Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
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Silver, Comics: Freed from brainwashing, she defects from the Soviet side and aids the Avengers against the Sons of the Serpent.
Cinematic
A Soviet-born spy and assassin raised in the Red Room, who defected to S.H.I.E.L.D. and became a founding Avenger. She worked beside Hawkeye and Captain America, helped expose Hydra inside S.H.I.E.L.D., fought Ultron and Thanos, and signed then broke with the Sokovia Accords. After the Snap she led the Avengers for five years, then traveled through time to Vormir, where she gave up her life to win the Soul Stone.
Comics
Natalia Alianovna Romanova, the Black Widow, is a Soviet-trained spy raised by the Red Room program. She began as a KGB agent opposed to Iron Man, defected, and became a long-serving S.H.I.E.L.D. operative and Avenger who works mostly in the shadows. Her record includes partnerships with Hawkeye, Daredevil and the Winter Soldier, a death in the Secret Empire conflict, and a Red Room clone who carried her memories forward.
Timeline 29 events
- Silver · Comics: Sent by her Soviet handlers to infiltrate Stark Industries, she debuts as a foe of Iron Man.
- Silver · Comics: Freed from brainwashing, she defects from the Soviet side and aids the Avengers against the Sons of the Serpent.
- Silver · Comics: Nick Fury enlists her as a S.H.I.E.L.D. spy, and she is held in China until the Avengers rescue her from the Psychotron plot.
- Bronze · Comics: She co-founds the Champions of Los Angeles after the team stops Pluto's invasion of Olympus.
- Bronze · Comics: She goes undercover in the KGB to find her mentor Ivan Petrovitch and is hunted by a group of agents including the Iron Maiden.
- Modern · Comics: After the Onslaught losses she co-leads the Avengers but ends up disbanding the team and handing the mansion to S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Modern · Comics: She captures Yelena Belova and swaps faces with her to uncover General Stalyenko's dealings.
- Modern · Comics: She joins Nick Fury's Secret War team against Latveria's Prime Minister Lucia von Bardas.
- Modern · Comics: During the Civil War she backs registration, serves on Iron Man's task force and joins the reconstituted Avengers.
- Modern · Comics: Posing as Yelena Belova, she infiltrates Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts for Nick Fury.
- Secret Wars · Comics: During the final incursion she ferries people to the Life Raft and seemingly dies when her ship is destroyed.
- Secret Wars · Comics: In the Secret Empire conflict she is killed by Hydra's Captain America while shielding Spider-Man.
- Fresh Start · Comics: A Red Room clone of Natasha retaining her memories turns on the program and destroys it.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Logan leaves the Space Stone with her in Madripoor and she uses it to teleport toward New York.
- Fresh Start · Comics: She bonds with an offshoot of the Venom symbiote while investigating Alchemax and loses it the following year to the zombiote plague.
- 1984 · Cinematic: Born in Volgograd, she was bought from her family as an infant for the Red Room program and raised in its academy.
- 1992 · Cinematic: Sent undercover to Ohio with Yelena Belova as the daughters of two agents, she lived there three years until the mission ended in 1995 and she was returned to the Red Room.
- 2008 · Cinematic: She and Clint Barton blew up Dreykov's headquarters in Budapest, after which she defected to S.H.I.E.L.D.
- 2010 · Cinematic: She went undercover as Natalie Rushman at Stark Industries to assess Tony Stark, then revealed herself and helped against Ivan Vanko.
- 2012 · Cinematic: She recruited Bruce Banner, was saved by Hawkeye from Loki's control, and in the Battle of New York helped close the portal.
- 2014 · Cinematic: With Steve Rogers she uncovered Hydra inside S.H.I.E.L.D. and helped release the agency's secrets, bringing it down.
- 2014 · Cinematic: Time-travelled from 2023, she waited with Hawkeye on Morag during the Power Stone retrieval before they left for Vormir.
- 2014 · Cinematic: On Vormir she sacrificed herself over the cliff to win the Soul Stone for the Avengers, and her body was lost in another timeline.
- 2015 · Cinematic: She helped retake Loki's Scepter, was captured by Ultron in Seoul, and fought in the Battle of Sokovia.
- 2016 · Cinematic: She backed the Sokovia Accords, fought Captain America's team at Leipzig-Halle Airport, then let him escape and went on the run.
- 2016 · Cinematic: Hiding in Norway, she reunited with her adoptive family, freed Alexei Shostakov, and destroyed the Red Room with Yelena Belova's help.
- 2018 · Cinematic: She defended Vision in Scotland and fought in the Battle of Wakanda, but Thanos wiped out half of life.
- 2018 · Cinematic: Twenty-three days after the Snap she joined the strike on Thanos at the Garden, only to find the Infinity Stones destroyed.
- 2023 · Cinematic: Leading the Avengers, she helped plan the Time Heist and entered the Quantum Realm in a Time Suit.
allied with
Steve Rogers, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Sam Wilson (Captain America), T'Challa, Yelena Belova, Nebula, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Winter Soldier, Maria Hill, Peggy Carter, Sharon Carter, T'Chaka, Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov), Melinda May, Uatu the Watcher
enemy of
Loki Laufeyson, Winter Soldier, Ultron, Taskmaster (Antonia Dreykov), Thaddeus Ross, Thanos, Iron Man, Corvus Glaive, Crossbones, Arnim Zola, Alexander Pierce, Yelena Belova, Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov), Jasper Sitwell
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