Noelle - Day 286 (Black Widow Appreciation Post)

Helloooooo everybody!
How are you on this fantabulous Monday?  Surviving?  I hope so.

So a few days ago, I did a weird post that focused specifically on the new Avenger - Scarlet Witch.  (That was post day #284)  Anyway, I promised that I'd do a Black Widow post as well, so...here it is! Call it Captain America Civil War prep, because I AM NOT READY FOR THAT MOVIE.  TOO MANY FEELS.  NOPE NOPE NOPE.

Anyway.  Focusing now.

Name:  Natalia "Natasha" Romnova "Romanoff"
Code name:  Black Widow
Height:  5 ft 7in
Weight: 125 lbs

Friends (comics):  Hawkeye, Daredevil, Captain America, Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier
Foes:  Red Guardian (a Russian dude that's apparently her former husband), Yelena Belova (a Russian agent who pretended to be her or something like that)

I've seen A LOT of people call Black Widow useless or "the weak link" simply because she's a girl with no powers.  Ahem.  I'll talk about the "no powers" part later, but seriously?  WEAK LINK?!  Nat could probably beat up everybody on the team, and/or super spy them into doing whatever she wants.

Weak link indeed.

I don't really ship Clintasha, especially after Age of Ultron, but I still think that they work well together.  They are the "powerless" of the team (seriously, going to really talk about that later) and have respect for each other

I really love Black Widow as a character - she's snippy, sarcastic, and inventive, plus she puts up with six guys constantly.  She's a SHIELD agent, which means she probably liaisons for the Avengers, plus she keeps herself in peak fighting condition.  Hard work, y'all.

I imagine that she probably steals stuff from the guys all the time

I also imagine that her and Jess hang out a lot, considering that Tasha is her trainer.  They do each other nails and swap spy stories (Well there was that time that I killed a dude with a paper clip...  Jess:  Nat, that's just scary)

I get the feeling that Nat would be a HUGE prankster, but also a really good one, so that everybody blames everybody else because it was OBVIOUSLY them.  Am I the only one that gets this feeling?

Alright, enough with the fun stuff.  Ranting Noelle time.  People are constantly saying that Natasha is the weakling of the team, easily breakable and just there to be cute.  They couldn't be more wrong - she does act like that sometimes, but it's a cover.  She was a Russian assassin.  And she does have powers (I'm not making it up, this is cannon)

She was alive in WWII.  She was genetically and bio-technology enhanced with a similar super-serum like Steve Rogers.  She was trained in the infamous Red Room, along with 26 other girls.  She is classified by SHIELD as a super human.  Because of her training and serum, she has the natural agility of an Olympic medalist, exceptional human strength, endurance, and stamina, heals at an above human rate, and is incredibly intelligent.  She can hack into computer systems with ease.  She is Cap's first choice as a second in command for the Avengers.

Black Widow is incredibly cool, y'all.  Just saying.  Plus, she has awesome fan art.

I wish I could paint like that....

We're soarin', flyin'....

See what I mean?  Really awesome fan art. Also, her bracelets supposedly contain laser stingers and climbing ropes

For all you Messy Marvel/RMS fans, Black Widow is Jess's trainer (with the help of Hawkeye) and has known her since age 10.  Spoilers by the way, but when Jess was younger and working with Loki (it's talked about more in book 2) she was the first to figure out that something was wrong.  She taught Jess how to fight, and only four to six years later, her protégé was able to a) hold her own against an enhanced speedster b) take down four well-trained super heroes and c) hold her own against a Kun Lung master.

That's just...really awesome to me.

Because of Widow's mysterious back story, that's some pretty cool edits about her:

I was thinking and everybody's been giving Nat a hard time for having no powers...but Iron Man doesn't have powers either.  Just saying.

My theory on why Ultron kept her alive when she was captured:  Because he thought that she could be manipulated.  She has been before - her original trainers brain washed her when she defected to SHIELD.  Ultron was wrong by a long shot.

All in all, I just think that Black Widow deserves a little more attention.  Of course, she's probably going to get it after the Civil War movie.  Am I the only one that thought she looked uncertain about her team in the previews?  After all, she did help Steve and Falcon in the last Captain America movie.    And Clint and her are obviously very good friends.  As far as I know, she has no connections to Scarlet Witch (did she even talk to her in Age of Ultron) and then there's Bucky, which is the whole reason they're fighting.

My point is, she seems uncertain of her team to me.  What do you think?

Anyway, that's all of my Marvel fan girling craziness for the day.  I hope you enjoyed this post and comment if you want me to post about any other Avengers, because I do not have any planned, but I will happily do any that you ask for.  Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a great day!

Byyyyyyeee!!!!