Black Cat

**Felicia Sara Hardy**, AKA **Black Cat** is a character who appears in *Marvel Comics*. She was featured on the 5th report of Death Battle X, where she was pit up against Catwoman from *DC Comics*.

## History

Felicia Hardy's father Walter Hardy was a world renowned cat burglar who, before his arrest, encouraged her to never settle for second best. If she loved basketball, she should work to become a basketball player and not just a cheerleader. During her freshman year in college, she had gone to a party and was nearly raped by a drunken student in a bathroom, when she was saved by another student, named Ryan. Felicia and Ryan became close friends, spending most of their time together until one night Ryan demanded that it was time for their relationship to become physical. Felicia's protests were in vain. Hating the idea of being a victim, she decided that she would murder her rapist despite the consequences. She put aside her studies and began training in various fighting styles and acrobatics. After months of preparing, she set out for revenge, but before she could find him, Ryan was killed in a drunk driving accident. Furious that she was denied the chance to steal the life of the man who had stolen hers, and feeling reckless, Hardy decided to utilize her new skills to follow in the footsteps of her father. Becoming a cat burglar. After having been arrested, Felicia was freed from prison by the Black Fox, her father's mentor, who took Felicia as his new pupil. After amassing a fortune in stolen items, Felicia chose to adopt a costume identity. She first donned the Black Cat costume in order to break her father out of prison. On the same night, she met Spider-Man. Despite her antipathy towards men, Felicia felt a kinship with this lone hero. Spider-Man was the first man she felt she could trust and she grew to love him.

## Death Battle X Info

### Background

* Debut: The Amazing Spider-Man #194 (July 1979)
* Real/Full Name: Felicia Sara Hardy
* Age: 30
* Height: 5′10″
* Weight: 120 lbs
* Species: Human
* Gender: Female

### Arsenal

* **Cat Cable:** Hidden cleverly within the "fur" end of each of her gloves, it is a combination of a whip and a grappling hook, used for swinging around the city or to ensnare people like a lasso, it can even be electrified like a taser.
* **Costume:** Her skin-tight suit actually improves her senses, and boosts her own physical strength and speed to the point of the finest human athletes, some of these increasments include increasing her lifting strength to 800 pounds, and running speed to 40 miles per hour.
* **Electromagnetic Contact Lenses:** Grant her night vision and improve her eyesight near superhuman levels.
* **Retractable Steel Microfilament Claws:** They're sharp enough to cut through diamonds.
* **Pixie Dust:** Once she sprinkiles it on her, it'll protect her from low level spells.
* **Equilibrium Earrings:** Felicia wears earrings obtained by the Tinkerer that interact with the balance centers of her brain to grant her enhanced agility and balance, increasing her natural bodily equilibrium and allowing her to accomplish feats beyond the capabilities of the finest human athlete.
* **Grappling Hooks**

### Abilities

* **Skilled Martial Artist:** As for her training, she gained a Black Belt in karate and judo, and can defeat entire groups of enemies of her own, and hold her own against equally skilled fighters. Including opponents who invented there own fighting styles, like Spider-Man's own martial art: The Way Of The Spider.
* **Olympic Level Athlete:** She has reflexes, agility, and stamina of an Olympic level acrobat, and is capable of many exceptional feats. She is physically very strong and athletic and has great physical endurance.
* **Cat Burglary:** Trained by various experts in burglary, gymnastics, judo, karate, electronics, security systems. She has proficiency in stealing and infiltrating, and skilled in the arts of stealth, lock picking, escapology, cracking safes, and has mastered the art of disguise.
* **Expert Strategist:** For along time, she prefered studying the battlefield as she puts it, before going on any missions. Usually rigging the area to make it look like fits of bad luck would happen when she was around.
* **Probability Field Manipulation:** While she used to study the battlefield before going on any missions, she didn't need to anymore when she acually got "Bad Luck" Powers, given to her by Kingpin, these new abilities of her allow her to subliminally affect probability fields to inflict people with bad luck, floors caving in, attacks missing, defense mechanisms breaking apart, disintegrating bullets, people hitting each other, you name it.

### Feats

#### Strength

* Threw fully grown men with ease.
* Broke chains with her kicks.
* Climbed a building wile carrying a full gown man.
* Kicked Carnage out of the air.
* Kicked Venom into a gas-tank which exploded.
* Staggered Mr. Hyde.
* Held her own against Spider-Man on several occasions, who supported the weight of a machine that was said to be as heavy as a locamotive.
* Slammed people through walls.

#### Speed

* Dodged and evade Silk.
* Stole knives thrown at close-range.
* Dodged attacks from Scorpion, Doctor Octopus, and Carnage.
* Able to keep up and tag Spider-Man, who can dodge light-based attacks from Electro thanks to his Spider-Sense.
* Dodged a billy club spun by a helicopter blade.
* Dodged gunfire and lasers.

#### Durability

* Survived Doctor Octopus repeatedly slamming her into a wall.
* Was crushed by a falling wall and got back up unharmed.
* Slammed into a chimney hard enough to crack it and was unharmed.
* Fell down a building, repeatedly hit the fire escape, landed on a car, and got up again really fast.
* Somewhat unfazed by getting kicked though a wall.
* Got sucker punched by Superior Spider-Man and was only missing a tooth.
* Survived being shot several times by Doctor Octopus henchmen.

#### Skills

* Stole a device from Kingpin during momentary black out.
* Kicked Mr. Hyde's legs out fro under him while he was distracted.
* Can walk along and easily balance herself on a tightrope.
* Grappled and snatched a statue while bounding across a room.
* Evaded the Rhino by backflipping.
* Leaps great distances.
* Can maneuver effortlessly through alarm lasers.
* Can bounce of walls.
* Beat Sabertooth.
* Beat Scorpion while protecting a depowered Spider-Man.
* Held her own against Tarantula, Scorpion, and several less significant Spider-Man's rogue gallery.
* Defeated Hydroman despite losing her powers.
* Beat the Lizard in hand-to-hand combat.
* Became the leader of a mob in Dan Slott's run of the Spider-Man.
* Partially succeed to make Spider-Man fall in love with her.
* Defeated Carnage, Shriek, Doppleganger, Demogoblin, and Carrion in Maximum Carnage (along with Spider-Man, Venom, Captain America, and a few other superheroes).

### Weaknesses

* While she is far from weak, she can still be brought down with enough force.
* She does need to focus when using her "Bad Luck"powers for them to actually work.
* Felicia's powers malfunction when near other people with the ability to manipulate probability.
* Has the same durability as any human.