20 Steps The Red Room Uses To Create Black Widows

Natasha Romanoff’s origin story is finally here!. And since we have been waiting forever for it, it was about time. Since the introduction of Natasha Romanoff in the 2010 film Iron Man 2, her character, although being an important member of the earth's mightiest hereos, never got her own solo film. The character literally had to die to get it. With her new film out now in theatres and on Disney+ with a Premier Access, the film promises to answer a lot of questions we had about the character’s mysterious origins, while most probably keeping some for later installments if any are made, and I sure hope it will be the case. In today’s video, I will revisit the infamous Russian Assassin Academy and explain how these lethal Russian spies are produced.
Every trainee from this nightmare academy has a pretty shady past where they were either kidnapped or bought from some kind of black market. Starting from there those who made it to the top 28 were enrolled against their will to the spy program responsible for creating one of the deadliest spies in the entire world.
In today’s video, I’ll lose some of the steps girls go through to become master assassins from brainwashing, to combat training, and shooting practice. Obviously, there are more than 20 steps to make these hard-to-kill machines, so feel free to speculate in the comments section about what makes a Natasha a Natasha, or maybe what you would include in such a program. Thanks for watching CBR! Let’s get started.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:41 Never Born
01:21 No More Babies
02:08 Fake Pictures
02:48 Born in Cages
03:22 Where is my Mind?
04:01 Black Swan
04:39 Sir Yes Sir!
05:24 AIM
06:07 Not Quite A Spider Web
06:53 Free Falling
07:36 Fight Like A Girl
08:25 Liar Liar
09:19 Stone Cold
10:01 To Take A Life
10:44 Super Assassin
11:27 Obey to Dreykov
12:14 Pickpockets
13:03 Bone Breakers, Nose Fixers
13:35 Friends or Foes?
14:09 Snow White and the 28 Assassins
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[@trexadvent4726]

How powerful and bad do you think the Red Room program is compared to Hydra and A.I.M?

[@SuperlativeEgo]

Are you CBR?

[@Pepi_Rocko.08]

😱 idkkk

[@e-brown]

I think they were equally bad but Hydra was more torturous and brutal than the Red Room

[@ytllama-yeetklep8474]

not as big or dangerous to the world as hydra but still brain washing kids and saying snap your friends neck is bad but too release these people in the real world is even more evil

[@multifandomesimp8732]

Didnt hydra make the red room??

[@Jamie_Winsh]

We've never really fully grasped how horrific Natasha's past was. Black widow finally gave us that and now we can truly sympathise with her. She deserves happiness and redemption

[@holajadee633]

exactly. even though i was aware, the opening credits opened my eyes a lot more

[@Jamie_Winsh]

@@holajadee633 completely agree

[@laurieladeesse3769]

But they gave us crumbs. Literally crumbs. We still had to deduce most of the atrocities they went trough

[@ranitsarkar495]

I really never thought about it and I deeply express my regret for that..................... Never tried to understand Natasha's horrific and struggling past childhood days...😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@ranitsarkar495]

@@holajadee633 mine too........😭

[@lalnunsangiralte8964]

Did anyone remember the suit that Nat wear in Infinity War? Yelena gave Nat her jacket thing and Nat decided to wear the jacket thing in Infinity War. It's a fun little detail.

[@blaze556922]

It has a lot of pockets :)

[@lalnunsangiralte8964]

@@blaze556922 yeah

[@rerun1373]

Yea

[@rerun1373]

Nat was wearing the jacket at the end of the movie

[@lalnunsangiralte8964]

@@rerun1373 yep. She's beautiful

[@laurairizarry8140]

Her birth name is Natalia Alianova Romanova in the comics. Yelena will more than likely be the white widow

[@sunsetsisters]

I've heard of yelena being called the red widow.

[@jemmamorse3266]

@@sunsetsisters I thought Red Widow was Ava Orlova?

[@sunsetsisters]

@@jemmamorse3266 I read some books that referred to yelena as the red widow, but maybe that was just for the books.🤷‍♀️

[@cartoonuniverse24]

​@@sunsetsisters what books?

[@sunsetsisters]

@@cartoonuniverse24 black widow: forever red and black widow: red vengeance

[@nikki9125]

Didn’t you pay attention to the movie? Loki didn’t call Nat Dreykov’s daughter, he was trying to break her, by making her feel guilty for killing Dreykov’s daughter Antonia. Come on people, it’s not difficult 😂

[@Hannah_Riddle]

Exactly

[@eliisalieass7278]

My man do be spitting facts

[@JJN-Studios]

That’s exactly what I came down here to comment! Thank you!

[@niehuaisangsknees]

this is exactly what i was about to comment

[@helloder3639]

Bruh black widow took place after civil war, four years after the loki interrogation

[@bubblegumghost199]

When you said that there was "nothing stronger than a ballerina" ...it made me feel so happy because I've done ballet for 8 years but everyone I meet doesn't see the big deal because it looks "so easy to do"

[@Pine_slice]

Same

[@belrose4318]

My brother said he was way stronger than me so i told him to try and stand on the very tips of his toes without crushing his whole foot, that showed him

[@Nunyabusinesssa]

Same. I felt flattered because everyone thinks ballet is so easy. They should see our feet though😂 only ballerinas are gonna get what I meant

[@ellenreid1111]

I love how it’s coming to light how powerful ballet dancers are

[@leahspidey2656]

4:25 in endgame, when she’s at the desk eating the peanut butter sandwich, you can see pointe shoes on the chair!! likely meaning that she did ballet after the snap. maybe to cope? idk but it’s a cool easter egg!

[@otterdraws]

That's so coooool 😃 I really didn't notice it 😅

[@kada32]

I loved that Easter egg! I geeked out in the theater. Lol

[@ako3624]

:( I saw a post on Reddit and it said it might be a refercance to how the red room trained their widows to do ballet. it was quite effective, since ballet makes your legs and arms strong but doesn’t build too much chunky muscle which is what the needed for the girls since they’re supposed to be slim and attractive in undercover missions instead of bulky. It’s quite sad. In age of ultron, Wanda does the whole mind magic stuff, on Natasha and we see a bunch of older girls (maybe 16?) dancing to ballet as music plays being told to do the dance over and over again. Natasha watches her own memories and says to the woman who (probably) taught her a bunch of things, ‘ you’ll break them.’ And the woman replies ‘ only the breakable ones. It’s all very depressing. Also it’s very probable that they made them do a ballet dance until their pointe shoes started showing the blood from their feet, painting the floor with blood. And the first 3 to drop to the floor out exhaustion and are killed for not being good enough…

[@leahspidey2656]

@@ako3624 i’m aware of that! but old habits die hard and maybe ballet could’ve been something she actually liked from her childhood despite all the other stuff 🤷‍♀️

[@ako3624]

@@leahspidey2656 huh, now that I think about it, your kinda right, . It does makes sense for her to enjoy ballet. I can see that :) that’s much nicer than that paragraph I wrote lmao

[@tanisha.ranjan]

Natasha is my idol; she is always calm, cool and collected with the occasional witty humour or snarkiness. When it comes down to fighting, her skills do not disappoint and I WISH I could defend myself like that. She is just so generally badass and awesome. RIP Natasha 👇🏼if you agree

[@Kaiii_yza]

Everyone loves Black Widow. Then there's sexists

[@MsObeyy]

honestly yes. i cried in the movie theater. how dare they

[@dragonweyr44]

Why is it that nobody ever talks about how her name is ALWAYS been wrong? As a Russian, Romanoff is the Russian name for a man but a woman's name would be Romanova, the family's name uses ova at the end to denote the feminine name but Marvel probably didn't know this rule back in the1960s when they created the character and the incorrect name has persisted for nearly60 years now

[@AelitaUndomiel]

Her birth name is Natalia Romanova

[@dragonweyr44]

@@AelitaUndomiel MCU Natasha doesn't even know who her real family is nor does she know what her birth name is so how could her birth name be Romanova?

[@AelitaUndomiel]

@@dragonweyr44 Well, Yelena never got to see her birth papers and there you see her: Yelena Belova, either someone told her or they made it up in the Red Room (or she did it herself). Anyways, maybe Nat’s name was Natalia and they changed it into Natasha while they were in Ohio or perhaps not. Tho I remember Nat “magically finding out” her biological parents’ names before dying in Vormir in Endgame…

[@dragonweyr44]

@@AelitaUndomiel This is just a guess but since everyone in the Red Room program is either an orphan, stolen from or sold by the parents of the girls in the program, their names are all made up, like the Russian equivalent of John Smite and Jim Carter would be Yelena's birth Certificate is probably fake as hell and Dreykov's daughter Antonia aka Taskmaster, is probably not his blood relation either

[@dragonweyr44]

@@AelitaUndomiel In Endgame, Red Skull called her "Daughter of Ivan" Hawkeye asks why they should believe him just because he knew her father's name Natasha said something to the effect of "Because I never knew it" I don't think anyone, or rather very few people in the Red Room Program know who they really are, who their parents were or their birth names are

[@andreacoronas2927]

in the comics Natasha is actually named Natalia Alianovna Romanova and she was born in 1928, she´s just 10 years younger than Steve Rogers. And also in the comics they don't inject the super soldier serum on the black widows, but instead a special serum that enhanced their abilities, time to recover from wounds and slow their aging, that serum was created by Melina. Also in the comics Alexei isn't Natasha's adoptive (in a mission) father but instead his husband for a period of time, and she was adopted by a soldier named Ivan.

[@redlily7115]

Actually you're wrong about the one who created the serum. In the comics, Melina wasn't even how she is in the movies, she was the Iron Maiden and she hated the Black Widow and hates the fact she lives in the shadow of Black Widow. The one who created the serum that made them young and stronger was Dr. Lyudmila Kudrin, look for her in Black Widow Volume 3. Also, there was no confirmation Natalia was born in 1928, that was only one of the speculations of her early history but no actual confirmation.

[@blaze556922]

Not to mention how a Black Widow can use the art of seduction. No other avenger could get someone as vulnerable as she could. I'd fall for her... just saying.

[@nibble3713]

simpifed

[@sewingbea9356]

Same 😅

[@laurieladeesse3769]

Have you seen the face of Thor, Steve, Tony, arhem, and everyone else? I would fall for them too.

[@nibble3713]

@@laurieladeesse3769 Have you literally seen goose? the one that scratched Nick Fury's eye out? i would fall for that cat anyday.

[@Night.sweetdreams]

I have already fell

[@natsgirlf]

I truly think The Red Room is the most terrifying concept in the Avengers, applying to humans of course. We got a glimpse into another black widow’s, Dottie Underwood, training and it’s honestly terrifying and it’s been going on for nearly 100 years. Handcuffed to the beds, forced to kill each other from a young age, non-consensual sterilisation. I couldn’t even imagine if it was real!

[@mahisharma3777]

He wasn't implying that she was Dreykov's daughter. He was implying about what happened to Dreykov's daughter, who, till then was considered dead. 'Killed' by Natasha

[@marywoll2828]

Nat beating up happy in Iron Man two was the best scene ever

[@Meliodith]

and every one just forgot about how natasha gave her life to get the soulstone

[@williampaulsinghharika2627]

Just that from real life medicine perspective removing the Ovaries is a really, really stupid idea as it immediately puts a women into menopause including a kilometer long list of illnesses she is now far more suspectible to, including easier breakable bones among others.

[@markcowan3366]

Maybe just tied tubes and told them they removed ovaries. Without some high level medical she may never know she wasn't completely sterilized.

[@wiseguy01]

in the comics, Natasha was also given a variation of the Super Soldier Serum and I guess that could counter many of the defects, as Super Soldiers have a mid level superhuman healing factor. Being incapable of getting drunk and are able to heal broken bones and gun shots within a day.

[@sewingbea9356]

Maybe she had all her eggs removed?

[@annaw1298]

In the Black Widow Movie, Yelena says they removed the uterus and ovaries. In the Comics, they damage her uterus and give her a serum that will cause miscarriage if she ever does get pregnant

[@blackraven5389]

I notice that. I have family members with hysterectomy. And if there are no ovaries you have to supplement estrogen. It's not like taking conraceptive pill. It has serious effect on health like natural menopause.

[@enjoyingmyvodka1013]

I want a movie where we see the red room academy in full. The selection process as well as the training etc I think it would be an intense movie especially if they have the right actors, directors etc

[@clairehiggins3658]

Dreycovs daughter, could actually be a dig at the fact that at that point she thought she had actually killed his daughter not actually calling natasha his daughter

[@trexadvent4726]

What would have happened if S.H.I.E.L.D took down the Red Room with the help of Natasha Romanoff Black Widow after she joined them?

[@springlocke]

I personally think Yelena will go by White widow

[@Luminar3]

High likely

[@emmalily8939]

That's what I thought until I remembered that a black widow is a spider. But who knows, it would be cool for that to be her name

[@Chancey388]

I don't think Natasha truly got the justice she deserved for what happened to her.

[@patriciaalvareztostado8170]

Me nither, Neither do I, if you see that Dreykol and the red room stole Natsha, and Yelena, their childhood, and that of many girls,

[@Chancey388]

Hopefully they do it justice by introducing more black widows and making Yelena an avenger

[@daiyan7973]

The superhero pose tho 🤣🤣😍

[@bonkers5529]

"poser"

[@Milk-Weed]

WHEN SHE DID IT AND SAID GROSS THO

[@Jamie_Winsh]

Such a poser

[@khushgill9324]

@@Jamie_Winsh total poser

[@assamite4hire]

Black Swan + Atomic Blonde = Red Sparrow

[@user-ex2cv5dg9w]

Got?

[@lolno2091]

a fact that blew my mind is that in the show agent carter they have a character Dottie Underwood who is trained in the red room. We get to see clips of her training there 2

[@sereniticole3487]

they should make a spin-off series about the red rooms

[@liahadams7796]

Actually we know that Natasha did learn ballet because point shoes are seen in infinity war in a chair next to Natasha. Also I appreciate them saying that ballet is hard because it is

[@trexadvent4726]

What would have happened if the Red Guardian and the rest of the Winter Guard attacked the Red Room and free all the ladies who were being turned into soldiers against their will?

[@kiarawong2336]

I wonder if the winter guard will hate the red guardian for helping destroy the red room especially the red widow but idk since she was apart of it also

[@jameslamasters5254]

Just a sidenote...The guns she carried in the Avengers, Endgame and other appearances when she had the twin thigh holsters were not USP Compacts (USP Compacts aren'tthat small). Those are Glock 26s in 9mm. As far as the Red Room scenes, she was shooting the Soviet Makarov. There may have been a Walther (looked like they may have had her practicing with various pistols). The Makarov was the standard issue handgun for the Soviets since at least the 50s.

[@lucascampbell7667]

Hey I have a question/concept. So in endgame they used the time machine and turned Lang younger older etc. couldn’t they use that too turn captain America young again? Probably won’t happen but I was just watching tomorrow war and it crossed my mind. Thought it was intriguing.

[@sofiam6841]

I doubt that Steve Rogers want to be young again after all that he's been through (good and bad) as a soldier, hero, and having a life with Peggy. That's a cool concept tho.

[@elizak2486]

they probably could but Chris Evans has been doing mcu movies for 10 years now and this was a good way to ‘get rid’ of him. probably best for him to go anyway as he’s had his time being captain America. good idea tho.

[@faithpost8439]

I don't believe Loki called Nat "Dreykovs daughter," pretty sure he was referencing the incident involving Dreykovs daughter knowing it was a trigger for her

[@lukevb55]

13:16 every single man felt that

[@natasharomanoff42]

At least SOMEONE recognizes the horror I went through.

[@Meliodith]

see natasha I think she played just as big a role in endgame as tony stark did

[@patriciaalvareztostado8170]

Yes both were, without her they would not have had the opportunity to make them return the "Snap" people, they would not have had the opportunity to face Thanos

[@Milk-Weed]

Who here wishes taskmaster had more screen time?

[@e.m.rivera8948]

im hoping taskmaster comes out more during the Multiverse

[@pinkgiraffe378]

Ik this is fictional, but it's still absolutely heartbreaking, horrifying and makes me so angry tbh. 😭💔

[@davidhasselblad3825]

Despite all my rage I’m still a widow trapped in a cage.

[@user-ex2cv5dg9w]

Huh

[@florencelabeaume5248]

When loki was trying to trick her he didn’t call her drekov daughter he was mentioning that she killed the daughter in the sao paulo hospital fire

[@starwarsguy9803]

They needed to show a true montage of her training in the Red Room throughout her childhood and teenage years instead of that mess we got in the opening credits. It gave us some view for her training but it just wasn’t enough

[@patriciaalvareztostado8170]

I like what they did at the beginning, but they should have shows more, maybe put two more scene explain how they were train instead of some action scenes, the motorcycle and car chase scene could have been shorter, like I said I like the movie, but I want to saw at least on scene of her fight like she did in Iron Man or Civil War

[@niehuaisangsknees]

15:04 it's ironic because you reference Black Swan and two actors from the mcu play in the movie. (Natalie Portman and Sebastian Stan)

[@mariajane542]

12:32 I see what you did there 😂

[@Daleim]

Superhero landing SUPERHERO LANDING!!!!!!

[@benjaminbierley2074]

Really need to just call it like it actually was, it wasn't her character having to die to get her own film, it was getting Ike Perlmutter out the door. He is pretty much the singular reason it took this long.

[@byulll4431]

"getting choked on a daily basis"...i-😂😂😂

[@twincree]

Love the vid

[@trexadvent4726]

What do you think the Red Room would be like if it did the opposite of everything they have done?

[@Luminar3]

It wouldn’t exist, cause the red room is existing right now but if it did the opposite of existing it wouldn’t exist

[@Alexis-gs6mc]

@@Luminar3 they mean what they did to the kids

[@trexadvent4726]

Which fighting training in the Red Room program for all the Black Widow do you think is the best and the most brutal?

[@Meliodith]

nat died and every one was sad and then they sprung tonys death aswell on us in the same movie and had about everyone crying but nat was left in theshadow after tonys death thenthey sprung caps death on us at the end of the movie

[@patriciaalvareztostado8170]

I didnt like this either, they should have a ceremony to both, both give their lifes, Nat recibe a Hulk, Hulk throwing a bench and a small line between Clint and Wanda, she deserve more, She was very close to Clint, Steve, Bruce and knew Tony for a long time. Se deserve more..

[@laceylactose1966]

I want a TV-MA show focused on the Red Room going in detail about a new teen actor having to go through everything. I want like 2/3 seasons of that shit.

[@soggyeggos5093]

Yes

[@krisgallagher4825]

Any chance, while in the soul realm, Natasha "black widow", becomes madam web?

[@AuthorZaraHoffman]

Loki isn't calling Natasha Dreykov's daughter. He was talking about her having killed Dreykov's daughter (Black Widow movie spoilers not taken into account)

[@epach1747]

My fave. Fascinated with Natasha and now her sister, Yelena.

[@abdellahmaarouf2149]

I loved the movie

[@Unknown67789]

Yeah same here just watched it today🔥🔥🔥

[@abdellahmaarouf2149]

@@Unknown67789 it's sad because that's the last time we going to see black widow 😔

[@Unknown67789]

@@abdellahmaarouf2149 yeah facts it's sucks😔 but I'm glad we saw her one more time and did you see the ending credits tho? shits about to get real🔥🔥🤯

[@abdellahmaarouf2149]

@@Unknown67789 i feel bad for ma boy Hawkeye he just wants a peaceful life with his family😔

[@Unknown67789]

@@abdellahmaarouf2149 yeah facts bro

[@andreimations]

Such dark steps just to become a Black Widow

[@qcrew2938]

I really enjoyed this movie

[@Adrian-bp3vd]

I've always wondered how the red room really was and after reading the comics I was like "gah dayum"

[@ItsBellaJoy]

Did anyone notice in endgame when Natasha is having the peanut butter sandwich and talking to steve, when we see behind the desk, on the seat next to her you can see pointe shoes.

[@Meliodith]

if you think about it natasha got the soul stone so that tony could beat thanos

[@patriciaalvareztostado8170]

Without her all the people Snap would have stay that way, they couldn't have won without them, and it gave Tony the chance to win at the end

[@mrneonboi]

I’m the same person who was talking to you on TikTok

[@theghosttiger1446]

I wanted to cry when the subject of the red room came up. Poor Nat, Im glad she fucked that dude up at the end.

[@aceanonymous6999]

I always thought it would be cool to be able to be a widow now I don’t think so.

[@isismarianarodrigues3950]

I don't know exactly what did Loki mean by "Dreykov's Daughter". Bcuz some people say he was referring to Natasha. But some other people say that he was referring to Antonya, Dreykov's Daughter, who almost was killed by Natasha.

[@pumpkinspicee2534]

✨Danke für maskieren wir probieren✨

[@rebeccashaver8518]

What if the trainees had to kill their friends who didn't make it through some of the tests? It looks like they might have based on that quick bit in Agent Carter.

[@mastrukko]

6:31 we could actually see that in the new Hawkeye series

[@hippolover4726]

Loki wasn't calling Nat Dreycov's daughter, he was reminding her of how she killed Dreycov's daughter, thinking it would weaken her (This is not meant to be rude, just wanted to say! 😁)

[@mariammadblood9236]

From where are these scenes? 3:05

[@marvelwidow8277]

Agent Carter

[@JaneeWhite-xh6ix]

I think there should be a movie about the red room a more explained more specific

[@hillineta9999]

loki didn’t refer to natasha as dreykov’s daughter, he was talking about that time natasha killed his daughter

[@cuticake1139]

I just came back from this movie

[@silenazoejackson3712]

Her name is actually Natalia Romanova

[@charliebailey3418]

Love

[@deagunnn4807]

R.I.P black widow

[@Preppy193]

Loki was not calling her Drakofs daughter he was referring to when natasa killed drakofs daughter

[@pinkgiraffe378]

I'm so glad black widow finally got a solo film. It's horrible and tragic that all have to go through that though, so many victims to it... The whole concept is also very much typical american propaganda though, painting america as the heroes and russia as evil.

[@mewadish9908]

i just watched it

[@Alyssaplaysstuff]

Same here, watched it last night.

[@dikonan3138]

Natasha's mentor was also Stark's mom????...lol!

[@wleung689]

Lol that she said hey fellows :/

[@JaylynWhite-pi6eo]

They need to show red room completely we need childhood about everything

[@libullah_4047]

Have y’all ever noticed the women in any action movie ALWAYS use there legs to fight?

[@redlily7115]

They weren't born in literal cages just to be clear although a lot of them were indeed victims of human trafficking

[@snupelxrdofficial]

Flash is a goat

[@The.MoNsTeRs]

I bet that the use of subduction as manipulation was taught as a part of the red room. Perhaps it’s tied to the reason why they castrate them. 💔 it’s even more disturbing when you realize how young the girls are when the process starts.

[@Anonymous-kn6sn]

All of this mental and physical torture…and Melina ( Natasha’s fake adopted mother) went through it 4 times….

[@zedmak]

They said it was a pheromone

[@danielblumberg308]

The pockets have sus things in them

[@nadiasvlog1291]

Correction black, is a title for the widows so Natasha is the only black widow the rest are just widows

[@Meliodith]

I think anyways

[@sihamtarabay8095]

Hi

[@judyjing7980]

why were people also dancing ballet in the red room?

[@patriciaalvareztostado8170]

Help them fight, helo them control their body, think the way Nat right she used her body to to beat men stronger and bigger than her

[@avengeuncleben8803]

am i the only one that noticed belaroose is the word that tony stark used to bring spidey into the mcu when he stole caps shield in civil war

[@lordhelmet9709]

that’s underoos

[@Star_butterfly-fh2bw]

I would volunteer to join the red room

[@rebekahwolkiewicz449]

What was the point of giving them false memories? I don’t get it. I mean, they’re already brainwashed… so why?

[@bestballerout7219]

3

[@viniciusribeiro6451]

And some of them have minor superpowers. Natasha has limited probability manipulation.

[@nonishere]

The Black Widow movie definitely wasn't great but it was good it's not the best

[@TheMythicRebellion]

What if black widow bite Peter Parker to make him Spiderman

[@mann2520]

Most violent and mysterious guys ever?

[@claytonsavoie321]

First comment

[@ziaan5558]

First 🙃