system. The Immune System allowed her to be fully immune to all sorts of diseases, cancers, or viruses.
- Enhanced Longevity: The serum extends Stefanya's lifespan and youth.
- Peak Human Endurance: Stefanya exhibits extraordinary levels to physical pain.
Abilities[]
- Multilingual: Natasha is fluent in Russian, English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and various other languages.
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External Links[]
Natasha Romanoff on the Marvel Wiki- Black Widow on the Marvel Wiki
Time Heist[]
Clone Conspiracy[]
Attributes[]
Powers[]
- Super-Soldier Serum: Following her rebirth, Natalia Alianovna Romanova received an injection of the Super-Soldier Serum that was created by Doctor Lyudmila Antonovna Kudrin instead of the Black Widow Serum. The serum enhanced her immune system, bodily condition, and longevity in order to eradicate cellular degeneration.
- Peak Human Strength: Natasha's physical strength is enhanced, enabling her to consistently press lift 500 pounds.
- Athletic Speed: Natasha's speed is that of an Olympic athlete, enabling her to run at speeds of 32-36 mph.
- Enhanced Durability: Natasha's body is enhanced to withstand greater physical injuries than normal humans.
- Athletic Reflexes: Natasha’s reflexes are similar to those of an athlete.
- Athletic Stamina: Natasha’s stamina is similar to that of an athlete.
- Peak Human Healing: According to one of Dr. Kudrin's logs that were copied and kept by the New U Technologies theoretically stated Natasha's wounds heal five times faster than average human rate.
- Enhanced Immune System: The Black Widow has been enhanced by biotechnology that has slowed her aging, and augmented her immune system in order to prevent cellular degeneration from happening.
- Enhanced Longevity: The serum extends Natasha's lifespan and youth, resulting in her maintaining the appearance of a woman in her 30's and preventing cellular degeneration.
- Peak Human Endurance: Natasha exhibits extraordinary levels to physical pain. She once resumed functioning in spite of her undergoing unbearable surgery without anesthesia.
Former Powers[]
- Black Widow Serum: Like all other Widows that were brought and trained to be part of Black Widow Ops Program within Leviathan, Natasha Romanoff was injected with the Black Widow Serum as part of the Graduation Ceremony.
- Athletic Reflexes: Natasha's reflexes are similar to those of an athlete.
- Athletic Stamina: Natasha's stamina is similar to that of an athlete.
- Enhanced Immune System: Natasha has been enhanced by biotechnology that has slowed her aging and augmented her immune system. The Immune System allowed her to be fully immune to all sorts of diseases, cancers, or viruses.
- Enhanced Longevity: The serum extends Stefanya's lifespan and youth.
- Peak Human Endurance: Stefanya exhibits extraordinary levels to physical pain.