Vera Yelnikov, aka the Red One, is an agent with Russian Intelligence.
The year we meet this exceptional woman is 1977.
The Soviet Union is worried that an upcoming SALT treaty signing will be disrupted by a surging rise in anti-leftist thinking, spearheaded by an evangelist named Jacky Core and inspired by a murdering psychopath calling himself the Carpenter. Its premier, Leonid Brezhnev, has tasked one of his key generals in the intelligence community to come up with a plan to counter that escalating sentiment and he has come up with a plan to make use of the American fixation on costumed heroes. "The [exact] fairy tale isn't important. What matters, Vera, is that the Americans want to believe it ... and that someone has granted their wishes". The plan then is to counter this new adoration for the Carpenter by introducing 'Red One', woman with her own costume who will go up against Carpenter, and by extension Core, changing the sentiment from "Death to Commies and Gays" to "Peace & Love".
For this reason, the General has chosen to send Yelnikov to the States to work with a gadget genius there to bring the Red One to life. For her part, Yelnikov is stunned that her new assignment is not to war zones like Angola or Afghanistan or Laos or Mozambique but to America. She has, we are led to believe, never been there and knows very little about America though she does speak the language like a native. "I learned English because my job is search and rescue", she tells the General, "that f*****g country is between the Pacific and the Atlantic! That all I know about it!." Nevertheless, she goes and she learns to adapt very quickly - their grocery stores actually have food available!
Yelnikov is a tall, slender but curvaceous female likely in her early 20s with pale blue eyes and long and lush, shimmering black hair. She possesses a captivating smile which she is prone to display frequently as so much amuses her. She is without a doubt a fitness afficionado who works extremely hard to stay in perfect condition and her fighting skills, especially hand-to-hand is awe-inspiring - just ask those who have been on the losing end, once they wake up. Apparently, she has been groomed for this life since an early age, as had her love of motorcycles and her skills as a mechanic and a penchant for driving very, very fast.