Why can't black widow have babies?

She was forcibly sterilized in the Red Room and can never have children. The criticism of Black Widow's arc was severe, particularly her infantilizing relationship with the Hulk. Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon reportedly even left Twitter to avoid it.
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Can Black Widows get pregnant?

Once a male black widow spider has fertilized a female, she will lay sacks full of eggs in her spider nest. She can lay up to five sacks that are each filled with 200 eggs. Within two weeks, the eggs will begin to hatch, and up to 1,000 black widow spider babies will emerge.
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Why can't Natasha and Yelena have kids?

We heard it referenced in Avengers: Age of Ultron, when Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johannson) told Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) that she could never conceive children because her tyrannical spy/warrior training program in Russia forced sterilization on its members.
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Why does Black Widow not have a uterus?

She, like other Black Widow assassins created by the dreaded Red Room, was subjected to a forced hysterectomy during training, and therefore cannot menstruate.
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Are Black Widows infertile?

Ever since Natasha Romanoff called herself a "monster" in Avengers: Age of Ultron for being infertile, Marvel Cinematic Universe fans wanted a retcon moment for the Avenger.
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Can the Black Widow have children?

She was forcibly sterilized in the Red Room and can never have children. The criticism of Black Widow's arc was severe, particularly her infantilizing relationship with the Hulk. Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon reportedly even left Twitter to avoid it.
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Are Black Widows asexual?

Black widow spiders reproduce sexually when the male inserts his palpal bulbs into the female's spermathecal openings. The female deposits her eggs in a globular silken container in which they remain camouflaged and guarded.
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Is Black Widow Hypersexualized?

While speaking in a recent episode of Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, Scarlett spoke on how she felt her career would end early on because she was “hypersexualized”.
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Do female Black Widows eat other females?

Most species of widow spider (there are 31), including the western black widow found in the U.S., don't kill their mates at all. Only two widow spider species always eat their mate -- the Australian redback and the brown widow, an invasive species in California.
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Why can't Bruce Banner have kids?

In the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, Bruce Explain to Natasha that he can't have kids due to it being a risk of becoming the Hulk. He could lose full control. Plus if he did have children, the outcome could be a rampaging hulking which could kill the partner during or of course after childbirth.
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Who did Black Widow have kids with?

James Rogers was the son of Captain America and Black Widow. After James was born, he and the rest of his adopted siblings were secretly hidden within an Arctic base to be safely raised by Tony Stark.
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Will Yelena become an avenger?

Yelena Belova

Since then, Belova has been seen in other Marvel projects including Hawkeye, and will reprise her role in the new Thunderbolts movie. That being said, it is unlikely that Belova would join the Avengers.
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Do black widow Babies have venom?

Male black widow spiders and juvenile black widow spiders are harmless to humans.
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What eats black widow spiders?

The common name, Black Widow Spider, originates from the females' behavior to sometimes eat the male spider after mating. Their only known predator is the mud-dauber wasp.
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Are black widow male poisonous?

They have fangs and venomous glands sufficient to cause harm to humans. The female gender of the species is the most dangerous, compared to their male counterparts. Females have more prominent venomous glands, longer fangs and a body size that can reach up to 20-times larger than their male counterparts.
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What is deadliest spider?

Sydney funnel-web spider. According to the Guinness World Records, the Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, is the most dangerous spider to humans in the world. Native to Australia, this poisonous spider is found in moist habitats such as under logs or in gardens.
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Does black widow eat its mate?

For male widow spiders, mating is an infamously dangerous activity. In these species, which include the black widow and redback, the large females will often devour the smaller males during sex—hence the “widow” in their names.
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How many black widow babies survive?

Spiderlings: The black widow spiderlings emerge after one to four weeks from the egg sacs encased with the silk thread. One out of dozen spiderlings survives for more than a month due to sexual cannibalization by other spiderlings.
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Did Black Widow have a lover?

Natasha has had a few romantic relationships with her fellow heroes, which all play important roles in her development and mean very much to her. Some notable ex-lovers include Clint Barton (Hawkeye), Matt Murdock (Daredevil), Bucky Barnes (the Winter Soldier), and Alexei Shostakov.
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What does Black Widow do after mating?

Deadly Black Widow Spiders Feast on Males after Mating with Them and Liquefy Their Prey. Black widows spiders are notorious for their powerful venom and gruesome mating habits, which sometimes involves the females killing and eating the males after procreating.
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Was Tony Stark attracted to Black Widow?

Indeed, Black Widow, whose real name is Natasha Romanoff, is quickly desired by Tony Stark in the film. Stark tries to flirt with her as she shows off her moves in a boxing ring at one point. “Yeah, and at one point calls her a piece of meat and maybe at that time that actually felt like a compliment.
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What is the male version of a black widow?

Male black widow spiders are brown or gray in appearance, while female black widow spiders are jet black and shiny. The lifespan of the male black widow spider is much shorter than the female black widow spider. But this is only the beginning of their differences.
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Do all female spiders eat the male?

Most commonly, the female eats the male—but occasionally, the reverse is true. Male sexual cannibalism has been observed in another species of spider, Allocosa brasiliensis, and in crustaceans, but previously researchers had no idea what factors drove this behavior.
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Are black widow Babies white?

Unfortunately, immatures of the native black widow spider, Latrodectus hesperus, also are tan with white stripes and are frequently mistaken for brown widows.
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Who is Black Widows husband?

The KGB arranged a marriage between Natasha and the renowned Soviet test pilot Alexei Shostakov.
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