Black Cat (Marvel)

Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Marv Wolfman, Keith Pollard, and Dave Cockrum, the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #194 (July 1979). Felicia Hardy is the daughter of Walter Hardy, a world-renowned cat burglar. After suffering from a traumatic assault by an ex-boyfriend as a college freshman, she trained herself in various fighting styles and acrobatics and, after deciding to follow in her father's footsteps, adopted the costumed identity of the Black Cat. She has the subconscious ability to affect probability fields, producing "bad luck" for her enemies. Throughout her history, Black Cat has sometimes been an enemy, love interest, and an ally of the superhero Spider-Man.

The character was originally depicted as a supervillain and adversary of Spider-Man, but over time the two fell in love, which motivated her into becoming both an antiheroine, and his partner. However, their relationship grew complicated after it became apparent that Black Cat was only attracted to the alter ego of Spider-Man and had little to no interest in the hero's civilian life as Peter Parker. After their break-up, Black Cat maintained her role as one of Spider-Man's most trusted allies and for years the pair shared an on-again, off-again romance.

Since her original introduction in comics, the character has been featured in various other Marvel-licensed products, including video games, animated television series, and merchandise. The character made her live-action debut in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2, portrayed by Felicity Jones.

Powers and abilities

 * Superhuman strength, agility, balance, and vision
 * Psionic ability to alter probability fields to cause bad luck toward others
 * Ability to extend nails into sharp claws
 * Equipment includes retractable claws, grappling hook, spring-loaded climbing pitons, and contact lenses granting the ability to see in various ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum
 * Highly skilled martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant
 * Highly skilled gymnast and athlete
 * Expert burglar

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 * Kristen Stewart portrays Felicia Hardy / Black Cat as a main character in Marvel's The Thunderbolts. One of Spider-Man's recent partners in crime-fighting, she is also one of Phil Coulson's recruits for his Thunderbolt Project.
 * Black Cat is a main character in Avengers Unleashed, voiced by Ashly Burch.
 * Felicia Hardy appears as a supporting character in Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles, voiced by Ashly Burch. One of Peter Parker's friends and keepers of his secret as Spider-Man, this version operates as the superheroine Golden Jaguar, and is a 16-year-old young Inhuman with enhanced physical strength and speed, expert Martial arts skills and the ability to shapeshift into a pantanal jaguar with the ability to absorb and redirect energy into concussive blasts which she can fire from her mouth. She also wields a pair of wrist blades during hand-to-hand confrontations. She lives with her mother in a house at Attilan, and occasionally visits the Glorian's palace in Pegasus Z to attend to his art lessons. Felicia is also a close friend to the rest of the New Champions, S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy trainees (particularly Sally Avril / Snow Leopard) and Guardians of the Galaxy, and a occasional protegee of the Avengers. She also has soft, heartwarming interactions with Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat, with whom she is revealed in the show's spin-off All New, All Different Mutants to be romantically related.
 * A version of Felicia Hardy (renamed Felicia Parker-Reilly) appears in The Amazing Avengers. This version is Peter Parker's younger cousin, Mary Jane Watson's best friend, and a zoologist who specializes in wild cats. Shortly after her parents Ben and May died in a hospital which was destroyed by a riot which Crimson Spider was too late to stop, Felicia and Peter parted ways until they overcame their grief. In her trip to Africa, Felicia gained enhanced strength, agility and stamina by ingesting the heart-shaped herb, an African plant powered by Vibranium in Wakanda, becoming her country's own "Black Panther". Shortly after the Avengers were banded together following Thanos's defeat, Felicia started a relationship with Mary Jane's half-brother Theodore Altman and, two months after Peter and Mary Jane's wedding, married him and had a daughter named Felicity.
 * Black Cat appears in Marvel's Princesses of Destiny, a comic book tie-in for Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion. She appears in the first issue "The Tiger's Hunt", on which she attempts to rob a museum until she is defeated by Mary Jane Watson / Tigra. It is soon revealed that she was acting as a criminal after being blackmailed by Hammerhead (who had learned of her identity) into stealing devices for him. Eventually after Tigra hypnotizes Hammerhead and his henchmen (and strips them off their memories of every superhero in the world; even the Avengers), Black Cat is reformed and cleared out of her criminal charges, and resumes her superhero activities. Contrast to her appearance in the canon version of the 2017 Spider-Man animated series, Black Cat is redesigned after her counterpart from The Spectacular Spider-Man, with a modified version of her costume.
 * The same version makes a non-speaking appearance in the Disney+ TV movie Marvel's Superhero Adventures: Infinity War. She is shown to have become a member of the Champions following her reforming in Princesses of Destiny.
 * The same version appears in the Disney+ crossover miniseries Marvel's All-Star Multiverse, voiced by Erica Lindbeck. In the episode "Ultimates", she becomes a member of the titular team under Shadow the Hedgehog's leadership.
 * Black Cat appears in Marvel's The Avenging Spider-Man, voiced again by Erica Lindbeck. She serves as a playable character in the DLC chapter "Cold Claws", on which she (alongside Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier and Frank Castle / Punisher) is assigned by S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill to infiltrate a Hydra facility of Siberia to obtain files about Red Skull's plans, which leads the trio to conflict with Hammerhead.
 * Black Cat appears as a DLC playable character in Marvel/DC Heroes Unite!, voiced by Hynden Walch. Appearing in "Cats in Town", she teams up with Catwoman and the Rookie to save a metahuman child girl from the eyes of Madame Hydra and Magpie, who both intend to exploit her and use her powers for their own purposes.
 * Black Cat is a playable character in Marvel Superhero Adventures: Intergalactic Grand Prix, with Erica Lindbeck reprising her role from the 2018 Spider-Man video game. She is depicted as a teenage S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and a friend and classmate of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson. One of the superheroes participating in the titular racing tournament hosted by the Grandmaster, Black Cat pilots two karts: the Little Jinx, a motorcycle with attributes of a black cat, and the Big Jinx, a black and white race car resembling a, with cat-themed features. During the interactions with her in the story and hub areas, Felicia reveals that in her first week as Black Cat, she started out as a "female Robin Hood" (she was an elusive vigilante who steals from corrupt rich men like Norman Osborn and Kingpin and donates to the poor and helpless) and a professional treasure hunter. She also reveals to have a "special relationship" with Betty Brant, who occasionally refers to Felicia as her "feline queen", while Felicia in turning refers to Betty as her "canary princess".
 * Black Cat also appears in the game's prequel comic The Prelude and animated miniseries Race to the Top!. The Prelude Issue #6 "Cat-Suited Robin Hood" reveals that she is a closeted bisexual, who is in a relationship with Betty; the two begun dating shortly after Betty learned of Felicia's secret life as Black Cat, and after they expressed sympathy to each other over their mutually poor relationship with Flash Thompson (who broke up with Betty for being "too soft towards the nerds", and whom Felicia broke up with for cowardly leaving her to a group of thugs who were beaten by Spider-Man). The issue also reveals Felicia's origin story as Black Cat: Felicia was on a hunt for a mystical gemstone in Egypt known as the Heart of Isis. Successfully reaching the gem, Felicia saw numerous visions of several domestic and wild cats before being congratulated by an apparition of the cat goddess Isis herself. Waking up, Felicia discovered that she now had cat-based abilities, such as enhanced strength and agility on par with Spider-Man, night vision, and a psychic aura which induces bad luck in its victims through eye contact. Inspired by Spider-Man's heroic performance, Felicia became a superheroine herself.

MarvelDCandFantasyFanBoy12's ideas

 * Black Cat appears in Coolot's version of Marvel's Spider-Man, voiced by Grey Griffin.
 * Black Cat appears in Spider-Man: The Web-Swinging Years, voiced by Mae Whitman.

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Moon Silvight's ideas

 * When she makes her Playable appearances in Video Games involving the Spider-Man mythos such as the likes of LEGO Dimensions: The Lost Dimensions, Marvel Super Heroes: Atom of Infinite Champions, Disney vs. Street Fighter, future Kingdom Hearts installments, Avengers vs. Street Fighter and even, Disney vs. Capcom: Warriors of Weirdmageddon, both Ayahi Takagaki and Erika Harlacher voice her together within the Japanese and English Languages, once again.

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 * Black Cat also appears as a part of the Kingdom Hearts: Symbiotic Darkness main cast with the one and only, Harlacher herself voicing her in the English Language, once more.
 * Black Cat is a supporting character in The Spiderverse, voiced by Hynden Walch.
 * Black Cat is a main character in Marvel's Dark City, a comic book spin-off of the 2018 Marvel's Spider-Man video game. Her arc centers on Black Cat (having reformed from her role as cat-burglar) adjusting for her new career as a heroine and her recent romance with Alana Jobson / Jackpot.
 * Black Cat appears in Spider-Man: The Web of Two, voiced again by Erica Lindbeck.
 * Black Cat appears in Spider-Man: Web of Intrigue, voiced by Alyson Stoner.
 * Black Cat appears in Spider-Man: With Great Power.... voiced by Ashley Johnson.
 * Black Cat appears in Marvel Girl Power, voiced by Vanessa Marshall.

TheAmazingSaiyanSpider's ideas

 * Black Cat appears as a main anti-hero in the Heroic Age Universe. She is portrayed by Madison Iseman.