Natasha Romanoff

**Natalia Alianovna "Natasha" Romanoff** (Russian: **Наталья Альяновна "Наташа" Романов**) was one of the most talented spies and assassins in the entire world.

Having extensive mastery in martial arts and armed with her Widow's Bite, Romanoff became one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most efficient agents, using the title given by her 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 hat he was slipping. During this mission, Romanoff assisted Stark with defeating A.I.M.'s terrorist plots against him.

## Personality

The entirety of Romanoff's character was hard to distinguish based on how she tricked and lied to people for a living. She was capable of convincingly portraying friendly and flirtatious, timid, vulnerable, and scared. For the most part, she was a level-headed, strong-willed, and independent woman. Romanoff normally maintained a controlled, almost emotionless persona to keep whatever she was thinking a secret unless she was around people she absolutely trusts.

## Abilities

Natasha Romanoff was one of the most talented spies and lethal assassins in the world.

* **Master Martial Artist**: She was extremely skilled in the field of martial arts, having mastered arts such as sambo, hapkido, Lucha libre-style wrestling, Krav Maga, multiple styles of kung fu, wing chun, Taekwondo, and kali with her batons. Romanoff has efficiently taken down many enemies, such as a squadron of armed soldiers after being ambushed in a hotel room, multiple Hammer Industries security guard
* **Master Marksman**: Romanoff was an extremely skilled marksman specialized in sharpshooting.
* **Master Acrobat**: Romanoff was an extremely skilled gymnast, acrobat, and aerialist, often incorporating gymnastics and acrobatics into her fighting style as she fought opponents. She had numerous complex maneuvers and feats throughout her battles. During her fight within Hammer Industries Headquarters, Romanoff used these skills to defeat the guards with ease.
* **Master Spy**:Romanoff was a dangerous secret agent highly skilled in espionage, stealth, disguise, infiltration, and demolitions. Her talents and years of experience have enabled her to reach a high ranking as a special agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Romanoff is well versed in internal destabilization and was soon deemed a threat to global security because of this. In addition, She was an expert in the field of seduction, often resorted to seducing men to obtain her goals while working undercover, such as when she posed as an assistant. Romanoff was also able to bend many men to her will and sometimes even get them to do her bidding for her, and would continue deceiving them through different means necessary if she still had a further use for them. Moreover, she displayed an uncanny affinity for psychological manipulation and could mask her real emotions perfectly.

* **Expert Hacker**: Romanoff could hack into most computer systems without tripping any firewalls or security. She used this talent to hack into Hammer Industries mainframe and help James Rhodes regain control of the War Machine Armor and enabled him to help Stark fight the rest of the attacking Hammer drones.

*"Do you even speak Latin?""Fallaces sunt rerum species et hominum spes fallunt.""Which means? Wait. What? What did you just say?""It means you can either drive yourself home or I can have you collected."*
―Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff[src]

* **Multilingualism**: Romanoff was fluent in her native Russian, as well as English, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin, Norwegian, Japanese and various other languages.

## Equipment

### Current

* **S.H.I.E.L.D. Uniform**: Black Widow's first uniform was a black catsuit. It zipped up the front and had fingerless gloves with S.H.I.E.L.D. logos on the shoulders. It had two belts, one of which had a red hourglass symbol on it and the other serving as a utility belt. It also had a thigh holster.
* **Black Widow's Bite**: Electroshock weapon that can deliver powerful electrical discharges from two bracelets worn by Romanoff.
* **Taser Disks**: Romanoff used two taser disks aimed at the feet of one of the security guards at Hammer Industries Headquarters, paralyzing his legs to temporarily disable him. She also used a taser disk to temporarily disable Winer Soldier's prosthetic arm to prevent him from aiming his gun and buy herself time to escape. She later used a taser disk to short-circuit an explosive personnel badge but knocked herself out in the process.
* **Garrote**: Romanoff stored a garrote within her Bite, which she utilized to aid in her escape from a nightclub in Moscow by using it to strangle and then throw an opponent over a railing and down a stairwell. Romanoff then employed it again while infiltrating Hammer Industries Headquarters, using it to deflect the blows of one of the security guards at Hammer Industries Headquarters, and later to strangle him until he lost consciousness.
* **Walther PPK/S**: Romanoff's original weapon of choice.
* **Glock 26**: Romanoff replaced the Walther PPK/S for a pair of Glock 26 handguns, continuing to use them for the rest of her life as her weapon of choice.
* **Flash Bombs**: Romanoff used two of these flash bombs to blind some of the security guards at Hammer Industries Headquarters, easily dispatching them afterward.
* **Pepper Spray**: Romanoff took one of the cannisters of pepper spray carried by Hammer Industries security guards, and used it to dispatch the last guard

## Relationships

### Allies

* S.H.I.E.L.D.
	+ Phil Coulson
	+ Nick Fury - Superior
	+ Maria Hill
* Stark Industries
	+ Pepper Potts
	+ Happy Hogan
* James Rhodes/War Machine
* Avengers
	+ Steve Rogers/Captain America
	+ Tony Stark/Iron Man
	+ Hank Pym/Ant-Man
	+ Thor Odinson
	+ Janet van Dyne/Wasp
	+ Bruce Banner/Hulk

### Enemies

* Hammer Industries
	+ Justin Hammer
	+ Hammer Drones
* A.I.M.
	+ George Tarleton/M.O.D.O.K.
	+ Scientist Supreme
* Loki

## Appearances

In chronological order:

* Iron Man 2
* The Avengers

## Trivia

* In the comics, Black Widow is the product of a Soviet Super Soldier experiment, and has had relationships with Bucky Barnes, Matt Murdock, Tony Stark and Clint Barton.