Lorelei

Lorelei is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe.
She is based on the being of the same name from Germanic mythology.

Powers and abilities

Just as all Asgardians, she is extremely long-lived, aging at an extremely slow rate upon reaching adulthood.
Asgardian flesh and bone is about three times denser than human tissue, which gives her superhuman strength, durability and endurance.
And she is also immune to all Earth diseases, and resistant to conventional injury.
Lorelei also have the potential for having mystical powers like her sister, but she has chosen not to develop it.
In battle against Seth and his minions, she was introduced as firing mystical force bolts, a lot like her sister's.
After being resurrected by Seth, her magical powers were greatly enhanced, even beyond her sister, and she retained these heightened abilities in later years, which shown as equal to that of Pluto.
Lorelei's great beauty and seductive manner enable her to persuade any male god or mortal to do whatever she wants.
She also has some knowledge of sorcery, mostly pertaining to love charms and potions.
Her petrifying kiss could transform victims into a granite statue.

Loki Triumphant

Lorelei helps Loki to achieve the  Asgard.
After Loki defeats Thor and becomes the new master of Asgard, Lorelei returns to the castle and wants payment for helping him achieve his newfound status.
She is accompanied by many shadowy figures demanding their due for their part in making Loki master, but Loki grows bored listening to their demands and leaves.

In Asgard, Loki is bored, when he hears a noise coming from outside, he looks and sees warriors engaged in a forbidden Troll hunt.
The Troll is hiding until it sees Lorelei, a beautiful woman, who offers to help him.
When she gets close, she grabs it and hoists it up, winning the hunt with her feminine wiles and impressing the men.
Loki invites her back to his castle and despite Helgi's warnings, Lorelei accompanies Loki to his residence.
She agrees to help Loki trick Sif into leaving, so Loki turns into Thor and the two kiss.
When Sif finds them, she is furious and strikes them both to the ground before storming out.
Lorelei wonders if she has made a mistake and Loki tells her that she will succeed where her older sister, Amora the Enchantress, has always failed.

For the Love of Thor

Lorelei asks Loki to help her win Thor's love.
Loki agrees to take her to Manhattan to Thor if she agrees to perform a task for him in return.
As Loki command, Lorelei travels to a dangerous district in New York City to hypnotize the dragon Fafnir into attacking Thor.
Fafnir is not  hypnotized by Lorelei, and places her in a trap near the workplace of Thor's alter-ego, Sigurd Jarlson.
Thor(Jarlson)  finds and rescues the unconscious Lorelei, and fights Fafnir until the dragon flees.
He calls for an ambulance and before she is taken away, Lorelei makes it very clear that she is attracted to him and wants to thank him properly when she gets out.
Lorelei uses the name 'Melodi' and visits Jarlson at his place, wanting to thank him for saving her life.
She offers him some of her golden mead, which is really a love potion she concocted so the first person Jarlson sees he will fall in love with. .
Melodi and Jarlson go on several dates but none of them end in Jarlson drinking her mead.
Malekith the Accursed, ruler of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim kidnaps her and leaves a duplicate Melodi to take her place.
When Thor visits "Melodi", he drinks the mead, falling madly in love with her.
Malekith tells him that the true Melodi was being held captive, and  in order to save her Thor have to bring him the Casket of Ancient Winters.
Thor along with Willis, defeating Malekith and rescuing Lorelei, kissing her passionately afterwards.
Willis questions how it is that Melodi recognized Jarlson as Thor.
Lorelei makes up an excuse then kisses Willis in private, to cast a spell on him that would stop him from questioning.
She gives Thor more of the mead to drink to finally fall in love with the real her without realizing that Willis had replaced it with an alternate drink.
While battle wages between Midgard and Asgard against Surtur and the Sons of Muspel, Enchantress (aka Amora)  asks that they put aside their years of rivalry and enmity to help Asgard.
Lorelei refuses, thinking that Amora is trying to lead her into a trap.
Amora vows revenge before disappearing.
After the battle, Loki brings Lorelei back to Asgard to help comfort Thor in hopes that it will help Loki to become Asgard's new ruler.
He has her take the elixir of Lofn, which when Thor inhales it, it will make him fall so deeply in love with her that he does whatever she says.
Lorelei was tiring of Thor, but she only agreed to Loki's scheme to help Thor become monarch himself so she will be the queen.
Amora appears and casts a spell on Odin's scepter, when Loki did pick it up, when Lorelei next saw Loki, she fell madly in love with him.
She believes that loving the heartless Loki would eventually destroy Lorelei emotionally.
Heimdall decides to save Thor from Lorelei's control, he asks Amora to urge Thor to visit Loki when she knows that Loki and Lorelei are in bed together.
Seeing them together sends him into a rage, temporarily overcoming the spell.
Thor hurls Mjolnir into the sky, and grabs Loki by the throat.
Loki releases Thor from his spell and Thor pushes Lorelei aside, leaving her to fawn over Loki.
Loki grows tired of Lorelei, so he yells at her and tells her to fetch him a drink.
Malekith stopped Lorelei and offers her a "love potion" to Loki so that he will love her in return.
But the potion knocks both Loki and Lorelei unconscious.

Blink

Blink also known as Clarice Ferguson.
Clarice Ferguson was a timid, scared child who lived in the fear of her mutant abilities ever since her power first manifested, which caused the hurt of someone close to her.
She decided to never use her powers again since.
However, when the Phalanx attacked Earth, they captured many "neomutants" (later known as the team "Generation X"), including Clarice to experiment on them in order to figure out how they could absorb mutants into their collective existence.
These neomutants were freed from their prison with the help of a rescue team made up of Banshee, Synch, Jubilee, Emma Frost, and Sabretooth.
When thay attacked by a Phalanx intelligence known as Harvest, Clarice decide to defeat him by herself.
Only Clarice and Banshee could stop Harvest, she telepoted away half of the imprisoned ship.
With her space-altering powers, she "distorted" the villain, but the portal swallowed herself as well, killing them both.
Because of her sacrifice, the remaining captives were set free and became the X-Men junior team Generation X.
Recently, Blink was rescued and recruited by Selene, to form the Inner Circle.
An alternate version of Blink was born into the nightmarish reality known as the Age of Apocalypse and became a founding member of the Exiles.


Dark Reign
When Hercules travels to the Underworld, Blink is among the dead characters seen in Erebus gambling for their resurrection.
Unlike the others, Blink just stands there watching them gamble.

Necrosha
Before the Necrosha event, Selene begins to gather her new Inner Circle made up of mutants with death-related powers.
She took a ship to the spot where Blink had fought Harvest and reaching her hand into the air, her hand soon disappeared and Blink was then pulled out of nowhere, still wearing the same clothes that the Phalanx had wrapped her in.
Blink had actually been stranded in another realm after the fight, where she remained in a not-quite-dead state suffering in agony.
After healing her, Selene tells Blink that she's been looking for her for a while and could hear her crying out for help.
Selene also tells her that Emma Frost could hear her as well but she did nothing and left her behind saying she was too dangerous to save.
Selene convinces her to join her by claiming to be able to put an end to her cycle of pain and betrayal.
Selene and Blink go to New Orleans where she kills a man, using her powers to split him into numerous fragments and takes his mansion as a new base, then at her birthplace, then to Rome and New York where they slaughter the New York branch of the Hellfire Club.
She teleports Selene's forces to Utopia where they attack the X-Men before teleporting back to their Queen.
When Selene let her Inner Circle to retrieve the mystical knife to complete her ritual, Blink teleports them onto Utopia.
During the fight, Blink uses her powers to obliterate Archangel's wings.
Then she teleports to Genosha with a captured Warpath after finding the knife.
During the final fight, Blink evades Domino's shots, using her teleporting abilities to out-maneuver her.
But she fails to notice the Vanisher, who plucks Blink back out of her teleports.
He then holds her while Archangel slashes her with his wings, taking revenge for her earlier assault.
During Selene's downfall, Blink flees, taking the heavily wounded Mortis with her.

To Serve and Protect
After the Necrosha event; Emma Frost and a small team of X-Men consisting  of Blindfold, Pixie, Husk, Warpath and former Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange track down Blink in Eastern Europe when she's attempting to resurrect Selene.
After a battle, Blindfold predicts that Blink is going to commit suicide but is stopped by Emma who manages to help her realize Selene's lie.
Doctor Strange steps in and casts a spell which successfully purges her of Selene's  influence.
Blink breaks down because of the remorse feeling and guilt for killing for Selene,  and Emma tries to reassure her it wasn't her fault and offers her a place with the X-Men.
Overwhelmed with emotion, Blink teleports off claiming she can't take this and she is last seen looking out into the sunrise in San Francisco.

Regenesis
During the Schism event Cyclops command Moonstar and the New Mutants to search for Blink and bring her home.
Blink had been seen saving people from many disasters.
The team discover that Blink is after a band who were controlled by part of an extraterrestrial ship that aims to generate chaos energy to call for help.
The team stop the band and throw the ship to space.
Dani Moonstar later tells Cyclops she had offered Blink a choice, to come and join the mutants in Utopia or the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
Blink chooses Wolverine's side and goes to Westchester.
However, she was not seen there until recently.
She joins the New Mutants on a mission related to their first encounter and instead of following her own desire to travel across the world with her powers and the New Mutants team even joined her on vacation to Madripoor after their battle with Birdbrain.

Ancestry
In the Apocalypse Vs Dracula mini series written by Frank Tieri, it is revealed that in London, 1897 Apocalypse's genetic descendants called the Clan Akkaba had a member called Frederick Slade. Slade was characterized with pink hair and eyes that were tinted green, and he had the ability to teleport himself, others, and selected objects with a 'blink' effect. In the hope that the Clan Akkaba would still continue, Apocalypse's servant Ozymandias, made sure that Frederick would sire a child with a woman known as Miss Ferguson. Given the similarity in powers and allusions made within the mini series, it is assumed that Clarice Ferguson/Blink is a descendant of the 19th Century Frederick Slade and Miss Ferguson and therefore a descendant of Apocalypse.
Slade showed up still alive, but elderly in an issue of New Excalibur and leading a new Clan Akkaba along with Ozymandias.

Powers and abilities
Blink has the ability to teleport herself and others at will even large masses, including sizable groups of people.
She can also use her powers by teleporting only parts of objects to destroy it.
She can also open portals that replace projectiles or even in front enemies.
Blink's portals are typically pink and accompanied with a "Blink" sound.
Blink also has lilac skin, dark pink hair, pointed ears and pupil-less green eyes.
This was a change in Exiles: both Ultimate Marvel and Age of Apocalypse Blink has white eyes with a blue sheen.
She has pink marks across her face which are not decorations or tattoos, they were present from birth.

Loki

Powers：
Loki possesses physical abilities far superior to humans, an increased lifespan, superhuman strength (able to lift up to 50 tons), immune to terrestrial diseases, and resistant to conventional injury.
He is the most powerful sorcerer in all of Asgard.
He has many magical abilities included shape-shifting (able to gain the basic natural abilities inherent in each form), astral projection, molecular rearrangement, eldritch energy blasts, illusion casting, flight (via levitation), telepathy, hypnosis, and teleportation.
He is immune to most physical injury, and he can reattach severed body parts, including his own head.
He can mystically imbue objects or beings with specific and temporary powers, and enhance the powers of superhumans.
Loki can also magically create rifts between dimensions, allowing him or other objects traveling from one universe to another, mostly between Asgard and Earth.


Many years ago, when the ruler of Asgard, Bor was battling frost giants, he followed a wounded giant to a powerful sorcerer which was waiting for him. He was caught and turned into snow.
Odin, Bor's son found his father but he made no attempt to save his father.
Bor cursed Odin saying that he would take in the son of a fallen king and raise it as his own.
Not a week later, Odin led the Asgardians into battle against the Frost Giants and killed Laufey, who was the King.
Then Odin found a small Asgardian-sized child hidden within the primary stronghold of the Frost Giants.
The child was Loki and Laufey had kept him hidden from his people due to his shame over his son's small size.
Odin took the boy, out of a combination of pity, to appease his father, a worthy adversary slain in honorable combat, so he decided to raise him as his son alongside his biological son Thor.
Throughout their childhood and into adolescence, Loki was resentful for the different ways the citizens of Asgard treated him and Thor.
The Asgardians valued great strength, tenacity, and bravery, while Loki was clearly not as good as his foster brother Thor in those areas.
However, he made up for it in power and skill, particularly as a sorcerer.
As Loki grew to adulthood, his natural talent for causing mischief earned him a nickname as the "God of Lies and Mischief";eventually became malice as his hunger for power and revenge grew stronger.
He tried to use tricks to get rid of Thor several times, like telling him to guard a hole in the wall he had made.
Over the centuries, Loki also attempted on many occasions to seize rulership of Asgard and to destroy Thor. Odin, magically imprisoned him within a tree until someone would shed a tear for him.
But Loki eventually freed himself by causing a leaf to strike Heimdall, the guardian of Bifrost, in the eye, which made him shed a tear.
Loki compiled an extensive criminal record in Asgard, and was frequently exiled.
When met the Sorcerer Eldred, who taught him black magic but later he repaid him by later giving him to the Fire demon Surtur.

Battles with Earth's heroes
Loki's schemes eventually came to Earth itself, and he often fought with Earth's superhuman heroes to take their planet.
He first battled Thor on Earth in modern times after escaping from the tree, then he manipulated the Hulk into wreaking havoc to lure Thor to Earth, which inadvertently led to the formation of the Avengers as several other heroes came to meet the Hulk.
Thor was one of the founding members of this superhuman team, and often led them in battle against Loki.
Several times Loki, while not directly battling Thor himself, caused threats for Thor to battle, like increasing the mental powers of a carnival fortune teller Sandu, making him powerful enough to lift buildings with his mind, and releasing a Lava man called Molto by accident when he caused a long-dead volcano to explode.
When Loki convinced Odin to punish Thor, he took away half of Thor's power.
Loki even released Mr. Hyde and Cobra by paying their bail, then doubled their powers.
He told them to kidnap Jane Foster, which he knew would attract Thor's attention, but they were again defeated.
Loki finally went after Jane Foster himself, sending her to another dimension.
However Doctor Strange was able to protect her, and Thor forced Loki to return her.
Loki went so far as to attempt to turn Odin against Thor and to steal Thor's enchanted hammer but all his efforts failed.
When he convinced Odin to go to Earth and leave him in charge of Asgard with part of the Odinforce, he released Skagg, the largest Storm Giant, and Surtur, the huge Fire Demon to destroy Odin.
However Thor and Balder helped defeat the monsters.
The Absorbing Man was brought back to Earth by Loki, and battled Thor, but Loki quickly took him to Asgard when Thor was on the verge of defeating him.  Then the Absorbing Man defeated the Asgardians without too much trouble and absorbed Odin's attacks.
However Loki and his ally were exiled into space due to a trick by Odin.
He sent his astral form back to Earth and took over the Destroyer armor, attempting to take over Asgard, but Odin sent Balder to discover the location of Loki, then used his powers to send Loki out of the Destroyer armor.

Taking over Asgard
Loki was stripped of his powers and exiled to Earth by Odin after his return from his exile in space
Loki decided to gain new powers from Karnilla; however, this accidentally created the Wrecker, who gained Asgardian powers when he put on his helmet just before Karnilla response to Loki's ritual.
As Thor had been stripped of all his powers by Odin, he almost killed him by collapsing a building on him.
He also fomented a battle between Thor and the Destroyer animated by Sif.
Loki then took command of Asgard during the Odinsleep,, but he fled when Asgard was invaded by Mangog..Later Loki usurped the throne of Asgard by taking the Odinring, but he fled again when Asgard was invaded by Surtur.
Much later, Loki usurped the throne of Asgard again, and sent the Destroyer against Thor once more.
After this, Loki's estranged wife Sigyn returned to Asgard.
Sigyn tried helping him when Loki was chained and a viper dripped poison onto his face as punishment for killing Balder.
Alongside Tyr and his forces, Loki stole the golden apples of Idunna and invaded Asgard with help from the Midgard serpent, but then changed sides and aided Odin's forces in defeating Tyr.
Despite Loki's hatred of his foster brother and father, Loki helped to defend Asgard from destruction from Surtur and his fire demons.
This was because Surtur's goal was to destroy Asgard, whereas Loki sought only to rule it.
Alongside Odin and Thor, Loki battled Surtur, and witnessed the seeming demise of Odin.
Not long after that, Loki transformed Thor into a frog...



Agent of Asgard
In a mission for the All-Mother, Loki travelled from space to Midgard in order to collect five keys Odin had once forged for him, should he be worthy.
Using his sorcery and wits, Loki used the keys to claim Gram, the sword of Sigurd, as his own.
During the AXIS storyline, Loki appears as a member of Magneto's unnamed supervillain group during the fight against Red Skull's Red Onslaught form.

Abilities
Loki is a member of the race of Frost Giants of Jotunheim, .
He possesses physical attributes as the Asgardian Gods, such as enhanced strength; stamina, speed, durability enough to harmlessly withstand high-caliber bullets; and immunity to diseases and toxins, as well as to magic.
He also possesses genius-level intelligence and has extensive training in magic make him achieve the ability to manipulate magical forces for a variety of purposes: energy projection, creation of force fields, temporarily increasing his own physical strength, granting superhuman abilities to living beings or inanimate objects, flight, hypnosis, illusion casting, and inter-dimensional teleportation.
Loki's magical abilities have been described as equal to those of Karnilla, the most skilled sorceress of Asgard. And his illusion casting can fool cities, and powerful entities such as Surtur.
Loki possesses extrasensory abilities and is capable of astral projection and casting his thoughts across great distances—even across dimensional barriers, like that between Asgard and Earth—even if he is unable to move.
He cannot read the minds of other beings, but he can influence their actions, and once briefly hypnotized Thor, but he could not coerce Thor to give him Mjolnir.
Loki is an adept shapeshifter and can change into animals or impersonate other people, such as Thor or Captain America but he does not gain the abilities of whatever he turns into.
After his rebirth, his shapeshifting abilities are more limited.
He explains to Lorelei that, "I can turn into anything, as long as it's me," which he demonstrates by transforming into female Loki and a lupine form.
Loki has the ability to withstand injuries which would prove fatal to another Asgardian.
He has also been shown to be immune to the Controller's control disk, the mental influence of the Voice, and the power-sapping abilities of Rogue.
Loki possesses a brilliant intellect, with some knowledge of technology, as when he created a machine to amplify Iceman's powers, and attaching devices to the Twilight sword to tap into its powers.
He is also an expert manipulator and schemer.

S.H.I.E.L.D

S.H.I.E.L.D. is an espionage and law-enforcement agency created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Marvel, it often deals with paranormal and superhuman threats.
It stood for Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division.
Then it changed to Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate in 1991.
Colonel Fury was reimagined as a slightly older character with an eyepatch which he lacked in his wartime adventures and appointed head of the organization.
Its most persistent enemy is Hydra, a criminal organization founded by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker.

S.H.I.E.L.D. was presented as an extant, full-blown entity in its first appearance, with Tony Stark in charge of the Special Weaponry section and Fury seeing "some of the most famous joes from every nation" at a meeting of the Supreme International Council.



Fictional history
Usually Nick Fury is the executive director, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been depicted as an organ of the United Nations with U.N and it have vast technological resources at its disposal.

S.H.I.E.L.D. first come up as a top secret international organization  with the Supreme International Council made up of top officials and minds from across the world, including Tony Stark the Iron Man.
Its first director was Rick Stoner, former head of the CIA, but he was quickly assassinated by Hydra, and the President of the United States recommended Nick Fury to take his place.
The ultimate authority of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a cabal of 12 mysterious men and women who give Fury orders and operational structure, leaving Fury to manage the actual implementations.

 LMD (Life Model Decoy) is one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s unique technological innovations. It is an extremely life-like android used to replace people in imminent danger of being killed
First, the supervillain Scorpio stole the technology and used it to create the second team of villains called the Zodiac.
Then some LMDs known as the Deltites achieved sentience and infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra both, replacing key members until Fury defeated them.
This led to the disbanding of the original organization and its replacement by a new task force with the same acronym under the control of the U.N. ("Strategic Hazard Intervention, Espionage and Logistics Directorate")
The new S.H.I.E.L.D. was meant to be more streamlined so Fury could personally oversee it, but would soon become a large organization again.
In the wake of a disastrous unauthorized mission in Latveria, Fury effectively resigned as executive director, with international warrants out for his arrest.
His first successor was not one of his closer associates but a relatively unknown newcomer to the S.H.I.E.L.D. hierarchy, Maria Hill.

Organizational structure and procedure

The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (first edition) describes an eight-level ranking structure (technician, administrator, field agent, regional officer, special officer, regional director, special director, executive director), although providing almost no detail on other aspects of the Directorate's internal makeup.
Years later, the miniseries Agents of Atlas mentioned a position of "sub director," and seemed to indicate that the administrative department of S.H.I.E.L.D. itself referred to simply as "Directorate."

Most of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agents are normal humans.
The organization attempted to set up a team of superhuman agents, consists of Marvel Man (the future Quasar), Texas Twister, Blue Streak and the Vamp.
But the Corporation, and the team broke apart before it had its first official mission.
A second team organized years later also lasted only a short while.
S.H.I.E.L.D. does employ some superhumans, including in its Psi-Division, composed of telepathic agents who deal with like menaces.
S.H.I.E.L.D. also obtains help from independent heroes when their special abilities are needed.
It has also accepted some superheroes and supervillains as members, but not in a separate unit.
Its headquarters is the Helicarrier, a massive flying aircraft carrier kept airborne at all times and, among other things, containing a squadron of jet fighters and housing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
In addition, S.H.I.E.L.D. maintains strong ties to the superhero community, especially Captain America, the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four, and often calls upon that community for aid on particular missions.

Bases of operation
Although the Helicarriers have been considered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s primary mobile home base for a long time, the Directorate also maintains a number of land bases throughout the world, most notably "S.H.I.E.L.D. Central" in New York City.
While some of these land bases are publicly accessible on a limited basis, most of them are not publicly disclosed for reasons of planetary security.
There are also several fully equipped S.H.I.E.L.D. fall-out shelters scattered around the world, while twenty-eight of these shelters only being known to Nick Fury.
During the Civil War, Nick Fury was hiding in an American-based shelter and he also divulged the location of one to Captain America to use it as a safe house

Black Widow (Natalia Romanova)

Black Widow (Russian: Чёрная вдова, translit. Chyornaya Vdova) (Natalia Alianovna "Natasha" Romanova, also known as Natasha Romanoff) is one of the most amazing Marvel's superheroes.
She was first introduced as a Russian spy, an antagonist of Iron Man, after then she is defected to the United States and became an agent of the S.H.I.E.L.D, and a member of the Avengers.

Early life
Natasha was born in Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia.
The first and best-known Black Widow is a Russian agent trained as a spy, martial artist, and sniper.
She always outfitted with an arsenal of high-tech weaponry, including a pair of wrist-mounted energy weapons dubbed her "Widow's Bite".
Romanova defects to the U.S. for reasons that include her love for the reluctant-criminal turned superhero archer, Hawkeye.

Natasha Romanova was raised by Ivan Petrovich.
During the Battle of Stalingrad in autumn 1942, he was given custody of little Natasha by a woman just before her death.
But she was raised from very early childhood by the U.S.S.R.'s "Black Widow Ops" program, rather than by Ivan Petrovitch.
He had taken her to Department X, with other young female orphans, where she was brainwashed, and trained in combat and espionage at the covert "Red Room" facility.
There, she is biotechnologically and psycho-technologically enhanced.
During that time she had some training under Winter Soldier, and there was even a short romance.
Each Black Widow is deployed with false memories to help ensure her loyalty.
Romanova eventually discovers the truth, including the fact that she had never, as she had believed, been a ballerina.
Natasha was arranged by the KGB to marry the renowned Soviet test pilot Alexei Shostakov.
However, when the Soviet government decided to make Alexei into their new operative- the Red Guardian. They told him that he can have no further contact with his wife.
Natasha is told that her husband had died and is trained as a secret agent separately.

The Avengers
Romanova grew up to serve as a femme fatale.
As her first mission in the United States, she was assigned to assist Boris Turgenov in the assassination of Professor Anton Vanko to defect from the Soviet Union.
As the part of the plan, Natasha and Turgenov infiltrated Stark Industries.
She attempted to manipulate information from Tony Stark, and inevitably confronted his superhero alter ego, Iron Man.
The pair then battled Iron Man, and Turgenov steals and wears the Crimson Dynamo suit.
Vanko sacrificed himself to save Iron Man, killing Turgenov in the process, using an unstable experimental laser light pistol.
Romanova later meets the criminal archer Hawkeye and sets him against Iron Man, and later helped Hawkeye battle Iron Man.
Natasha once more attempted to get Hawkeye to help her destroy Iron Man.
They almost succeeded, but when Black Widow was injured, Hawkeye retreated to get her to safety.
During this time, Romanova was being defected  from the Soviet Union and began falling in love with Hawkeye, which weakens her loyalty to her country.
Learned the truth, the KGB had her gunned down, sending her to a hospital, convincing Hawkeye to go straight and seek membership in the Avengers.
The Red Room kidnaps and brainwashes her again, and with the Swordsman and the first Power Man, she battles the Avengers.
Later with the help of Hawkeye, she eventually breaks free from her psychological conditioning and successfully defects and joins the Avengers as a costumed heroine herself.

S.H.I.E.L.D
Later still, she serves as an agent of the international espionage group S.H.I.E.L.D.
She has been sent on a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. mission to China by Nick Fury.
There, with the Avengers, she battles Col. Ling, Gen. Brushov, and her ex-husband the Red Guardian.
When HYDRA attempt to take over S.H.I.E.L.D., she is tortured to such an extent that she regresses back to an old cover identity of schoolteacher Nancy Rushman, but she is recovered by Spider-Man in time to help Nick Fury.

The Champions
After the breakup, the Widow moves to Los Angeles and becomes leader of the newly created and short-lived super team known as The Champions, consisting of her, Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze), Hercules (with whom she has a brief romance), and former X-Men Angel and Iceman.

Powers and abilities
The Black Widow is a world class athlete, gymnast, acrobat, aerialist capable of numerous maneuvers and feats, expert martial artist, marksman, and weapons specialist as well as having extensive espionage training.
Her physical and mental abilities had been enhanced slightly beyond human limits.
The Black Widow has been enhanced by biotechnology which makes her body resistant to aging and disease and heals at an above human rate, as well as psychological conditioning.
Due to the Super-Soldier Serum, the white blood cells in her body are efficient to fight off any microbe, foreign body and others from her body, keeping her healthy and immune to most diseases and disorders.
Her agility is greater than any of the greatest Olympic gold medalist, she can coordinate her body with balance, flexibility, and dexterity easily.
She also has exceptional durability, strength, endurance, and stamina.
She can also displays an uncanny affinity for psychological manipulation and mask her real emotions perfectly.
Like Steve Rogers, she has the ability to quickly process multiple information streams (such as threat assessment) and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations.
Natasha is an expert tactician and also a very effective strategist, tactician, and field commander.