Black Widow: Every Main Character Ranked From Worst To Best
4. Melina Vostokoff
Black Widow told the story of Natasha's first family. Before she was an Avenger, during her childhood she had three years in Ohio as part of a fake family, the mother of which was Melina Vostokoff. While she acted as the matriarch of the pieced together family, her importance to Dreykov and the Red Room can't be understated.
She was the brilliant scientific genius that perfected the technology that overtook the Widows' minds, making them completely and utterly compliant to their commands. She ran a similar programme with pigs at her home, but she still worked as hard as anyone to bring the Red Room down.
Though the movie didn't particularly show her in action in terms of hand-to-hand combat, she had graduated the Black Widow programme four times, and so likely could have taken on more than her fair share of Widows herself. However, it was instead her intellect that she utilised to help Natasha.
No matter what happened to her, she never got flustered or worried. She simply took a second to think about the scenario, and adapted to the situation. She was a very strong presence, and her level-headedness and calmness under pressure acted as the perfect counterpart to the man who played the part of her husband in Ohio...