Marvel Universe

Black Widow (Ultimate)

Universe
Ultimate

Real Name
Natalia Romanova

Aliases
Natasha Romanov (anglicised name), Nanci Roman, countless other aliases

Identity
Known to various authorities

Occupation
U.S. government super-operative; former freelance spy, K.G.B. agent

Citizenship
Russia (plus fabricated U.S. status)

Place of Birth
St. Petersburg, Russia

Known Relatives
Alexi Shostakov (husband, deceased), other ex-husbands (deceased), Tony Stark (fiancé)

Group Affiliation
Ultimates, S.H.I.E.L.D., former K.G.B. agent

Education
Graduate of the Red Room (Moscow's spy academy)

Height
5'7"

Weight
125 lbs.

Eyes
Green

Hair
Red-auburn

Powers
Black Widow's physical and mental abilities - notably her speed, agility, reflexes, stamina, recall and concentration - had been enhanced slightly beyond human limits through unspecified secret technologies. Nanites recently bonded to her body enabled her to link with and control her Stark-designed battle armor, even producing the armor as if from thin air on mental command.

Abilities
The Black Widow was a master martial artist, an expert markswoman, a natural actress, an infamous seductress, and a gifted veteran spy.

Weapons
She carried assorted firearms and various miniaturized tools and weapons, such as communications equipment, tear gas pellets, various drugs, an electrostatic discharge weapon. Her Stark-designed armor gave her assorted built-in weapons such as repulsor rays, wrist-mounted machine guns and mind-impairing "thought-scramblers".

Paraphernalia
She carried spring-loaded cables and surveillance devices; her costuming has also included microscopic suction cups that enabled her to cling to walls and ceilings. Her Stark-designed armor gave her tremendous superhuman strength and durability, the capacity for supersonic flight, and assorted built-in weapons

First Appearance
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #14 (2002)

A descendant of Russian royalty, Natasha Romanov was abandoned as a child and found by soldier Ivan Petrovich. A ballerina in her youth, she joined Russia's K.G.B. and became an elite intelligence operative, a combination of consummate skill and classified government enhancements of her natural abilities. She also became infamous as an often-wed, often-widowed heartbreaker whose husbands (beginning with test pilot turned intelligence agent Alexi Shostakov) tended to suffer "unfortunate accidents", a quirk which may have influenced her choice of long-term code name: the Black Widow. She eventually embarked on a lucrative freelance spy career, which culminated in her infiltration of New York City's Latverian Embassy.

Manipulating the naïve young superhero Spider-Man into helping her escape Latverian security, Natasha used the information she gathered to audition successfully for the American-based international spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. She became a mainstay of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s black ops division, often partnered with Hawkeye (Clint Barton).

After Hawkeye and the Widow led the successful extermination of over five hundred Chitauri extraterrestrial subversives, the duo was promoted to the ranks of the Ultimates, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s celebrity super-agents, with newly falsified personal backgrounds. Alongside the Ultimates, Black Widow helped save Earth from a Chitauri plot. She and teammate ]]Iron Man (Ultimate)|Iron Man]] (wealthy playboy genius Tony Stark) became lovers during the struggle, and later began dating seriously, despite Natasha's mutually hostile relationship with Stark's caustic butler, Edwin Jarvis.

Giving Natasha the female equivalent of his Iron Man battle armor, Stark asked her to marry him and she said yes; however, the bloody massacre of Clint Barton's entire family by a secret traitor within the Ultimates cast a pall over Tony and Natashas' wedding preparations.

While in bed with Tony on the morning of the Liberators' attack, Natasha pulled a gun from under her pillow and killed Jarvis, and then proceeded to point the weapon at Tony. Tony then proceeded to activate the nanites in her bloodstream (the ones that allowed her to control her armor), paralyzing her, and then struck her in the head with a champagne bottle.

After the Ultimates defeated Loki and the Liberators, Natasha was seen recovering in a nearby hospital. However, as soon as she woke up, Hawkeye entered, and killed her, finally getting revenge for the murder of his wife and kids.

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