History ComicBook / BlackWidow

* FamouslyNamedForeigner: Romanoff?

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* {{Casanova}} (see also ReallyGetsAround, LauncherOfAThousandShips): Her famous love life has led her to be involved with a number of superhero suitors: Hawkeye, Daredevil, Iron Man, Hercules, and Bucky Barnes (as Captain America). In her first appearance, she was also the wife of the Russian Captain America {{Expy}}, the Red Guardian.

ScarlettJohansson portrays Black Widow in the MarvelCinematicUniverse, and she features in ''[[Film/IronMan Iron Man 2]]'' and ''[[Film/TheAvengers The Avengers]]''.

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Red-headed, intelligent, [[MostCommonSuperPower buxom]], Russian, can kick ass in fifty different ways, former leader of the Avengers... yeah, she's popular.

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[[caption-width:350:International Woman of Mystery]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: See also...

* DistractedByTheSexy: As mentioned above, Scarlett-as-Black Widow in Iron Man 2 threw off the filming for a few minutes during her first appearance.

Black Widow (Natalia Romanova, aka Natasha Romanoff) is a MarvelComics superheroine. Introduced in the [[SilverAge Silver Age of Comics]] in the pages of ''[[IronMan Tales Of Suspense]]'' #52 (April 1964), she has been a regular supporting character (and occasional lead) ever since, including stints on ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' (as the chairperson, for a time), ''TheChampions'' (again as the leader), and as a partner to {{Daredevil}}.

* BattleCouple: Has been one half of a number of them.

* {{Casanova}} (see also ReallyGetsAround, LauncherOfAThousandShips): Her famous love life.

* ExpansionPackPast: There was originally nothing in her backstory to suggest that she was quasi-immortal. This only developed (confusingly) in order to keep a famous late 1980s team-up issue of ''Uncanny X-Men'' set in the 1940s that had her as a young girl meeting {{Wolverine}} and Captain America in continuity. This concept has had some rather large implications for the character’s background.

Bring her up in comics fandom and inevitably one of the first things to be mentioned is her numerous LoveInterests (or, in most cases, the characters that she was a love interest to). Apart from the aforementioned Iron Man and Hawkeye, she has also, over the years, been romantically linked to {{Daredevil}} (even getting billed alongside him on the title for a while), [[TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] (while they were on the Champions), and her most recent boyfriend, [[CaptainAmerica James "Bucky" Barnes]].

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Red-headed, intelligent, [[MostCommonSuperPower buxom]], Russian, can kick ass in fifty different ways, former leader of the Avengers... yeah, she's [[{{Understatement}} just a bit popular]].

** Same thing with his boyfriend James Barnes (aka Bucky, aka Captain America). He looks like he's in his mid 20s, but he's really roughly 90.

* BattleCouple: Has been one half of a number of them.* BlackWidow (also FemmeFatale): Sort of; the name arguably hasn’t been a great fit for her since she gave up being a HoneyTrap for the USSR back in the 1960s.

Bring her up in comics fandom and inevitably one of the first things to be mentioned is her numerous LoveInterests (or, in most cases, the characters that she was a love interest to). Apart from the aforementioned Iron Man and Hawkeye, she has also, over the years, been romantically linked to {{Daredevil}} (even getting billed alongside him on the title for a while), [[TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] (while they were on the Champions), and her current boyfriend, [[CaptainAmerica James "Bucky" Barnes, who is the current Captain America]].

Natasha has had various miniseries in the past, and currently has been given a new series by writer Marjorie Liu and artist Daniel Acuna.

* BattleCouple: Has been one half of a number of them.
* BlackWidow (also FemmeFatale): Sort of; the name arguably hasn’t been a great fit for her since she gave up being a HoneyTrap for the USSR back in the 1960s.

** Same thing with his current boyfriend James Barnes(aka Bucky, aka Captain America). He looks like he's in his mid 20's, but he's really roughly 90.
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The announcement that Scarlett Johansson would be the Black Widow in ''Iron Man 2''. Even the creators were astonished when she first showed up in the costume.

ScarlettJohansson portrays Black Widow in ''[[Film/IronMan Iron Man 2]]''.

Natasha began her career as a FemmeFatale spy in the service of the Soviet Union, sent to seduce famed American industrialist [[IronMan Tony Stark]], to which end she also manipulated the young Hawkeye. Hawkeye eventually [[HeelFaceTurn joined the side of good]], and eventually Natasha followed as well, beginning a long career as a superhero in the United States of America. She has no particularly enhanced physical abilities beyond suppressed aging, relying instead on being an all-around awesome spy and martial artist.

* AntiheroSubstitute: Yelena Belova. Thought Natasha herself is already an AntiHero.

** Same thing with his current boyfriend James Barnes(aka Bucky, aka Captain America). He looks like he's in his early 20's, but he's really over over 60.

* AntiheroSubstitute: Yelena Belova.

** Same thing with his current boyfriend James Barnes(aka Bucky, aka Captain America). He looks like he's in his early 20's, but he's really over 20.

Natasha began her career as a FemmeFatale spy in the service of the Soviet Union, sent to seduce famed American industrialist [[IronMan Tony Stark]], to which end she also manipulated the young Hawkeye. Hawkeye eventually [[HeelFaceTurn joined the side of good]], and eventually Natasha followed as well, beginning a long career as a superhero in the United States of America. She has no particularly enhanced physical abilities, relying instead on being an all-around awesome spy and martial artist.

[[caption-width:300:International Woman of Mystery]]

Natasha began her career as a FemmeFatale spy in the service of the Soviet Union, sent to seduce famed American industrialist Tony Stark, to which end she also manipulated the young Hawkeye. Hawkeye eventually [[HeelFaceTurn joined the side of good]], and eventually Natasha followed as well, beginning a long career as a superhero in the United States of America. She has no particularly enhanced physical abilities, relying instead on being an all-around awesome spy and martial artist.

Bring her up in comics fandom and inevitably one of the first things to be mentioned is her numerous LoveInterests (or, in most cases, the characters that she was a love interest to). Apart from the aforementioned Iron Man and Hawkeye, she has also, over the years, been romantically linked to {{Daredevil}} (even getting billed alongside him on the title for a while), [[IncredibleHercules Hercules]] (while they were on the Champions), and her current boyfriend, [[CaptainAmerica James “Bucky” Barnes, who is the current Captain America]].

*ActionGirl: In her first appearances as a villain she was mainly just a seduction agent who relied on incompetent minions to handle the violence, but over time she’s been retconned into always having been a total badass.
*AntiHeroSubstitute: Yelena Belova.

*FieryRedhead/ RedHeadedHero

*OlderThanTheyLook: Thanks to a Soviet supersoldier serum derivative, she’s around 80 years old and still looks fabulous.