Natasha Romanoff - the Black Widow
“When I first joined S.H.I.E.L.D. I thought I was going straight. But I guess I just traded in the KGB for HYDRA. I thought I knew whose lies I was telling, but I guess I can’t tell the difference anymore.” Natasha was indoctrinated into spycraft from a young age through the Soviet’s Red Room, where she excelled to become a master spy and assassin. Outside of this, little is known of Natasha’s life before she met Clint Barton in the field and joined S.H.I.E.L.D., hoping to make up for her acts in the past. After joining them, though, she became one of their most effective agents, being sent on missions from protecting nuclear scientists to keeping a close eye on Tony Stark as an assistant. This, in turn, led to her becoming a founding member of the Avengers as they protected New York from a Chitauri invasion. Following the Snap, Natasha continued to run the Avengers, coordinating peacekeeping efforts on both a global and intergalactic nature as they tried to recover from its effects, ultimately giving her life for the chance to stop Thanos.
Strength - Striking
- Takes out a security guard with a flip kick (source) (II)
- Quickly knocks out armored men (source) (CW)
- Knocks out two men with one kick (source) (CA:H)
- Sends a man flying back with a kick, breaking through a window and its frame (source) (BWS)
- Kicks open a door (source) (II)
Strength - Other
- Cuts a chain with a knife (source) (Av)
- Throws an electrified baton, getting it stuck in the neck of an Ultron drone (source) (AoU)
- Blocks Proxima’s blade right before she stabs her throat (source) (IW)
Durability - Blunt Force
- Takes hits from Hawkeye (source) (Av)
- Is briefly buried by bricks falling after Abomination smashes through a wall (source) (FBW)
- Gets slapped to the side by Hulk (source) (Av)
- Is telekinetically thrown into a metal object (source) (CW)
- Gets thrown into a car by the Winter Soldier (source) (WS)
- Gets kicked back by Proxima (source)
Durability - Other
- Jumps down an elevator shaft, though it’s not seen how she lands or slows her fall (source) (AoS)
- Is up and running right after getting her leg unstuck from a heavy piece of debris (source) (Av)
- Unaffected by a hard landing in a jet (source) (Av)
- Gets thrown off of Hulk, tumbling along the ground but landing on her feet (source) (AoU)
- Visibly unharmed when jumping out of a crashing train which had been creating several large explosions (source) (BWS)
- Thrown to the side by one of Hawkeye’s exploding arrows (source) (End)
- Using the body of an armored man to seemingly take the brunt of hitting the door for her, gets blasted out of an armored van by a grenade (source) (CW)
- Briefly knocks herself out by activating one of her own electric disks in her hand (source) (WS)
Speed
- Appears to jump off of a bridge before the car she runs behind gets blown up by a grenade launcher before twisting in the air and firing a grappling hook at the bridge’s underside (source) (WS)
- Avoids a close range gun blast while fighting other people (source) (BWS)
- Avoids bolts from Ultron drones (source) (AoU)
- Deflects a wrist crossbow bolt from Hawkeye (source) (AI)
- Flips away from a drone’s gun barrel when it’s right by her forehead, before getting away from it as it shoots wildly in every direction (source) (BWS)
- Avoids a mass of gunshots from two men wielding submachine guns as she runs up to them (source) (BWS)
- After a mook is shot and drops a vial, shoots another mook and dives for the vial before it hits the ground (source) (CW)
Skill - Combat
- Spars with Captain America (source) (RtW)
- Quickly takes down Happy and puts him in a hold (source) (II)
- Takes out a man by wrapping her legs around his neck and throwing him around (source) (II)
- Flips around two people to fight them (source) (CW)
- Takes out two people by flipping around their necks simultaneously (source) (AoU)
- Fights off three men while bound to a chair before breaking free (source) (Av)
- Flipping onto a man to smash the chair (source) (Av)
- Disarms a man of his gun right after he appeared (source) (WS)
- Quickly disarms Proxima Midnight of her weapon (source) (IW)
- Fights on an equal level to Hawkeye (source) (Av)
- Fights on an equal level to Hawkeye (source) (Av)
- Purposefully wipes out on a bike to take out a guard (source) (CW)
Skill - Spy Skills
- Creates a fake fire with a smoke bomb to distract two guards, stealing the wallet from one as he runs past to use his keycard to get into the room they were guarding (source) (BWS)
- Breaks into a Hammer Tech factory (source) (II)
- Potentially with the assistance of Captain America and Falcon, showed no worry about being able to get the EXO-7 Falcon (which was guarded behind three guarded gates and a 12 inch steel wall at Fort Meade), and successfully did so off-screen (source) (WS)
- Sneaks up on Loki (source) (Av)
- Evades several HYDRA agents looking for her and Captain America, going right past them twice (source) (WS)
Skill - Computing / Hacking
- Uses Whiplash’s computer that had been controlling War Machine’s suit to reboot it, giving him back control (source) (II)
- On finding a memory stick is protected than an AI beyond her paygrade and with limited amount of time before HYDRA agents find them, uses a tracer to locate where it was created to try and find the files at the source (source) (WS)
Skill - Other
- Repeatedly shoots the center of a target (source) (WS)
- Flips around laser tripwires (source) (BWS)
- Misdirects the Winter Soldier by leaving a recording of herself playing in a potential hiding spot (source) (WS)
- Deactivates the explosive device on her chest by shocking herself with her electric disk, giving Fury room to shoot the person who would’ve otherwise activated it (source) (WS)
- Slides a bike underneath a truck (source) (AoU)
- Keeps it balanced as it rapidly stops with its rear wheel raising up (source) (AoU)
Equipment - Offensive
- Wields a knife (source) (Av)
- Uses some form of wrist spike (source) (BWS)
- Wields pistols (source) (Av)
- Shoots down Ultron drones with pistols (source) (AoU)
- Uses armor piercing rounds with pistols (source) (FBW)
- Wields a shotgun (source) (BWS)
- Uses electrified gloves which quickly take out a pirate (source) (Av)
- Uses electrified batons which she uses to take out an Ultron drone (source) (AoU)
- Throws a baton at another drone, getting it stuck in it and electrocuting it (source) (AoU)
- Another version of these are seen in Infinity War, capable of being put together into a staff and taken apart again. These can hold against Proxima Midnight’s strikes (source) (IW)
- These can hold against Proxima Midnight’s strikes (source) (IW)
- Uses extending cords from her gloves which can seemingly be detached (source) (II)
- Uses extending cords from her gloves which can seemingly be detached (source) (II)
- This cord can instead take the form of a garrote wire (source) (WS)
- Can also come from her belt, using it like this to take out a pirate while giving her a controlled descent down a ship (source) (WS)
- Uses small disks which release electricity, two of which were thrown to the ground to stun a guard into unconsciousness (source) (II)
- Natasha later gained bracers which fire small, dart-like versions of these disks (source) (CW)
- One incapacitates an agent by being thrown directly on their torso (source) (WS)
- Briefly stuns Black Panther (source) (CW)
- The bracers can be used in melee (source) (CW)
- The bracers have been used to deflect a small crossbow bolt that, after deflection, embeds itself into metal (source) (AI)
- Uses grenades (source) (AoU)
- Uses a time bomb (source) (AoU)
- Uses small disks which act as flashbangs (source) (II)
- Uses several timed explosives (source) (FBW)
Equipment - Spy Tech
- Uses a mini-cam, which is held within a wig, and a choker with a series of electrodes that allow her to speak with the people viewing through it without actually talking (source) (BWS)
- Uses a keypad scanner which picks out the fingerprints on it and determines the required combination (source) (WS)
- Uses one device which uses vibrations shake a pane of glass out of a window (source) (BWS)
- Uses a skin suit, including face mask, which disguises her as another person and alters her voice to sound like them until deactivated/removed (source) (WS)
- Uses an EMP disk which attaches to the Winter Soldier’s arm and deactivates it until removed (source) (WS)
- Uses miniaturized smoke grenades that create a large amount of smoke, used to fake a fire in a vent (source) (BWS)
- Uses a hard drive with her insignia (source) (FBW)
- Uses a phone which alerted her to a missile strike on her location and told her that SHIELD fired it (source) (WS)
- Downloads the contents of a hard drive to a phone of hers, and can upload a tracking device to it so she can locate it after being taken (source) (BWS)
Equipment - Mobility
- Uses an arm-mounted grappling hook which latches onto the underside of a bridge (source) (WS)
- Latches onto a cliff wall, catching herself and Clint as they plummet off it (source) (End)
- Uses a grappling gun which covers a massive distance between two buildings, embedding itself into the outside of one (source) (BWS)
- After having it left for her, uses a retractable propelled glider. While she’s falling, it takes a bullet without being damaged (source) (BWS)
- Once took a railbike from S.H.I.E.L.D., which allows her to travel at high speed along a single train rail (source) (BWS)
Equipment - Other
- Uses a pill which quickly makes a woman sick (source) (AoS)
- Used the Quantum Suit, which uses Pym Particles to shrink the wearer so small they enter the Quantum Realm, allowing them to travel through time, even without the platform originally used to send them to different times (source) (End)
- Used the Quantum Suit, which uses Pym Particles to shrink the wearer so small they enter the Quantum Realm, allowing them to travel through time, even without the platform originally used to send them to different times (source) (End)
- Appears over the wearer’s clothes when activated (source) (End)