Scarlett Johansson is The Black Widow

The hottie plays a Russian superspy in Iron Man 2.

We fell in love with Scarlett “ScarJo” Johansson as she hung out with Bill Murray in Lost in Translation. And with every movie she’s made since, she just gets hotter and hotter, and the culmination of that hotness will explode next Summer in Iron Man 2 as she apparently will done the black skin-tight outfit of the Russian-born Spy Avenger Natalia Romanova aka The Black Widow.

The Black Widow’s debut in Tales of Suspense #52 published by Marvel Comics in 1964. She started out as a member of Iron Man’s rogue’s gallery and then later became a good guy joining The Avengers and even dating Daredevil himself. She doesn’t have any real special powers and has no relation to Spider-Man but she is a big time kung-fu chick with bracelets that shoot out a “widow’s bite!” And if you think that the producers of Iron Man 2 were going to make this look more realistic you can look at the image above and the image below and know that they are sticking very close to the comics look.

How well will Scarlet pull off a Russian accent? How weird for fanboys will it be that The Black Widow is married to Green Lantern in real life? And how much saliva will you have to clean off your desk after you oogle our ScarJo gallery below: