Rickard Romanoff was a force-grown male clone of the spy Natalia Romanova, better known as Black Widow, after observing that the latter had been such a prominent success in the process in which they involved her - the Red Room academy. He was provided with the prefabricated memory that he was once an Olympic athlete until a rival athlete had tried to arrange his death before an event and forced him into hiding. Rickard underwent extremely intensive training in combat, espionage and assassination from the moment that he could walk, developing full fluency in every single language on Earth by the time he was twelve years old and mastering every single form of combat - long and close range - known to man by the time he was fifteen. He developed the peak of the human physical potential, that o