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Natasha Irons is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Louise Simonson and Chris Bastista, first appearing in Steel (vol. 2) #1 (February 1994). (2025). 9781465453570, DK Publishing. ISBN 9781465453570 Since the character's creation, Natasha has since become a reoccurring supporting character of both Superman and the original version of Steel within their respective comic book series.
The character is recurringly portrayed as a super-genius and the niece of John Henry Irons, a fellow genius within the Irons family. Although both mainstream continuities feature different backgrounds, both includes her as the daughter of the criminal Crash (John Henry's brother), whom is depicted as either a crime boss or criminal weapons dealer in advance technology. She works as an assistant alongside her uncle for Steelworks, a technology company based in Metropolis, and operates as the second Steel. She is often also depicted as a public superhero and a member of Team Superman while having served in several superhero-based teams. At times, Natasha has also adopted different codenames; following her transition into an artificial metahuman from Lex Luthor Everyman Project, she originally used the Starlight codename but following a change in power set, she instead assumed the name Vaporlock.
The character has made several appearance in media, including ' where she is voiced by Cree Summer and is portrayed by Tayler Buck in the television series Superman & Lois, where she is renamed Natalie Lane Irons''' and is made the daughter of John and Lois Lane from an alternate universe.
In her earlier appearances in the second Steel series written by Louise Simonson and Jon Bogdanove, she is aware of her uncle's identity as Steel and supports him and becomes involved in numerous conflicts in relation to gang and drug-related conflict surrounding the Irons family as well as the re-emergence of John's former employers, Amertek Industries, who is revealed to manipulate both Jemahl and having sold John's past inventions to the gangs.
During Christopher Priest's tenure as writer of the second Steel series, Natasha is portrayed more stereotypical modern teenager with a flippant attitude. During this time, she meets and befriends a teen named Paul Tomlinson, her father becomes the villain Crash, and a series of tragedies follow the Irons family when John's identity as Steel becomes public, wherein rivals and past adversaries targets the family and leads to the death of Natasha's grandmother and the family faces harassment despite several attempts to relocate. While her relationship with John is tested in wake of their grandmother's death, they reconcile.
Nat later travels with Steel to Metropolis when he establishes Steelworks. She becomes his assistant and succeeds him as the superhero Steel after he is injured in battle. Although reluctant, he allows her to operate under the codename and gifts her with an even more advanced set of armor. Superman: The Man of Steel #100 (May 2000) (2025). 9780345501080, Del Rey. ISBN 9780345501080 One of her earlier adventures as Steel includes a team-up with Cir-El and Traci 13 to battle Japanese vigilante Byakko and protect Superman from her mystical-based abilities when he is injured.
In World War III, Natasha creates a nanotech missile to attack Black Adam. 52 #50 (April 2007) Infinity, Inc. reveals that the Everyman Project gave Natasha the ability to transform into living gas. Following this, she becomes Vaporlock and helps Steel rescue civilians in Reign of Doomsday. Steel (vol. 2) #1 (February 1994)
In this continuity, Natasha is also cast as the eldest daughter of Clay Irons and a scientific genius who has a close relationship with her uncle John and his girlfriend, Lana Lang, whom she views as an aunt. The pair often looked after Natasha and young Ezekiel in their father's stead, all disapproving of his criminal career as "Crash". When her father scams Skyhook, Metropolis's demonic Bogeyman, to fund Natasha's scientific endeavors, Ezekiel is kidnapped and her father is arrested and sent to prison. Skyhook remained at large and her brother's missing case remains unsolved, with no details known of what happen to him afterwards. At some point, she also attended college at a young age, dated sorceress Traci 13, and began assisting John and Lana in their superhero personas as Steel and Superwoman.
During the Superwoman series, Natasha develops a new suit to assist Lana's newfound powers following absorbing strange energies from a deceased version of Superman (seemingly the New 52 Superman) upon his death and assists both Superwoman and Steel while being reacquainted with former girlfriend Traci 13 and adopts the Steel codename. Natasha and John later hunts Skyhook when her father escapes from prison and begins hunting him himself. As the Irons family are drawn to the conflict for revenge, Lana's relation with them is tested when she works to uphold their moral stance against killing.
She later joins the Teen Titans and meets her great-great-uncle, John Henry Jr.
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Natasha's character also has had super-powers several times; she was granted superhuman strength due to the drug known as "tar" for a short time although it would make her have fits of rage. For a time, Natasha also developed super-powers due to her participation in Lex Luthor's Everyman Project to become an artificial metahuman. Her initial powers granted her superhuman strength and endurance, flight, and the power to control light and solar energies. Later developments following Luthor's deactivation of the treatment instead granted her new powers as a side-effect, allowing her her to shift into a gaseous form at will.
| MK IV Armor | Armor gifted by John Henry which includes protective measures and ability to change siz and shape at will. |
| Chrome Armor | A semi-sentient flexible metal and can change configurations. The suit can also grant superhuman strength, durability, and flight as well as rocket boots. |
| Other configurations also include attachments more apt in dealing with metahumans whom possess superhuman strength. | |
| Chrome | A semi-sentient metal developed by Natasha for various uses and applications. |
| The metal can compress things into a "quantum package" for mobile transport. | |
| Kinetic Hammer | A hammer powered by kinetic energy and configured with the Earth's magnetic field, disallowing use beyond members of the Irons family. Numerous versions and designs vary in size and shape. |
| Boom Room | A mobile lab and base of operations capable of teleportation using technology derived from New Gods's boom tubes technology. It once served as the Titan's mobile headquarters. |
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