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Romanoff then contacted Nick Fury and debriefed him on the situation that had developed. When he offered to come, she told him not to intervene. Romanoff reveals herself to Tony Stark. Now dressed in her S. Stark took off his sunglasses to get a better look at her. Seeing that she lied to him, Stark said Romanoff was fired, but she made it clear that it wasn't up to him. Romanoff sits with Tony Stark and Nick Fury.

Fury introduced her to Stark, revealing that Natalie Rushman isn't her name and she was assigned by Fury to watch him. Romanoff then gave Stark a shot of Lithium Dioxide , which she explained postponed the effects of the Arc Reactor 's radiation, which was poisoning his body, so he could work on a cure. Later, Romanoff, along with Fury and Phil Coulson , went to Stark's mansion and she was told by Fury that she was to remain in position as an assistant at Stark Industries. Later at the Stark Industries Headquarters , Romanoff walked into Pepper Potts ' office while Stark was visiting her and requested for Potts to sign a form.

She then was told to sort out the personal belongings with Stark. When Potts left, Stark grilled Romanoff, telling her that he found it amazing how she does what she does. When he pondered if she could really speak Latin, Romanoff replied with a quote on the nature of deceptiveness, though translated that Stark could either drive himself or she would have him collected.

As the drones went out of control and began attacking the event, Romanoff and Potts followed Justin Hammer , with Romanoff interrogating and threatening him, and discovered that Ivan Vanko had taken control over them.

Romanoff breaks into the Hammer Industries. As they drove, Romanoff, in the back of the car, stripped off her dress to put on her S.

As she was changing clothes, Hogan tried to watch but the car swerved and Romanoff then noticed he was looking at her, leading her to advise Hogan to pay attention to the road. When they arrived at the facility, Romanoff told Hogan, who was confused about what she was wearing, to stay in the car. She broke into the facility using an ID card after several attempts and the two were confronted by a guard, who Hogan engaged in a fight while Romanoff continued to Vanko.

Romanoff defeats Justin Hammer 's guards. She then defeated any guards in her way using multiple gadgets like her Taser Disks , Flash Bombs , wire, and pepper spray as well as her martial arts skills. Approaching the control room, which she believed as Vanko's location, Romanoff subdued all the remaining guards with ease and continued to the location. Upon storming into the room however, she instead found two guards dead and Vanko nowhere to be found.

In reality, he had disappeared moments before Romanoff and Hogan arrived at the facility and was heading towards the Stark Expo so that he could ambush Tony Stark.

Romanoff looks for Ivan Vanko. Romanoff hacked into the computer Vanko used and was able to free Rhodes ' battle armor from his control. She complimented Iron Man's new Arc Reactor before interrupting his and Potts' subsequent argument to inform him that Whiplash was arriving at his location. Returning to S. She arrived and witnessed Banner get locked in the bridge by Thaddeus Ross and the United States Army ; Banner then transformed into the Hulk and a battle ensued.

She called Fury and barely escaped uninjured. She revealed to Fury that she witnessed Emil Blonsky in action against Hulk and that they enhanced him. Fury was forced to deploy Romanoff to Grayburn College after Ross revealed, in a short conversation, that he intended to capture Banner.

She arrived too late, however, and informed Fury over the phone that Ross captured Banner and was taking him away in a helicopter. Romanoff was then ordered to make sure that Banner did not leave anything for Samuel Sterns , with whom he had recently been, to work on. As she headed up the front steps, she witnessed Blonsky, now as Abomination, emerge from the building. She was buried in rubble, but still managed to make her way upstairs.

She stumbled upon Sterns, whose mutation had heightened significantly, and his brainpower had been augmented exponentially. After a brief dialogue with him, during which Sterns identified Black Widow's birthplace from a hint of an accent in her voice, Romanoff shot him in the leg.

She called in a S. She saw the chaos of Abomination and Hulk's battle in the distance. Back at S. Headquarters, she confronted Fury, stating that all of the events going on were too much to handle. Ignorant that Nick Fury had ordered Hawkeye to check the security of the Avengers Initiative database, Romanoff attacked Barton when he infiltrated the Helicarrier while wearing a mask.

Fury arrived and stopped the scuffle; the three then discussed Fury's choices for the Avengers. Once again on a mission, Romanoff arrived in Moscow where she searched for missing Stark Industries technology. Disguised as Tatiana Sokolova, she worked at a nightclub. While trying to interrogate Mikhail Fjodorov , one of the world's most successful illegal arms dealers, Fjodorov was killed by an unknown woman and Romanoff was forced to leave the club via the roof, fighting several security men.

After she returned to a hotel, she was attacked by a team of masked mercenaries, but she defeated them and received a SIM card to reach the mysterious woman she has seen in the night club. Later, Romanoff talked to Sofia and learned that she is a "fan" and wants to take over the name of the Black Widow.

Romanoff agreed to meet with Sofia and broke all her contacts with S. A few days later, Romanoff confronted Sofia in a sports hall in Sochi , where she almost drowned in cold water, but she was saved at the last moment by Phil Coulson , who was following a pair of goons working for Starodoub. Coulson gave Romanoff the necessary equipment to infiltrate the yacht belonging to Yuri Klementiev , one of Starodoub's business partners, where she met Sofia again, an encounter which cost them Gennady Markov 's life.

When Coulson discovered that Sofia was employed by Richard Frampton , Natasha infiltrated his headquarters in Vladivostok.

She discovered that Frampton works for the Ten Rings and that he had made a Jericho missile that would explode near the border between Russia and North Korea , greatly destabilizing the world peace. Romanoff infiltrated the launching area and destroyed the missile. Both Frampton and Sofia were killed in the explosion. Romanoff was tasked by S. Romanoff was sent to spy on Luckkov's activities in Russia , however, she was knocked out from behind by his henchmen, who caught her sneaking around.

When she awoke, she found herself tied to a chair, yet when Luchkov interrogated her, he unknowingly spilled all of his secrets. Black Widow is tortured by Georgi Luchkov.

However, as Luchkov was preparing to seemingly torture Romanoff, and whilst the mention of torture gave Romanoff a scare, her interrogation was interrupted when Phil Coulson called and requested to speak to Romanoff. When Luchkov asked who was speaking to him, Coulson responded with the threat of sending a missile strike to their current location within the next thirteen seconds and assured him that he and his henchmen wouldn't have time to make it out of the facility.

Coulson informed Romanoff that she needed to come in which she initially refused as she was in the middle of an interrogation and was working at getting more information out of the Russian general, but Coulson claimed that she had to come in now as a certain situation involving S. She continued to oppose, claiming that Luchkov gave her everything. Luchkov, confused by her statement, misunderstood Romanoff's cryptic message and claimed to his henchmen that he was not giving her everything.

Black Widow talks to Phil Coulson. Once Coulson informed her that Clint Barton was compromised following Loki 's threat on Earth as an incentive. Romanoff put Coulson on hold and then immediately freed herself and proceeded to defeat Luchkov and his men. After having explained to Romanoff that Barton's whereabouts were unknown, Coulson told Romanoff to go recruit "the big guy" who she thought was Tony Stark , to which Coulson revealed he was going to cover, before realizing he meant Bruce Banner.

Romanoff then picked up her shoes and left the warehouse and went to go induct Banner into the Avengers. Romanoff meets Bruce Banner. Romanoff traveled to Bruce Banner 's hidden location in Kolkata , India. She had a child to act as if her father was sick to lead him into an abandoned house. As the girl fled through the window and disappeared into the night, Banner realized that it was a set up as Romanoff appeared in the hut wearing a traditional Indian sari, claiming that he picked a great place to settle.

Banner, astonished, asked Romanoff if intelligence agencies used children to lure their targets into specific locations. Romanoff tells Banner about Fury 's request.

Romanoff responded that she was used as a spy during her childhood, alluding to her time in the Red Room Academy. Romanoff told Banner that it was just the two of them, which was a lie as multiple S. As Romanoff introduced herself, Banner inquired if she was sent to kill him, to which she responded no and that she was working on behalf of S. Romanoff recruits Bruce Banner. Banner curiously asked Romanoff how they found him and she reminded him that they never lost track of his whereabouts.

When Romanoff revealed to the doctor that Nick Fury wished to recruit him, Banner presented her with a hypothetical situation in which he refused. Romanoff then promised that she would persuade him to join if he refused. She told Banner about the Tesseract and that they require his help to locate it as the Tesseract emits a weak Gamma Radiation signal.

Romanoff holds a gun to Bruce Banner. Banner reassured that Hulk was not needed which Romanoff told him that Nick Fury had not mentioned anything about Hulk.

When Romanoff tried to assure Banner that he would not be imprisoned, Banner flew into a rage to which she reacted by pulling a gun on him and aiming it at his head, but Banner calmly explained he was testing her.

Wary but taking his words, Romanoff then ordered agents outside to stand down as Banner was not a hostile threat, and she successfully convinced Banner to come with her. Romanoff meets Steve Rogers. Romanoff brought Bruce Banner onto the Helicarrier , to help locate the Tesseract.

Phil Coulson then arrived with Steve Rogers and introduced the two before Romanoff told Coulson that he was needed on the bridge. The two then walked together and got acquainted and asked him if Coulson asked him to sign his trading cards. Romanoff then explained that Coulson's cards were vintage and was proud of owning them. Romanoff on board the Helicarrier. She introduced Rogers to Banner, despite the two having an awkward conversation initially with the latter having conceived that Rogers cared only about Banner's use.

As Nick Fury and S. The Helicarrier then began to take off so the three went inside and headed towards the main control room which contained Agents Nick Fury , Phil Coulson , Jasper Sitwell , and Maria Hill. Romanoff continues searching for Clint Barton. Banner observed their work and asked them what they were doing, to which Fury responded that they were searching for Barton, who was missing, using cell phone signals, cameras, wireless phones, to triangulate his location, but Romanoff warned that using that method wouldn't find Barton and Loki in time so they could thwart his next plan.

Under Fury's orders, Romanoff showed Banner to his new laboratory aboard the Helicarrier, promising that S. As Captain America fought Loki, Romanoff tried to get a shot at Loki but was unable to due to Loki using his magic to make multiple illusions of himself appear.

They succeed in capturing Loki and brought him on the Quinjet to take him to the Helicarrier. On their way back in the Helicarrier , Nick Fury asked Romanoff whether Loki had said anything, which Romanoff informed him that Loki had stayed silent. Suddenly, an unexpected lightning storm was taking place and Thor suddenly entered the Quinjet and left with Loki in tow. Romanoff asked if Thor was another Asgardian as Iron Man went to retrieve him. Rogers then went to join Stark, even though Romanoff warned him that he should sit this one out as Thor and Loki came from legends and were basically gods, but he chose to fight anyway.

As Loki was being locked up, Romanoff listened in as he and Nick Fury talked to each other. When Thor told Bruce Banner to take care of how he speaks about Loki as he is his brother, Romanoff nonchalantly informed him that Loki had killed eighty people in two days making Thor state that Loki was adopted.

Romanoff decided to interrogate Loki and find out his intentions. Romanoff approached the demigod Loki, undetected so she could interrogate Loki which he noted that not a lot of people could sneak up on him. Romanoff begins to interrogate Loki in his cell. Romanoff wanted to know what Loki has done with Clint Barton which Loki told her that he had expanded his mind.

Whenever Romanoff asked what would happen to Barton after Loki had conquered Earth, Loki questioned Romanoff's feelings asking if it was love. Romanoff made it clear that she owed Barton a debt and she told Loki about her history with Barton. Loki instead told Romanoff that she fought in the service of killers her whole life, asking her if she would be willing to sacrifice the fate of humanity for the safety of Barton.

Romanoff decided to pretend to break down her barriers to Loki so he would reveal his plans. Loki then began to taunt Romanoff telling her about her history which Barton had told him about. Loki then told Romanoff that he would force Barton to kill Romanoff but he ended up revealing that he planned on unleashing Hulk.

Romanoff then warned S. Romanoff listens to Nick Fury 's admission. After figuring out Loki 's plan to unleash Hulk , Romanoff swiftly left the interrogation room made her way to the lab Bruce Banner was working in to escort him to his designated room in an attempt to thwart Loki's plans from coming to fruition. Banner looked at Romanoff shocked, asking her if she knew about Phase 2 , which involved S. Romanoff instead attempted to convince Banner to leave the room as his transformation into Hulk and subsequent rampage was an integral part of Loki's escape plan.

After Banner reminded them that he remained peacefully unbothered for two years in Kolkata , India , Romanoff then warned him a second time that Loki was manipulating him and using him as well as the rest of the Avengers to finally put his plans of the Chitauri Invasion into effect, which Banner did not believe and only thought about Fury's lie and still wondered if Romanoff knew about the second phase.

Romanoff during the Avengers ' argument. A shocked Banner then asked her what she was doing the whole time, to which she responded that he did not willingly come to the Helicarrier to assist the Avengers in finding the Tesseract just to watch her. An argument erupted between the Avengers due to the effects of the Mind Stone. While the group argued, Clint Barton , under the control of Loki, fired an explosive arrow onto the Helicarrier which blew up the lab.

Romanoff was briefly knocked out and she and Banner were thrown into another room. Whilst Romanoff lay senseless on the floor, a large piece of equipment had fallen on to her foot, and she awoke to find herself trapped with Bruce Banner transforming into Hulk.

Romanoff attempted to calm Banner down, but he was in too much pain. Romanoff saw two S. As Romanoff tried to free herself, she witnessed as Banner transformed into Hulk, leaving Romanoff horrified. Romanoff eventually freed herself and attempted to escape from Hulk. Filled with rage, Hulk chased after Romanoff. Romanoff tried to hide from Hulk but she could not escape from him. Romanoff attempted to fend herself off from Hulk and barely did causing her to try to run away from Hulk.

Hulk managed to outrun Romanoff and threw her aside, which winded her and broke two of her ribs. Romanoff fights a mind controlled Clint Barton. Still traumatized after her encounter with Hulk, Romanoff was forced to recover to take on Clint Barton who was under Loki 's control. Barton was walking down the Helicarrier when he was confronted by Romanoff who snuck up behind him in an attempt to disarm him. He immediately turned around sensing her presence and the two friends had a prolonged fight using her combat skills, Romanoff was able to fight Barton and defend herself from his attacks with his bow and arrows and knife.

Romanoff almost being killed by Clint Barton. Barton fired several arrows at, although Romanoff was able to dodge them, agilely moving between the confounded area. Barton used all his top-level training to kill his friend, and Romanoff was able to steal Barton's bow off him, causing him to draw out his knife. When the fight got dirtier, including attempting to drive the knife into her neck while pulling her hair back, Romanoff used her teeth to bite him in order to disarm Barton, forcing him to drop his knife.

Despite this, Barton was no match for Romanoff's speed and agility. Romanoff has Clint Barton taken away. Eventually, she got the upper hand, disarming him and slammed Barton's head onto a steel pipe. The blow weakened Loki's grip on Barton's mind and he recognized Romanoff, calling her by her first name before she knocked him out with a final strong punch to the head, breaking his connection to Loki and restoring his mind.

Romanoff watched as Barton was taken away by a S. She was then informed of Phil Coulson's death by Nick Fury. Romanoff helping Clint Barton recover. After Romanoff defeated Clint Barton , he was arrested and tied down until it was certain that Loki 's control was gone and he was no longer a threat. Romanoff looked after Barton in the recovery room, listening to him as he described the experience, which he compared to being unmade, which Romanoff understood from past experiences.

Romanoff is recruited by Captain America. Despite him asking, Romanoff refused to tell Barton how many S. When Captain America arrived to ask Romanoff if she could pilot a Quinjet , Barton told him he could. After Romanoff gave him the nod of approval, Rogers allowed Barton to join them on the mission. Black Widow and Hawkeye fight together. Black Widow was prepared to fight Loki beside the other Avengers and his Chitauri army, though being a spy and not a soldier.

Hawkeye flew her and Captain America to New York City in a Quinjet where the portal had already opened over the city, allowing thousands of aliens to enter and attack. Loki managed to shoot the Quinjet out of the sky and the team fought the extraterrestrials on the ground. The Avengers assemble in New York City. Alongside Hawkeye, Black Widow fought the oncoming horde of Chitauri soldiers until the rest of the Avengers arrived.

Black Widow used all her skills and weapons to defeat the Chitauri army while the civilians all clear out. While Black Widow and Hawkeye fight the Chitauri, she reminded him that the situation of being similar to the mission they took place in Budapest , which Hawkeye told Black Widow that he remembered Budapest differently.

Black Widow during the Battle of New York. When the others arrived, Captain America ordered that Black Widow and he would stay on the street to protect the people and keep the fight where they could control it.

She and Captain America fought hard; she used her bite and guns to kill dozens of Chitauri soldiers. Eventually, for Black Widow, the fight was almost too exhausting for her. After a while, she decided to change her positions and asked Captain America to give her a boost so she could fight the Chitauri from their ships.

Black Widow finds Erik Selvig. Eventually, the plan of keeping the fight contained proved meaningless; she decided to obtain one of the Chitauri Chariots and fly it to Stark Tower. On the way she was chased by Loki and called on Hawkeye to shoot him out of the sky. She eventually made it to Stark Tower where the portal to their domain was open and met Erik Selvig , who had come out of the mind control. Selvig expressed horror at his actions; however, Romanoff, assured him that it wasn't his fault as he was brainwashed with the Scepter.

However, World Security Council decided to launch a nuclear missile on New York City to end the Chitauri Invasion once and for all; this prompted Iron Man to intercept the nuclear missile and fly it straight through the portal, where he released the missile on the Chitauri Command Center , which destroyed the station.

Romanoff and Selvig used the Scepter to finally close the portal for good right after Stark descended back to Earth and landed on the streets of the downtown, thus ending the Chitauri Invasion. Black Widow and the Avengers capture Loki. Moments after the invasion ended, Romanoff, alongside the other Avengers , confronted Loki on the top level of Stark Tower who got up after having been thrown to the ground multiple times by Hulk.

A subdued Loki then asked for the drink that Tony Stark offered him earlier, finally accepting his defeat. Black Widow gives Jasper Sitwell the Scepter. Brock Rumlow and Jasper Sitwell arrived on the top floor to intercept the Scepter.

Both Sitwell and Rumlow promised to exercise caution with the weapon. Romanoff watches Thor escort Loki to Asgard. Later, the Avengers took a breather at the Shawarma Palace before they were interrupted by War Machine , who arrived too late to help in the battle. While Loki was in chains, Romanoff whispered something in Barton's ear about Loki's punishment, causing Barton to grin. When the team went their separate ways, Romanoff left with Barton in a S.

After participating in the Battle of New York, Romanoff became partners with Captain America and they ran many operations together. One such operation occurred upon the theft of the Zodiac weapon from S. Romanoff was tasked to infiltrate Baker 's terrorist cell under an alias.

Posing as Audrey, she spent several weeks undercover determining what Baker's plan for Zodiac was. Upon discovering Baker's plan to release the Zodiac in the Willis Tower in Chicago during the height of the day, killing all within, Romanoff alerted Captain America.

Romanoff, Rogers, and Brock Rumlow confronted Baker's cell in the Skydeck of Willis Tower, and after a brief combat, subdued the terrorists, and recovered the Zodiac. Under the guise of Rogers showing Romanoff the places that he grew up, they managed to draw out the Cadre mercenaries that had set up in multiple locations throughout the neighborhood.

Tracing the mercenary that had abducted Amanat through a maze of alleyways, Rogers succeeded in taking out the last mercenary with a little help from Amanat herself. Romanoff picks up Steve Rogers. Romanoff drove down to Washington, D. Romanoff sent Rogers a text to meet her as they had a mission and drove up to the two. As Rogers made his way to the car, Romanoff joked about his age by calling him a fossil and greeted Wilson.

Romanoff is debriefed about their mission. Romanoff and Rogers were debriefed about their mission by Brock Rumlow. As the team got ready to land, Romanoff and Rogers chatted about Saturday night plans, which Rogers had none of. Romanoff suggested he ask a coworker out but Rogers claimed he was too busy as he jumped out of the Quinjet without a parachute. Romanoff using her Bite to defeat a pirate.

Rogers once again declined and told her to secure the engine room first, as Romanoff quipped that she was multi-tasking. As Batroc ordered Gerald Durand to start the engines, Romanoff snuck up behind Durand and knocked him out, as well as several others as she grappled down the boat. Rogers asked Romanoff for her status while she was in the middle of a fight with a few pirates.

Romanoff on board the Lemurian Star. Romanoff secured the room and defeated the final pirate with a blow to the face using a steel pipe. She then proceeded with her mission to retrieve confidential information regarding Project Insight on a flash drive. When Rogers incapacitated Batroc, he discovered Romanoff's real mission of downloading encrypted S. She insisted that his mission was to rescue the hostages, while hers was to secure the intel on the Lemurian Star.

As they were arguing about the mission, Batroc threw a grenade at them which Rogers knocked away while Romanoff shot the glass, and the two jumped through the window, just getting clear of the blast. Romanoff took responsibility for Batroc escaping and the two made their way back to the Quinjet. Romanoff witnesses Nick Fury 's surgery. Romanoff met up with Steve Rogers at the hospital and witnessed Nick Fury being operated on. She asked Rogers about the shooter; he responded that the assailant was fast, strong and had a metal arm.

This description seemingly confirmed to Romanoff that the assassin who shot Fury near Rogers' apartment was the Winter Soldier. As Maria Hill joined them, she told the two the ballistics were untraceable, and Romanoff provided the fact that the bullets were Soviet-made. Romanoff is informed of Nick Fury 's shooter. The three then watched as the doctors attempted to revive Fury but were failing to do so as he was shot multiple times near the heart.

Fury's unsuccessful surgery left Romanoff devastated as she watched the doctors announce that he was deceased. As Fury seemingly died due to his many injuries, she mourned his "death" and urged him not to die on her. Romanoff was ultimately forced to say her goodbyes to Fury when Hill told them that she needed to take his body.

Romanoff stands by Nick Fury 's "dead" body. Sometime later, Romanoff was allowed to analyze Fury's corpse. After shedding some tears in private, she sensed Rogers' presence and immediately stormed out of the autopsy room. Romanoff then asked him why Fury was in his apartment the night he was shot, which Rogers claimed not to know, but she could tell that he was lying.

Their brief conversation was interrupted by Brock Rumlow , who informed Rogers that S. Romanoff says her goodbyes to Nick Fury. After Rogers was made a fugitive by Alexander Pierce , he went back to the hospital to retrieve the USB he left in a vending machine behind pieces of gum, only to find it was gone.

Romanoff then approached behind Rogers while chewing gum, implying she had taken it. Rogers then demanded to know the USB's location and what was on it, to which Romanoff told him that it was safe but she didn't know its contents. Romanoff covertly meets with Steve Rogers. Rogers then shared his theory that Fury hired Georges Batroc and his pirates to hijack the Lemurian Star , which Romanoff confirmed, explaining that the ship was dirty and Fury needed a way to obtain the files about the true intentions of Project Insight.

She then told Rogers that Fury was killed by the assassin known as the Winter Soldier and how she had encountered him in during her thwarted mission in Odessa. Romanoff tells the history of the Winter Soldier. Romanoff then warned Rogers that the Winter Soldier was a ghost story, noting that many of the intelligence communities don't believe he even exists. She also provided Rogers advice that going after him is a dead end since she had tried for years to uncover the Winter Soldier's true identity after their first confrontation but failed to do so.

Rogers still insisted that they find the assassin. Romanoff was then deemed an ally by him, who decided to uncover the mystery behind Project Insight with her. Romanoff and Steve Rogers go undercover. Romanoff, who was now also on the run from S. She was unable to override the drive's protective A.

Aaron asked if the two needed help and Romanoff answered that she and Rogers were looking up honeymoon destinations as the USB located where the files came from: Wheaton , New Jersey. Romanoff kisses Steve Rogers.

The conversation shifted as Aaron claimed to have the same glasses that Steve was wearing as part of his disguise, followed by an awkward silence as Romanoff agreed with him. The two left the store moments later, only to discover that the STRIKE unit had already arrived at the mall searching for them. Romanoff speaks to Rogers in their stolen car. They stole a car and drove to Camp Lehigh in New Jersey. The two talked during the drive, including Romanoff asking if the time they kissed in the mall was the first kiss Rogers had since At first, Romanoff thought the base was a dead end due to there being no heat signatures of radio signals, making her believe whoever wrote the files must have used a router to throw people off.

Romanoff in the original S. Rogers then discovered a building that was in the wrong location in the base and they entered. There, the pair found a secret storage room full of old computers inside an abandoned S.

They also discovered a more modern looking USB slot and inserted the drive. Having opened and activated the USB files, Romanoff quoted a line from an old movie , asking Rogers if he had watched it, which he affirmed. The computers powered up and someone began to talk to them.

The computerized voice greeted Romanoff and Rogers by their full names and birth dates, much to their surprise. The voice turned out to be Arnim Zola , who had transferred his mind into the S. Romanoff identified Zola as a member of Operation Paperclip , which involved S. When Rogers noted that HYDRA died with the Red Skull 's demise, Zola countered his statement, revealing that he used his recruitment as an opportunity to revive the organization. To prove this to the two oblivious S.

Zola then brought up examples of operational anomalies across the globe, implying that HYDRA masterminded, or at least aided, dozens of events that changed history.

Romanoff is rescued by Steve Rogers. At the instance upon Zola confirming that HYDRA's plan with Project Insight involved humanity giving up their freedom and gloating that Captain America's death was meaningless, Rogers angrily punched the monitor screen. However, Zola simply appeared on the other computer monitors. As they tried to extract more information about Project Insight and Zola's algorithm , Romanoff detected a missile that Alexander Pierce had sent to blow up Camp Lehigh.

They both took shelter from the blast inside the base, though she was knocked unconscious. Romanoff takes refuge in Sam Wilson 's house. The next day, Romanoff and Steve Rogers went to seek refuge with Sam Wilson since everyone else they knew was trying to kill them.

Romanoff confided in Rogers that when she joined S. Romanoff then asked if Rogers would trust her if it was up to her to save his life and he told her that he trusts her now.

Wilson then interrupted the two to inform them that he made breakfast, which he was unsure if that was something they ate. Romanoff asks Steve Rogers if he trusts her. Romanoff and Rogers began to discuss who had the authority to launch a domestic missile strike at them which Rogers figured out was Alexander Pierce , noting Zola's algorithm was on board the Lemurian Star with Jasper Sitwell.

As the two planned on how to kidnap a S. Romanoff discusses kidnapping Jasper Sitwell. Wilson told them where they could find one of the winged suits and the protection it has, which Romanoff saw as no trouble. She read the file and to her surprise learned that Wilson was involved in the mission involving the capture of Khalid Khandil in Afghanistan.

Wilson also noted how he lost his best friend and wingman, Riley , during the apprehension. The three geared up and headed towards Jasper Sitwell 's current location to interrogate him.

Romanoff kicks Jasper Sitwell off the building. Despite having been interrogated at the top of the roof as a means of intimidating him, Sitwell refused to answer their questions, only taunting Rogers that he could not throw him off the building.

In response, Romanoff to kicked him off the building for Wilson to catch. She then casually brought up another S. They both face and overcome the demons of their pasts, but Black Widow also acknowledges that Natasha died saving the universe in Avengers: Endgame.

Natasha's career as an espionage agent is less well-known although Black Widow provided the details of how she and Yelena were indoctrinated into the Red Room, and how and why Romanoff eventually chose to defect and join S. But from her debut in Iron Man 2 to her death in Avengers: Endgame , Black Widow fought "to do some good in the world" for about 13 years, or roughly one-third of her life.

In Black Widow , Natasha is 32 years old. Meanwhile, young Yelena Violet McGraw was established to be 6 years old in Black Widow 's prologue so she was born in Yelena is 27 when she reunites with Natasha in Black Widow. In real life, Scarlett Johansson was 34 when Black Widow was filmed, so she played her character as slightly younger in her solo film, while Florence Pugh was 23 during production so Yelena is always older than Pugh, especially in Black Widow 's post-credits scene set during MCU Phase 4.

It was during this time that an enemy from her time alongside Daredevil kidnapped Ivan to lure her to her death. Damon Dran planned to bring Natasha to his island so a small army of female combat specialists could destroy her. Once she was out of the way, he would send a fake Black Widow back to S. Unfortunately for Dran, Natasha defeated the army, saved Ivan, and notified Fury who in turn bombed Dran's island.

On a freelance mission, the Black Widow attempted to prevent the Hand from stealing the long-dead body of their Master Warrior, Kirigi.

She was revived by Stone of the Chaste , and joined forces with Stone and Daredevil to stop the Hand from reviving Elektra. Natasha knew that they failed in this endeavor, but kept the information from Matt for his well-being. On a mission, Natasha found her husband Alexi Shostakov alive. Little did she know that it was only a Life-Model Decoy created by Russian agents to blackmail her back into service of Mother Russia.

Once she finished the tasks they gave her, the Russians told her the truth and attempted to kill her. The missiles were launched, but Iron Man kept them from detonating.

Oktober ended up actually being Natasha under some old KGB reprogramming that had been dormant in her mind. Together, they captured the agent responsible. In time, Black Widow came back to the Avengers and became a co-leader, managing ops at home base while Black Knight lead in the field.

When the majority of the Avengers were killed during the Onslaught saga, she was unable to rebuild the team while fighting off lawsuits from the Maria Stark Foundation. She always felt as if the Avengers dissolution was solely her fault. The Black Widow then vowed to apprehend all of the Avenger's former foes, and ran into Daredevil while hunting the Grey Gargoyle.

Matt feared for her mental state as he noticed how obsessive she became about bringing the Gargoyle down. Fear framed her for. Once the Avengers who were thought killed returned, Natasha was more relieved, but decided to work with S.

Daredevil came into her life once again when he needed her to take care of Baby Karen , who he believed to be the Antichrist. While they were fighting, Bullseye killed the child and Natasha was badly beaten.

While she could admit that she still cared for him, they both decided they would never be together. Another Russian agent claimed the mantle of Black Widow, which brought her up against Natasha. A short time after, Natasha captured Yelena and had their faces surgically swapped in an effort to find out what General Stalyenko was doing with the Rhapastani Government in the Hudson River Valley.

As part of a sting to find out who it was that was going to allow Natasha to be exchanged, Daredevil and S. Alongside the Avengers, S. The stress of seeing her once-dead once-living once-dead once-robot now alive again husband drove Natasha to retirement.

She lived for a short time in Arizona before agents from the Red Room began tracking down ex-Black Widow agents and killing them. Natasha recruited Phil Dexter , an associate from S. It turned out that the Black Widows included twenty-seven girls trained to be perfect killers. They were implanted with false memories, psycho-chemically conditioned, and chemically enhanced to be loyal and perform perfectly for the program. While taking Lyudmila to S.

She also learned that Sally Anne was kidnapped and Phil was killed in the process. Natasha caught up to them on his yacht and killed them, making her the number one most wanted criminal in the United States.

Natasha sought help from Yelena Belova in Cuba. Yelena was running a lingerie company and soft pornography television channels at the time. In return for a place to stay, Yelena asked Natasha for help in exporting stolen medical supplies from Miami.

To her surprise, Natasha found the medical supplies to be from Gynacon and that Sally Anne was actually taken by the mafia. In all the madness, Natasha learned that Sally Anne had been experimented on by Gynacon but had escaped. Black Widow was assigned to track down the Tinkerer in an effort to find the financier behind the super-villains of America.

Disguised in a burqa, she tracked the Tinkerer to the castle of Lucia von Bardas , the current prime minister of Latveria. Unfortunately, the President refused Fury's request for a S. Unfortunately, the heroes disapproved of bringing down Castle Doom down on von Bardas. Afterwards, Fury erased the memories of the non-level 10 participants in his secret war.

Natasha was able to keep everyone but Matt from going to jail. When S. Natasha was among the Avengers infected along with hundreds of other New York citizens by a symbiote virus , but were cured by Iron Man. Natasha became very suspicious of Jessica Drew, who was later discovered to be the Skrull impostor, Veranke. During this time, Natasha had also restarted her relationship with Barnes, who was still alive and had recovered his lost memories, now being the new Captain America.

Osborn ordered her to lead the current Thunderbolts to kill former Thunderbolt, Songbird. Fury orders "Yelena" to rescue and retrieve Songbird, for the information she might have possessed about Osborn and his operations.

Natasha found Songbird, and revealed to her that she was really Natasha Romanova in disguise. She tried delivering Songbird to Fury, but the Thunderbolts also followed them. He ordered the team to execute Natasha and Songbird, but they managed to escape when Ant-Man, Headsman and Paladin turned on the rest of the Thunderbolts and let them go. Natasha was framed in a plot targeting global spies.

She was accused of assassinating U. The senator's son, Nick, was captured by a rival spy Fatale , who wanted to know his source for implicating Natasha. Natasha stole Nick away from her and took him to a secret CIA base to scare him into giving her his source instead.

The plan backfired when both of them were attacked. Natasha took down Crimson Dynamo, but then Fatale showed up and knocked out Fantasma.

Fatale revealed that she was hired to kill Whit Crane but found he had already taken his own life and she needed to use Nick to track down who had actually paid for the hit. Nick gave them the name of a source 'Sadko' not his true source of info , but when they arrived it was a trap wired with explosives and they were forced to escape.

The conspiracy against spies turned out to be wider and Natasha encountered Mockingbird and Hawkeye on the same trail in Russia where they found many trainee spies and a S.

Soon Perun , Crimson Dynamo, Fantasma, and Sputnik showed up to apprehend Hawkeye, believing him to be the Ronin behind the spy deaths. Discovering that this was merely a diversion, the three heroes and Dominic Fortune alerted the true target: an ambassador in St.

Petersburg , Russia. They next traveled to Japan. Dominic and Mockingbird discovering an amassing battle force on the Russian coast near to the northern Japanese islands, while Natasha and Hawkeye tracked down ' the Madame ', an old ninja working with the new Ronin to bring about this Russian attack. The four heroes met up on the disputed island 'Iturup' where they met the Ronin, who was revealed as Alexi Shostakov.

His plan was to kill off world intelligence operatives leaving countries blind while he made his attack, and brought the four heroes to him so he could kill them.