Black Cat (real name Felicia Hardy) is a recurring villain in Marvel's Spider-Man. She is a cat burglar with the power to manipulate the bad luck of anyone who looks into her eyes.
Appearance[]
Physical appearance[]
Black Cat is a caucasian teenage girl with light gray hair, green eyes, and red lipstick. She wears a black domino mask, a black jumpsuit, and a black jacket with a fur collar and cufflinks.
Personality[]
Black Cat focuses on her heists, especially when it is a job from a client. Though upon meeting Spider-Man she enjoyed the challenge he brought upon her thefts and enjoyed teasing him every time he questioned her bad luck. However, she hates it when her own bad luck powers are used against her.
History[]
A Day in The Life[]
How I Thwipped My Summer Vacation[]
Relationships[]
Spider-Man[]
While annoyed by Spider-Man getting in the way of her heist of the V-252 at Horizon High, Black Cat admired his abilities and found his disbelief of her having the power to cause others bad luck humorous. Even though she doesn't like Spider-Man ruining any of her heists, Black Cat does enjoy the challenge Spider-Man brings to them.
Abilities[]
Expert Thief[]
Black Cat is a skilled thief in stealth, picking locks, escapology, evading alarms and cracking safes.
Skilled Acrobat[]
Black Cat is able to do many acrobatic feats with ease.
Hand-to-Hand Combatant[]
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Tychokinesis (Luck Manipulation)[]
Black Cat has the ability to give anyone bad luck as long as they look into her eyes. She can also give herself bad luck if she stares at a reflection of herself.
Motor Skills[]
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Black Cat is shown to be an excellent driver. She was able to drive the car on her list of items to steal with one hand on the steering wheel.
Weaknesses[]
if Black Cat uses her bad luck inducement when looking at a reflection of herself, her powers will be turned against her and she herself may end up having bad luck.
Equipment[]
Cat-Themed Stark Phone[]
A stark phone with a cat-themed cover that Black Cat uses to keep track of the items she has and is tasked to steal.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- This is Black Cat's first animated appearance since The Spectacular Spider-Man
- Her stealing the V-252 in A Day in The Life is a callback to her debut episode in The Spectacular Spider-Man for when she attempted to steal the Venom symbiote from Doctor Conner's lab at Empire State in that series.
- This is the first Spider-Man animated series since the 1980s to feature Black Cat's bad luck manipulating powers and her as a villain instead of an eventual ally.
- Her voice actress, Grey DeLisle, is best known for having voiced the DC Comics character Catwoman in various media.
- Both Black Cat and Catwoman are very similar, as they are both cat burglars, and are a love interest/enemy to the main heroes of the franchises they come from.
- However, unlike other versions, Black Cat isn't a love interest in Marvel's Spider-Man.
- Both Black Cat and Catwoman are very similar, as they are both cat burglars, and are a love interest/enemy to the main heroes of the franchises they come from.
- Despite being a villain in Marvel's Spider-Man, the Marvel HQ website profile for her says that she is a reformed thief.
- Ironically, her profile page has the villain background border despite the above statement.