9 Avengers Fates Worse Than Deaths

Whether it's been detailed in Avengers books or her own solo titles, Natasha Romanova - or, Natasha Romanoff for you MCU fans - has had to endure more torment and trauma than most people on the planet.

For Nat, her fate worse than death here is that she's had to suffer through the extreme emotional and physical pain of the infamous Red Room. A sinister facility, the Red Room takes young orphan girls and trains them in the most brutal of fashions. This training involves brainwashing these youngsters into becoming master assassins, with all innocence, thought, and emotion drilled out of them in truly chilling fashion.

To make things worse, these girls - who are known as Black Widows - are implanted with fake memories which makes them think that their time in the Red Room was actually ballerina training rather than the horrific truth of the matter.

Of course, the adult Natasha began her comic book life as a villain, facing off with some of Marvel's biggest heroic names. Even when she managed to free herself of the Red Room's grip, though, Romanova has still at times been kidnapped and once again brainwashed by this most heinous of organisations.