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Lie is such an ugly word. I prefer "misdirection".
~ Black Cat after Spider-Man realizes she's been lying and using him all along.
I don't get you, Spider. I just conned the hell out of you and here you are, trying to save me. How can you be so damn nice all the time?
~ Black Cat to Spider-Man.

Felicia Hardy, better known as Black Cat, is the secondary antagonist of The City that Never Sleeps, the DLC sequel to the 2018 superhero video game Marvel's Spider-Man and a minor character in its 2023 sequel Marvel's Spider Man 2. She is a professional thief and cat burglar who operates in New York City and a recurring enemy and ex-girlfriend of Spider-Man. This incarnation is also noticeably more villainous than her comic counterpart.

She is voiced by Erica Lindbeck, who also voiced Loona and Millie (for the pilot episode) of Helluva Boss, Sumire Kakei in the English version of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Daki in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Besu Besu in the English dub of Sailor Moon, Farnese in Berserk, Pakunoda in Hunter x Hunter, ANNE in Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars, Jericho in Seven Deadly Sins, and Lady Nagant in My Hero Academia.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Black Cat is the daughter of and successor to, a professional cat burglar and thief named Walter Hardy. She followed in his footsteps (against his wishes), as a professional thief and career criminal. During her time stealing, she crossed paths with the superhero Spider-Man and became enamored with him. The attraction was mutual, and for a while Black Cat tried to go straight under Spider-Man's guidance.

But despite Spider-Man's earnest attempts to change her, Black Cat could not fully overcome her addiction to stealing and backslid into her old ways, which ended their relationship. Afterwards, Black Cat left New York City behind and the police acquired her gear (though they were not able to identify her as the criminal they were seeking).

Marvel's Spider-Man[]

Later, Felicia Hardy returned to New York City, leaving clues around New York City for Spider-Man to find to trick him into thinking she was planning to rob many high-profile targets. In fact, the whole thing was a diversion so that she could steal back her Black Cat costume and gear from police lock-up. When Spider-Man brought all of her cat dolls that she had left at the scenes of her would-be crimes to the NYPD, they created a mass EMP discharge that knocked out security and allowed Felicia to make off with her costume and gear. In "gratitude" for Spider-Man playing his part in her manipulations, Felicia left him a present in the form of a new black and red costume.

Later, after the crisis with the Sinister Six, Black Cat returned ostensibly working for Hammerhead. She was assigned the task of stealing important data drives belonging to each of the main Maggia crime families. When Spider-Man confronted her, Black Cat claimed that she was only working for Hammerhead because he had kidnapped her son and was using him as levrage against her. In reality, this was a lie said by her to manipulate Spider-Man into helping her pull off a heist that was too big for her to pull off on her own. Under the false assumption that Black Cat was being strong-armed, Spider-Man inadvertently helped Black Cat steal the rest of the data drives. Unbeknownst to anyone, Black Cat had been giving Hammerhead fake data drives all along, having been manipulating him and Spider-Man, and planning to keep all of the data drives (and the fortune they granted access to), for herself.

Eventually, Spider-Man realized that Black Cat had been lying to him and using him all along, but nevertheless tried to save her when he realized that Hammerhead had put a tracker on the data-drives she'd stolen and was following her. Unfortunately, Spider-Man was too late to stop Black Cat from returning to her penthouse, which Hammerhead's men had planted a bomb at. The penthouse thus exploded as Black Cat went in through the door, seemingly killing her, though her body was not found.

As it turned out though, Black Cat survived, and laid low for a time (likely to keep Hammerhead from trying again to kill her). She later revealed herself to Spider-Man when she saved him from death at the hands of the now cyborg Hammerhead. She apologized for earlier deceiving him, and gave him a hard-drive containing information on Hammerhead before departing again, noting that now "they were even".

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales[]

More than a year after the defeat of Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six, Black Cat is nowhere to be seen or heard from during Tinkerer's campaign against Simon Krieger. In this time, Miles Morales, Peter Parker's superhero apprentice has taken over his role as the sole Spider-Man in New York City while Peter goes to Symkaria with Mary Jane.

Black Cat is mentioned in the database of the Roxxon Energy Corporation, which reveals that she worked for them as a contract agent, and was mentioned in a voice memo as one of the potential villains Krieger wanted to recruit to stop Spider-Man from ruining his plans to destroy Harlem. However, Krieger didn't hire Black Cat due to her redemption (which was sometime between after The City that Never Sleeps and before the spin-off itself), leading him to hire Prowler instead.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2[]

Black Cat is one of the targets hunted by Kraven and his hunters. She escapes from them as she snuck into the inner sanatorium to steal a magic wand from Wong and Dr. Strange. Miles chases her throughout the city and tries to talk to her but she uses the wand transport them into various places, including the Arctic. She and Miles are soon confronted by the Hunters and Felicia revealed she only stole the wand just so she can go to Paris to her girlfriend as well to hide from Kraven and possibly start a new life (though whether this girlfriend actually exists, or another lie like her child, isn't made perfectly clear; it's plausible that she simply wished to hide out in Paris during Kraven's murderous campaign through New York). She bid farewell to Miles and called Peter one last time before they officially moved on from each other.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • It's implied she was the one who betrayed Prowler during his debut heist.

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