Widowmaker (Image Comics)

{{Short description|2006 comic book supervillain}}

{{Notability|date=December 2023}}

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| image = Image:WidowmakerD5-11.jpg

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| caption = Widowmaker, from Dynamo 5 #11 (March 2008). Art by Mahmud A. Asrar.

| character_name = Widowmaker

| publisher = Image Comics

| debut = Noble Causes #18 (March 2006)

| creators = Jay Faerber
Fran Bueno

| alter_ego = Unknown

| full_name =

| species = Human

| homeworld =

| alliances = Hunter Blackthorne

| aliases =

| supports=

| powers = Professional assassin; Martial arts.

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Widowmaker is a comic book supervillain appearing the Image Comics series Noble Causes and Dynamo 5. Created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Fran Bueno, Widowmaker first appeared in Noble Causes #18 (March 2006[http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=290813 Noble Causes #18 at The Grand Comics Database]), in which she was hired to assassinate Captain Dynamo, which she did with poison. She then took a job from Hunter Blackthorne to attack Race and Liz Noble, only to be double-crossed by the Blackthornes. She spent some time in hiding in a safehouse provided by Slate Blackthorne.[http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=290813 The Grand Comics Database page on Noble Causes #18][http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9206 Weiland, Jonah; "Ain't Nothing but a Family Thing: Faerber Talks Dynamo 5"; Article on ComicBookResources.com; December 20, 2006] Eventually, the person who hired her to kill Captain Dynamo hired her to kill Dynamo 5. To that end, she has formed alliances with various super-criminals in order to fulfill her contract.