Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)

Cinematic and Comics and Ultimate Avengers and Marvel Anime (Madhouse) and Marvel Animated Universe (2012 to 2018) and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

Secret Wars, Comics: With the Multiverse restored after Secret Wars, Natasha is alive again, leaves the Avengers and goes back to a spy's life.

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.

Ultimate Avengers

Government spy with Russian and American citizenship, counted among the best S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and one of the first chosen Avengers, based at the Triskelion. She carries gauntlets and conventional and vibranium bullets and flies a Quinjet. The page gives no plot beyond this.

Marvel Anime (Madhouse)

Spy and Avengers member in the Madhouse anime, based on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier and partnered with Hawkeye. The page records only that she and Elihas Starr were once lovers, a connection that matters in the Leviathan story. She carries spy gear and her gauntlets.

Marvel Animated Universe (2012 to 2018)

Russian spy and former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent recruited to the Avengers, working closely with Hawkeye and based at Avengers Tower. She follows the Avengers to fight Red Skull and his Hydra army, and is infected by M.O.D.O.K.'s nanobots. Dracula kidnaps and vampirizes her in Transylvania, and the Collector later captures her. She joins the Contest of Champions.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

A Red Room trained assassin turned S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and Avenger in the LEGO Marvel reality. She recruits Bruce Banner, frees Hawkeye from Loki's control, shuts the portal in New York, and works with Hawkeye on Oscorp and Hydra missions. She is captured by Ultron in Seoul, later infected by a symbiote on Sakaar, and fights Thanos in the Hulkbuster armour.

Timeline 29 events

1. Silver · Comics: Sent by her Soviet handlers to infiltrate Stark Industries, she debuts as a foe of Iron Man. Seen in Tales of Suspense #60 · passage
2. Silver · Comics: Freed from brainwashing, she defects from the Soviet side and aids the Avengers against the Sons of the Serpent. Seen in Avengers #32 · passage
3. 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. Seen in Avengers #44 · passage
4. Bronze · Comics: She co-founds the Champions of Los Angeles after the team stops Pluto's invasion of Olympus. Seen in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #17 · passage
5. 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. Seen in Avengers Annual #1999 · passage
6. Modern · Comics: She captures Yelena Belova and swaps faces with her to uncover General Stalyenko's dealings.
7. Modern · Comics: She joins Nick Fury's Secret War team against Latveria's Prime Minister Lucia von Bardas. Seen in Secret War #1 · passage
8. Modern · Comics: During the Civil War she backs registration, serves on Iron Man's task force and joins the reconstituted Avengers. Seen in Civil War #3 · passage
9. Modern · Comics: Posing as Yelena Belova, she infiltrates Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts for Nick Fury. Seen in Thunderbolts vol. 2 #128 · passage
10. Secret Wars · Comics: During the final incursion she ferries people to the Life Raft and seemingly dies when her ship is destroyed. Seen in Secret Wars #1 · passage
11. Secret Wars · Comics: With the Multiverse restored after Secret Wars, Natasha is alive again, leaves the Avengers and goes back to a spy's life.
12. Secret Wars · Comics: In the Secret Empire conflict she is killed by Hydra's Captain America while shielding Spider-Man. Seen in Secret Empire #7 · passage
13. Fresh Start · Comics: A Red Room clone of Natasha retaining her memories turns on the program and destroys it. Seen in Tales of Suspense vol. 3 #100 · passage
14. Fresh Start · Comics: Logan leaves the Space Stone with her in Madripoor and she uses it to teleport toward New York. Seen in Infinity Countdown: Black Widow #1 · passage
15. 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. Seen in Venom War: Venomous #3 · passage
16. 1984 · Cinematic: Born in Volgograd, she was bought from her family as an infant for the Red Room program and raised in its academy. passage
17. 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. passage
18. 2008 · Cinematic: She and Clint Barton blew up Dreykov's headquarters in Budapest, after which she defected to S.H.I.E.L.D. passage
19. 2010 · Cinematic: She went undercover as Natalie Rushman at Stark Industries to assess Tony Stark, then revealed herself and helped against Ivan Vanko. Seen in Iron Man 2 · passage
20. 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. Seen in The Avengers
21. 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. Seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier · passage
22. 2014 · Cinematic: Time-travelled from 2023, she waited with Hawkeye on Morag during the Power Stone retrieval before they left for Vormir. Seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier · passage
23. 2015 · Cinematic: She helped retake Loki's Scepter, was captured by Ultron in Seoul, and fought in the Battle of Sokovia. Seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron · passage
24. 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. Seen in Captain America: Civil War · passage
25. 2016 · Cinematic: Hiding in Norway, she reunited with her adoptive family, freed Alexei Shostakov, and destroyed the Red Room with Yelena Belova's help. Seen in Black Widow · passage
26. 2018 · Cinematic: She defended Vision in Scotland and fought in the Battle of Wakanda, but Thanos wiped out half of life. Seen in Avengers: Endgame
27. 2018 · Cinematic: Twenty-three days after the Snap she joined the strike on Thanos at the Garden, only to find the Infinity Stones destroyed. Seen in Avengers: Endgame · passage
28. 2023 · Cinematic: Leading the Avengers, she helped plan the Time Heist and entered the Quantum Realm in a Time Suit. Seen in Avengers: Endgame · passage
29. 2023 · Cinematic: Sent back to 2014 in the Time Heist, she sacrificed herself over the cliff on Vormir to win the Soul Stone for the Avengers, and her body was lost in another timeline.

allied with

Iron Man, Steve Rogers, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Hulk, 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, Punisher, Uatu the Watcher

enemy of

Loki Laufeyson, Winter Soldier, Ultron, Taskmaster (Antonia Dreykov), Thaddeus Ross, Thanos, Iron Man, Red Skull, Dracula, M.O.D.O.K., Hawkeye, Corvus Glaive, Crossbones, Arnim Zola, Alexander Pierce, Yelena Belova, Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov), Jasper Sitwell

travels to

Quantum Realm, Morag, Vormir

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