Aliases: Felicity Harmon, Cat, "Licia", "Leesh", "Fee-Fee", Black Cat
Bio-Gender: Female
Age: Early 20s
Nationality: American
Marital Status: Single
Place of Birth: Flushing, New York U.S.A. with a criminal record (pardoned)
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Platinum blonde
Complexion: Caucasian
Education: College graduate (arts major)
Occupation: Private investigator, adventurer, professional thief and wealthy businesswoman
Relatives: Walter Hardy (The Cat, father, deceased), Lydia Hardy (mother)
Base Of Operations: New York City
Powers:
- Mutant ability to affect probability fields around her ("jinxing-) Bad Luck.
- Exceptional gymnastics
- Unarmed combat skills / Expert martial artist.
- Infrared vision, superhuman balance and agility, and long extensible claws.
- Enhanced strength / she is able to lift 800 lbs. optimally.
- Metal mesh wired gloves with sensors to trigger an extension of claws, agility-boosting implants, and intramural balance compensators. Grapnel hidden in sleeves.
Abilities:
- An experienced gymnast and acrobat can swing from rooftop to rooftop with help from a grappling hook, also an experienced hand-to-hand combatant
Weapons
- The Black Cat has retractable claws hidden in her gloves.
- Probability manipulation
- Superhuman sense of smell and night vision
Paraphernalia:
-The Black Cat carries a small grappling hook device, with a built-in release mechanism, enabling her to swing among buildings. She wears earrings of a unique design that aids her balance and allows her to always land on her feet. She wears contact lenses that enable her to see in the UV and IR range, providing excellent night vision.
History:
Felicia Hardy was born in Queens, New York. Her father Walter pretended to be a traveling salesman but 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.
As a freshman at Empire State University, her boyfriend Ryan raped her and she took to hating the idea of being a victim, she trained herself in various fighting styles and acrobatics, intent on killing her rapist. Finally, 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 for revenge, Hardy decided to utilize her new skills to follow in her father's footsteps. After amassing a fortune in stolen items, Felicia adopted her costumed identity.
Black Cat carries significant baggage. Her mother told her that her father was dead, but the kid discovered that it was a lie. As a reaction, Felicia came to imagine her father as a greater-than-life, Romantic figure whom she intensely sought to emulate and make proud. Her mother made Felicia promise to seek psychological help, but the girl didn’t actually do it. The Black Cat’s is thrill-seeking - stealing was easy to be.
Felicia was childishly happy and playful but routinely created trouble as she couldn’t stand being bored. Furthermore, her respect for the law remained feeble, and she’d steal something cool rather than feel boredom. She tends to act before she thinks since that means more excitement and because she’s so young and starry-eyed that she believes that courage and love always prevail over deadly super-human criminals.
Felicia refuses to have anything to do with Peter Parker - she wants the masked, mysterious, myth-like Spider-Man. She always refused to see his unmasked face.
The Black Cat has a visceral phobia of being imprisoned and restrained and will panic if it looks like she’ll end in the slammer — probably throwing herself to her seeming death to escape. Even grabbing her by the wrist to prevent her from leaving is likely to trigger sudden, full-force violence.
Since Felicia can make money pretty much at will, she usually lives in a luxurious hotel.
