Red Room (comics)
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The Red Room is a fictional location appearing in
In the
Fictional history
Origins
In the
Black Widow Ops Program
In the work of Richard K. Morgan, the Red Room recruits 28 orphan girls to become undetectable deep-cover agents to infiltrate China and the West. Professor Grigor Chelintsov uses psychotechnics to imprint them with fabricated memories. making them believe they were trained in ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre. Furthermore, the girls received a special treatment designed by biochemist Lyudmila Kudrin that allows them, for decades, to remain young, healthy and resilient at superhuman levels.
Wolf Spider Ops Program
Niko Constantin was the only male trainee of the Red Room's male equivalent of the Black Widow Ops program dubbed "Wolf Spider" (Паук-Волк). He proved an effective killer, but impossible to control, leading the program to be declared a failure. Years later, he was found imprisoned in a Russian gulag, leading a gang of convicts dubbed the Wolf Spiders, and holding a grudge against Bucky Barnes, one of the Wolf Spider trainers.[1]
Yelena Belova
The K.G.B. continued to use the Red Room in the late 1970s. It successfully trained their agent Yelena Belova, though she soon left the service.[2]
North Institute
Natasha Romanova, weary of espionage and adventure, retires to Arizona but is targeted, as were the other Black Widow graduates of the Red Room, by the North Institute, on behalf of the Gynacon corporation. Romanova's investigations leads her back to Russia, where she is appalled to learn the extent of her past manipulation. She discovers the Black Widows are being hunted because Gynacon, having purchased Russian biotechnology from Red Room's successor agency 2R, wants all prior users of the technology dead. After killing Gynacon CEO Ian McMasters, she clashes with operatives of multiple governments to help Sally Anne Carter, a girl Natasha befriended in her investigations, whom she rescued with help from Daredevil and Yelena Belova.[3]
Omega Red
The Red Room featured in Uncanny X-Men. The group bought
Widowmaker
In the
All-New, All-Different Marvel
The All-New, All-Different Marvel was revealed that Hank Pym's daughter Nadia van Dyne through first wife Maria Trovaya was raised in the Red Room.[6]
In other media
Marvel Cinematic Universe
- The television series Agent Carter depicts Dorothy "Dottie" Underwood (portrayed by Bridget Regan) as a precursor to the Black Widow program.[7][8]
- The 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron shows Natasha Romanoff forced to recall her own training in the Red Room by Madame B. (portrayed by Julie Delpy) due to Wanda Maximoff's mind controlling spells.[9]
- The Red Room is featured in the 2021 film Dreykov, portrayed by Ray Winstone. The organization trained millions of "Black Widow" assassins until Natasha Romanoff and Clint Bartonbombed Dreykov's offices, supposedly ending the program. However, Dreykov emerges alive and continues the program until he is stopped once again in 2016.
- The Red Room appears in the Steve Rogersbefore regaining consciousness and destroying the entire place.
References
- ^ Captain America #616–619
- ^ Black Widow #1
- ^ Black Widow vol. 2 #1
- ^ Uncanny X-Men 497–499
- ^ Widowmaker, #1–4 (December 2010 – January 2011)
- ^ All-New, All-Different Avengers #9
- ^ "Marvel's Agent Carter Explores the Origins of the Black Widow Program". Marvel.com. February 3, 2015.
- ^ "MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER EXCLUSIVE: SHOWRUNNERS REVEAL WHO DOTTIE WORKS FOR". IGN. January 28, 2015.
- ^ Doty, Meriah; Errico, Marcus (May 1, 2015). "'Age of Ultron': We Decode Those Angst-Ridden Avengers Dreams (Spoilers!)". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Evangelista, Chris (July 29, 2019). "'Black Widow' Will Have Multiple Black Widows". /Film. Archived from the original on July 30, 2019. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
- ^ Kile, Meredith (July 20, 2019). "Scarlett Johansson Ushers in the MCU's Female Future With 'Black Widow': 'It's Pretty Explosive' (Exclusive)". Entertainment Tonight. Archived from the original on July 21, 2019. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
- ^ Knox, Kelly (December 12, 2019). "Black Widow: Rachel Weisz's Character Explained – Who Is Melina Vostokoff?". IGN. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- SyFy Wire. Archivedfrom the original on March 9, 2020. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
External links
- Red Room at Marvel Wiki