Red Room | Leaders, Appearances and more | Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Red Room, also known as the Black Widow Program, is a top-secret Soviet brainwashing and training program. The program takes young women and turns them into the world's deadliest and most elite assassins.

YEAR

• 1930s - 2016

AFFILIATION

• Leviathan

• Soviet Armed Forces

LOCATION

• Red Room Academy

PROJECT LEADER

• Dreykov

• Madame B.

• Taskmaster

PARTICIPANTS

• Dottie Underwood

• Anya †

• Eva

• Melina Vostokoff

• Natasha Romanoff †

• Yelena Belova

• Black Widows

RESULT

• Successful creation of the most elite assassins for the Soviet Union

APPEARANCES

MOVIE

• Avengers: Age of Ultron (flashback)

• Black Widow (unreleased)

TV SERIES

• Agent Carter

• *The Iron Ceiling

COMIC

• Black Widow Prelude (flashbacks)

More

• In the comics, the USSR had a "Black Widow Ops" in which young female orphans are brainwashed and trained in combat and espionage at the covert "Red Room" facility. Natasha Romanoff was one of these women. Agent Carter showrunners Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas stated in an interview that the Russian Assassin Program is the precursor to the Black Widow Program.