Summary
Warning: Contains spoilers forBlack Widow: Venemous #1!!
Natasha Romanova endured harsh, life-altering training during her time in the Red Room; those grueling years carved her into theBlack Widow, a deadly assassin who eventually found a new path to walk as an Avenger, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and more. Now, as Nat finds herselfdealing with a young Symbiotein need of training,she realizes that her most important lessons came from friends and allies, not the Red Room.
InBlack Widow: Venemous#1, Natasha hits a rough patch with her newly bonded Symbiote after the creature abandons her during a mission to infiltrate Alchemax. Black Widow realizes that the Symbiote needs training to overcome its fear and be “an asset.”
She reaches for her own Red Room memories and begins toput the ‘Sliver’ Symbiotethrough some of the difficult drills and treatment she endured, before realizing she doesn’t have to be that person. Instead, she develops a whole new training protocol based on what some of her greatest allies and friends taught her.
Black Widow’s New Symbiote Design Is Creeping Me Out So Hard (Arachnophobes Beware)
Natasha Romanoff’s creepy new symbiote look leans into her venomous spider theme more than ever, solidifying her place as Marvel’s deadliest hero.
Black Widow Takes Inspiration From Her Greatest Allies To Train Her New Symbiote
Black Widow: Venemous#1 – Written By Erica Schultz; Art By Luciano Vecchio, David Curiel, & Ariana Maher
Black Widow was born in the Red Room, but Natasha Romanova developed her own identity alongside allies like Bucky Barnes, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury, Jessica Drew, and Clint Barton.
The Red Room taught Natasha all the skills she needed to become an assassin, but that knowledge came at a great cost. As she says, the Black Widow program “broke more than it graduated” and even those who managed to survive did not do so without scars. Yet, when met with a fully untrained Symbiote who can’t make it through a fight, her first instinct is to reach for that protocol to get Sliver up to par. She knows the type of fighter it can create, but seeing her pain mirrored in the Symbiote is enough to cut through that conditioning.
Black Widow was born in the Red Room, butNatasha Romanova developed her own identityalongside allies like Bucky Barnes, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury, Jessica Drew, and Clint Barton. It’s those lessons she reaches for to help her Symbiote.Each “memory” version of her friends highlight what Natasha views as the most important– and the core of who they are. From Spider-Woman’s advice on flexibility in battle, to Nick Fury’s rightful paranoia, and Clint’s confidence,the Symbiote still receives all the trainingit will need, all from the people who helped Nat find herself, too.
Natasha offers her Symbiote a glimpse into the most important people in her life and the greatest things they taught her, but it ends up being a lesson for both of them.
Natasha Refuses To Pass On The Trauma Of The Red Room
Black Widow Leaves Cruelty In The Past
Natasha offers her Symbiote a glimpse into the most important people in her life and the greatest things they taught her, but it ends up being a lesson for both of them. It’s one of the assassin’s biggest opportunities to see that she is, essentially, greater than the sum of her parts. She’s fortunate enough to have people to trust and learn from and who let her be more than simply a weapon. The Red Room createdBlack Widowthrough cruelty and manipulation, butshe’s scrapping its lessons for a path built with trust instead.
Black Widow
First introduced as an antagonist to Iron Man, the Russian assassin Natasha Romanoff eventually defected to the US and joined Marvel’s roster of heroes. Working as a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers, Black Widow has appeared in countless comics and several films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (played by Scarlett Johansson).
