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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Felicia's research on Tony Stark points out that he has been romantically involved with two different redheads. Felicia dyes her hair red to seduce him, a plan she is not particularly fond of given she lost Peter Parker to a redhead.

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* HeroesWantRedHeads: HasAType: Felicia's research on Tony Stark points out that he has been romantically involved with two different redheads. Felicia dyes her hair red to seduce him, a plan she is not particularly fond of given she lost Peter Parker to a redhead.
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* BackseatChangingRoom: In issue #1, after a BlackTieInfiltration where Felicia had to wear a fancy black dress, she makes her escape from the event in a car driven by her henchmen. The ensuing ChaseScene has her changing out of the dress and into her SpyCatsuit uniform while in the backseat of the car.
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[[caption-width-right:350:A girl likes to have some jewels... and to steal them!]]
->'''"Probability"''' is just a five-dollar word for '''"luck."''' And I'm nothing but '''bad luck''', baby.

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->'''"Probability"'''
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->''"Probability"''
is just a five-dollar word for '''"luck."''' ''"luck."'' And I'm nothing but '''bad luck''', baby.'''bad''' luck, baby''.



Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, got her first ongoing self-titled series in 2019, by Creator/JedMacKay, Mike Dowling, Travel Foreman and Nao Fuji.

Felicia's old mentor, the Black Fox, returns and asks for her help to commits several heists. Those heists, however, put her in conflict with Odessa Drake, who runs the New York Thieves Guild.

While the series twelfth issue was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a new volume that serves as tie-in for ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' debuted in December of 2020, with the suspended issue repurposed for the new volume. The second volume (and Jed [=MacKay's=] run) ended with ''Giant-Size Black Cat'' #1 in November 2021.

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Felicia Hardy, the '''the''' ''[[TitleDrop Black Cat, Cat]]'', got her first ongoing self-titled series in 2019, by Creator/JedMacKay, Mike Dowling, Travel Foreman Foreman, and Nao Fuji.

Felicia's old mentor, the Black Fox, returns and asks for her help to commits commit several heists. Those heists, however, put her in conflict with Odessa Drake, who runs the New York Thieves Guild.

While the series twelfth issue was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a new volume that serves as a tie-in for ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' debuted in December of 2020, with the suspended issue repurposed for the new volume. The second volume (and Jed [=MacKay's=] run) ended with ''Giant-Size Black Cat'' #1 in November 2021.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Downplayed, Felicia has been stated to be bisexual in a couple of stories, but this series would be the first time it's actively shown.
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While the series twelfth issue was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a new volume that serves as tie-in for ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' debuted in December of 2020, with the suspended issue repurposed for the new volume. The second volume (and Jed [=MacKay's=] run) will come to an end with ''Giant-Size Black Cat'' #1 in November 2021.

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While the series twelfth issue was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a new volume that serves as tie-in for ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' debuted in December of 2020, with the suspended issue repurposed for the new volume. The second volume (and Jed [=MacKay's=] run) will come to an end ended with ''Giant-Size Black Cat'' #1 in November 2021.

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* AntiHero: The Black Cat has been a superhero at times. In this comic, however, she's a criminal doing big crime heists. She still does some heroic deeds from time to time and is not overtly malicious making this a downplayed trope.



* EvenEvilHasStandards:

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* VillainProtagonist: The Black Cat has been a superhero at times. In this comic, however, she's a criminal doing big crime heists. She still does some heroic deeds from time to time and is not overtly malicious making this a downplayed trope.
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* TheyDo: The first annual features the wedding of Spider-Man and Black Cat. Yes, that's right. But ''only'' Spider-Man and the Black Cat, Peter Parker and Felicia Hardy are still single. The law in the Marvel Universe is... weird.
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: The Research on Tony Stark point out that he had been romantically involved with two different redheads, so to seduce her, Felicia dyed her hair red. Not that she liked the idea very much... she lost Peter Parker to a redhead!
* LeeroyJenkins: Discussed. Although this job is not without risks, someone must never lost sight from the difference between a calculated risk and reckless improvisation.

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* HeroesWantRedHeads: The Research Felicia's research on Tony Stark point points out that he had has been romantically involved with two different redheads, so redheads. Felicia dyes her hair red to seduce her, Felicia dyed her hair red. Not that him, a plan she liked the idea very much... is not particularly fond of given she lost Peter Parker to a redhead!
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* LeeroyJenkins: Discussed. Although this job is not without risks, someone must never lost lose sight from the difference between a calculated risk and reckless improvisation.
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* ThirdPartyDealBreaker: [[spoiler:The Black Fox makes a deal with the [[GodOfTheDead Gilded Saint]] for himself and Black Cat to be made immortal in exchange for the Saint getting to own Manhattan. Black Cat undoes the deal by tricking the Saint into thinking the Fox has reneged on their bargain, freeing Manhattan and condemning the Fox to being trapped in the Gilded Saint's possession for eternity.]]
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Felicia Hardy, the ComicBook/BlackCat, got her first ongoing self-titled series in 2019, by Creator/JedMacKay, Mike Dowling, Travel Foreman and Nao Fuji.

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Felicia Hardy, the ComicBook/BlackCat, Black Cat, got her first ongoing self-titled series in 2019, by Creator/JedMacKay, Mike Dowling, Travel Foreman and Nao Fuji.



For the Black Cat's character page, see [[Characters/BlackCatMarvel here]].

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->'''"Probability"''' is just a five-dollar word for '''"luck."''' And I'm nothing but '''bad luck''', baby.
-->-- Felicia Hardy, ''Black Cat'' #3.

Felicia Hardy, the ComicBook/BlackCat, got her first ongoing self-titled series in 2019, by Creator/JedMacKay, Mike Dowling, Travel Foreman and Nao Fuji.

Felicia's old mentor, the Black Fox, returns and asks for her help to commits several heists. Those heists, however, put her in conflict with Odessa Drake, who runs the New York Thieves Guild.

While the series twelfth issue was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a new volume that serves as tie-in for ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' debuted in December of 2020, with the suspended issue repurposed for the new volume. The second volume (and Jed [=MacKay's=] run) will come to an end with ''Giant-Size Black Cat'' #1 in November 2021.

For the Black Cat's character page, see [[Characters/BlackCatMarvel here]].

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* AdaptationalSexuality: Downplayed, Felicia has been stated to be bisexual in a couple of stories, but this series would be the first time it's actively shown.
* {{Bookends}}: The run opens and closes with Felicia's line of "Consider the cat."
* TheBusCameBack:
** Felicia's crew members, Boris Korpse and Bruno Grainger first appeared in the 1970s in ''Amazing Spider-Man #194''. This is their first appearance in comics in five decades.
** Issues #2 and #3 feature Xander the Merciless, a ComicBook/DoctorStrange villain who hasn't been seen since 1977.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** The spirit of an Asgardian tree branch tries to tempt Felicia by offering to make her heart's desire a reality; the death of all her enemies, all the treasures of the world and every lover she has ever had returned to her. However, the third one is what ends up snapping Felicia back to her senses as she refuses to use magic to make someone else love her. Even Dr. Strange is impressed by her tenacity.
** [[spoiler:Black Cat is horrified when her mentor the Black Fox makes a deal with the [[GodOfTheDead the Gilded Saint]] for immortality in exchange for the Saint being given all of Manhattan.]]
** Felicia enlists the help of Star, Overtime and Quantum -- super beings who wield the power of an Infinity Gem -- in her plan to [[spoiler:cure her mother's cancer]]. Quantum's habit of kidnapping superpowered teens makes Felicia uncomfortable.
* VillainProtagonist: The Black Cat has been a superhero at times. In this comic, however, she's a criminal doing big crime heists. She still does some heroic deeds from time to time and is not overtly malicious making this a downplayed trope.
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* AntiMagic: [[spoiler: Felicia's bad luck powers allow her to counter Xander's magic]].
* AtrociousAlias: Issue #2 reveals that Felicia once used the alias "Francesca Featherbottom" when she was a teenager and amateur thief. The Black Fox comments on how embarrassing the name was after he bailed her out of jail.
* BatmanGambit: It's just the Black Cat and a couple of guys supporting her. There's no room for those grand, chaotic superhero fights... and Black Fox wouldn't like all that chaos, anyway. Finding each victim's Achilles' hill and exploiting it is always the way to go.
* TheDreaded: When planning to break into the ComicBook/FantasticFour's home to steal a book from Reed's collection, Felicia makes it a point to only do so when Sue Storm is away citing her as the scariest thing inside the building.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: The Research on Tony Stark point out that he had been romantically involved with two different redheads, so to seduce her, Felicia dyed her hair red. Not that she liked the idea very much... she lost Peter Parker to a redhead!
* LeeroyJenkins: Discussed. Although this job is not without risks, someone must never lost sight from the difference between a calculated risk and reckless improvisation.
* NoPeekingRequest: During a car chase in issue #1, Felicia has to quickly change out of her dress and into her costume, and warns her two henchmen to keep their eyes upfront.
* RuleOfCool: One of her heists got her in Tony Stark's nanoforge, while Iron Man was outside, aware of the intrusion and trying to take down the door. So she used the Nanoforge to create an Iron Man armor for her own... and asked the computer to add cat ears to it, because why not?
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Felicia and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} escape Kade Kilgore by jumping out the window and swinging away. Unfortunately, since Wolverine's bones are made of metal he is too heavy and the cable snaps. Logan tells Felicia he'll "make his own way down" and she simply uses another cable to swing away.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: In-universe. Black Cat and Spider-Man fight against the Hydra Dreadnought, a top superweapon when it was built. But that was many years ago. The source code has since reached the dark web, so it was a piece of cake for Felicia's crew to create a virus that would stop it.
* TheyDo: The first annual features the wedding of Spider-Man and Black Cat. Yes, that's right. But ''only'' Spider-Man and the Black Cat, Peter Parker and Felicia Hardy are still single. The law in the Marvel Universe is... weird.
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[[folder:Volume 2]]
* BestServedCold: Black Fox and three of his friends once stole treasures from Dracula. While they escaped, Dracula had the last laugh since Black Fox would grow old and see all his three friends die. Dracula also made sure that no vampire would turn Black Fox into a vampire without incurring his wrath.
* ContinuityNod: In issue #2 Felicia recalls all the major heists she achieved in the previous volume.
* ClothingDamage: Both Black Cat and White Fox's suits get pretty torn after beating a bunch of assassins named the Maidens (many of whom were armed with swords).
* CrazyPrepared: Queen Cat steals Black Cat's stolen loot to use as bait for a trap. However, Black Cat is able to track the good thanks to tracking devices on them and she uses them to find Queen Cat's location.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: While under the influence of the Asgardian tree branch, Felicia has a mental conversation with the personification of the branch's wild magic. The magic takes the form of Felicia's mentor the Black Fox.
* DiscardAndDraw: Felicia uses an [[spoiler:Asgardian tree branch]] to empower herself at the end of issue #2, becoming more powerful than ever.
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:In Issue #3, Felicia has tapped into the power of an Asgardian tree branch in order to fight off Knull's symbiote creatures. The branch tries to tempt Felicia by offering to make her heart's desire a reality; the death of all her enemies, all the treasures of the world and every lover she has ever had returned to her. However, the third one is what ends up snapping Felicia back to her senses as she refuses to use magic to make someone else love her.]]
* FriendlyEnemy: While Felicia is this on some level with almost all her enemies, she seems to legitimately like Queen Cat. When she learns of her backstory and why she is so obsessed with Black Cat Felicia actually encourages her to keep coming after her.
* GodzillaThreshold: Issue #2 has the team cornered by symbiotes while Dr. Strange remains unconscious. Seeing no other way out, [[spoiler:Felicia uses the Asgardian tree branch that was supposed to be used by Dr. Strange to empower herself.]]
* GuestStarPartyMember: Besides Black Cat being coerced into helping the Tiger Division, Seol Hee/Luna Snow of the Agents of Atlas also joins them for that particular mission.
* ImmortalityImmorality: Issue #5 reveals that the New York branch of the Thieves Guild offer a deity named the Gilded Saint ten percent of what they steal in exchange for immortality.
* ImpossibleTheft: Issue #1 ends with Felicia telling her crew they are going to steal Dr. Strange from Knull.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: While being chased by symbiotes, Felicia yells at Korpse to wake the recently rescued Dr. Strange up. Korpse fires back, "I am not a medical doctor. I am a blowing-things-up doctor."
* OddFriendship: Turns out Boris Korpse has formed one with Bats, Dr. Strange's ghost hound.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Felicia doesn't like being forced to help White Fox and the Tiger Division to free Taegukgi from mind control.
* ThatManIsDead: Queen Cat in Issue #4. Even after regaining her memories of her past life, she doesn't consider herself to truly be Lily Hollister and refers to Lily as "the previous occupant of her body".
-->'''Black Cat''': Wait, didn't you die?\\
'''Queen Cat''': Lily Hollister was in police custody for her crimes. The Goblin King blew up the car trying to rescue her, knocked her into the river. She died there. I'm who climbed out.
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