Is Melina a robot?

The Soviet government created an Alpha Strike team of villains, one of which included Iron Maiden. However, it was not Vostokoff but simply a robot dressed up as her; it was an enhanced android but one that was defeated swiftly.
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Is Melina a villain in Black Widow?

Tidbits Rachel Weisz has shared about the character seem to confirm that she will be a Black Widow antagonist. “Melina has been cycled through the Black Widow Red Room program five times by the time the film starts,” Weisz hinted at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019.
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What happened to Melina in Black Widow?

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Melina was wounded in the escape and was separated from the others upon landing, while the girls were shipped back to Russia and put into the Red Room Program.
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How old is Melina Black Widow?

According to a birthdate shown in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, she was born in 1984, making her 32 or 33 years old at the point where Black Widow takes place. However, she was also allegedly a KGB operative, which complicates her canon timeline from the get-go.
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Is Melina Vostokoff a super soldier?

Vostokoff was later part of Superia's Femizons, a female super-criminal army plotting to sterilize the rest of the world's women and gain power for their Femizonia Isle nation of still-fertile women. Vostokoff helped defeat Captain America and Paladin when they tried to infiltrate Superia's ship.
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Why did Melina betray Black Widow?

When she and the rest of her family were living in Ohio in the 1990s, Melina revealed she didn't want to leave the life they built for themselves; she was forced to. She may have been conditioned into this life, but that doesn't mean she didn't want to do anything different.
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Is Melina good Black Widow?

In the comics, Melina Vostakoff went by another alias; the Iron Maiden. See, she built herself a suit of armor that protected her from physical and energy damage. And she became an agent of evil as an archnemesis for Black Widow.
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Is Melina a superhero?

Iron Maiden (Melina Vostokova (birth name); Melina Von Vostokoff; Мелина Востокова) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appears in Marvel Fanfare #11 (November 1983) and was created by Ralph Macchio and George Pérez.
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Are Yelena and Melina related?

Melina Vostokoff (Russian: Мелина Востоков) is a scientist and a Red Room operative who has been through the Black Widow program four times, as well as the adoptive mother of Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova.
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What gun does Melina have Black Widow?

Some Black Widows in the Red Room train with Glock 43s along with Glock 26s. Natasha, disguised as Melina (Rachel Weisz), carries her pistols in holsters during her meeting with Dreykov. After revealing, Natasha points the Glock 43 at Dreykov but is unable to harm him due to protective pheromones.
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Why did Melina turn on the Red Room?

So when Melina says she was cycled through the red room four times, she means they put her brain in a blender, again and again, so that she wouldn't leave, or betray them.
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Why did Natasha break her nose?

Pheromonal lock in Black Widow

In order to not smell the pheromones, one must have their sense of smell hampered. The olfactory nerve, which helps us smell stuff around us, was severed by Black Widow to stop her from smelling Dreykov's pheromones. Natasha does this by banging her head on the table to sever the nerve.
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Why did Black Widow break her nose?

Dreykov takes great pleasure in tormenting Natasha while controlling her, but she then goads him into striking her a number of times. He is too weak to actually break her nose, though, so Natasha just smashes her face on to Dreykov's desk and breaks her own nose, thus neutralizing his pheromone control!
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Is Melina a Taskmaster?

Had Melina turned out to be Taskmaster, that would have just been yet another betrayal that further puts Natasha on guard. But as a farewell film for the character, it was nice to see her reunited with these people who raised her – however briefly – one last time and realize that what they had wasn't entirely fake.
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Who is the real villain in Black Widow?

Dreykov. General Dreykov is the actual main villain of Black Widow, and with good reason. He's the one who "created" the Black Widows in the Red Room and the one who turned Natasha Romanoff, Yelena Belova, and Melina Vostokova into lethal assassins.
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Who was the bad guy in Black Widow?

Every good Marvel superhero needs a supervillain, so as Black Widow stepped up for her solo movie debut, it's only natural that she got a signature bad guy to go along with her. In Black Widow, that's Taskmaster, the mysterious killer with the ability to learn any fighting technique simply by watching it.
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Is Yelena an avenger?

Marvel Confirmed Yelena Will Never Be An Avenger | Screen Rant.
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Was Natasha's family snapped?

Black Widow fills in many blanks for Natasha Romanoff in between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War. However, the one question that is all but confirmed is Natasha's adoptive family being erased from existence.
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Why did Natasha's family have to leave?

Each family member is connected to the Red Room led by Dreykov, with Yelena, Melina, and Natasha being abandoned or stripped from their families as young children while Alexei had worked for the KGB as Russia's version of Captain America, The Red Guardian.
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Who is Black Widows real mom?

In the source material, the identity of Natasha's mother is unknown, as she left a young Natasha in the custody of a man named Ivan Petrovich and she died shortly after during the Battle of Stalingrad, with Petrovich raising young Natasha.
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Are Natasha and Yelena blood sisters?

Yelena Belova (Russian: Елена Белова) is the adoptive sister of Natasha Romanoff and a Red Room operative who worked for General Dreykov. Following Romanoff's defection from the Red Room, Belova and other Black Widows were put through the mind controlling programming and turned into Dreykov's obedient subordinates.
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Is Red Guardian a super soldier?

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Alexei is known most famously as Red Room's answer to Captain America. He's a Super-Soldier spy who has lived a lifetime of triumph during the Cold War.
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What happened to Melina eye?

Their scars are two halves of the same whole

One is missing their left eye while the other is missing the right. If you select the fire ending in Elden Ring and save Melina from burning, you'll notice that her left eye will open in the cutscene.
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Is Melina still alive Elden Ring?

Melina can be saved in Elden Ring, but only if the player makes an enemy of her. Melina cannot be resurrected after she dies.
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Who is Melinas mother?

Melina is daughter of Queen Marika and thus a demigod like the Shardbearers the Tarnished must slay to become Elden Lord. She forms a relationship with the Tarnished simply to find out the purpose her mother has given her.
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