As opposed to Rogue, whose criminal past has been somewhat forgotten in recent years, Black Widow's time as an enemy to the Avengers and as an agent of the USSR continues to inform the character in a pretty massive way. Most of her solo series' have drawn inspiration from her time as an assassin, and though the world has deemed her past crimes to be nothing but more water underneath the bridge - owing to the fact she's become a major asset for the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. - there was a time where she even fought against Iron Man.
Natasha Romanoff first went to US soil in Tales of Suspense #52, and even recruits Hawkeye to fight alongside her. Though both would later become two of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, they each got up to their fair share of misdeeds, culminating in Romanova receiving her own high-tech costume before defecting to the United States officially.
The rest, as they say, is history. Clint Barton would become an Avenger, and so too would Romanoff. The latter would go on to star in a recurring role in Marvel's Daredevil, before adopting a greater synonymy with the Avengers and becoming an integral member of the team.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
