Black Widow #1-6 - "S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Most Wanted"

[laughing_tree]

It is a challenge. I’m not accustomed to writing a character who’s this morally gray, but to make her a straight-up “super hero” would be a betrayal of who she is. -- Mark Waid





















Flashback:























Present day again:

Comments

[mazway_75]

Tony falling for Nat's tricks when he damn well should know better is fun.

[zachbeacon]

Seems pretty on brand for him

*cough Madame Masque*

[zachbeacon]

I can't help but think about how many ways that whole "each person has part of the message" thing could go wrong.

"Wait, am I before or after Dave?"
"Guys, I think I might have talked to the wrong redhead"
"She's a redhead?"

[donnblake]

It does seem like it would take an awful lot of coordinate practice, flash-mob style, to get the timing just right. Which would sort of seem to defeat the purpose of giving each person only one piece of the message.

[cainofdreaming]

Telepath, remember? No need for anyone to remember anything.

[zachbeacon]

I didn't put that together. I thought he was just to mind reading kind of telepath.

(Actually I considered that somebody was feeding them lines with an earpiece but that still would have meant someone nearby had all the info and that defeats the purpose of staggering the messengers)

Still, if that's the case then it seems like it'd be easier to drop an info dump and a "join me or die" ultimatum into Nat's head instead of inviting her to a second location where he and his brother are vulnerable.

[donnblake]

...That does seem more likely than my working theory of running six simultaneous flash mobs practicing to deliver six different messages and then at the last moment picking the person with the fragment of the real message from each one and hoping the coordination works.

[super_fly]

Maria Hill: *Announces over the helicarrier intercom that a superhero is now an enemy of the state*
SHIELD personnel: "Huh. Thursday already?"

[donnblake]

One presumes that offscreen, between the stories we witness, the vast expense of maintaining a flying aircraft carrier must occasionally pay off in making it more difficult to assault, infiltrate, or escape, but, y'know, even against folks that can't fly, it doesn't seem to have the best track record.