The Soviet government intelligence (KGB) decided that Natasha and Alexi's skill sets would make them superb special operatives and split them up while Alexi was away on a mission. Another account establishes Natasha as being raised from very early childhood by the U.S.S.R.'s "Black Widow Ops" Program. Complex, resilient, and resourceful spy with a haunted past. doesn't always exhibit a "nice" demeanor due to her background as a spy and assassin. She can be pragmatic, calculating, and secretive.