# S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. S.H.I.E.L.D.: Agent May vs. Agent Romanoff

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**Created:** [November 3, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-h-i-e-l-d-vs-s-h-i-e-l-d-agent-may-vs-agent-romanoff/673003 "2013-11-03T21:35:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-h-i-e-l-d-vs-s-h-i-e-l-d-agent-may-vs-agent-romanoff/673003/21 "2013-11-09T05:16:54Z")

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> [@D\_Odds](#):
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> Personally, I’m of the opinion she’s not only not beyond normal humans, but could be taken by Ward in a fair fight.

I don’t think she’s superhuman or even peak human, but I think she’d definitely win in combat against Ward. At _best_, Ward would give her a good near-even match.

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**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-h-i-e-l-d-vs-s-h-i-e-l-d-agent-may-vs-agent-romanoff/673003/22 "2013-11-10T19:51:19Z")

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I voted for Black Widow. I’m a big fan of both actresses.

Since Black Widow is an established character and Agent may is newly created, it’s hard to predict how they would write the outcome. There’s not enough data on Agent May, so with what is already known it would have to be Widow.

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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-h-i-e-l-d-vs-s-h-i-e-l-d-agent-may-vs-agent-romanoff/673003/23 "2013-11-10T20:01:26Z")

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> [@bienville](#):
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> I don’t think she’s superhuman or even peak human, but I think she’d definitely win in combat against Ward. At _best_, Ward would give her a good near-even match.

Ward likely has the physical edge, but May has experience. I did say Ward would probably win a _fair_ fight. SHIELD agents don’t fight fair.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-h-i-e-l-d-vs-s-h-i-e-l-d-agent-may-vs-agent-romanoff/673003/24 "2013-11-10T21:41:14Z")

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> [@bienville](#):
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> They were going over his scores by category. His grade for Espionage was the highest since Romanoff. It wasn’t his over all score that was the best since Romanoff- just that one category.

Well, then it sucks that he can’t tail somebody without being spotted…

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