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I'm your host Amanda McKnight.
Those of you that have Black Cat fever asked for more and we heard you.
In this video we'll be counting down the top 10 alternate versions of Felicia Hardy, the
Black Cat herself.
If you love Black Cat, don't forget to give this video a thumbs up.
And I mean, c'mon guys, what's there not to love?
Black Cat is known for her iconic suit and look and we've seen an evolution of her outfit
over the years.
I wanna know what your favourite Black Cat look is in the comments below.
I think mine is from the 20-18 video game Marvel's Spider-man.
Such an awesome suit!
Now let's get counting.
10 Wife of Spider-Man.
In the 1989 What If series issues 20 and 21 we get to see what would happen if Spider-Man
never married MJ.
And of course who does he fall back in love with?
Black Cat.
After she saves his life.
Pretty impressively, I might add.
The two are married and set off, getting romantic on rooftops and the like.
An interesting thing about this version of their relationship is how many times Felicia
calls Spider-Man Peter.
Okay, so it's not that many in total but this is a rarity for Felicia as she tends to prefer
referring to Peter as Spider in comics, television and video games, due to her obsession with
his secret identity.
This shows us in this comic she really loves Peter for Peter as well.
Although her jealousy get's the best of her and the relationship doesn't end well.
But what comic book romance ever does?
9 Spider-Girl.
What if Felicia and Flash got married?
This universe explores that.
In the 1998 comic series, Spider Girl, Felicia married Flash has two kids with him and ends
up getting divorced.
Gene her son lives with Flash, and Felicia her daughter lives with her.
Felicia's daughter, Felicity wants to become a hero as well after learning of her mother's
identity and May Parker's secret identity as Spider-Man, aka Spider-Girl.
A couple cool things about this reality is that Felicia and MJ are actually friends.
There isn't even a sliver of jealousy seemingly between them.
Another cool thing is that Felicia is bisexual in this universe.
After she divorces Flash she dates her assistant, Diana and we are not talking about a fling.
The two have been together for six years.
They are both super cute together and I kind of love it.
8 Marvel's Spiderman 2018 video game.
We get a good look inside the Black Cat of earth 1048 in the DLC The Heist for PS4 Marvel's
Spider-Man.
Have you played it yet?
If you haven't you should.
I don't want to give too much away for those of you that haven't but I will say that we
know in this verse Spider-Man and Felicia have already gotten close, real close and
we're definitely romantic partners.
As we know you as Spider-Man are with MJ in this story but Felicia does not seem to mind
at all, as expected.
[insert clip 23:17-23:23, link in script] I love the look of this Black Cat and the
power of her.
You spend most of your time chasing her in the game, and boy is she smart and fast and
hard to catch.
7 Lady Spider.
We catch a glimpse of Black Cat in earth 803 when she steals a painting and is caught by
none other than Lady Spider.
We don't know much about this Black Cat but we know that she is fast and runs around in
a corset and pantaloons.
Her hair is also a natural platinum blonde, done up in tight knit curls in this steampunk
victorian universe.
In the comic series Web Warriors, issue 1 she is depicted as being a very intelligent
master of distraction and criminal.
Her and Lady Spider seem to be at odds in this series but I would love to see a bit
of a romance or partnership between them develop to mirror the 616 earth.
Maybe when we get another glimpse into Lady Spider's world.
6 Zombieverse.
Of course, Black Cat becomes a zombie.
We see her here and there popping up in the background of the comic series Marvel Zombies
vs The Army of Darkness.
Most epically she can be seen seemingly taking a bite of out Iron First while he punches
a whole straight through chest.
Pretty awesome.
My favourite thing about this verse though is the existence of her identical twin sister,
Felicity Hardy, also known as Night Cat, who seemingly came out unscathed in regards to
the zombie virus.
Leaves me wondering what the zombieverse, earth 2149 would have been like before the
virus with both Night Cat and Black Cat roaming the streets.
Two cats are better than one, right?
5 Mangaverse.
But what I want you to check out from this universe is the 2006 New Mangverse.
The Black Cat in this series of the Mangaverse is maybe one of the hottest.
If you don't believe me, check out her outfit.
Yeah.
In this universe Black Cat teams up with Spider-Man and the rest of the Mangaverse heroes who
have been driven underground after the collapse of SHIELD.
They return when it turns out a mysterious power has been killing heroes.
Oh no!
Did I also mention we get to see a reference to the other 2006 series Claws, when Wolverine
and Black Cat first meet up in the new mangaverse.
MJ is also fighting alongside the team as Spider-Woman and Black Cat and MJ even kiss
in this series!
More of a life-saving kiss but still.
Wow.
Also Black Cat saving MJ's life.
Wow.
4 Felicia and the Black Cats.
This reimagining of Felicia depicts her as a pop-star.
Of course we see her in the Spider Gwen vol 1 issue #5.
If you didn't know Spider-Gwen in earth 65, this universe plays in a band called the Mary
Janes with her friend, you guessed it, MJ.
Felicia Hardy in this universe is a pop-star who plays to giant sold out stadiums.
I love her look and almost everything about her in the comic.
Also she literally has a troop of parisien Black Cats who can fight and perform.
After her father Le Chat Noir was assassinated after stealing Kingpin's first dollar by Matt
Murdock, who is a corrupt lawyer working for Kingpin, Felicia swears vengeance.
At her concert she attempts to get her revenge on Murdock who is in the audience, but is
knocked out by confused Spider-Gwen who wants Felicia to calm down.
This french quarter, Paris reamingining of Felicia Hardy and her papa is stylistically
amazing.
3 House of M. In the 2005 comic series, House
of M, Felicia Hardy works for Luke Cage and his team of underground Avengers.
The team is attempting to stop Scarlet Witch, Magnus and the mutants after Scarlet Witch
warps reality to give mutants all the power.
She joins them in the battle of Genosha.
Her powers are seemingly the same.
I think she is awesome in this comic series because I love how much of a good guy she
is when working with the Avengers.
She also sports a neat secret agent look and doesn't leave Luke Cage's side, seemingly
one his most trusted team members.
2 White Widow.
I know how much we all love the Spider-Man Noir series, totem and universe, so I couldn't
have a Black Cat alternate list without adding this version of her to it.
In this universe, Black Cat is actually known as White Widow.
She was originally married Benjamin Urich, one of the best writers on the staff of the
Daily Bugle.
After his death she adopted the name White Widow.
She eventually shacked up with Crime Master, going down her more atypical criminal path,
but ends up good in the end after it is revealed she in love with and has been cheating on
the Crime Master with Spider-Man.
She adopts her White Widow mask after Crime Master slices up her face when he discovers
this has been going on behind his back.
As sad as her story is, her and Parker's masks being almost black and white opposing versions
of each other is really neat.
1 Ultimate Black Cat.
I like the powers that Felicia possesses in the version maybe the most of all her versions.
She actually appears to have superpowers, though I suppose they could still somehow
be attributed to her suit, possessing cat like abilities.
And to balance out her bad luck powers, she also appears to have some good luck powers
as well.
Well, good luck for her, bad luck for her enemies.
In the ultimate comic series, she falls for Spider-Man once again but discovers the age
difference between them, she being a grown woman and he a teenager and this puts her
off of Spider-Man.
Her main nemesis in the comics is Kingpin whom she blames for her father's imprisonment
and death.
And seeing her go up against this big bad is definitely something worth reading.
In terms of her outfit, the ears they added to her mask make this look one of my favourites.
Though this suit is probably the one that is also has the most in common with the suit
of DC's Catwoman.
But is that such a bad thing?
And that was our top 10 versions of Black Cat.
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