This article is about the animated character known as Black Widow. For other articles with the same name, see Black Widow (disambiguation).
Yelena Belova (also known as Black Widow and later Crimson Widow) is a character who appears in the Disney XD Marvel Comics animated series Avengers Assemble. This is the second incarnation of the Black Widow following Baron Strucker reactivating the Red Room program and the self-proclaimed rival of Natasha Romanoff who later rechristens herself the Crimson Widow while acting as a Hydra agent.
Yelena Belova was created by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee.
History[]
When Baron Strucker reactivated the Red Room, he trained Yelena to be the next Black Widow. Baron Strucker later sent Yelena and some HYDRA Agents to abduct Bruce Banner and bring him to his base in Siberia. When Black Widow arrived, she fought against Yelena upon learning about her history and how Baron Strucker is using the Winter Soldier program to turn Bruce Banner into Winter Hulk. Upon Captain America and Iron Man arriving, they helped Black Widow to fight Yelena Belova, Baron Strucker, and Winter Hulk. Yelena later goes against Baron Strucker's orders and knocks him out. While Captain America and Iron Man fought to keep Winter Hulk from reaching a civilian location where a HYDRA base is, Black Widow continued her fight with Yelena even when she activated the mind-controlled washouts of the Red Room. Upon disabling the mind-controlled Red Room washouts, Black Widow defeated Yelena who managed to get away.
Yelena returned as the Crimson Widow, attacking the Avengers so that they would imprison her in the Vault. There she escaped, and with the help of Typhoid Mary and Zarda, attempted to free every supervillain in the prison. She was ultimately defeated by Wasp and Captain Marvel when her team was unable to work together.
Trivia[]
- This is the only version of the character, so far, who has been part of HYDRA, while other incarnations of the character are working with S.H.I.E.L.D. or some form of organization related to them.
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