At some point this life underwent a dramatic change when she was targeted for assassination herself, and the agent sent to kill her was the similarly gifted soldier, Clint Barton. She reportedly began training towards the life of an assassin when she was just a child under Madame B in the Red Room, and her ruthless effectiveness in later years earned her the codename, "Black Widow". "Natalia Alianova Romanoff" was born in Russia in 1984 and went on to become a world-class assassin in the employ of the KGB.
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