Marvel’s Villains Beat Black Widow By Repeating SHIELD’s Biggest Mistake

Marvel’s Villains Beat Black Widow By Repeating SHIELD’s Biggest Mistake

The Black Widow has been trapped in a Truman Show life by her villains, but the plan isn’t theirs – Natasha’s misery was SHIELD’s idea first.

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Marvel’s Villains Beat Black Widow By Repeating SHIELD’s Biggest Mistake

Warning: contains spoilers for Black Widow #4!

Natasha Romanova, aka the Black Widow, isn’t someone who loses often. Prepared to go further than most of her fellow Avengers, the Black Widow is no stranger to lethal measures, making her one of few Marvel heroes villains actually fear. That’s why several of them came together, combining their resources to form a cabal that finally defeated the Black Widow… by giving her a perfect life.

For the last few issues of Kelly Thompson, Elena Casagrande and Carlos Gomez’s Black Widow, Natasha’s allies have been in turmoil, having discovered the Black Widow seemingly retired from superheroics with a loving husband and young son. Black Widow #4 just brought it all crashing down, as an inopportune attempt to kill off Marvel’s premier super-spy brought back her real memories, shattering the illusion her enemies had used to neutralize her. And yet if the vengeful Weeping Lion hadn’t taken things too far, the villains would have been successful in taking Natasha off the board for good – and they have SHIELD to thank for their plan.

Neutralizing enemies by mindwiping them and giving them a perfect existence isn’t a new tactic, and in fact using it on Black Widow wasn’t all that ambitious. In Marvel’s 2016 Avengers: Standoff! mini-event from by Nick Spencer, Mark Bagley, and Jesus Saiz, Maria Hill’s SHIELD pulled of an audacious plan, kidnapping supervillains and using a living Cosmic Cube named Kobik to mindwipe them into becoming model citizens.

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Marvel’s Villains Beat Black Widow By Repeating SHIELD’s Biggest Mistake

Villains like the Absorbing Man, Wrecker, and the Grey Gargoyle were given a place in the Truman Show-esque village of Pleasant Hill, with Baron Zemo eventually rebelling and helping to organize a villain uprising that destroyed the facility, revealed SHIELD’s wild and unapproved overreach, and set the near-omnipotent Kobik loose in a world she didn’t understand. While the experiment itself was deeply immoral, it also had devastating long-term consequences, as Kobik’s attempt to return Captain America’s youth actually transformed him into an undercover agent for Hydra, with the subsequent Secret Empire event leading to Black Widow’s death at Captain America’s hands.

Black Widow #4 reveals that while her captors may not have had a Cosmic Cube to do their bidding, they did have advanced tech, near unlimited funding, and four months of uninterrupted time to tamper with both her memory and that of “James,” her new husband. Not only that, but they used the pair’s DNA to clone a son for Black Widow, eventually setting the two up in a suburban home and monitoring their activities to ensure Natasha remained happy, fulfilled, and unable to prevent their villainous plans.

Thankfully, Weeping Lion’s deep hatred of Black Widow woke her from this micromanaged life, but even as Hawkeye and the Winter Soldier help her get revenge, they can’t pretend this plan originated with the villains. While this time it was applied to the hero, the plan of mindwiping a threat and then occupying them in a harmless life is 100% SHIELD approved – a tactic they taught Marvel’s villains by forcing them to live through it.

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