As time goes on it gets increasingly annoying that out of deference to tradition they keep saying Black Widow's real name is "Natasha Romanoff" and not Natalya Romanova (I mean in-universe I doubt she gives a shit, considering she doesn't remember her parents, but still)
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It's just so clearly a name that was made up by Americans in the '60s who, because it was the Cold War, didn't give a fuck about researching stuff set in Russia Even writing it as "Romanoff" and not "Romanov" feels absurdly old-fashioned today
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I feel like they should reveal she’s, like, not even Russian I mean, her birthdate is in 1984, so at what point before the age of 9 did she murder all those people specifically for Soviet Russia as she states she did in Avengers
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Well Red Skull calls her the "daughter of Ivan" in Endgame and he apparently knows that supernaturally ("How'd he know your dad's name?" "I dunno, I didn't") so that seems unlikely
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
That'd be her middle name. Although if she doesn't know her father, who knows what they put on her birth certificate.
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Apparently single mothers in Russia can choose whatever they want!
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Is Sokovia a former Soviet state? Maybe she was Sokovian.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl
She says a bunch of times she's Russian
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Yeah, I mean, born in Russia, Russian national, speaks Russian, but ethnic Sokovian and therefore has a Sokovian last name (like Maximoff, incidentally).
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I mean it's a Russian last name, it's the surname of the last family of Tsars
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Sure, but maybe the sokovians had a cadet branch. Anything’s possible when you make it up
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