A digital recording is being played back in the luxurious office of Director Oliver Queen, aboard the Battle Station Alpha (aka "Camelot") in a classified location where it now hovers, miles above the Earth below...
Stark: I'm telling you Ollie, that's all I know about her.
Queen: I want to believe you Tony, I really do. Her file name again? (points to a video screen, with a blurry long haired female being shown)...
Stark: Natalia Romanova. I highly doubt it's her real name, but it accurately depicts her nationality, as she is confirmed born in Russia. You know her code name by now, don't you?
Queen: Dammit Tony, why are you making me interrogate you? (Tony shrugs, then grins) Yes, I know it, the Black Widow. It's right there on her damned belt. Hell, it's right there on the card she left...HERE IN MY OFFICE!
Stark: (Laughing) well, what better way to demonstrate one's skills in a job application than that? Would you prefer she mail her resume?
Queen: So you say she worked for you at SHIELD?
Stark: Look at her, the way she fills out that outfit - are you telling me she doesn't work for you?
Queen: (wavering between smiling an getting even more pissed than before) So what was she originally? Russian Spy? An operative for the defunct KGB? An assassin for the Russian Mafia? What?
Stark: Yes.
Queen: To which one?
Stark: All of those, of course. And yes, she did work for me for a time at SHIELD, but it was....shall we say, an informal arrangement?
Queen: In other words, they’d have had your ass well before now had anyone known?
Stark: Bingo. This isn’t the first time the Black Widow has applied for a job so…directly…you know.
Queen: Oh, you mean this isn’t the first time she tracked down a Dragon Class Hover Carrier from a classified location, several miles off the ground, without being detected by active or passive radar, without an apparent hull breach being detected by ANY "LASER BLAST" source of intelligence aboard this ship, human or computerized, and picked the lock to an office, despite retina and fingerprint access only??!?
Stark: Hmm. That’s a good question. The answer is probably not the first time, no. But I know definitively that she recently “applied” for a job to President Adama, in a very similar fashion. I think the Secret Service will be wanting a follow-up “interview” with her for that stunt.
Queen: Bottom line. Is she fighting for the good guys?
Stark: I know the Russians are about to fall completely under MEDUSA control. But trust me, if her patriotism is what you are worried about, you shouldn’t be. Her patriotism is what might make MEDUSA her everlasting target. Anyway, her past is no more shady than any of the rest of us. It’s just painted in different shades of grey. She’s an asset. We could use her.
Queen: How do I contact her for a real job “interview”?
Stark: I suspect she’ll call you. She’s been listening all along. You don’t think that business card you are holding is only a card do you?”
As long as you are limiting the comparison to that time frame, I can dig it!
I googled her though, and she looked to be a hottie in the day. Where do I know her from best? Was she in the Flash Gordon movie? She looks familiar for sure, but I didn't see any obvious thing I recognized her from. Be warned though - if you fondly remember how she looked young, don't pull up any recent pics, given that she's now well past cougar stage.