Yaroslava Nikolayevna

**Name**: Yaroslava Nikolayevna

**Alias**: Lara Kennedy and The Red Eyed Phantom

**Status**: Deceased

**Born**: June 1 1942

**Died**: October 16 2001

**Homeworld**: Earth

**Universe**: Prime Earth 616

**Citizenship**: USSR (Formerly) and American

**Marital Status**: Married

**Species**: Human

**Sexuality**: Heterosexual

**Nationality**: Soviet Union (formerly), Symkaria, Latveria, and America

**Gender**: Female

**Eye color**: Black

**Hair colo**r: Black

**Skin color**: Light

**Age**: 17 (teenager), 27 (part 1), 37 (part 2) and 51 (death)

**Height**: 5'7

**Weight**: 131

**Mother**: Sophia Krausser (Deceased)

**Father**: Mikhail Nikolayevna (Deceased)

**Husband**: Aiden Macgrath (Deceased)

**Son**: Delsin Macgrath (Deceased)

**Son**: Alex Macgrath

**Daughter**: Claire Macgrath

**Blood type**: AB+

**Occupation**: Adventurer, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent intelligence operative; ballerina, assassin, and mercenary

**Affiliation**: The Nikolayevna family, KGB (formerly), Red Room (formerly), CIA, and S.H.I.E.L.D.

**Masters**: Sophia Krausser, Mikhail Nikolayevna, The Red Room, and S.H.I.E.L.D.

**Love Interest**: Aiden Macgrath

**Identity**: Unknown

**Base of Operations**: Red Room Academy (formerly), S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ, Heilcarrier, and the Macgrath Manor.

**Fighting Style**: Sambo, Hapkido, Lucha libre-style wrestling, Krav Maga, multiple styles of kung fu, wing chun, Taekwondo, and kali

**Weapon of choice**: Black Widow's Gauntlet and Black Widow Batons.

**Skills**: Martial Arts, Armed Combat, Espionage, Infiltration, Disguise, Manipulation, Evasion, Hacking, and Assassination.

**Alignment**: Neutral

**Goals**: Starting a family and being a good mother.

**Fear**: Failing a mission and not saving her family.

**Likes**:

**Dislikes**:

**Religion**: Catholic

**Education**: College graduate, intensive espionage training through Taras Romanov, the Red Room Academy, and others.

**Net Worth**: $150 million

**Bounty**: $30 million.

**Background**: Yaroslava was born as the only child of a family of known assassins, the Nikolayevnas. Showing great promise from birth, Yaroslava followed the traditional Nikolayevnas training, which was imparted to her by Mikhail and Sophia. She had already mastered many killing techniques at a tender age and was set to be one of the best assassins the family had ever produced. At the age of three, she started training in tailing that routinely put her life at risk. Due to her impressive skills, she was enrolled into the U.S.S.R.'s "Black Widow Ops" Program in addition to her family's care. Mikhail was said to have taken her to Department X, with 28 other young female orphans, where she was trained in combat and espionage at the covert "Red Room" facility. There, she was bio-technologically and psycho-technologically enhanced; an account that provides a rationale for her unusually long and youthful lifespan. She underwent psychological conditioning and physical training, while exceeding in her marksmanship abilities. During one of her training exercises, she was forced to execute an innocent man, which would later haunt her. As a final ceremony to complete her training, Yaroslava was given an involuntary hysterectomy and had her ovaries and uterus removed, with the Red Room citing the need for sterilization as they believed pregnancy was the one thing that would prevent a Widow from completing their mission. Following her graduation, Yaroslava was placed in the KGB by General Dreykov, and soon became regarded as a master spy and one of the world's greatest assassins. In one of her missions, she killed many members of a prostitution ring and set the place on fire. However, she left the innocent women inside. One of them managed to escape and became a huge fan of her. In the next following years, she murdered anyone in name of revolution, even women and children, during her KGB days. One day, she was tasked to go Vietnam to kill a man by the name of Bùi Thành Nguyên, a traitor who defected to the USA with vital information. She was about to kill him with a sniper but was quickly intercepted by Aiden Macgrath, Bui's personal bodyguard. They both fought to a draw, giving Bui enough time to escape. This would cause a love and hate relationship between the both of them. Disillusioned by the fact that she was merely a tool for the Communist, she opted out and joined S.H.I.E.L.D. as an Agent. In the following years, she became the next director of S.H.I.E.L.D., she would end up marrying Aiden Macgrath, and give birth to three children.

**Death**:

**Legacy**:

**Personality**: The entirety of Yaroslava'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. Yaroslava normally maintained a controlled, almost emotionless persona to keep whatever she was thinking a secret unless she was around people she absolutely trusts. Although she was more than willing to rush into deadly battle and other unnerving missions for S.H.I.E.L.D., she was not completely fearless, as she was visibly frightened of Vilgax. Outside of her spy work, Yaroslava lacks social skills and initially comes across as a somewhat aloof individual, interacting minimally with her coworkers and being rather straightforward, described as robotic by Carmen. Similarly, Yaroslava is remarkably collected and able to keep her composure during combat. Yaroslava was sterilized as a rite-of-passage for her graduation from the training she underwent in the Red Room under the supervision of Madame B. This event deeply affected her, as she regretfully told Aiden of the so-called advantages of the procedure. Despite her harsh and traumatic upbringing, Yaroslava retained a kind, caring and compassionate side of her, with Vostokoff expressing surprise at how she was able to keep her heart after all she had been through. For years, she harbored deep resentment and guilt towards herself due to the damage she had caused during her time as an Assassin and spend most of her life attempting to make up for her actions. She is incredibly polite, to the point of asking her assassination targets for "the honor of taking their lives." Despite her job, Yaroslava is a genuinely kind person with strong maternal and big sister instincts. Due to spending most of her life as an assassin, Yaroslava's ways of thinking are often highly deviant. She is frequently inclined to solve problems through murder, such as when she considered killing everyone at Carmen's party after the latter threatened to tell Aiden that she came without a date and imagined herself assassinating the parent of an Plumber applicant to ensure Delsin has a spot in the school. To this extent, she has an affinity towards weapons, being captivated by a painting of a guillotine and a table knife. Yaroslava is shown to be insecure about herself and her abilities, believing she is not good at anything apart from killing or cleaning, and she constantly worries that she is not a good wife or mother. After Delsin was born, she tries to be more of a 'normal' mother to her son by trying to cook and asking Emily for cooking lessons. Yaroslava is a considerably well-mannered woman despite her ugly past. It's shown that it takes quite a lot to get her upset or angry, as seen when Dao called her a "dumbass" and shoved a drink her way, spilling alcohol on her face. She doesn't seem to talk much to people she doesn't know, but is very protective and friendly around people she knows, loves, and/or trusts. Yaroslava is seen praying, repenting her sins and asking for her and Aiden's sins to be forgiven. She is also heard thanking Eida for her help making her arrangements to get to the U.S Special Forces and promises her a painless death. When she does become angry, she's truly a spine-chilling rival, seeing as she's basically undefeatable. Despite her seriousness and maturity, she has a sardonic sense of humor which she directs mostly at Aiden and her enemies. As the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., she is a severe woman who has a fearsome and commanding presence where she is harsh with her subordinates and peers and coldly merciless to her enemies, the deceptively beautiful woman's schadenfreude has earned her the nickname "Ice Queen" among the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Sharp-tongued and highly combative, Lara is no stranger to furious chastisements and bursts of fiery violence, especially toward those who fail to live up to her high standards and staunch adherence to the "survival of the fittest" philosophy. As such, she has no tolerance at all for weakness or lack of willpower and fosters great distaste for the concept of "Equivalent Exchange", which she views as a mindset promoting easy handouts and unnecessary compromise. That being said, she is extremely perceptive and adaptive, able to coolly judge which courses of action will lead to the most beneficial results, and capable of thinking and acting on the fly in response to unpredictable or mutable circumstances. Skilled at reading people and conscious of even her own limitations, Yaroslava understands that she requires the support of her subordinates and peers in order to succeed and, though she understands that sacrifice is often a necessary part of her endeavors, never forgets the weight and impact that each person has on the world. As such, she takes her commanding role very seriously and has earned the undying loyalty of her men with her hands-on approach to leadership on and off the field of battle. While she cannot be said to have a "soft spot" for anyone, in particular, Yaroslava is a deceptively caring and selfless individual, prone to taking great risks in order to protect the lives and well-being of those who have placed their trust in her. As a mother, Yaroslava was a very gentle and kind woman, but could also be stern and strict when she needed to be, as seen when Delsin came back from the School and she told Alex that he could not play because he had homework. She loved her sons deeply and knew how to help them with their problems. Yaroslava cared for and also held high respect for her husband as well and understood the importance of his position as the leader of the Plumbers and was a dutiful and loyal wife to him. She also gave Alex advice and tried to reassure him about his brother, Delsin. She was a very good mother, seeing as how Alex was able to talk to her better than his father. At one point, in order to cheer Alex up, she says that when she and Aiden are sometimes alone, Alex is all he talked about. One of her defining features was her strong motherly love and protectiveness of her youngest son Alex, whom she encouraged to be as he is, especially his determination. Her life was dedicated to safeguarding him from any harm, resorting to any means necessary to keep her son safe. Similarly, Yaroslava relationship with her only daughter, Claire, was very loving and caring. She was overprotective as well, as she panicked when she saw Claire riding a skateboard, being fearful of seeing her get hurt. Together with the traumatic memories of her past, these worries contributed to Yaroslava's intense fear of losing her children in some way permanently. She only became better at dealing with this fear after Aiden told her that it would never disappear but could be better dealt with them by seeing it with unclouded eyes. When her daughter died, her demeanor shifts dramatically, casting aside her typical reserved and soft-spoken mask in favor of complete, unhinged rage and berserk bloodlust. Much like her husband, Yaroslava was a loving mother and wife, as she notably risked her life to protect Alex from Vilgax and her henchmen. Yaroslava deeply loved her family and was not afraid to sacrifice her life to stop Vilgax, even taking his deathblow meant for her son. Though afraid of the harsh and cruel life Alex would have to endure as an orphaned, she did as much as she could in her final moments to shower her son with love.

**Appearance**: Yaroslava is a very beautiful, graceful and fairly tall young woman with a slender yet curvaceous frame. She has black hair and black eyes, but they can change to red whenever she uses her Assassins Instinct. As a Teenager, she styles her hair into two braided pigtails and a large forelock. She wears a tight black thong leotard with an open back, a small black tie attached to the front, a black cap, black tights, red gauntlets and black knee-high boots with a black metal mask. In her 20s, she lets her hair loose with the bottom tied up by a white string that shows she has knee-length hair. She is wearing a black and grey collared catsuit with a spider-shaped pattern in the back, with a black high-neck sleeveless top underneath, black fingerless gloves with grey designs, the pants from her catsuit have black inlines with grey and red. In her 30s, She has long, straight black hair reaching her mid-back with short bangs framing her forehead. She splits her hair into two parts and crosses it over her head, securing it with a headband and forming two thick locks of hair that reach below her chest. As an assassin, Yaroslava wears a form-fitting halter-style black dress that shows off her shoulders and cleavage, with a rose choker and a red rose pattern on the inside of her skirt. The front of the skirt is mid-thigh length, while the back reaches below her knees. She also wears a pair of black thigh-high boots and black fingerless gloves. The headband she wears is gold-colored with a rose and two spikes on each side. Her weapons are of the same color as well. When off duty, Yaroslava generally wears a semi backless red off-shoulder sweater with black tights, a red skirt, and brown-heeled ankle boots. She wears a white headband and a pair of dangling gold earrings in the shape of small spikes. When going outside, she wears a long beige coat with black buttons over her clothes. As a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, she is seen in a form-fitting black jumpsuit which highlights her body that is lined with yellow trim around the collar and down the front of her belt. Combined with this attire, she wears a utility belt to carry her various tools and spy gear and a pair of yellow gauntlets on each wrist. She also wears a black face mask with tactical goggles on her face. In her 40s, Because of the Red Room's serum, she maintains a youthful appearance despite being in her 40s. Most of Yaroslava's bangs grew out to the same length as the rest of higher it, which all becomes wavier, naturally hanging to the side of her face while slightly covering her eye. She also has single shorter strand hanging from between her eyes. Her uniform is now follow zipped up and her belt becomes a simple length of yellow with a single red plate in the front like a belt buckle. At home, she is seen wearing a white blouse underneath a lavender cardigan with a short black skirt and shoes. As the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. she is usually seen wearing a black-colored skirt suit over a black trench coat with black stockings and black 1-inch heels. As a stay at home mom, She wore a simple dark purple blouse with a red-plum skirt and a light-yellow apron normally worn over it.

**Powers and Abilities**:

**Overview**: Yaroslava Jellinek was one of the most talented spies and lethal assassins in the world. She was said by her instructor Madame B. to be the best student in the Red Room, never failing a single test. Both the KGB and S.H.I.E.L.D. considered her as one of their most dangerous operatives. Furthermore, as a member of the Nikolayevna Family, she has vast wealth at her disposal. Her family name alone is enough to scare the ones that know what it is associated to. Yaroslava has been trained since birth to become a human weapon and is recognized by her family to be the most talented assassin in the entire history of the Nikolayevna. Her training endowed her with near immunity to poison, high tolerance to electricity, great agility and physical strength, advanced armed and unarmed combat and stealth techniques, which she acquired at a very young age. She can also drive cars and airships. Her intellect and exceptional analytical skills are equally remarkable, and it is often through a strategy that she can defeat opponents who are stronger or more experienced than her. She is also able to walk without making a sound and sleep with a larger part of her brain awake than normal, so she can avoid attacks even in her sleep, even if they come from an armed, albeit weaker, opponent. Yaroslava was highly skilled in martial arts, armed combat, espionage, infiltration, disguise, manipulation, evasion, hacking, assassination, other weaponry, tactical driving, escapology, and more. Yaroslava's extraordinary skill-set made her a core member of S.H.I.E.L.D. Yaroslava also displayed impressive endurance and durability, being able to withstand being shot in the shoulder by Aiden, being hit and flung away by Sam, being launched into a car by a powerful kick from a solider, falling from a building and hitting several metal structures on the way down, and taking many blows from several CIA agents, all of which failed to render her so much as unconscious. Because of her reputation as the Red Eyed Phantom, she is deemed as an internationally wanted criminal and "hardcore terrorist" with a massive bounty on her head. In addition to her skills, Yaroslava is an excellent mentor; under her tutelage, her son, Delsin, would become an expert archer to the point where he can hit a bullseye with ease. All of these achievements and facts alone helped her became the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and A.R.G.U.S.

**Artificially-Enhanced Physiology**: Yaroslava was biochemically enhanced through the Black Widow Ops Program when she was an infant. She received the Red Room's version of the Super-Soldier Serum that was created by Dr. Lyudmila Kudrin to enhance her immune system, bodily condition, and longevity. Nick Fury's intel classified her as Power Level 7. Yaroslava is at the pinnacle of physical ability and in top physical condition. Her strength, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, endurance, senses, agility, coordination, willpower, intelligence, and instincts superior to any human and are at the highest level for a woman her age, height and weight. She is capable of taking extensive damage in combat, surviving in freezing temperatures, climbing down the side of buildings, running and jumping across buildings at great heights, withstanding intense physical pain and torture, running at incredible speeds for long periods without tiring and even breaking men’s neck with ease. Despite older than majority of those who were after her, Yaroslava always proved to be superior to them in terms of condition.

**Enhanced Strength**: Yaroslava physical strength is enhanced, enabling her to consistently Overhead press 500 pounds (226 kilograms). Yaroslava is physically strong even when compared to adult females of her size and build in peak condition; being able to climb pipes, move, drag and dispose of bodies, snap necks, knock opponents unconscious, force open locked gates just by slamming people into them, and jump from balcony to balcony with minimum effort. Displays of her peak-physical strength have been seen many times, as she is even able to strangle a physically powerful being, such as Tao. She was even able to toe-to-toe with Sanchez, a man who is physically superhuman due to Hydra's experiments and even kill him with her bare hands. Yaroslava is very strong, although it is not her greatest attributes. She can easily overpower and restrain larger opponents, knock out fully grown men with a single strike, break their necks and bones with relative ease, and effortlessly break through hardened glass. Despite her slim frame, Yaroslava possesses monstrously superhuman physical abilities. She is capable of easily piercing human skulls with her weapons throwing them hard enough to break through a wooden door and impale someone on the other side. Even throwing a simple ball can easily knock down trees. She can easily crush people with her raw strength, and a thrust from her hands alone can destroy pumpkins. Yaroslava also has enough leg strength to jump an entire floor while carrying a woman and her child. Yaroslava kicks can move speeding cars, throw grown men through ceilings, and serve as her preferred method of close combat to devastating effect. They were powerful enough to knock out Vladimir by merely grazing his chin, which had not happened to him since his training days. While attempting a strength-tester game, Yaroslava destroyed the machine with a one-handed swing. Even Yaroslava's dodgeball throws were able to fell trees. Yaroslava has difficulty controlling this strength. While taking cooking lessons from Emma, Yaroslava accidentally sliced up the cutting board she was chopping vegetables on. During a tennis match against Betty, she accidentally diced a tennis ball from the power of her swing. While she held back her strength on her next serve, it was still so powerful that Betty, a WISE agent with considerable strength, could barely hold back the ball until her racquet snapped. Betty claimed the ball would have been sent flying a mile away if she had not tried to hit it. While playing volleyball, Yaroslava had to hold back her strength to try playing on even grounds with everyone, to varied success. Two accidental slaps from Yaroslava were enough to cause Roman to bleed excessively to the point that some passersby were concerned and recommended that he should go to the hospital. By her admission, she had accidentally broken two of Roman's ribs from a hug when she was in her teens. Yaroslava's artificial nature grants super-strong muscles in her legs to jump several feet off the surface and leap several stories in a single bound across the window of a building.. Yaroslava is capable of considerable feats of superhuman strength. Yaroslava was strong enough to easily toss a large metal waste disposal vat with two hands several meters away. Yaroslava still has her strength; routinely beating hardened criminals in arm wrestles, and able to break the wrist of the muscle bound and physically imposing Ursa. Yaroslava was also able to pull a guard through a glass window with one arm and knock down a large, thick metal door with ease, along with tossing around two correctional officers. She was able to go up against Taskmaster without any significant injuries and casually knocked Taskmaster's shield away with enough force it embedded itself into the floor. However, she was unable to break herself free from the containment cells in the Red Room Academy.

**Enhanced Speed and Reflexes**: Yaroslava is imperceptibly fast and agile. Despite moving in heels, she can jump and land from tall heights, effortlessly knocking out a raging cow, and move fast enough to intercept and kill another assassin who was fast enough to evade the Director's bullets. She also has remarkably quick reflexes, being able to intercept a falling hot pan with just a motion of her leg and dodge rifle fire. Even when distracted, she was able to dodge garden shears from several feet away and was able to throw Taylor out of the path of a car and catch her in time. Her level of balance is also impressive able to catch multiple falling packages with her hands and feet and even catch a tray of soup with her foot while only spilling a few drops. Yaroslava's speed is that of an Olympic athlete, enabling her to run at speeds of 32-36 mph. Yaroslava is extremely fast, especially for a woman of her age. She is able to outrun younger opponents, and in combat she can move too fast for them to react. Yaroslava's reflexes are similar to those of an athlete. Yaroslava is apparently able to easily run 10km (6.2 miles) in 36 minutes and 39 seconds. Her reflexes are also similarly superior. She was able to react to Black Widow trying to shoot her, by immediately dodging the bullet. Yaroslava has great reflexes. She has displayed incredibly fast reaction time, as she is able to evade bullets and melee attacks during combat with relative ease even from multiple opponents. During his pursuit of Yuri, Niko shot her pillow in her hotel room in order to alert her to the threat of Ms.Patrick, and it only took her 1.2 seconds to understand the shot's purpose, correctly assess the situation, and react effectively. During her successful attempt to retrieve her car from Abram's chop shop, she dodged a car going at least 40 mph in eight-tenths of a second. Due to her Red Room super-soldier treatment, Yaroslava can move at much faster than the average human. When she was escaping the USSR, where Yaroslava was able to run on foot and catch up with a rapidly accelerating plane about to take off. Yaroslava possesses increased reflexes; she was able to react and dodge gunfire from police officers back in Ohio without getting hit, knocked Taskmaster's shield out of the way before it could hit her and was able to react to some of the latter's blows without worry. When she obtained a toy for her son, Alex, the head popped off, but Yaroslava caught it with perfect reaction time. Yaroslava's reflexes are enhanced to superhuman level. Even before her training with the Red Room, she could effortlessly catch keys thrown to her while hearing the sound they made. She can instinctively react to oncoming blows nearly effortlessly with the use of her other senses, such as avoiding attacks with a sharp weapon at close quarters by hearing the noise of its approach, and even dodging bullets fired at close range. Because her reflexes are enhanced by her hyperawareness, Yaroslava is capable of reacting to objects being thrown in her direction with lightning-fast reaction time. She was able to react to and catch a brick hurled from behind her into the her car, backhanded.

**Enhanced Durability and Stamina**: Yaroslava can withstand a gunshot wound to her glutes and move well enough to arrive home, though this feat caused her considerable pain and left her in a bad mood. During the fight on the boat, she was able to kill over 22 assassins nonstop, coming away with only a jammed finger, a chest wound, and some swelling on her face. While rushing Becky to the hospital after falsely assuming she was intoxicated, Yaroslava was struck in the side by a car. Despite being sent rolling, Yaroslava got up, caught Becky, and continued running without issue. Yaroslava's body is enhanced to withstand greater physical injuries than normal humans. She has also withstood blows from superhumans like Imus Champion, explosions, and managed to continue fighting after being shot. Yaroslava is highly resilient and sturdy by human standards. She was able to survive multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings and blunt force trauma without feeling much of an effect. Her greatest feat of durability was when she survived falling off a Hotel. Yaroslava has survived things that would kill normal humans. She survived a fatal gun wound and was able to walk before passing out. When she was thrown by Sanchez through a wooden door with his superhuman strength, all it did was knock her out for a few minutes. She had even survived being electrocuted by the voltage that would kill a normal person. Yaroslava has been able to withstand various forms of physical harm without being affected. When she landed through a window after jumping off a high-rise, she was able to get up and walk away with limited injury. She was also able to withstand being hit by a car and sent flying in a way that would have killed a normal person and claimed to have endured similarly severe injuries in her past that she walked away from with no injury. Yaroslava has tremendous amounts of stamina. She is able to fight for considerable amounts of time and run for great distances while showing little or no signs of fatigue. Even when she is injured or tired, she requires little time to recover. As noted by Xing, she managed to defeat all of his students despite being exhausted, injured, and outnumbered. Yaroslava is much more durable than the average being. She was able to survive a fall from the upper levels of the gulag prison without breaking any bones or her spine, and was able to take one tranquilizer to her chest without feeling any effect; requiring over a dozen more to bring her down. Yaroslava was unable to feel any pain at all when being stabbed while arm wrestling with inmates of her without any form of reaction by the needle. However, she is still susceptible to taser shocks and was beaten down by the master martial artist, Taskmaster. Yaroslava's musculature produces far less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. During his fight with Taskmaster, Yaroslava was able to stand back up even though Taskmaster keep knocking her down, and suffered numerous hits without being knocked out.

**Enhanced Agility**: Yaroslava is supremely agile. She was still nimble enough to leap onto the upper levels of the gulag prison courtyard with ease, as well as jump off a guard's riot shield to gain altitude. Thanks to her senses Yaroslava's agility is greater than even the finest athletes. She can traverse the city with speed and grace, by flipping, jumping, and swinging with her grappling hook. She can dodge bullet fire, even at near point blank range, and can completely outmaneuver most enemies, even easily dodging and evading the Warlord Vilgax. She was also able to traverse down a multilevel parking garage in mere seconds, by jumping and flipping between the floors.

**Enhanced Balance**: Yaroslava's sense of balance is superhuman, giving her excellent equilibrium, coordination, dexterity, and agility, resulting in high levels of acrobatic and gymnastic ability.

**Enhanced Senses**: Yaroslava's instincts are so profound that she can effectively visualize everyone around her (and also people of interest such as targets and guards) through walls and floors. Due to the Serum, Yaroslava's four senses are enhanced to a superhuman level, resulting in them becoming radar-like. She claims to constantly feel numerous things, including balance, direction, minuscule changes in air density, vibrations, and blankets of temperature variations, that are usually imperceptible to human beings. That, combined with his acute hearing and olfactory senses, allows Yaroslava to evaluate his surroundings in what he describes as an "Impressionistic painting" of the world around her, which, according to her, looks like "the world on fire." Her superhumanly enhanced senses grant her tremendous awareness of his surroundings on a wide range, thus makes her extremely alert to danger. Yaroslava's senses, however, can be extremely overloaded at high vibrational levels which cause her extreme discomfort and disorientation, such as when she was hit with a shockwave from Vilgax.

**Enhanced Hearing**: Yaroslava's hearing is sharper than a bat's and is extremely acute, she can clearly hear conversations, heartbeats and even breaths from several meters. During the Rescue of her teammate, she heard Barrett pulling back the slide on his sidearm. She was able to hear and memorize the sound of Wesley's watch ticking, and hear Claire's bones shifting as she breathed. Yaroslava can focus on what she hears; in a crowded courtroom with the judge speaking, Yaroslava heard a juror's heartbeat accelerate when Wesley entered the room. Hearing the changes in people's heartbeats allows Yaroslava to predict how they feel and what actions they'll take, such as attack or run. She was also able to memorize the pattern of Wesley's watch so he could follow the latter. When forced to improvise while fighting extremely stealthy Hand ninjas, Yaroslava was able to effectively keep track of their movements by listening to their breaths and the sound of their swords cutting through the air. Yaroslava's hearing also makes him an adept thief, as she was able to skillfully bypass Poindexter's combination safe. At Hydra's HQ, Yaroslava was able to detect 25 individual heartbeats of various henchmen throughout the building.

**Echolocation**: Yaroslava possesses an exceptionally advanced form of human echolocation. She is able to detect objects in her environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating and listening for sounds - for example tapping her Batons, stomping of her enemies' feet, raindrops, ticking from a watch, tumbling of a safe's locks, rattling chains or even a person's heartbeat. She can interpret the sound waves reflected by nearby objects, accurately identifying their location and size. As she explained to Alex, her extra sensitive hearing acts as "a spatial method" that she uses to see should her Assassin Instinct fails her.

**Lie Detection**: Yaroslava's hearing is so acute, that she can tell whether people are lying or not, based on the rate of their heartbeats. She was able to tell that Page was lying about her possession of files. She also could tell that Patilio was lying about his suit.

**Enhanced Smell**: Her incredible olfactory senses which are even sharper than a dog allows her to detect the scent of stale cigarettes and cheap cologne three floors above her and through several walls. When she was a girl, her sense was already so acute, she could smell that an old man sitting at a bench across from her had cancer. By smelling an old cigarette, Yaroslava could tell that whoever smoked it previously had rotten teeth. She was even able to smell that Nelson had onions in his lunch, the current time, but two days ago. Yaroslava was able to find Deadshot's secret hideout by following the scent of blood, left behind from an injured dog Slade had rescued earlier. She smelt that the wrong type of fuel, jet fuel, was used in the air boots, despite it being many hours or even days prior.

**Enhanced Taste**: Yaroslava was able to tell that Maria Temple had ripped open some of the stitches on her back, due to tasting copper in the air from the blood of her open wound. Her father taught her how to train this sense, which allowed her to pick out every individual ingredient of the ice cream she was eating, including that the milk used came from three different dairy farms, and that the man who served her used a certain type of soil in his garden. From across his apartment, Yaroslava was able to taste the exact brand of alcohol off Aiden's lips, from a drink he had a half an hour ago.

**Enhanced Touch**: Yaroslava can feel the presence of those around her through vibrations, air currents, and body temperatures. She can dodge attacks and projectiles by feeling them cut through the air, creating ripples of currents only detectable by her. She locates enemies through walls and from different floors by feeling the vibrations they make from moving, such as their footsteps. While in imprisoned, Yaroslava was soon able to feel the vibrations from the subway lines running deep under the church. She used these vibrations to track and scan her environment, and to regain some of her strength and balance.

**Thermoreception**: Yaroslava can sense changes in heat in the environment. Yaroslava could even feel the heat generated from the blood spilling from the gunshot wound on Ranskahov; to one-half of a degree, she was able to distinguish the difference in temperature.

**Electroreception**: Yaroslava is able to detect electric fields, similar to a shark. When out on a mission with Aiden, Yaroslava was able to find a hidden room by feeling an electrical current coming from behind the wall. She could hear the electricity buzzing inside the wall and felt a stop in the current where the mechanism for unlocking the secret room was. She was also able to find Stark's secret room in his hotel room by feeling the electrical current running beneath the floor.

**Regenerative healing factor**: She has an inhuman and effective metabolism, which has a limited, but sufficient healing factor. Her healing is efficient enough to help her recover from a gunshot in a few hours despite her needing some medical attention in order to have the bullet removed and the pain suppressed with some painkillers. She was even tough enough to walk for a long time with critical injuries before passing out. Also, such metabolism allows her to quickly recover from the symptoms of drug withdrawal. Yaroslava is able to heal from injuries much faster than normal humans. Nick Fury stated that the wound where she lost her eye healed up much faster than it should have. She was able to heal her broken bones after her fight with Roth, though she was still left in an unconscious state afterward, probably because of the shock and the strain the attack had on her body. She was also able to heal from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her hand within seconds. As a super-soldier, Yaroslava has enhanced regenerative abilities, being able to heal bruises at astounding rates and withstand a military grade tranquilizer dart without feeling any effect or passing out before being shot with many. Any injuries which Yaroslava suffers immediately heal, even if she is decapitated, disintegrated, blown up, or completely incinerated, she will still return to life in perfect condition. With this ability, she was able to almost instantly regenerate from bullet wounds caused by small rounds, and within minutes able to completely regenerate from a devastating explosion caused by a bomb going off.

**Contaminant Immunity**: Yaroslava is immune to all poisons, toxins, venoms, viruses, bacteria, allergen, diseases, etc.

**Enhanced Immune System**: Yaroslava has been enhanced by biotechnology that has slowed her aging and augmented her immune system.

**Immortality**: Yaroslava does not age beyond her youthful prime.

**Enhanced Longevity**: The serum extends Yaroslava's lifespan and youth, resulting in her maintaining the appearance of a woman in her 30s despite being born in the 1940s.

**Self-Sustenance**: Yaroslava does not need to eat, drink, or breathe to stay alive.

**High Pain Tolerance**: Despite her mastery of martial arts and firearms, Yaroslava is frequently injured, but demonstrates nearly inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to shrug off physical blows, cuts and bullet wounds with ease. During her final fight with Viggo, Yaroslava allowed Viggo's knife to re-enter an already existing stab wound, which caused a considerable amount of pain but allowed her to win the fight by breaking Viggo's arm while simultaneously avoiding creating any new wounds. When cutting off her own ring finger and having the wound cauterized, she showed little pain and the injury did not seem to affect her at all later on.

**Poison Tolerance:** Yaroslava is highly resistant to poison. She drank a cocktail laced with the body fluids of a pufferfish, a family of fish that contain a neurotoxin that is lethal in the micrograms. Her only symptoms after ingesting the cocktail were a tingling sensation and an inhibited sense of pain which helped relieve her gunshot wound. During the fight on the cruise ship, she withstood inhaling enough poison gas to take down a bear.

**Photographic Memory**: She has the uncanny power to instantly replicate various fighting styles, just by observation. She also cannot forget anything she hears or sees for the rest of her life.

**Accelerated Combat Perception**: She can foresee her opponent's next move before they do, thus allowing her to quickly come up with a counter attack before they even attack. She does this by analyzing their fighting styles and reading their muscles. However, for beings like Deadpool, she cannot predict his attacks, due to his unpredictability.

**Assassins Mode**: Due to the Red Room's version of the super soldier serum, Yaroslava has "awakened" a dormant power within her earlier in her life when she was on her first mission. Once activated, Yaroslava's scleras turned black with black markings appearing around her pupils and a dark aura enveloped her body. Red markings also appeared all over her body and remain as scars once its effect ended. It has been described as "knowing exactly what needed to be done," developing fighting instincts and perfect self-control of her body far above the average human. She is able to connect to every single Nikolayevna and Krausser before her via the paths and gain their knowledge, strength, and battle experience. This also prevents her from having her memory wiped. Ordinarily, individuals can use no more than 20% of their body's full potential, the brain's way of protecting the individual from harming their body through overexertion. But upon activating Assassins Mode, Yaroslava can use her body at 100% full potential. She enters a state of heightened concentration in which she focuses fully on killing the enemy, preventing herself from hesitating. According to her, there is a sensible difference between her power in this state and with her normal mindset. As a result Assassins Mode, Yaroslava's strength, speed, and even sensory awareness greatly increase for an instant. It increases endorphin levels in order to boost her durability and pain resistance. She can activate endorphin production within body body to inhibit the transmission of pain signals. It also boost strength and muscle contraction. She uses it by controlling the adrenaline flow in her body. She can force her body to produce adrenaline to whatever amount she needs for her goals, which boosts anything from her speed, stamina, strength and even her senses. Upon activating Assassins Mode, She enters into a state that unleashes her full dormant potential and can focus it to push her power well beyond her normal limits. Yaroslava is able to continuously increase in fighting ability the longer she fights. She is able to imprint on her own experiences and grow via adaptation and improved fighting tactics and skillsets. She is able to make rapid jumps in performance in relatively short amounts of time. It continually lets Yaroslava recover faster and increase in performance against adversity, either by healing from great injuries or enduring great struggle in battle. These scars continuously cause her to feel pain all over her body, even after she deactivates it. This short burst of power beyond the body's normal maximum output comes at the cost of intense muscle spasms, pain and weakness after prolonged use. Meaning, she can only use it for 60 seconds.

**Assassins Instinct**: One of her most well known and terrifying abilities, is her Assassins Instinct. Once activated, her iris turns red, and the sclera black with red veins across the eye and into the skin around the eye. Yaroslava can enter this state by her own will, but this state is also entered when experiencing intense emotions such as anger. It allow her to see in multiple directions. Yaroslava has stated her eyes can't be used for an offensive purpose, but primarily to see "things that no one else can see" including nearly limitless varieties of spectral visions. She has gained special abilities due to her eyes such as improved marksmanship and nonverbal communications. She is able sense how people and objects relate to her, which manifests as a colored glow, much like an aura. Red indicates enemies or spilled blood, blue indicates allies, white indicates sources of information or hiding spots, and gold indicates targets or objects of interest. This heightens all the senses of Yaroslava, allowing her to detect the heartbeat of a target in the area, or even foresee a target's path. She could also 'tag' these people, allowing her to see their location when out of Assassins Instinct, even through walls and other obstacles. She was also able to see hiding spots, such as hay bales and bushes, which would shine with golden and green glows, respectively. She could use Assassins Instinct to examine clues to reconstruct past events and crimes, aiding her in investigations and finding targets. She also had the ability to read the paths that guards would take, much like Assassins Instinct, but only could fully utilize this skill once she read the paths on a map. Lastly, this skill appears to have been connected with her auditory system, allowing her to hear conversations from far away with perfect clarity once she achieved a high enough vantage point and focused in on the locations. She appeared to be able to maintain great focus while using it, as even while climbing, shooting, or killing, the pulse would sustain. It allowed her to focus on a target and intuitively approximately where they had gone, or inversely, where they would go, even going so far as to be able to sense the presence of stalkers and when they would strike. This was particularly helpful in tailing a target, or detecting the path a guard would take, in order to set up a bomb or lay an ambush. With Assassins Instinct, Yaroslava was also able to pick up cold trails, or locate disguised enemies. However, for the latter, she was required to concentrate harder and scrutinize people individually, rather than as a crowd. Yaroslava also once used her Assassins Instinct to follow the scent vapors of datura, and to diagnose an injured mercenary by listening to his heartbeat. As such, the latter technique allowed her to conclude that the man was alive but weak, and likely affected by some form of poison. It highlights animal tracks, objectives, and other points of interest, allowing Yaroslava to track targets effectively over long distances. It allows Yaroslava to slow time to a crawl (from her perspective) and carefully pick out shots to cripple or kill her enemies. Yaroslava's use of the ability is also capable of pinpointing critical areas of the target. She can enter a bullet-time-like effect, allowing her to slow time from her point of view and gain the advantage in shootouts. By training this skill, its maximum storage capacity is increased, which directly affects its duration. This allows Yaroslava to focus and plan her movements and aiming while shooting. Yaroslava can slow down time while driving any vehicle from her point of view. This allows her to easily take corners at full speed and make precise maneuvers quickly. Controls of the vehicle become smoother and allow Yaroslava to pass through narrow gaps between other cars to do dangerous turns and slides without losing control or speed of the vehicle and overall improve performance. Assassins Instinct has a 360º field of vision around her body. Assassins Instinct's vision can penetrate almost any object, allowing her to see through walls, peer underground, or even examine the contents of a person's body. Certain barriers have been shown to block Assassins Instinct sight, as have smokescreens that are comprised of a particular mineral dust. She can focus her vision on anything and everything within Assassins Instinct range, allowing her to monitor individuals from afar or to quickly survey a vast area and pinpoint specific locations within that area. Assassins Instinct processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus. Assassins Instinct can see well into most of the electromagnetic spectrum. She can see and identify radio and television signals as well as all other broadcast or transmitted frequencies. Using this ability, she can avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods. This also allows her to see the aura generated by living thing. She has the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level. She could see just about anything no matter how small it was. Once claiming to be able to see dust motes as plain as day. It can see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined. In function, it is similar to the zoom lens on a camera. With great effort Yaroslava can also see up to great distances at a time. Supposedly able to see incoming adversaries from miles away. It can see through any volume of matter except lead. Yaroslava can see things behind a solid, opaque object as if it were not there. She can focus this ability to "peel back" layers of an object, allowing hidden image or inner workings to be observed. The exact type of energy perceived—such as x-rays, cosmic rays, or some other energy invisible to normal humans—is unclear. This ability perceives an ambient energy source though, it does not involve the eye projecting a concentrated, possibly toxic, beam to be reflected back from objects. She can see around as well as through objects and enemies to get a better view of her surroundings. She can see and track pheromone secretions made from specific human beings She can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness. The flicker-fusion horizon (the speed at which some objects appear as a blur) in her eyes is superior to other people. What appears as a blur to most people, she can see perfectly. It also acts as a type of early warning, not the degree of her precognition but she is able to see attacks coming from far away. She could "read" people via micro expressions, body language and non-verbal cues, no matter how subtle. During her time in USA, Yaroslava saw through certain personality traits in other people by noting subtle habits. i.e. a woman's fear of abandonment via hand tremors when yelling, a businessman's longing for peer recognition noting his corner eye twitching, and a fat person's fostering secrets gleaned from his quivering jelly body. She was also able to quickly discern the true motives of two new students who were secretly junior S.H.I.E.L.D agents under orders to report the school's activities/dangers to normal human society and shut it down. An extension to detecting mental cues, Yaroslava eventually found she could sense powerful empathetic ties and also track people by following said connections to them (ties of friendship shared between herself and her comrades for instance). Claimed that her psyche evaluating power enabled her to spot the first twinges in one's bodily structure when they're about to throw the first punch. As soon as Ms.Nikolayevna gets a look at someone she can near instantly ascertain their past altercations and discern their present motivations for doing and being who and what they are. She can also gear her visual acuity to reading and understanding the history of inanimate objects with a glance. When Yaroslava recedes into REM state, her visual clarity intensifies many times over as she sees into herself. Through this dream sight she can peer into just about everywhere within the world around her, as well as beyond the world with enough focus to see past the veil of false realities. She can pinpoint weak spots in machines and people, much like her husband's Tactical Eye. She is able to see electronic wavelengths. She is able to see microwaves with her eyes. She is able to see past illusions and disguises. Yaroslava has shown the ability to see magic waves in the air. She can see emotional connections. Yaroslava is granted incredible clarity of perception, enabling her to read lips or mimic something like pencil movements. Assassins Instinct was even able to see on a cellular level. In combat, this allows her to see fast-moving objects and, once fully developed, offers some amount of predictive capabilities: they can anticipate an opponent's next move based on the slightest muscle tension in their body and act accordingly to dodge or intercept. She can also read the enemy's hand to give her an insight of what they are trying to do, regardless of the speed of performance, so long as the hands are not physically hidden from view. Although a Yaroslava can see these things, she also need the physical ability to actually act on the visual information. Yaroslava can also do things such as figuring out the sleight of hand techniques of a master poker cheater simply by watching them. She has often shown the ability to actually predict an opponent's next move before they make it if she has studied their fighting style enough. Opponents who are skilled at improvisational fighting styles, or who have a more random unpredictable style are less likely to have their moves predicted by Yaroslava. She can watch another person's physical movements and duplicate them without any practice or training, no matter how complex. Yaroslava is able to duplicate almost any physical activity after seeing it done by someone else only once. Yaroslava can use this ability to master complex gymnastics routines and play difficult pieces of music. However, she typically prefers to use this ability to copy the combat skills, both armed and unarmed, of fellow spies and expert martial artists from around the world. By reviewing recordings of movements periodically, Yaroslava can retain duplicated moves indefinitely. When facing an opponent, she has already studied countless of martial arts, and can virtually predict his enemy's attacks. She can also copy the subtle muscle movements of others so precisely that she can at times do things such as copying another person's voice so precisely as to fool voice recognition software although she must practice a voice to ensure she has perfected it enough to fool such devices. Yaroslava is able to copy almost any skill she sees, memorizing combat, musical, and even cooking with near-perfect accuracy. She can then either perform that skill or modify it to suit her needs. Again, She needs the prerequisite abilities before she can mimic a skill she have seen, and for that reason she cannot, for example, reproduce mutant abilities she do not have or superpowers. While not an ability per se, Assassins Instinct can appear as if she is able to "see the future". First, Yaroslava must perfectly mimic every move her opponent makes and possibly their thoughts and words through careful observation. Then, she suggest an action to the opponent such as hand motion for an attack that the opponent and she already know and copy that. With these things done, She can complete the action even before the opponent does. She is capable of instantly learning techniques performed by other fighters after seeing them only once. It allows her to detect any potential threats in the surrounding area, thus giving her the opportunity to properly react to them quickly, similar to a sixth sense. The detection of a threat is described by Yaroslava as a sharp stabbing sensation in her head. It is able to sense one's intent and their negative emotions. Against human enemies, it is triggered by their intentions of threat and malice. Assassins Instinct allows her to sense the presence of others. Yaroslava states that to fully master this ability would allow her to see others, even if they are concealed from view or too far to see naturally. It allows Yaroslava to see another person through their aura, be it behind buildings, strategically hidden, or camouflaged. Given this, Assassins Instinct, depending on the level, can discover who is hidden, but still present. When viewed this way, she cannot actually see the person or animal with any physical characteristics, but rather recognizes the target(s) by their "aura", which is a mental image of a colored silhouette of them on a dark background. Yaroslava often describe presences as "voices" and can usually tell if specific people are still alive, dead or close to death depending on whether she can still "hear" them. It allows Yaroslava to measure the strength of the people whose presence she sense. This usage of Assassins Instinct is useful in finding "powerful auras". Through this application, she can easily locate powerful allies and avoid powerful enemies. It allows Yaroslava to sense and empathize with the emotions and nature of others. However, this is not flawless. People with high control over their emotions and acting abilities can somewhat counter the Assassins Instinct. It allows Yaroslava to sense another person's intent to act in the immediate future (especially through bloodlust/killing intent within combat), allowing her to predict what someone is going to do, usually seconds prior, in what resembles a pseudo-form of precognition. However, it should not be confused with the actual, literal ability to see into the future which requires another level of skill entirely. Naturally, this predictive application of Assassins Instinct is highly helpful in battle, as Yaroslava may have a vastly easier time predicting the path of enemy attacks to either dodge or counter them. The more killing intent exuded by a given enemy, the more predictable their attacks, although Yaroslava can predict enemy moves whether there is murderous intent or not. Of course, since conscious intent has to be present for one to sense it with Assassins Instinct, any actions that are done unconsciously or with complete indiscrimination cannot be predicted. A highly advanced level of Assassins Instinct allows Yaroslava to see a short period into the future; instead of just sensing what will happen by intuition, Yaroslava can literally see a precise mental image of what will happen in the next few seconds. The vision also allows Yaroslava to hear any words that will be spoken. It allows her the ability to detect patterns and unlock puzzles. Contrary to Assassins Instinct, there is no need to sense emotions or intention to use this technique. According to Yaroslava, this ability is very difficult for someone to obtain via training, it has to be learned by advancing her Assassins Instinct in the heat of battle against strong opponents. Assassins Instinct can cause a great strain on Yaroslava, which causes her eyes to bleed whenever she overuses it. It drains a considerable amount of stamina when simply activating and maintaining the advanced eyes, and even more through each ability used. Even more, it can cause considerable damage to her being, leaving the body in agonizing pain and causing deterioration to her vision until eventually over-usage leaves her blind, though not preferment.

**Abilities**:

**Indomitable Will**: Once Yaroslava sets her mind on a goal, she will not stop until that task is complete, no matter what obstacles get in her way. His unparalleled level of focus and determination has earned her a legendary status among her fellow Black Widows. To be with the love of her life Aiden, Yaroslava completed a task that was deemed impossible, but her desire to retire and live with Aiden led Yaroslava to find the strength to complete this task.

**Master Martial Artist**: Yaroslava was an extremely skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, having trained from a young age in the Red Room and S.H.I.E.L.D. in her later life as a top operative, making her one of the most dangerous fighters on the planet at the time. During her time in the Red Room, she was seen using her martial arts to defeat a grown man by swinging his head into the corner of a desk, proving how formidable she was even when she was young. She was extremely skilled in the field of martial arts, having mastered arts such as Sambo, Hapkido, Lucha libre-style wrestling, Capoeira, Karate, Judo, Krav Maga, Kickboxing, Panantukan, Eskrima, Jiu-Jitsu, multiple styles of kung fu, wing chun, Taekwondo, and kali with her batons. Yaroslava has efficiently taken down many enemies, such as a squadron of armed soldiers after being ambushed in a hotel room, multiple Hammer Industries security guards, various armed pirates, several members of the US special forces, Vilgax's robots, clones, and Deathstroke. She was skilled enough to be able to defeat a mind-controlled little girl, maintain the upper hand against Red Skull, and even hold her own against the much stronger Aiden Macgrath, though he was able to bring her down in the end. Yaroslava also managed to compete with a fellow Assassin, even managing to disarm her with her baton, holding her off long enough for Aiden to kill her. In addition, she had enough skill to stab the assassin using a spear. Yaroslava was able to hold her own against many Widows at once, fight the similarly trained Sasha to a standstill, and managed to engage Deathstroke in combat for a prolonged period of time, though Deathstroke had the upper hand throughout the fight. Befitting her position as an assassin, Yaroslava is highly trained in hand-to-hand combat, typically relying primarily on kicks when not using her trademark stilettos. Her skills are so great she was able to keep Dawn, a highly trained spy and former soldier, on the defensive despite Yaroslava being heavily intoxicated at the time. Similar she's shown able to effortlessly dispatch both untrained thugs and even fellow assassins purely with her bare hands. As a highly skilled assassin, Yaroslava is a incredibly skilled martial artist able to engage armed and unarmed enemies in hand-to-hand combat and come out victorious. She can also disarm trained and armed soldiers and swiftly render them unconscious with minimal effort. Yaroslava is also skilled at using whatever is available and using her environment to her advantage in combat. Yaroslava is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, proficiently able to beat down several police officers without much effort. She was able to defeat Hank, a seasoned combatant with years of fighting experience. She also overpowered Roth before the latter utilized her powers to violently subdue her. Later, along with her husband, she was able to fight the Hydra leader. She can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch or simply outlast her opponents, even being capable of taking on multiple enemies at once. Yaroslava is able to adapt to her opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to negate their strengths as seen when she faced Xing and his students. She also sometimes makes use of dirty tactics such as striking the groin, gouging the eyes or even biting. She is a dangerous, clever and resourceful fighter, known for precise, agile attacks and speedy getaways. Her formidable hand-to-hand combat skills are augmented by her cat-like speed, reflexes, balance, and flexibility.

**Nervous System Contro**l: She can control her nervous system enabling her to deaden her body to physical pain, control her emotions, and even her bleeding rate.

**Pressure point locator**: She can locate different pressure points on a person's body. She can incapacitate, paralyze, severely injure, or kill a person.

**Weapons Expert**: Yaroslava is an expert with most weapons. She is a master of many different weapons. Among the known are Okinawan Sai which are her usual weapons of choice (it is presumed she may have trained with all Okinawan Kobudo weapons), katanas, knives, sansetsukon (3-sectional staff), and (shuriken) throwing stars.

**Staff Mastery**: Yaroslava was extremely skilled at using a staff or batons in combat. She was able to use a staff to battle a Droid, killing several of them simultaneously. During the Battle of Cuba, she was able to use her batons to fight evenly against CIA agents with the help of Vlad, using it to defend and attack simultaneously.

**Master swordswoman**: Yaroslava is a highly skilled swordswoman. This is seen during her training session with Aiden, where she was able to cut his bo staff in half. She was able to slaughter the guards when breaking Aiden out of prison. She was able to duel her mentor and eventually stabbed him in the chest.

**Knife Mastery**: Yaroslava is highly skilled in wielding and throwing knives. During knife fights, she tends to slam his hand against the pommel of his knife to drive the blade into her opponents. She notably stabbed bulldog in the neck, but her knowledge is so great that she gave him the choice to keep pressure on the wound and survive. During his final duel with Hugo, she willingly let himself be stabbed so that he had Hugo arm in a position to break it and then stab the latter. Inside a train, she demonstrated further anatomical knowledge when she found an angle to direct a knife toward Sasah's chest, before driving it straight into her opponent's aorta. She also used Diana's own push dagger to kill her. In a knife shop, she demonstrated expertise with throwing bladed weapons. Yaroslava also shows skill in the use of swords during her fights with Xing and his students.

**Improvised Weapon Mastery**: In addition to her impressive skills with firearms and bladed weaponry, Yaroslava is very good at using whatever is in her immediate area as an offensive weapon, as seen when she dispatched two men with a couple of pencils, when she killed Hoover with a book, when she used a belt to fend off The Shinobi, and even once using horses in a stable to defeat her enemies.

**Master Marksman**: Yaroslava was an extremely skilled marksman specialized in sharpshooting. During the Battle of Vietnam, Yaroslava would have shot Carter through his eye if he had not been wearing his protective goggles. She had also been trained from a young age in the art of sharpshooting, as she was seen practicing on targets, making several headshots in quick succession. Yaroslava is a very accurate marksman, skilled in sharpshooting and knife throwing. She is also highly skilled in the use of pistols, shotguns, submachine guns, assault and sniper rifles and has extensive knowledge of any firearms. Yaroslava can accurately shoot his opponents no matter how far they are and usually lands a headshot and is capable of handling her handguns with one hand. Yaroslava was able to use a policeman's gun to shoot her way out of capture. Being both a trained S.H.I.E.L.D agent as well as a former KGB and Spy, Yaroslava is proficient with variety of firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns as well as being able to precisely eliminate targets from a long distance (as seen in her raid on the Red Room safehouse). Yaroslava is able to effortlessly blend her marksmanship with her hand-to-hand skills, being able to swiftly use grappling moves combined with precision shots to take on large groups of organized gunmen. She shot The Doctor just below his floating rib, avoiding his large intestine as well as accurately below his shoulder. She can accurately and precisely gun down multiple enemies in a timely manner, almost never missing her opponents. Yaroslava achieved 49 headshots and 104 headshots in her younger years. She is also skilled in throwing projectiles like knives and even a tomahawk on one occasion with deadly accuracy and force. Yaroslava also sometimes simply throws her firearms when she runs out of ammunition.

**Master Acrobat**: Yaroslava 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, Yaroslava used these skills to defeat the guards with ease. During the Vilgax invasion of Earth, she got to ride a Vilgaxia board by using her acrobatics to commandeer it. Yaroslava is known for maneuvering around obstacles and being an agile fighter in combat. She was able to jump from seven stories and land through a window. Yaroslava is also extraordinarily agile in her movements, being able to perform and incorporate various jumps and rolls in her fighting style with ease.

**Master Spy**: Yaroslava 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. Yaroslava 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 to evaluate Mauricio Ureña. Yaroslava 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. Yaroslava's skills were so legendary that Nick Fury created a lie detector that he hoped she wouldn't be able to deceive. Her incredible talents for deception also enabled her to detect when others were lying, such as when she was able to discern that Aiden was lying to her about not knowing why Agents was at his apartment. Councilwoman Gertrude Hickman even stated that she was unaware Lara was Eastern European due to her complete lack of an accent, stating she sounded perfectly American. Yaroslava is a dangerous secret agent trained in espionage, stealth, disguise, infiltration, and demolitions. She is capable of killing in cold blood when the need arises. Her talents and years of experience have enabled her to reach a high-ranking position as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.. She is well adept in blending in her surroundings as well as sneaking around heavily guarded places. She would usually blend in dense crowd and mimic their activities. She is also extremely skilled in espionage, stealth, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping.

**Master Assassin**: Yaroslava was notorious in the art of assassination, considered to be one of the most dangerous assassins in the world. She was known to have killed many people during her time serving the KGB and S.H.I.E.L.D. During her time in the Red Room, Yaroslava was trained to kill without remorse and was seen demonstrating her sharpshooting skills on a live captive, showing no emotion as she killed him. Yaroslava is heavily skilled in assassination techniques. She uses her skills as a martial artist, acrobat, and spy to further enhance her skills as an assassin. She has been sent by S.H.I.E.L.D. and the KGB to eliminate numerous enemies. Yaroslava was notorious in the art of assassination, considered to be one of the most dangerous assassins in the world. She is very elusive, being able to assassinate multiple enemies in the same area one at a time and sneak up on almost anybody and quietly neutralize them. as a former KGB agent and Assassin known as the Red Eyed Phantom, is a legendary and revered assassin. During her time with the KGB, she completed a task deemed impossible by Tarasov, with the prolific amount of people she killed having laid the foundation of the organization. Yaroslava is famous for once killing three men in a bar with just a pencil, much to the amazement of the Yuri brothers. Following the death of her daughter, Yaroslava has killed hundreds of people with an assortment of weapons on her crusade of vengeance. She has killed people during her home invasion, when she attacked A.I.M, when she attacked Selena's church, when she attacked a Hydra's compound, when she attacked Viggo at the helipad dock, when she retrieved her car from Tarasov, when she escaped Rome after infiltrating Maria's party, when she was pursued by assassins after a bounty was placed on her, when she attacked Paul's gala at the museum, when she escaped from New York, when She and Aiden went to Berrada, when Yaroslava returned to New York, and during the war at the Continental Hotel. Furthermore, Fergus has stated that hunting is what Yaroslava does best, and that the Red Eyed Phantom is the last thing many men ever see.

**Disguise**: To pull off her many escapades, Yaroslava often resorts to disguises and aliases. She once posed as an old lady in order to steal a valuable piece of intel while on a cruise ship. Later, she posed as a night club goer in order to get acquainted with its owners and return later to kill them.

**Stealth proficiency**: Aiden was impressed by Yaroslava's evasion techniques, calling her talented and noted her for her training. Yaroslava is extremely skilled at breaking into secure locations and escaping without being noticed and she is able to memorize complicated architectural layouts easily. When she first stabbed Bulldog in an alley, the latter admitted that he did not hear the assassin approach. Yaroslava is as stealthy as any large cat. She has easily been able to sneak up on large groups of people and even other spies on patrol. She shows marked prowess in this ability while she's on the prowl for her next job. Due to her training as an assassin, she can blend in with the shadows and remain undetected by most humans.

**Thievery**: Yaroslava is a master thief, known among her allies for her burglary of spy-themed objects and/or info of the highest quality. Hardly one to knock over a bank, Yaroslava would rather break into the chairman's office and take his personal documents. She's even capable of stealing all of Aiden's assault rifle without him noticing. Yaroslava is a skilled (somewhat reformed) thief skilled in stealth, picking locks, escapology, evading alarms and cracking safes.

**Disguises Expert**: Yaroslava was an expert with disguises. Yaroslava also has an expert level understanding of the use of disguises in order to access unauthorized areas of a location, as well as knowing which people will see through her current disguise.

**Covert Operative**: Strategist in terrorist and commando operations.

**Gifted Intellect**: Yaroslava's intellect seemingly put her on par with Aiden Macgrath. She possessed the ability to quickly process multiple information streams like threat assessments and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations. Yaroslava also possessed a vast knowledge of human anatomy, displayed by her often using joint locks and hitting enemies in the weakest parts of their bodies; for example the crotch, stomach, armpits, and the head. Her prodigious skill from her years of training also allows her to predict her opponents' plans of attack as well, such as when she was able to save herself, Aiden Macgrath from being shot by Deadshot by predicting the order in which he would shoot at them through the roof of their car. Victoria has even stated that Yaroslava does not usually require extraction teams on S.H.I.E.L.D. missions and is resourceful enough to make her own escape. Yaroslava has some knowledge of pressure points, utilizing it on a raging cow to instantly knock it out. She has some knowledge about the human body, though this seems to extend to lethal points such as the jugular or carotid. She displayed a sharp intuition at the Red Room interview, sensing the gazes of the faculty members but not suspecting the source. She was also to search a large crowd for Delsin mere moments after reaching a vantage point. Her illustrious assassination career is further testament to her impressive situational awareness. Yaroslava also possesses adequate medical knowledge to treat a gunshot wound, which healed without complications. Yaroslava is an incredibly smart, gifted and cunning man. She was educated and trained from birth. She possessed extensive education in tactics, strategy and investigation. Yaroslava shown herself to be very skilled in espionage, infiltration and counterintelligence and is skilled at adjusting her plans to account for changes as well as knowing how to plan well in advance and improvising new plans when necessary. Yaroslava was shown to be a very intelligent individual who could outsmart her enemies even under extreme stress and can easily think her way out of dangerous situations.

**Expert Tactician**: Yaroslava was a very effective strategist, tactician, and field commander, being able to lead S.H.I.E.L.D. on one occasion. Yaroslava was able to trick Ross and his entire S.W.A.T. team thinking that they had tracked her down to a train station in Ohio using the tracker on her suit, but she already knew and deliberately left them there in order to lure them to the wrong place and thus buying herself more time to go to her hiding place. Moreover, Yaroslava , in conjunction with Nedyalka Tschermak constructed a plan to successfully break her father out of prison. She later collaborated with Mara Sosniok to construct a plan to bring down the Red Room and kill General Gojmir in a short amount of time before Red Room soldiers arrived. Yaroslava is a tactical and strategic genius and a master of situational awareness. She is very good at lateral thinking and finding highly creative ways to stay ahead of the people hunting her. She could effectively track down her targets and determine the the best course of action in various missions. She also skilled at coming up with and executing plans for a variety of missions and is very good at understanding her opponents and using their flaws and plans against them. Yaroslava is a skilled planner. She was able to use a policeman's gun to keep his back-up from approaching her and used a car to jump down to another building in order to escape. As a master hitman, Yaroslava is highly capable of casing out, planning and executing assassinations. She is also very spatially aware in combat situations, making use of the environment, weapons held by dead enemies and even, legendarily, pencils.

**Intimidation**: Due to her efficiency as an assassin and the determination with which she pursues her goals, Yaroslava is widely known and feared within S.H.I.E.L.D. People who know her reputation are extremely cautious about provoking her wrath. Yaroslava frequently uses this to her advantage by using her reputation to instil fear into her enemies.

**Master Interrogator**: Yaroslava was able to trick Slve into telling her about his plan to use a bomb against the Helicarrier to bust him out of his cell. She was able to do a "reverse interrogation"; while she seemed to be in danger, in truth, she was getting all the information she wanted to know. Lara utilized this technique once again to goad Dobrogost Litvinskii into revealing the key needed to access his console.

**Expert Hacker**: Yaroslava could hack into most computer systems without tripping any firewalls or security. She used this talent to hack into Hammer Industries mainframe and help Aiden regain control of a Prototype Armor and enabled him to help her fight the rest of the attacking Hammer drones, and again to access the location of Camp Lehigh from the USB Aiden Macgrath received from Nick Fury.

**Skilled Engineer**: In addition to her driving intuition, Yaroslava is also a very skilled mechanic and engineer. She is able to manipulate objects and machinery around her to her advantage with very little effort. Additionally, she is an expert locksmith, being able to pick most locked doors and open them in mere seconds.

**Skilled Scientist**: Yaroslava has shown to be knowledgeable & skilled in chemistry/poison. She has been able to concoct poisons that can either kill them in seconds or simply incapacitate them.

**Skilled Physician**: Yaroslava appears to have some knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, as well as basic medicine and first aid, as she finished The Doctor's stitches on his stab wound. She stabbed Cassie in her aorta so the latter would keep the blade in place or else she would die from bleeding out.

**Hypnotist**: Though she rarely displays this skill, Yaroslava knows how to use hypnosis to manipulate her foes, being able to implant suggestions in their minds through a combination of eye contact, voice volume control, and hypnotic speech patterns.

**Master Seductress**: She is an expert in the field of seduction. Yaroslava has been infamously known to bend many different men to her will and sometimes even get them to do her bidding for her. She sometimes continues deceiving certain men through means of acting if she still has a further use for them. Yaroslava often uses her feminine allure to distract or manipulate her male opponents. Her ability to seduce her victims has allowed her to evade capture numerous times. Using her enticing looks, she plays the role of a manipulator very well, moving covertly around the country to lure weak-willed people (usually vain people who are also associated with the rich and powerful) into the clutches of their own lust, to be used and disposed of when no longer needed.

**Expert deceiver**: Yaroslava is a skilled at deception when she infiltrated the hospital, pretending to be on the run when she was really spying on them.

**Pilot**: Yaroslava was a skilled pilot, capable of piloting a Quinjet by herself with ease, and was able to copilot a helicopter along with Aiden.

**Expert Vehicular Driver**: Yaroslava was an expert at operating most vehicles. It is evident that Yaroslava is a very skilled driver, judging from how well she managed to maneuver Aiden's car past a police blockade (in rainy conditions). Yaroslava's driving skill is also manifested in his ability to drive specialist motor vehicles - such as a bus and a large truck, respectively. Yaroslava's vehicular skills are not just limited to cars - She is seen flying helicopters and planes and driving boats numerous times throughout the series. Yaroslava was able to drive a car with relative ease and escape for quite some time from the police. During her "day off." Yaroslava drove her husband's vintage Mustang 69 on a racing track as a hobby, allowing her to keep her skills behind the wheel sharp. She is able to kill enemies with vehicles, delivering sideswipes, reverses and head-on collisions to deal with devastating damage.

**Expert Motorcyclist**: Yaroslava is a very talented motorcyclist who is able to evade enemies and even able to engage in combat while cycling.

**Skilled Equestrian**: Yaroslava is able to easily mount and ride a horse through the city to evade enemies, even lowering herself to hang off the side and using the horse as cover while riding with little difficulty.

**Multilingualism**: Thanks to her travels around the globe, Yaroslava is familiar with multiple languages. She is shown to speak/comprehends English, Spanish and likely many more. Yaroslava was fluent in her native Russian, as well as English, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin, Norwegian, Japanese and various other languages. Yaroslava also knew Morse code, which enabled her to send a message to Aiden when she was captured by Deadshot after the Battle of Cuba. She also taught Mislava Kowalczyk an American accent to cover up her Sokovian accent. She uses these skills a number of times when conversing with friends and enemies alike, such as when he said "Sampai jumpa" ("be seeing you") to the Shinobi.

**Detective Skills**: Yaroslava is able to locate and piece together clues to reach her end goal. She best demonstrates these skills in the Death of her daughter where she has the option to investigate the suspicious death of Claire Macgrath.

**Cleaning**: Having to clean up the aftermath of her assassinations left Yaroslava with near-unrivaled cleaning skills, which she uses to keep the Macgrath home spotless.

**Skilled Painter/Artist**: She has shown to possess great skill in painting.

**Skilled Barber**: She has shown to possess great skill in barbering.

**Skilled Tattoo artist**: Yaroslava is shown to be a great tattoo artist,, evident when she skillfully give Yusuke a tattoo to impersonate another tattoo artist.

**Skilled Masseuse**: Yaroslava is shown to be a Great Masseuse: shown when she impersonates one.

**Expert Enologist**: It is evident that Yaroslava is an Expert Enologists/Winemaker as shown when she impersonates Gabriel in order to get to a target during this Yaroslava easily explains in detail about how wine is made, what is used to make it and can list many types with ease.

**Drummer**: Yaroslava is shown to be a great drummer, evident when she skillfully plays the drums to impersonate another drummer.

**Keyboardist**: Yaroslava is shown to be a great keyboardist, evident when she skillfully plays the keyboard.

**Skilled DJ**: Yaroslava is shown to be a great at being a DJ, evident when she skillfully operates a DJ Booth and hypes up a Crowd.

**Sushi Chef**: Yaroslava is shown to be skillful at preparing sushi, especially when she blends in as a sushi chef.

**Graceful Dancer**: Yaroslava is a profound ballet dancer.

**Teaching**: Yaroslava has shown to have decent teaching skills, specifically when it comes to physical training. She has taught Delsin and Alex how to make a punch to become strong. She also taught Delsin how to prepare to play dodge ball, explaining to him how to perform a "secret ball throwing technique."

**Weapons and Equipment**:

**Costume Specifications**: Yaroslava wore a hooded tactical armored suit when operating on missions. The face-mask is retractable and can be removed by a button on the right gauntlet. Synthetic stretch fabric which has been augmented to be highly resistant to damage even small arms fire and high temperatures. Microscopic suction cups on her costume allow her to scale walls and cling to ceilings, just as her namesake. The mask is equipped with a heads-up display that allows Yaroslava to analyze her surroundings and predict the movements of her opponents. A camera is placed above the visor of the suit, which she uses to record and replay footage. The suit has thick armor plating, increasing Yaroslava's durability while she wears it. It makes her completely bulletproof and near-indestructible, able to withstand two explosive arrows from Aiden's arsenal at point-blank range without any noticeable damage. Due to the lightweight properties of the metal, the suit doesn't inhibit her mobility in the slightest, and she becomes physically superhuman, enhancing her durability to be able to withstand explosions and gunfire, as well as strikes from physically stronger opponents. The gloves have reinforced-laced knuckles built in, while the toes are also laced with a reinforced material, both of these are meant to enhance strike attacks. The boots are completely sound adsorbent, allowing her to walk without creating any form of noise. Presumably, they also allow her to land silently after jumping down from a height. It has highly sensitive microphones within its ears, allowing Yaroslava to hear noises and frequencies a normal human wouldn't be able to hear. Yaroslava is able to mentally command the Habit to materialize from her necklace with the same energy field generated capable of shredding any other clothing it replaces. Due to the mask being integrated into the suit, Yaroslava is able to summon and dismiss the helmet portion at will, as well as just its lenses. After a small portion of the suit was destroyed by a blast from Ulysses Prosthetic Arm, the suit was able to reform the lost portion back. During the Battle of Japan, when Jin fired on Yaroslava with his Gauntlets, the stream of sonic energy caused the nanites to retract from the impact area before quickly rematerializing. Additionally, Yaroslava suit was able to regenerate continually, albeit with a delay. It has the ability to redistribute stored energy. The suit enabled Yaroslava to phase in an out at will, which in turn gave her incredible intangibility abilities. She could thus infiltrate through any building by simply phasing through the wall, regardless of how thick it could be. She could also phase through flesh, meaning that she could cause lethal wounds by simply touching another human being. The phasing also allowed Yaroslava to become invisible by phasing out of the visible spectrum. However, the more damage the suit sustained, the more difficult the control of the phasing became.

**Shield**: Yaroslava carried a metallic circular shield similar to the one used by Aiden. The shield is retractable and magnetically attached to her gauntlets. The shield is made of a durable bulletproof material and shaped aerodynamically so that it can be thrown. Upon ambushing Aiden to obtain the Intel, Yaroslava used her shield to block Aiden's gunshots, before attempting to launch the shield at her. Yaroslava would later use the shield during her clash against Aiden, only to be defeated and have him steal the shield.

**Sword**: Yaroslava carried a collapsible single edged sword similar in appearance to a katana or ninjato sword. The sword is stored on the back compartment of the suit. Upon being tied up with Aiden's grappling hook, Yaroslava drew her sword to cut herself free, before continuing to battle against Aiden. Yaroslava would also use her sword, as she attempted to kill Aiden following the destruction of the Cuba Prison, using it to slow her fall from the crashing base by grinding it through the debris. Upon landing on the ground, Yaroslava continued using the sword against Aiden, until she was disarmed and had Red Dust thrown in her face, knocking her out. Her sword displays a unique construction, similarly towards a modern sword appearance. However, the sword does not have a fuller or back bevel. The entire back section of the blade is nearly empty with the exception of a series of vertical bars, rendering it little more than its cutting edge. The blade also retracts into the hilt for efficient storage, not dissimilar to her collapsible recurve bow. The sword is incredibly sharp. It can easily cut through and cut off the limbs of Sentries while Yaroslava could only use one of her hands, as the other held the Plumbers Shield. The edge of her sword appears to be energized for better cutting power, allowing the blade to cut through a solar panel.

**Retractable Claws**: Two sets of retractable and extendable claws embedded in the fingers of the gloves like nails. The suit can also deploy claws from its knuckles. They serve as both utility and the primary combat weapon of Yaroslava during combat. The claws are exceptionally strong and razor sharp. The claws are capable of damaging other durable items such as Aiden's Plumber Shield during her fight with him.

**Retractable Gauntlet Blade**: Yaroslava's left gauntlet contains a retractable blade which was used in an attempt to kill Franklin. However, Aiden managed to attack and entrap Yaroslava before she could kill Franklin with the blade.

**Black Widow's Gauntlets**: The Black Widow's Gauntlets are wrist cartridges containing various tools of the spy trade: tear-gas pellets, a radio transmitter and fire a 100 foot spring-loaded cable. The Gauntlets also include a ‘Widow’s Bite’ which is capable of stunning an opponent and emitting highly potent electric shocks with a maximum of about 30,000 volts at the range of at least 20 feet. The functions of the gauntlet are activated via sensors keyed to her wrist musculature. The Bite also shoots Taser Disks, which are small disk-shaped objects that deliver an electric discharge with the purpose of incapacitating and disorientating targets. The Bite contains a length of wire Yaroslava can use to strangle or block blows from opponents.

**Belt**: Yaroslava has often worn a belt of metal discs or cartridges that contains a plastic explosive, equivalent to 4 pounds of TNT.

**Black Widow's Batons**: The batons have the ability to extend up to 1.5 times their length for longer reach and fold down for easier storage. The ends of the batons are capable of locking in and combining to form one longer staff, giving her alternate fighting options and longer reach. The batons used by Yaroslava were capable of transforming into a scythe. Similar to the Black Widow's Bite, most versions of the batons can deliver powerful, electrical shocks to incapacitate her targets. The electrocution is powerful enough for Yaroslava to take down multiple Green Berets, and even momentarily appear to cause Aiden discomfort. The batons wielded by Yaroslava had red electricity. All versions of the batons are shown to be highly durable, with the final model wielded by Yaroslava being able to deflect several slashes from Vilgax's Sword.

**Recurve Bows**: Yaroslava is seen with two separate recurve bow. It is a heavily customized Hoyt Buffalo in 'blackout' colors and is capable of folding on itself for easier transport and concealment by way of added hinges located by the tiller adjustment bolts. It also has multiple buttons on the bow's grip which are capable of selecting specific arrowheads stored in its mechanical quiver. A laser sight to assist in targeting can also be found on the riser. The second recurve bow Yaroslava uses is the Hoyt Gamemaster II, seen in her hands during the attack on the HYDRA Research Base and War against Vilgax. Like the Hoyt Buffalo he used before, the customized Gamemaster II has several selector buttons on the grip so Yaroslava can choose the arrowhead she needs. The bow has the capability to transform into a bo staff which can be used for close quarters combat. The bow was destroyed by the Plumbers during the Clash of Naboo. Once she rejoined with the Aiden for the battle of the truth, she was equipped with a new bow.

**Specialized Quiver**: Yaroslava's quiver was supplied with a multitude of different arrowheads in the bottom. By dialing up an armament setting from control on her bow, Yaroslava could cause the quiver to affix these special arrowheads. This effectively increased the capabilities from conventional arrows to explosive arrows, a grapple line, and more.

**Trick Arrows**: Yaroslava has a number of trick arrows, utilized to perform specific tasks.

**Weakness**:

**Infertility**: While not an encumbrance to her performance, the serum and biological modifications made to YaroIslava's physiology, granting her impressive resilience; the effects of a highly efficient immune system inhibit her reproductive capabilities rendering pregnancy impossible. Though with the help with Plumber technology, they were able to reverse it, making her able to bear children.

**Alcohol**: Despite her tolerance to poisons, YaroIslava is a lightweight. She is prone to drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short amount of time, pouring wine into her glass eagerly, and drinking wine straight out of the bottle. Intoxication renders her temperamental and aggressive, as she is willing to use her martial arts against Aiden and barely misses throwing a fork at Sam, grazing him.

**Cooking**: Due to only considering the nutrients involved and not the taste of her meals, Yaroslava is consistently bad at cooking and usually leaves the task to Fergus. When she does attempt to cook dinner, she is unaware of what ingredients to buy and opts to get one of everything instead (including random objects such as cacti), thinking that she can make something as long as there are meat and vegetables. Her attempt at cooking breakfast for the family resulted in meals consisting of messily chopped fish parts and other borderline-inedible substances, prompting Alex to call her a terrible cook. Even the prospect of Alex cooking or tasting her cooking is terrifying to most. Yaroslava's dishes cause any taster, even Alex, to collapse (in one case sending Aiden to the toilet for an entire day). The only individual shown to withstand Yaroslava's cooking is her husband, Aiden, though he violently throws up between bites and even recalls seeing his life flash before his eyes. Despite this, Yaroslava grew up with no significant health issues. This issue affects even James, who saw himself die at the hands of Yaroslava's cooking in one of his visions. The only dish she can successfully cook is her late mother's southern stew after Becca gives her several cooking lessons and helps her to recreate it. Her skills with handheld weapons are completely inapplicable in cooking, as while using a knife she sliced meat razor-thin and destroyed a cutting board. Yaroslava also badly injured herself using a potato peeler. Despite all this, Yaroslava has a strong desire to improve at cooking, regularly having Fergus teach her despite her frequent injuries and crying in relief when Delsin and Alex enjoy her stew instead of immediately collapsing on the floor.

**Super Soldier Serum cure**: The cure is the only thing that could take away Yaroslava powers. After Vilgax used it on her and her husband, making it easier to kill them with ease.