Description
Real name: Natalia Alianova Romanova
Age: late twenties to early thirties (29-31)
Height: 5’ 7”
Weight: 131 lbs.
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Red, Black (formerly dyed)
Place of Birth: Stalingrad, Russia
Powers/Abilities: enhanced strength, enhanced stamina, enhanced durability, enhanced speed, enhanced agility, slow aging, enhanced immune system
Strength factor: Olympic level
Affiliation: Avengers, The Champions, KGB, Mighty Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D.
Created by: Stan Lee, Don Rico, Don Heck
First Appearance: Tales of Suspense #52 (1964)
She is deadliest, most ruthless woman, assassin on Earth, serving as frequent member of Avengers. Natasha is adventurer, government agent, assassin, mercenary. Her origins are she was raised by Russian soldier Ivan Petrovich Bezuhkov after she was orphaned when enemy soldiers attacked Stalingrad. She was brainwashed by top secret Soviet agency Red Room. While there, she was bio and psycho enhanced which increased her youthful lifespan. She has trained in hand-to-hand combat, espionage at covert Red Room facility. She has become ultimate super-spy. She has defected Russia to move United States. Black Widow’s body has enhanced by biotechnology that make her resistant to aging, disease and she heals faster than regular humans. The white blood cells in her body are also enhanced by these implants, making them efficient enough to fight off most microbes, foreign bodies, other threats to her body that keep her healthy, immune to most infections, diseases, physical disorders. Natasha is world class athlete, gymnast, aerobat, and aerialist, capable of numerous complex maneuvers and feats. She can coordinate her body with balance, flexibility, and dexterity easily. She is also accomplished ballerina. She has mastered various martial arts such as jiu jitsu, aikido, boxing, judo, karate, taekwondo, kickboxing, ninjutsu, various styles of kung fu, kenpo, sambo. Natasha uses variety of equipment invented by Soviet scientists and technicians, later improvements by SHIELD scientists, technicians. She usually wears distinctively shaped bracelets which fires Widow’s Bite electro-static energy blasts that could deliver charges up to 30,000 volts. Her gauntlets has contains radio transmitter, tear gas pellets, grappling hook, knock out gas, explosives, taser.