The Soviets then turned Barnes into the Winter Soldier, a deadly assassin who worked for Russia's Department X. Bucky ended up at the Red Room, an assassin training facility, where he participated in the Black Widow Ops program as a trainer—and that's where he met Romanoff for the first time.
The relationship between Bucky Barnes and Natasha Romanoff dates all the way back to the Cold War in the Soviet Union where Bucky was one of Natasha's trainers at the Red Room Academy. It was here that their relationship blossomed into a romantic one. (Earth-616) Bucky training Natasha in the Red Room.
The Red Room is a fictional location appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Soviet training facility was created to produce highly specialized spies, including Black Widows Natasha Romanova and Yelena Belova.
The Red Room's Black Widows were all handpicked by the leaders of the program based on their genetic potential as infants; some of these girls were orphaned or abandoned, while others were literally taken from their families by the Red Room, either through bargaining or force.
How old was Natasha when she entered the Red Room?
According to the Black Widow film, she started younger than six (the age Yelena was when Natasha tried to keep her from being taken by the Red Room), was a sleeper agent in the U.S. from ages 8–11, and then was returned to the Red Room until adulthood.
Belova is an amoral spy and assassin who was trained at the Red Room by the same spymasters who trained Natasha Romanoff, the first Black Widow. Yelena was born in Moscow, Soviet Russia; at the age of 15 she was recruited by the GRU.
The Soviets then turned Barnes into the Winter Soldier, a deadly assassin who worked for Russia's Department X. Bucky ended up at the Red Room, an assassin training facility, where he participated in the Black Widow Ops program as a trainer—and that's where he met Romanoff for the first time.
Natasha chose to be the sacrifice and so, Romanoff was 39 years old when she died, but the time travel in Avengers: Endgame creates a little bit of a complication. Romanoff and Barton used the Quantum Realm to journey back to 2014 so they could beat Thanos (Josh Brolin) to the Soul Stone by 4 years.
It couldn't exactly be common knowledge that a training facility full of young women was turning out spies. Instead, the plan for the Red Room was to implant false memories in all of their spies, making them believe they were all professional ballerinas.
Peggy Carter, Dum Dum Dugan, Junior Juniper, and Mike Li infiltrated together the Red Room Academy, and they examined a room modeled after a typical American classroom that made them all feel uneasy.
She, like other Black Widow assassins created by the dreaded Red Room, was subjected to a forced hysterectomy during training, and therefore cannot menstruate. But Black Widow doesn't let Yelena become the butt of a joke.
Mrs Reed is Jane's aunt and she looks after Jane at Gateshead. Mrs Reed is cruel towards Jane, offering her little happiness and punishing her relentlessly. She punishes Jane by locking her in the Red Room and forbidding anyone to let her out.
However, Barnes actually survived the fall thanks to the experimentation Zola had performed on him, and it was HYDRA who would make use of the man who would come to be known as the Winter Soldier...
While under control of the Russians, Barnes meets and begins falling in love with Natasha Romanoff, who goes onto become the Black Widow. He reunites with her after regaining his senses in the modern era.
The title's previous holder, Natasha Romanoff, AKA Black Widow, was no longer loyal only to Russia so they needed a replacement. Yelena trains for roughly a decade under Vasilievich Pyotr Starkovsky at the espionage academy known as the Red Room, the same facility that had trained Romanoff.
Weaknesses. Brainwashing: During her time as a spy for the Red Room, they mentally programmed her with certain mental commands, which can bring her under control, should she ever turn rogue. This was used by Nighthawk to put Black Widow into a comatose state.
Black Widow's first romantic relationship was with Nikolai, a soldier she met while both were serving with the Russian Army during WWII. The young soldier had no backstory, but Natasha and Nikolai fell in love and eventually married.
But they discovered that her memories of Bucky had not been altered like the rest of her memories – those memories had been completely removed. So, they are currently not together because Natasha does not remember who Bucky is or her relationship with him.
As a final ceremony to complete her training, Romanoff was given an involuntary hysterectomy and had her ovaries and uterus removed, with the Red Room citing the need for sterilization as they believed pregnancy was the one thing that would prevent a Widow from completing their mission, a procedure which she deeply ...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is home to numerous criminal organizations, and among the deadliest of them are Hydra and the Red Room, who once worked as allies of sorts but eventually became enemies.
In this mini-series, Yelena has a conversation with another character where they ask her if she is a lesbian, to which she replies with, “No I'm not a lesbian, I'm not anything.” In 2021, writer David K Grayson confirmed her asexuality, officially making her the first confirmed asexual character in the Marvel Universe!
Unlike some characters, Bucky does have a canonical birthday: March 10, 1917. He's a little more than a year older than Steve, which makes him the oldest human Avenger at a chronological 106-years-old.
Natasha Romanoff was born in the Soviet Union as Natalia Alianovna Romanova (Наталия Альяновна Романова). Although her exact parentage is unknown, it is rumored that she is related to the late Romanov dynasty—the former rulers of Russia—but those claims have so far been unproven.
