Natalia "Natasha" Alianovna Romanova is a founding member of The Avengers under the code-name Black Widow, and is the long-time partner of her recruiter Clint Barton under the command of Phil Coulson. Natasha is a member of the Peterson family.
She was also previously known as Oktober, the third Black Widow operative and a KGB assassin who defected after learning that her superiors had murdered her biological family. APPEARANCE Natasha is 5'3” and 120 pounds. She has distinctive red hair and green eyes. Her physique has been noted to be lean and toned, as her muscle structure has been defined by her career as an assassin. During her time in the Black Widow program, Natasha was bio-technologically and psycho-technologically enhanced using a variation of the Super Soldier Serum to give her a prolonged youthful appearance and an unusually long lifespan. PERSONALITY Always seen as calm and cool, Natasha gives the impression that she has mastered keeping her emotions in check, to the point that people such as Tony Stark believe her to be something of a mystery. However, this is not always so, as shown when she expresses concern over the mind-controlled Clint Barton, as well as wariness—if not fear—over Bruce Banner and his capabilities. She also shows her emotions when she confronted Thanos in the detention level. Full Name: Natalia Alianovna Romanova Natalie R. Peterson Natasha Romanoff BLACK WIDOW Natasha is the youngest woman to carry the Black Widow name, having just turned 15 when she began her Red Room training. As a graduation test, she was tasked to kill all her classmates, and was given the alias Oktober. After 16 years of service, Oktober destroyed Department X, when she learned that they had killed her biological family in order to punish Dekober, the first Black Widow and Natalia's missing great-aunt Anastasia. SKILLSET During her training to become the next Black Widow, Natasha underwent intensive lessons in armed and unarmed combat training, computer training, disguise, demolitions, espionage, infiltration, stealth and psychological training. She possesses extraordinary interrogation skills, knows a variety of languages, and is exceptionally talented in escaping and evading unwanted capture, making her the ultimate spy. She is also deceptively strong, though not superhuman, due to her exposure to the Super Soldier Serum. Aside from her native Russian dialect, she has proven to be fluent in multiple other languages, including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Latin. |