Yes, I watch Marvel’s Agent Carter. I regret nothing!
This is based on the episode before last. Enjoy!
Deadly Indifference
Emotion was a useless waste of energy, inefficient and messy. It was the prerogative of mere humans, and not something she would ever indulge in. Indulging only ruined one’s usefulness as a weapon and made you feel sick afterwards.
She could admire, she could feel—or pretend to feel. But that would not get in the way of her mission. It would not get in the way of following orders.
So when she said “You sound like Captain America!” she pretended to admire the man, if only for his determination and disregard of his own safety in furthering the interests of his country. At the same time, it wasn’t because she was awed by the wisdom of Peggy’s words, or that she actually felt any genuine admiration for America’s war hero, or for Peggy. No, she did it because that was what was expected of her. She felt nothing as she spoke of America’s golden boy, who had given his life in a meaningless cause.
She was not “Dottie.” She was the Black Widow, and she did not hate—
Until she killed.
The Upstairs Archives 
Very nice. I think that’s how she thinks. She’s still scary.
Yup.
Ouch. And here I was liking the Black Widow. Was there a massive clue in the movies that I totally missed?
On another strand, are we still Anakin-doppelganger hunting? ‘Cause there’s another one in my Physics class at college. Its name is Hamish. That takes us to… one in England, one in New Zealand, and however many you’d found?
Um, no. This is from the Agent Carter series. We’re not talking Natasha Romanoff (the final Black Widow–trained just before the Cold War ended, I guess), we’re talking about one of the earlier people to be called “Black Widow” who currently goes by the alias “Dottie.” This is in 1946, not 2012. Hope that clears things up a bit. 😉 Natasha Romanoff is the nice one. 😉 The one in this piece is a blonde who, even as she is an assassin, appears to possess no brains for practical matters. She makes herself sound so insipid, nothing like Natasha, who isn’t afraid to show that she has brains AND guts as well.
Oh, boy. (I’ve seen two so far, I think. And a third one is in the new Spider-man movie which I am pretending never happened because I don’t think that that incarnation of Peter Parker is in character.)
O. Okay.
So we’re up to four. My new one even has the same inflection – though not accent, obviously.
Yeah, it’s kinda confusing.
That’s actually a bit scary.