A Glimpse at Black Widow’s life from Marvel's perspective

In this article, I will uncover the mystery of Black Widow, and review her 39 years of trajectory.

Suggested order:

• Iron Man 2
• The Avengers
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Captain America: Civil War
• Black Widow
• The Avengers: Infinity War
• The Avengers: Endgame

-In 1984, Black Widow was born.

She was born as Natasha Romanoff in Stalingrad, Soviet Union.

She was selected by an infant genetic potential program and trained from an early age in the Red House, which specializes in training killers. Her mother was killed by the head of the Red House, Dreykov, when she was trying to find Natasha.

Black Widow's body, in addition to sterilization, has undergone special modifications, making her fighting ability greater than that of ordinary people.

In 1995, at the age of 11, Natasha returned to the Red House, however, in order to execute secret missions, the Red House formed a temporary agent family in Ohio, including 11-year-old Natasha and 6-year-old Yelena. After completing the task, the "family" was dissolved.

The fate that awaits Natasha is to be trained as a ruthless killing machine at the Red House.

-She met Hawkeye in Budapest after the year 2000.

While on a mission in Budapest, Hungary, Black Widow encountered her strongest opponent yet, Agent Hawkeye of S.H.I.E.L.D. . He had been ordered to hunt Black Widow, but the two became friends. Finally, Black Widow was recruited as a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent. Since then, the two started a decade-long friendship, in fact, it was more like a brother-sister relationship.

Shortly after becoming a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent, Black Widow was given the task of assassinating the head of the Red House, Dreykov, which Natasha had been dreaming of. But on the assassination explosion, she happened to killed Dreykov's little daughter as well, which became a lingering nightmare in her heart.

-In 2009, at the age of 25, Natasha met Winter Soldier.

The 25-year-old Black Widow, who was assigned to Iran to protect a nuclear engineer, confronted Winter Soldier in Ukraine, who was there to assassinate the engineer. She failed her mission and got injured. In the films, she loses contact with Winter Soldier then, however, in the comics, Black Widow and Winter Soldier have a very romantic love story, which was, sadly, completely cut out in the movie.

-In 2010, aged 26, Natasha sneaked into Stark Industries.

In 2010, Black Widow got into Iron Man's Stark Industries and became the legal manager under the arrangement of Director Fury (S.H.I.E.L.D. agent). She was instantly attracted to Iron Man and stayed with him as a private secretary.

After seeing Iron Man's poor state, Black Widow revealed her true identity and bravely broke into Iron Man's rival offices, Hammer Industries. This is where she first showed us herr iconic pose.

-In 2012, aged 28, she fought in the Battle of New York

In 2012, Loki, ordered by Thanos, came to Earth to steal the hypercube, which was ready to open the door of space and let aliens invade Earth.

Director Fury then began to form the Avengers Alliance. Black Widow recruited the Hulk, this was her first contact with Banner.

Later, the Avengers captured Loki, but he only pretended to surrender. His real purpose was to attract the attention of the Avengers, use the mind scepter to split them, and then bewitch Hawkeye to invade the carrier of S.H.I.E.L.D. and provoke Dr. Banner to release the Hulk.

Black Widow subdued Hawkeye through melee combat to bring him back to his former self.

Eventually, the original Avengers gathered in New York and stopped the alien invasion plot together.

-In 2014, when she was 30, Hydra was exposed

After the Battle of New York, Black Widow and Captain America participated in a rescue operation because a S.H.I.E.L.D. ship was hijacked by terrorists. Captain America was mainly responsible for the rescue, and Black Widow was for the operation, using a USB flash disk to copy the secret information on board.

After Director Fury was assassinated by Hydra, Black Widow became the only ally of Captain America when he was attacked on all sides.

She even taught Captain America to hide in plain sight with her spy experience.

Through the investigation, they found that the forces of Hydra had already invaded the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. operation. Real S.H.I.E.L.D. agents formed an underground organization. After careful deliberation, they decided to overthrow S.H.I.E.L.D., which had been corrupted by Hydra.

Through electronic transfiguration, Black Widow disguised herself as a member of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s High Security Committee, which helped her infiltrate the operation and release almost all the information to the world. The head of S.H.I.E.L.D was actually a member of Hydra called Alexander Pierce.

But Black Widow also paid a high price. Her dark past as a killer was now of public knowledge as well. This meant that the she had to go back to living in the shadows once again.

-In 2015, Natasha was getting closer to Banner.

As the Avengers destroyed the Hydra fortress in Sokovia, Black Widow found a way to make peace with the Hulk. What’s more, she could turn Hulk back to human form through communication.

During this period, Ultron, the artificial intelligence created by Iron Man, became a super villain. Ultron was planning to lift Sokovia into the air and smash it into the Earth, destroying everything and everyone in the process.

After losing their first fight against Ultron, the Avengers took refuge in Hawkeye's house.

Black Widow told Banner that she wanted to be with him. But Banner rejected her because he thought he was a monster.

When fighting against Ultron again, Black Widow tried to help her teammates, but accidentally fell into Ultron's cage in Sokovia. Fortunately, she was rescued by Banner. When Banner suggested eloping, Black Widow gave him an affectionate kiss, but pushed him into the pit and said, "Now I need the Hulk more.".

After defusing the Sokovia Crisis, Hulk left Earth alone in a Quinjet and lost contact with Black Widow.

Black Widow and Captain America continued to lead the new Avengers Alliance.

-In 2016, when she was 32 years old, The Avengers split up.

After the events of Sokovia, Black Widow continued her missions around the world with Captain America, Falcon and the Scarlet Witch.

Many people began to question the legitimacy of superhero behaviors. 117 countries jointly drafted the Sokovia Agreement, which requires that every move of the Avengers Alliance be supervised by the United Nations.

The Iron Man faction agreed, but Captain America firmly opposed. Black Widow was caught in a dilemma. Although they were all superheroes, the nature of her work was different from others. Many of the things she did could not be exposed to the public. But if she refused to sign the agreement, it meant that she would lose her Avengers family.

When Captain America and Iron Man fought at the airport over a disagreement, Black Widow ended up on Captain America's side.

Captain America and Iron Man had broken up completely. Thor and Hulk left Earth. Black Widow became a wanted criminal. The Avengers existed in name only.

-2016-2018, her escape.

Black Widow left the city and hid in a safe house deep in the mountains.

But she received something from Yelena. Who is Yelena? She is the little sister who lived with the spy family in Ohio as a child. But actually, she is not related to Natasha.

It turned out that Dreykov, the head of the Red House, was not dead, nor did the Red House disappear. He continued to make killing machines. What’s worse, he developed a new way to control people's consciousness.

What Yelena sent to Black Widow is the antidote to control her consciousness. This way, Black Widow's situation became very dangerous. The Red House then sent out a killer, the female version of the Task Master, to retrieve the antidote.

After Black Widow and Yelena met up, they found their former fake father, the Red Guardian.

And the fake mother, the Iron Maiden who was the top scientific adviser of the Red House.

The fake family was reunited. They jointly destroyed the red house hidden and liberated all widow killers controlled by consciousness.

Next, Black Widow will set out to save her the other family, the Avengers.

-In 2018 Natasha was 34 years old, Infinity War

Thanos was attempting to collect six infinite gems to destroy half of the life in the world with a snap of his fingers. He ordered Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive to capture the Mind Gem from Vision's head.

Black Widow brought back to Wakanda several Avengers that were exiled, amongst them she found Captain America. They all wanted to remove the Soul Gem, but only Wakanda had the technology to do it.

When Black Panther's sister began to remove the Mind Gem, Thanos' forces invaded Wakanda.

Thanos was more powerful than expected. In the end, he collected six gems and snapped his fingers, which destroyed half of the life in the universe.

After Thor killed Thanos, the Avengers left in despair. There was nothing else they could do.

-In 2023, a 39 year old Black Widow, vanished.

Five years later, the world was still surounded by darkness.

Black Widow was still struggling to support the Avengers, or what was left of it, because she considered them her family.

-The appearance of Ant-Man changed everything.

He came up with the concept of "time theft", which Banner and Iron Man made it into a reality. The Avengers would be able to travel back in time to retrieve the Infinite Gem and reverse the future.

Different gems were acquired by different combinations of heroes. The task of acquiring the soul gem was given to Hawkeye and Black Widow.

After knowing that they had to oay with the life of a loved one to get the gem, they both wanted to sacrifice themselves to complete the task.

After a fierce battle, Black Widow finally ran ahead of Hawkeye to jumpe off the cliff.

At the age of 39, Natacha Romaniff, A.K.A. Black Widow, gave her precious life and Hawkeye finally received the Soul Gem.

Goodbye, Black Widow. Goodbye, Natasha.