The Black Widow - Natasha Romanoff

Trained, brainwashed, and biochemically altered by the Soviet government in the early 20th Century, Natalia Romanova/Natasha Romanoff’s early childhood is shrouded in secrecy and contradiction. It was during that time she became the greatest spy in the world, but it was when she learned to fight for herself that she became one of earth’s mightiest heroes. The Red Room program of the Soviet government specialized in turning young girls into deadly assassins, and Natasha rose through their ranks to become the best the program ever produced. Eventually Widow broke past her brainwashing and discovered her independence. Working as a secret agent on her own terms, Widow became one of the world’s greatest heroes fighting alongside Daredevil and leading the Champions and Avengers. Most recently she discovered that the Red Room program still survived, with the program reviving her after her apparent death during Secret Empire. Now in a newly-cloned body complete with all her previous memories, Natasha continues to atone for her past as she struggles to define what exactly that past is.

Physiology

• Biochemically engineered to heal 4-5 times faster than a normal human, age slower, hardly ever get sick, not lose hair, withstand sun and wind and miscarry if she ever gets pregnant (source) (BW04 5)
• Takes a serum in 1956 that increases her lifespan (source) (DO 1)
• Exercises regularly with a routine that could tax Captain America for 2 hours (source) (IM 269)
• Daredevil says her heartbeat never varies and that he can’t tell when she’s lying (source) (Dade 61)

Strength

• Karate chops 3 wood planks in half (source) (ASM 86)
• Karate chops larger wood planks in half (source) (AA 2)
• Breaks wood swung at her (source) (DD 91)
• Shatters a piece of metal over a goon’s head (source) (DD 117)
• Kicks a man through a thick partition (source) (MTU 98)
• Tackles through bulletproof glass Captain America was skeptical she could break (source) (CA 638)
• Bursts through ceiling tiles (source) (MCP 126)
• Cracks a wall with someone’s head (source) (BW10 6)
• Punches Punisher through a wooden wall and a fair distance away (source) (PWZ 5)
• Tackles Winter Soldier through doors and a distance away (source) (WoBW 2)

Striking - People

• Punches a man into into two others, toppling them over (source) (AA 2)
• Knocks out a guard with a strike, potentially breaking bone (source) (DD 90)
• KOs 2 men with a simultaneous kick and punch while poisoned (source) (DD 187)
• Smashes reinforced plastic and shatters ceramic armor and bones (source) (WaMa)
• Casually KOs 2 men simultaneously (source) (BW99 1)
• Snaps a man’s neck with a kick and a dog’s neck with a chop (source) (WoI)
• Snaps a man’s wrist while incapacitating him (source) (DD 207)
• Paralyzes a man for life by pressing on the right place in his spine (source) (BW04 1)

Lifting/Throwing

• Hurls a man grappling her from behind over her head (source) (AA 2)
• Catches Daredevil’s falling weight (source) (DD 91)
• Swings across San Francisco with an unconscious man on her shoulders (source) (DD 95)
• Throws a man into a stone wall, cracking it (source) (TCW)
• Breaks out of a man’s grapple and flings him into machinery, busting it (source) (DD 117)
• Uses her leg to swing a person overhead (source) (WoI)
• Carries a woman with one arm while scaling a wall (source) (MK02 1)
• Punches through a car windshield, then with one arm tosses the driver out (source) (BW19 2)

Scaling

• Knocks out Kraven even while recovering from poison (source) (DD 104)
• OHKOs Hawkeye with a sucker punch (source) (SE 1)
• Escapes Daredevil’s grapple (source) (DD 83)
• Daredevil escapes her grapple, but narrowly blacks out (source) (DD 93)
• Breaks out of Yelena Balova’s grapple (source) (BW99 2)

Misc.

• Wrestles with, kills, and moves the cadaver of a crocodile (source) (CM19)
• Pries open titanium-alloy doors (source) (AV 382)
• Pulls the head off a mechanical bee (source) (CH 14)

Durability

• Continues fighting while her strength wanes (source) (DD 92)
• Widow’s pain tolerance amazes an A.I.M. scientist who can’t believe she remains conscious (source) (SoA 7)
• Forces her arm into a guard dog’s mouth to keep it off her, and persists through the pain to fight back (source) (WoI)
• Psychochemically conditioned against delving into her past, but does so while driving all night (source) (BW04 4)
• Overcomes psychochemical conditioning that disallows her from fighting a target wearing a specific pheromone by allowing the target to beat her until her nose breaks (source) (BW04 6)

Endurance - Fighting after torture

• After a prolonged period hung up by her wrists and tortured is still in fine enough fighting shape upon freeing herself to fell a larger opponent (source) (DBA)
• Wins a knife fight after enduring torture, drugging, and cracked ribs against an ex-special forces martial arts specialist (source) (BW05 6)
• Retains consciousness through 2 surgeries digging into her organs and walks out of the hospital before recovering, incapacitating several people along the way (source) (BW10 1)
• Endures torture in a meat locker before escaping her bindings and fighting her way out (source) (BW10 5)
• Strung up by her arms and beaten by several men before killing them and escaping (source) (BW14 6)
• Tied up and waterboarded, but escapes soon after to kill scores of men (source) (BW19 4)

Endurance - Fighting through stabs/gunshots

• Keeps fighting with an arrow through her shoulder (source) (DD 190)
• Keeps running after a bullet tears through her shoulder and climbs a wall (source) (DD An 10)
• Charges through a gunshot and falls off a building, but is back up rooftop jumping a moment later (source) (DaDe 63)
• Sneaks into a 20 story building in the rain without ropes while recovering from a gunshot through the gut (source) (BW04 3)
• As a child continues to murder an adult man and his son even while suffering a stab to the gut herself (source) (BW16 7)
• Stabbed through the leg and keeps fighting (source) (AEW)

Concussive - Objects for reference

• Shakes off several hits from a power-armored Red Skull, even breaking a wall she slams into (source) (AV 386)
• Shortly after Man-Bull crushes part of a truck Widow survives a similar hit from him, fighting even while injured not long after (source) (DD 96 & 98)
• Knocked out by a man who crushes stone, but conscious a moment later (source) (DD 103)
• Blasted into a wall, cracking it behind her, but is fine immediately after (source) (MTU (04))
• Bounces back from getting hit through a wooden fence by a martial arts champion (source) (SoA 7)
• Blown back by an explosion that knocked over a car, and gets up to parkour after her suspect shortly before falling through a roof to the ground below (source) (BW14 4)
• Walks away from an explosion that flings her back into a car and breaks the windshield (source) (BW16 5)

Concussive - Scaling

• Knocked out alongside Hawkeye by Iron Man’s repulsors, but survives (source) (ASM 687)
• Survives a tail swipe from Scorpion (source) (DD 82)
• Daredevil hits her square in the gut with Captain America’s shield and she quickly recovers (source) (DD 156)
• Shrugs off a hit from Silver Samurai (source) (MTU 57)
• Fights through punches from an enhanced LMD android (source) (TCW)
• Blocks and takes punches from a Red Guardian LMD to beat him (source) (TCW)
• Bounces back from a kick to the head from Peregrine (source) (MCP 126)
• Quickly recovers from a punch to the face from Moonstone (source) (AvUn 1)
• Gets up after Black Dwarf hits her with his mace in fighting shape (source) (AV13 23)
• Takes a hit from Crossbones and keeps fighting (source) (BW14 9)

Concussive - Falling

• Shrugs off a hit from a giant to save herself from a fall (source) (DD 94)
• Falls 6 stories and hits her head, nearly drowning before Daredevil saves her (source) (DD 217)
• Catches a baby and takes the brunt of a fall off a warf without injury (source) (MCP 135)
• Falls off a building, crushing the roof of a van, and gets right back up to flee (source) (IIM 15)
• Crumpled into a car and cracked its windshield, but is fine (source) (TMG 3)
• Falls several stories, crumpling the car she lands on, then the car is hit with another car and she flies off, seemingly without injury thereafter (source) (BW14 2)
• Leaps down from a considerable height without issue (source) (BW14 3)
• Jumps between buildings without issue (source) (BW14 7)

Poison

• Survives an overdose of nerve gas (source) (AV 59)
• Struck by Kraven’s poison dart, but recovers very soon after with enough strength to KO Kraven (source) (DD 104)
• Infected with a poison similar to cancer, but remains in fighting shape through most of the infection (source) (DD 187)
• Unconcerned about a tranquilizer because of how familiar with them she is (source) (DaDe 14)
• Gained resistance to mind altering interrogation drugs that astonished her torturers (source) (BW05 5)
• Resists a tranq dart to the neck and knockout gas for several moments (source) (BW10 1)
• Refers to her tolerance to poison when gaining consciousness from one sooner than expected (source) (BW19 3)

Electrical

• Briefly stunned by an electrical blast from Iron Man, but soon recovers (source) (ToS 64)
• Quickly recovers from Typhon’s fire and lightning (source) (AV 163)
• Shrugs off an electrical blast from Dreadnought because she wasn’t grounded (source) (DD 121)
• Takes a blast from the Wizard and quickly recovers (source) (AvUn 4)

Mental

• Undergoes psychic torture from a machine, but her will remains unbroken (source) (AV 42)
• Overcomes brainwashing at Daredevil’s urging (source) (DD 112)
• Breaks out of brainwashing again when attacking her friend Ivan (source) (CH 4)
• Doesn’t fall for Fantasma’s mental illusions (source) (BW10 8)
• Fights through another Fantasma illusion (source) (WM 2)

Speed

• Leaps after two fleeing men with enough force to flip both of them over (source) (DD 201)
• Catches a woman with a head start pushing obstacles in Widow’s way, ending with a massive leap that outpaces the woman’s spring (source) (HE12 9)

Travel - Against objects

• Somehow catches up to her quarry fleeing in a speeding car with a head start while suffering an injury (source) (BW10 6)
• Covers a mile across a city skyline in minutes (source) (DD 90)
• Charges toward a shooter, covering some fraction of a bullet’s distance during its course (source) (DaDe 63)
• Swings fast enough to grab an item from a moving motorcyclist’s pocket (source) (HE03 7)

Travel - Scaling

• Outruns Hawkeye and Winter Soldier (source) (ToS 101)
• Outruns Rhino for a short distance (source) (ASM 685)
• Attacks the Owl and his men before any can attack her (source) (DD 81)

Reactions - Projectiles

• Shoots the cords from one of Hawkeye’s trick arrows mid-flight, and ducks behind cover after seeing another arrow mid-flight (source) (BW14 10)
• Steers a vehicle barely out of Iron Man’s way when he moves at “missile speeds,” then evades a repulsor blast (source) (AV 163)
• Times a shot down a tank barrel to hit its munitions before they fully fired (source) (AV 397)
• Dodges a bazooka shell in the time between the trigger being pulled and the shell firing (source) (JIM 518)
• Reacts to a tank shell flying through the air, maneuvering a car out of its way (source) (SA 16)

Reactions - Energy beams

• Weaves through lasers fired at her (source) (WM)
• Dodges energy blasts from an airship until the shockwave of one hits her (source) (WoI)
• Dodges an energy blast from a pistol (source) (WS 9)

Reactions - Falling Objects

• Shoots a grenade away midair with her widow’s line (source) (MK02 3)
• Kicks a bucket of golf balls into the air and then golfs them at enemies as they fall (source) (MK02 5)
• Tracks the shrunken Wasp falling from a plane while on the ground below and catches her (source) (TMG 2)

Reactions- Normal People

• While handcuffed to a table she spits on the man above her so he drops a syringe, picks her lock with the syringe, punches the man, grabs the man’s gun, and kills his 3 allies all before any of them can take action (source) (BW 10 7)
• Slits a man’s throat and throws the knife into another man’s neck before he can reach an alarm (source) (BW05 4)
• Fires on several trigger-happy guards before any fire their weapons (source) (AV 42)
• Swats a gun from an assassin’s hand as they draw (source) (BW10 1)
• Dodges as someone draws so they shoot the person behind her (source) (WoI)

Reactions - Gunfire - Counterattacking

• Hand-picked hitmen surround the building she is in and opens fire, and she covertly takes them out individually (source) (BW04 2)
• Pushes Storm away from automatic gunfire and kicks a pot midair into the shooter’s face (source) (TMG 4)
• Weaves through gunfire while taking out shooters (source) (BW10 7)
• Flips toward a shooter to disarm him with brutal efficiency (source) (WS 1)
• Surprises an ex-KGB agent and dodges his gunfire (source) (WS 1)
• Disarms and incapacitates several gunmen in a jungle (source) (PWZ 2)
• Evades gunfire while falling and firing at enemies (source) (SA13)

Reactions - Gunfire - Automatic

• Jumps between automatic gunfire (source) (JIM 517)
• Dodges automatic gunfire from multiple shooters (source) (JIM 518)
• Avoids automatic gunfire while falling directly into a group of shooters (source) (MK02)
• Dodges gunfire from a Gatling gun (source) (FIB)
• Flips through automatic gunfire (source) (SA 1)
• Avoids a Gatling gun while returning fire (source) (BW14 4)

Reactions - Gunfire - Snipers

• Evades or blocks a sniper round and saves the individual she is fighting from it (source) (SDW)
• Instinctively reacts to the sound of sniper fire, shielding herself before the bullet hits (source) (BW14 7)

Scaling - Projectiles

• Dodges Hawkeye’s attack while closing the distance to strike him (source) (AV 398)
• Evades Electro’s electric blasts, leading him to strike a spot where his attack backfires (source) (DD 89)
• Dodges Bullseye’s projectile, though hit by another when she charges him (source) (DD 160)
• Narrowly evades a Sentinel’s blast in order to better position herself (source) (CH 17)
• Catches Falcon’s talon grapnel (source) (CaAm 30)
• Nearly dodges Hawkeye’s arrow, though it comes close to severing her spine. Then follows up him dodging her thrown knife by kicking his face (source) (SA 31)

Scaling - Close quarters

• Strikes and evades Kraven, then evades him again (source) (DD 104)
• Evades Silver Samurai’s sword slashes even after taking a shock to her nervous system, though he does land punches on her (source) (MTU 57)
• Spars with Silver Sable and neither lands a hit on the other (source) (CASA)
• Fights evenly with Elektra while still recovering from injuries (source) (BW10 3)
• Repeatedly evades Iron Scorpion’s sword slashes and pushes him into traffic (source) (BW14 2)

Scaling - Statements

• Speed is comparable to Shanna the She-Devil’s (source) (DD 117)
• Keeps up with Spider-Man’s web-slinging effortlessly (source) (MTU 140)
• Dodges around a man moving almost faster than Tony Stark can see (source) (IrMa 6)
• Surprises Marvel Girl, Psylocke, and Viper while moving like a blur (source) (WLV)
• Says she is quicker than Punisher (source) (PWZ 2)

Statements

• Strikes with the speed of a serpent (source) (AV 41)
• Lightning fast reflexes (source) (AA 6)
• Instinctively moves with eye blurring speed (source) (MTU 82)

Skill

• Hits a small control panel from down a hall with her widow’s bite, shoots a gun from a man’s hand without injuring him, and gets a brief glance at a sniper’s position before firing an RPG along is line of fire to kill him (source) (BW14 1)
• Hits the fuel tank of a helicopter from a distance away to bring it down a short while later (source) (BW14 15)
• Fires two submachine guns simultaneously and lands all her shots center mass (source) (WWX)

Accuracy - Widow’s bite

• Hits a bullseye with her widow’s sting while swinging by it (source) (ASM 86)
• Targets the face of an armored foe (source) (DD 103)
• Fires a widow’s bite along a sniper’s trajectory and blind them through their scope (source) (SDW)

Accuracy - Handguns

• Shoots out the tire of a car chasing her despite not consciously accessing her previous training (source) (DD 90)
• Fires ambidextrously (source) (CAR 5)
• Catches handguns midleap and shoots two men before she lands (source) (TB 12)
• Discreetly fires on 2 men above water while she is below water (source) (BW14 2)

Accuracy - Throwing

• Headshots a shooter with a thrown knife caught from a man she just disarmed (source) (BW04 1)
• Hits a man in the neck with a thrown knife (source) (BW05 1)

Accuracy - Sniping

• From 3 miles away Rogue can make a sniper shot using Widow’s skills (source) (A+X 2)
• Snipes out the wire Hawkeye stands on and his bowstring from several rooftops away (source) (BW14 10)
• Snipes Bullseye’s playing card from far enough away he cannot see her, a shot he considers impressive (source) (IW)

Fights - Multiple Targets - Targets w/ unknown training

• Fights the Ani-Men and gains the upper hand (source) (DD 156 & 157)
• Takes out several goons and utilizes her environment (source) (DD 201)
• Surrounded by 5 armed men while handcuffed to a chair and defeats them while she escapes (source) (BW16 2)
• Dispatches 100 men over the course of hours (source) (TIO 10)
• Stealthily kills multiple guards as a child (source) (WO)

Fights - Multiple Targets - Targets w/training

• Dispatches several Red Room guards and officials (source) (ToS 104)
• Fights multiple Hand ninja and KOs 3, though the others delay her with poison foot spikes and escape (source) (DD 157)
• Fights multiple fiercely trained Amazonian warriors (source) (CH 1)
• Hand-picked hitmen surround the building she is in and opens fire, and she covertly takes them out individually (source) (BW04 2)

Fights - Multiple Targets - SHIELD agents

• Tears through the best SHIELD has to offer and they don’t stand a chance (source) (MTU 82)
• Downs several SHIELD agents in their training session (source) (TMA 2)
• Takes out Nick Fury and multiple SHIELD agents while escaping a Helicarrier (source) (WS 10)
• Fights her way through several SHIELD agents, at one point busting through a wall, and ultimately escapes after making a “40,000 ft. fall look like a ballet” while fending off agents in flying cars and jetpacks (source) (BW16 1)

Fights - Named Characters - Wins

• Beats El Jaguar (source) (DD 122)
• Easily outfights Madame Viper (source) (MTU 85)
• Outfights an AU version of herself that Captain America calls fast, then solos her again later (source) (CA 637 & 640)
• Chokes out Crossbones after a scuffle (source) (BW14 9)
• Trades blows with Lady Bullseye evenly, but beats her handily later (source) (SA14 3 & 6)

Fights - Named Characters - Draws

• Evenly fights Diamondback atop a flying motorcycle (source) (CA 373)
• Fights evenly with Elektra while still recovering from injuries (source) (BW10 3)

Fights - Named Characters - Losses

• Loses to Bullseye (source) (DD 160 & 161)
• Keeps the upper hand against Magik, but loses after not killing her and turning her attention away (source) (AvX)

Fights - Named Characters - Wolverine

• Trained by Wolverine as a child, and turns the tables on him while sparring (source) (WO)
• Trains with Wolverine as a child again and trades blows with him (source) (DO 1)

Fights - Named Characters - Winter Soldier

• Fights Winter Soldier, but loses and suffers a concussion (source) (CaAm 27)
• Winter Soldier realizes when Widow is brainwashed that she holds back when they spar and that she could take his head off if he’s not careful (source) (WS 9)
• Performs better against Winter Soldier later on while brainwashed (source) (WS 14)
• Incapacitates Winter Soldier and Hawkeye long enough to escape (source) (ToS 103)

Fights - Named Characters - Punisher

• Trades blows with Punisher and calls him stronger, but herself quicker (source) (PWZ 2)
• Overcomes Punisher again shortly after while assisted by other Avengers (source) (PWZ 5)
• Ends yet another fight with Punisher by stabbing him through his thighs and leaving him (source) (SE 7)

Bracelets

• Pulls up the combined weight of her and Captain America (source) (CA 638)
• Tethers a helicopter to an anchor point (source) (SDW)
• Pulls Maria Hill from a street to a rooftop Widow stands on before flying pursuers can catch them (source) (IIM 15)

Widow’s Line - Grabbing

• Fires a nylon line with a suction tip from one building to the next (source) (ToS 64)
• Snares Magneto and pulls him into the path of falling rocks (source) (AV 111)
• Pulls one lion into another (source) (AV 112)
• Answers a phone from across a room (source) (AA 1)
• Catches herself while she’s falling so she lands safely (source) (DD 94)
• Catches Yelena Bolova as she falls (source) (WoBW 3)
• Fires fast enough to catch a man thrown from a train while Widow pursues in a different train (source) (MK02 6)
• Intercepts a grenade (source) (MK02 3)

Widow’s Line - Binding

• Snares a man’s hands together (source) (DD 87)
• Binds 3 men together (source) (PWJ)
• Hog ties a man while fighting him (source) (BW16 6)
• Ties up young Red Room trainees while dodging them (source) (BE16 11)

Widow’s Line - Choking

• Uses line as a garrote (source) (ToS104)
• Fires like a lariat around a target’s neck (source) (SoA 16)
• Creates a trip wire and a garrote (source) (TMG 1)

Widow’s Line - Tripping

• Trips a giant robot (source) (AV 221)
• Snares a shooter’s leg to trip them (source) (BW99 1)

Widow’s Line - Disarming

• Disarms a man of his flamethrower (source) (AV 342)
• Disarms several men (source) (MK02 3)
• Disarms another man (source) (MK02 4)

Widow’s Line - Misc.

• Conducts electricity (source) (CH 2)
• Fires 2 lines simultaneously so her target is snagged onto an anchor point (source) (BW10 6)

Electric shock - General

• Varies in setting and has a lethal charge (source) (AV 37)
• Used as a defibrillator to restart Tony Stark’s heart (source) (IrMa 9)
• Says a full power blast is enough to stop 10 men (source) (WoI)
• Says the effects can be felt for over a month (source) (BW10 7)
• Tried to use 30,000 volts on Domino to test her (source) (DHS 1)

Electric shock - Against unnamed characters

• Knocks out an armored foe (source) (AV 375)
• Paralyzes a man (source) (AA 1)
• Stuns Olympian soldiers (source) (CH 2)
• KOs weird gummy flesh monsters (source) (MCP 125)
• Makes 2 men collapse from lancing nerve spasms (source) (WoI)
• Knocks out a mercenary (source) (SA 10)

Electric shock - Against named characters

• Briefly stuns Hawkeye (source) (AV 30)
• Continually stuns Power Man (source) (AV 30)
• Drops Black Knight (source) (AV 363)
• Stuns Maha Yogi & Mongu (source) (AV An 22)
• Knocks out Man-Bull and later stuns him (source) (DD 95 & 96)
• Stuns Titanium Man through his armor (source) (IM 316)
• KOs a high Captain America (source) (CA 373)
• KOs Moonstone (source) (AvUn 1)
• KOs Bengal (source) (MK 12)
• KOs Tony Stark (source) (BW16 6)
• Quickly KOs Hawkeye and Mockingbird (source) (PUN)

Electric shock - Disrupting tech

• Knocks out an Ultroid robot (source) (AV 36)
• Stuns the weapons from two men’s hands with one blast (source) (AV 41)
• Short circuits Red Skull’s power armor (source) (AV 386)
• Destroys a computer and KOs Owl (source) (DD 117)
• Destroys the controls to an aircraft (source) (CH 10)
• Melts a pistol and disables a mech suit (source) (PWJ)
• Disables security systems (source) (TCW)
• Slows down a rogue Nick Fury LMD (source) (MK 13)
• Disables Winter Soldier’s cybernetic arm (source) (BW16 9)

Concussive Blast - Doors/Walls

• Breaks apart the bricks of a wall (source) (AV 342)
• Increases the intensity of her blast, causing a titanium-reinforced door to bend, buckle, and explode (source) (AV 382)
• Collapses a section of ceiling atop her target (source) (AV 386)
• Busts open a steel door, though Widow seems surprised (source) (DD 262)
• Closes a bank vault’s door (source) (JIM 517)
• Blasts a hole in the top of a water tower (source) (WoI)
• Blasts a door apart, scattering the men on the other side (source) (WoBW 1)

Concussive Blast - Metal objects

• Blasts apart octobots (source) (ASM 684)
• Destroys a rifle (source) (DD 95)
• Destroys steam pipes and a catwalk (source) (TIO 10)
• Breaks a chain link binding Captain America (source) (CA 430)
• Breaks apart handcuffs binding Daredevil (source) (DaDe 81)
• Blasts through the chest of a cyborg (source) (DO 4)
• Busts apart a tank (source) (IrMa 10)
• Creates an explosion underneath a semi that tosses it into the air and separates its cab from its cargo hold (source) (HfH1)

Concussive Blast - Misc

• Strikes the ground near two men, tossing them away, and then deflects thrown grenades (source) (AA 8)
• Blows a hole through a man’s head (source) (WoI)
• Says a man would be lucky if only his ribs broke from a blast (source) (WoI)
• Tears through Silkworm’s bindings (source) (WM 3)

Darts - Poisoned

• Knocks out Dr. Nemesis and makes him delirious on recovery (source) (UXM (2012) 13)
• KOs Deathlok and injects a muscle relaxer into Hawkeye (source) (HE03 8)
• Knocks out two men simultaneously while blindfolded (source) (BW19 1)
• Fires a dart of black widow toxin (source) (TB 135)

Darts - Against objects

• Tears through robots (source) (TMG 2)
• Brings down biplanes (source) (TMG 2)
• Pierces a windshield and body armor to incapacitate a man at medium range (source) (SA 16)
• Pierces a lever with enough force to activate it (source) (BE16 9)
• Pierces a clock (source) (BW16 12)

Darts - Against people

• Takes down A.I.M. agents (source) (SA13 3)
• Headshots a man before he can shoot her (source) (BW19 2)
• Pierces a man’s skull to kill him (source) (BW19 5)

Gas

• Blinds and chokes a small crowd of guards outdoors with a sudden burst (source) (WoI)
• Releases a knockout gas called a “Widow’s Kiss” (source) (BW10 7)

Equipment

• Climbs up a sheer surface (source) (ToS 64)
• Suction cups on boots allow her to climb any surface (source) (ToS 64)
• Moves silently along a wall (source) (AV 36)
• Wore psionic armor that shields from psychic attacks (source) (AV 363)
• There is a flashlight installed in the glove (source) (AV 382)
• Also uses anti-grav shoes (source) (AA 1)
• Keeps her suction cups in subsequent costumes (source) (AV An 22)
• Insulated to keep her warm (source) (MTU 82)
• Gloves are armored, allowing her to grab swung blades (source) (BW10 1)
• Keeps glass cutter claws in her gloves (source) (FIB)

Firearms

• Handguns pierce Venom’s face at point blank range, but only annoy Ares (source) (CAR 2)
• Handguns hold copious ammo (source) (TB 125)
• Uses .22s with silencers that barely make a whisper (source) (FIB)
• While with the Secret Avengers uses a gun that fires body-armor piercing flechettes coated in a toxin (source) (SA 16)
• Damages and pushes back Sentinels (source) (A+X 2)
• Reloads one-handed (source) (BW14 4)

Explosives

• A minor charge from her belt destroys a giant war machine with bulletproof windows (source) (CA 638)
• Slingshots explosive discs into floodlights from across an estate and a timed on destroys vehicles (source) (WoI)
• Shoots a man in the kneecaps before tossing a grenade into his car that blows it up (source) (BW04 6)
• Blows up several monsters’ heads (source) (TMA 1)
• Blinds a man in a mech suit with a plastic explosive she triggers with her gauntlet, disabling the suit (source) (DO 2)
• Blasts a hole in a train floor (source) (BW10 8)
• Blows up a Sentinel (source) (A+X 2)
• Uses a flashbang, and then a concussive grenade that destroys a bulletproof door while flinging back 4 men on the other side (source) (BW14 14)
• When her entire belt explodes it breaks apart a large radius of ice (source) (BW14 17)
• Creates a large explosion she escapes in the chaos of (source) (BW16 1)
• Another explosive destroys a SHIELD car (source) (BW16 1)