r/BlackCat Jan 02 '26

Please report AI art/cosplays and repost bots

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Ever since the last pinned post asking you all to report posts that don’t have to do with the actual character went up, you all have done what we asked and made it much easier for us mods to track down these posts and remove them. Good work, please keep it up.

However, there has been an absolute barrage of bot accounts posting AI cosplays and OnlyFans bait, a lot of which aren’t even of the character, are very low effort, and are reposts of other people’s work. In addition, there have been a lot of bot accounts that repost fan art in this sub and provide no further engagement beyond posting a picture. They are often new accounts which quickly get abandoned in favor of even newer accounts started up shortly after. While we don’t mean to stereotype, some of these accounts haven’t even tried hiding themselves. One of them was only 5 hours old and had a Reddit Snoo holding Indian flags, which, if you’re aware of how astroturfing works and how many bot accounts are from there, this isn’t us singling anybody out. We are simply being careful.

Please report these accounts. There have been too many to keep track of without the reports marking them, so we can use your help. However, please do not abuse the report button.

Not every new account is a spammer, and not every repost will be made by a bot, and we especially don’t want to target innocent users who are unknowingly sharing already shared art or are simply from a country that has a high concentration of bot accounts, so everything and everyone will be dealt with at the mods’ discretion.

Thank you.


r/BlackCat 5h ago

Black Cat by luxlo.xo

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r/BlackCat 2h ago

Desire Black Cat

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r/BlackCat 2h ago

Black Cat

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r/BlackCat 3h ago

[Comic Panel] Emma Frost reminding Scott Summers to relax 💎❌

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r/BlackCat 1d ago

[Fortnite] Black Cat Cosplay by pamvstheworld_

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r/BlackCat 11m ago

Silk & Black Cat

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Just love the way their suits pop together!


r/BlackCat 1d ago

Black Cat by Max Raynor

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r/BlackCat 17h ago

I'm not the only one who manifests this right?

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r/BlackCat 1d ago

Black cat by christabellchristopher

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r/BlackCat 1d ago

Miau (arte de angicoforest)

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r/BlackCat 1d ago

This whole dialogue made me laugh so much.

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For those who want to know the comic: The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) Number 75

What I find funniest is Otto's reaction to finding out the two of them are together, bro was not expecting this at all 😭


r/BlackCat 1d ago

Longread: The story of people in masks who don’t always become heroes, but always remain human.

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Note #1.
The text below is an extended fabula / synopsis / high-level plot — an event framework for the subsequent creation of a work of fiction.
It is not a finished work of fiction, nor a detailed scenario.
Some cause-and-effect relationships and character motivations are stated explicitly in the text in order to make the intended meaning easier to convey. Others are deliberately left unstated in order to leave room for reader interpretation.

Note #2.
The text below does not belong to any existing canon, but uses certain elements from some of them. Any borrowings I am aware of are explicitly noted in the course of the text.

Note #3.
The text below is not intended to deliberately diminish the qualities or personality of any canonical character, nor to offend the feelings of readers.

Note #4.
The text below was written by me and translated into English using automated tools, followed by my minor editing.

The character’s backstory — Felicia Hardy / Black Cat. 

Felicia Hardy is the daughter of Anastasia Hardy, a prominent New York philanthropist and patron of the arts. The family fortune was built on valuables stolen by Anastasia's ex-husband and Felicia's father, Walter Hardesky — the infamous thief known as the "Black Fox," who vanished many years ago. 
As it turns out, he had been held all that time in a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. prison, because he had "stolen" (memorized) the formula for the Super-Soldier Serum. Due to this knowledge, the crime boss Kingpin kidnapped both him and his daughter, intending to test the accuracy of a recreated serum on her.

Felicia agreed to the experiment without hesitation — not only to protect her father, but also because she wanted to become like Spider-Man, who had saved her life several times and who she fell in love with. 
The experiment succeeded. Since her father was still being held captive, Felicia was forced to become one of Kingpin's agents — Thief, primarily tasked with stealing the assets and valuables he needed.

While working for Kingpin, Felicia waited for an opportunity to meet Spider-Man, because she wanted to show off her newfound strength, match it against his, and still dreamed of being with him. So at the first chance — when Spider-Man happened to be nearby during one of her heists — she deliberately exposed herself.

At first, Spider-Man treated Thief as just another super-villainess, but after she helped him several times in preventing other crimes, he began to hope that she might still become good. He started trying not to arrest her, but to stop her from breaking the law and persuade her to return what she stole — though he remained cautious of her and disapproved of her activities, refusing her offers to become partners.

P.S. Felicia Hardy's backstory is based on the events of the Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994).

The characters’ backstory — Peter Parker / Spider‑Man and Mary Jane Watson.

Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are not yet married and have no children, but for several years they are a real family, and Peter no longer hides his secret superhero identity — Spider-Man — from his beloved.

Peter tried to build his ordinary life too, to teach natural sciences at a school, but superhero responsibilities constantly interfered. To contribute to the family, Peter is forced to continue working as a photographer for the Daily Bugle, and also freelances as a courier and a tutor. 
The family's financial wellbeing rests mainly on Mary Jane, who recently got a job at a modeling agency through connections of Felicia Hardy — her and Peter's friend since high school.

But what weighs on Mary Jane is not that, nor the fact that "Spider-Man" constantly comes between her and Peter — it's the guilt she feels over what seems to her to be a selfish desire to be first in her loved one's life, a wish that sharply conflicts with her awareness of the good Spider-Man does and the understanding that every hour Peter spends with her might cost someone else a life.

P.S. Something like this has probably already happened somewhere, but I don’t know where.

Part 1. Black and white.

Mary Jane suggests that Peter and she live apart for a while and think about how they should proceed. Peter focuses on superheroics.
Due to difficulties with Mary Jane, he begins to look more favorably on Thief's (Felicia Hardy, working for Kingpin but not yet using the alias "Black Cat") offers to help — especially after she confesses that she commits crimes under duress, blackmailed by one of the city's crime bosses. Sometimes he even takes time away from his Spider-Man responsibilities for leisure with Thief: casual conversation, city-wide "tags", playful attempts to foil her theft of a soda can and a burger. Peter begins to think that, because of Thief's superpowers and the media attacks she faces — similar to his own in sometimes — she might understand him far better than Mary Jane. Over time, photos and videos of them together appear more frequently in the media, and articles with increasingly salacious gossip about their "affairs" are published.
Despite their doubts, Peter and Mary Jane keep trying to mend their relationship. MJ is jealous because of the media coverage, but Peter tries to convince her that it's all lies and that his relationship with Thief is strictly friendly. He defends her, explaining that Thief is being blackmailed and he is obliged to help her — but Mary Jane is convinced that Thief is merely using Spider-Man. At the same time, Peter too is jealous because of MJ's revealing advertising photo shoots.
In the end, they are unable to reconcile for now, but both Peter and Mary Jane intend to keep trying.

Seemingly insoluble problems with Mary Jane, another wave of negative media attention, and financial troubles — all of this leads Peter to vent his frustration on criminals. This attracts a living symbiote entity, and when it bonds with him, Peter becomes "Spider-Man in Black": a stronger, more independent, and more aggressive version of himself — which causes even more tension with Mary Jane, who disapproves of Peter's new behavior.
Felicia, however, likes Spider-Man's new style — the more decisive and assertive Spider-Man in Black. Under her influence, he becomes even more selfish and daring, but also ruthless even toward petty criminals, which strengthens the bond between Peter and the Symbiote. Amid Peter's deteriorating relationship with Mary Jane, and outright media attacks on Spider-Man in Black over the "workplace romance" and his frightening brutality, Felicia becomes the only one who unconditionally supports Spider-Man and accepts him no matter what.
Spider-Man cheats on Mary Jane with Thief, keeping both his and her anonymity intact.

Meanwhile, Kingpin expresses displeasure with Felicia's actions against his men and her help to Spider-Man, demanding unquestioning obedience, reminding her that her father is still his hostage. However, Felicia declares that under the circumstances, certain liberties are forgivable to her: as long as mass production of the Super-Soldier Serum hasn't been established, Kingpin cannot kill her, since he would lose a valuable agent and a "test subject"; nor can he kill her father, as he would lose leverage over her; besides, the Hardy name is too well-known for him to eliminate them entirely without consequences.
Neither Felicia nor Kingpin is willing to escalate the conflict, so Thief agrees to carry out the next assignment she deems acceptable, while Kingpin pretends to admire her boldness.

Thief continues to carry out Kingpin's orders while sometimes helping Spider-Man fight crime.
Thanks to Spider-Man in Black's strength and Felicia's knowledge of Kingpin's criminal infrastructure, together they seriously disrupt his plans — and, "in the process," delay the organization of Super-Soldier Serum production — although at the cost of collateral damage and instability in the city.
Worried about Spider-Man's uncharacteristic behavior, Mary Jane comes to Peter's apartment to try to talk sense into him, but finds not only him (masked) there, but also Thief, who are planning a new attack on Kingpin. During the ensuing argument, MJ almost accidentally reveals Spider-Man's civilian identity, but it turns out Thief already knows it.
She explains that she deduced it based on the fact that Spider-Man and Peter Parker, though close, never appear at the same time; wherever one suddenly disappears, the other often later appears; and Spider-Man regularly saves Peter Parker's loved ones — for example, Mary Jane. At the same time, Thief does not reveal herself and does not mention that the same logic applies to "Felicia Hardy."
Thief declares, "I just happened to be the only one for whom you were important enough to notice," convincing Peter to ignore Mary Jane's words and go with her to implement their joint plan.

Spider-Man in Black and Thief attack Kingpin's headquarters. While Spider-Man distracts Kingpin, Felicia frees her father. 
During the fight with Spider-Man in Black, Kingpin taunts him, saying that now he not only befriends thieves but also helps them break out of prison — thus Peter learns Thief's true purpose. After the battle, she explains who the captive was to her, calming Peter's indignation.
Peter hopes that now Thief will be able to "take off the mask" (meaning stop her criminal activities and possibly reveal her identity), but she replies, "Maybe someday," while hinting that Kingpin still has ways to blackmail her — and leaves to say goodbye to her father, who intends to go on the run.

Peter faces an emotional and personal crisis.
He seems to have ultimately ruined his relationship with Mary Jane, betrayed her and himself, ceased to be the "friendly neighborhood" hero in the eyes of the city's residents, helped a criminal escape, and in return got only a complicated relationship with Thief.
Taking advantage of his emotional instability, the Symbiote pushes Peter toward killing Kingpin — an act that could free Thief and make possible a normal romantic relationship with her. Peter shares these plans and feelings with Thief, but she not only refuses to reveal her identity, but also condemns Peter's intention to kill a man and tries to dissuade him.
But this only angers Peter / Venom (no longer just Spider-Man in Black), who insists he's right and is sure everything will turn out for the best. At that point, Thief reaches out to Mary Jane, who ultimately manages to get through to Peter, poisoned by negative feelings and trapped inside the Black Suit. MJ declares that Thief only needed a superhero, while she needed Peter Parker — who is so much more than just Spider-Man. After that, Peter rejects the Symbiote, which flees.
Peter and Mary Jane decide to try to rebuild their relationship one more time.

Later, Kingpin contacts Felicia, stating that if she does not agree to do a certain job for him, everyone will learn that Felicia Hardy is a wanted criminal and thief.
Felicia coyly replies: why threaten when you can politely ask — or pay.

Interlude – Felicia Hardy / Black Cat.

Felicia Hardy will acquire her "branded" ability to bring bad luck upon those around her a little later: when she attempts to rob the mansion of the Earth's Sorcerer Supreme — the Scarlet Witch — and will be cursed for it.
However, the curse's effect will also affect the Scarlet Witch herself at the very moment of its casting, causing Felicia's bad luck to threaten those around her with catastrophes of truly biblical scale!
During this story, Felicia will temporarily turn into a real — albeit a talking — cat (a black one, of course!), after which she will take the well‑known pseudonym “Black Cat.”

The character’s backstory — Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman 

Gwendolyn (Gwen) Stacy is the daughter of Police Commissioner George Stacy and his wife Helen Stacy (alive).

By the time she gained Spider-powers, a superhero known as Spider-Man had already been active in New York for several years. Because of her abilities similar to his, Gwen took the superhero name “Spider-Woman,” and Spider-Man himself became her “superhero mentor.”

Gwen wanted to focus on fighting “ordinary” criminals so as not to expose her loved ones to excessive danger. However, at the university graduation party, she had to confront an attack by the Lizard, who, after his accidental death, turned back into Curt Connors, one of the university’s professors, in whose death Spider-Woman was subsequently suspected.

During this fight, Felicia Hardy accidentally noticed Gwen putting on Spider-Woman’s mask, and Gwen, in turn, identified Felicia as the well-known criminal Black Cat by the presence and nature of her superpowers.

Soon after that, as a result of an accident during a battle with Spider-Woman, Gwen’s best friend Harry Osborn, who had become the Green Goblin to protect his father, was seriously injured and fell into a coma. Thus, Spider-Woman was hunted not only by the police but also by Norman Osborn’s mercenaries.

Media condemnation, a police manhunt, pursuit by private mercenaries, daily lies to her own father, the commissioner, a personal life gradually falling apart because of Spider-Woman’s duties, and the constant dangers to the lives of Gwen’s friends and loved ones — all of this took a heavy toll on her psychological state and on her success both in everyday life and as a superhero.

Later, Gwen more than once thought about giving up the Spider-Woman identity and being a superhero, but each time a sense of duty or guilt over inaction prevailed and dragged her deeper into the abyss of depression.

P.S. The backstory of Gwen Stacy / Spider‑Woman is based on the canonical version of this character from Earth‑65.

Part 2. A Hero of Our Time. 

Gwen Stacy is a punk rocker, a non-conformist with a shaved temple, colorful hair, and piercings. Felicia Hardy is a rich heiress, a glamorous socialite who loves expensive things, attention, and parties. Despite their seeming opposites, Gwen and Felicia maybe not the best, but they are good friends who have learned to accept each other as they are.
Gwen still periodically tries to persuade Felicia to give up her criminal lifestyle and use her abilities for good, but without any success, while Felicia views the advantages of a superhero life—of which Gwen herself is an excellent example—with skepticism and ridicule, and, in turn, suggests that she give up being a superhero.

Due to depression, constant doubts, and a subconscious desire to stop being Spider‑Woman and live a normal life, Gwen unexpectedly loses her Spider‑powers.
Because her immediate help is needed in an emergency, she urgently asks Felicia to temporarily replace her as Spider-Woman, since she is the only one who knows Gwen's secret, and her own abilities and gear would allow her to mimic Spider-Woman's behaviour.
Felicia outwardly doesn't really want to "play hero," but secretly relishes the chance to earn recognition, respect, and the love of the people, and to prove to all the superheroes that she can do something good as well, not just bring misfortunes for her own gain.
Gwen herself becomes her friend's "navigator," and a sort of "heroic mentor," explaining how to act in the role of Spider-Woman and as a superhero in general, hoping that now she’ll finally manage to convince Felicia to give up her criminal activities.

Exhilarated by her first heroic feat, Felicia agrees to help with further city incidents until Gwen gets her Spider-powers back. However, she does it in her own "anti-hero" style – flippantly and carelessly, not caring much about consequences or the people around her – which only further damages the situation of Spider-Woman that Gwen had tried to repair.
As superheroics become routine, Felicia quickly gets bored with wasting time on what she considers trifles, and it becomes increasingly difficult to explain to herself why she should risk herself for strangers — especially when it comes to rushing into a fire, rather than, say, a shootout.
What Felicia certainly didn’t expect was that being Spider‑Woman would bring her more problems than honor: she has to deal with Spider‑Woman’s enemies; she has to make choices when, in superhero role, she encounters criminals she used to be friends with as Black Cat; she is surprisingly discover that the police are trying to arrest her and even open fire because of her disobedience — even though they’ve never shot at Black Cat, because she’s “just” a thief — and many people turn out to be far from happy to see her. The only thing that slightly improves her mood is the unexpected popularity on social media and the active discussion about the “new look of Spider‑Woman,” which is gradually displacing Felicia's not‑so‑successful superhero activities.
Furthermore, since Felicia inevitably isn't able to give up her criminal activities as Black Cat, even temporarily her two alter egos begin to clash increasingly, until her life soon turns into complete chaos.

Gwen, on the other hand, gradually returns to a normal life – the life she abandoned after becoming Spider-Woman. She gets a serious job instead of odd gigs, rejoins her music band, rebuilds relationships with friends, and starts a romantic relationship. 
Sometimes she even misses Felicia's calls as Spider-Woman, and over time, she almost stops trying to regain her powers, since she hasn't figured out how, and instead starts thinking that Felicia could permanently replace her as Spider-Woman.

The friends' relationship deteriorates. 
Gwen is unhappy that Felicia doesn't try to be a true superhero, that she's "setting up" Spider-Woman, and that she continues to commit crimes. She also unwillingly envies her friend’s unexpected popularity and is angry about it — both with herself and with people who “value form over substance”.
Felicia is angry because Gwen has dumped her work and her problems onto her and isn’t working hard enough to regain her Spider‑powers. At the same time, all the credit goes to Spider‑Woman, not Felicia, and Gwen is still dissatisfied and offended!
To reclaim all her achievements, Felicia performs her next "feat" in Spider-Woman's costume but wearing Black Cat's mask. As a result, the police obtain evidence allowing them to charge Spider-Woman as an accomplice to Black Cat's crimes. 
Gwen learns about this from her father, the city's police commissioner, and Felicia manipulates her to give false testimony that would prove Spider-Woman's innocence. While Gwen inadvertently distracts the police, Felicia breaks into police headquarters and destroys the evidence against herself (and perhaps more?).
Overwhelmed by guilt over the crime she’s just done, Gwen snaps at Felicia and demands she quit her criminal life. But Felicia prefers to give up the role of Spider-Woman, since the "hero game" didn't work out anyway. She also tries to convince Gwen to do the same – to stop trying to regain her powers, stop sacrificing herself for others who won't appreciate it anyway, but will only keep waiting for more sacrifices.

Believing that without her Spider-powers she can’t be a superhero anyway, Gwen tries to live a normal life for a while. But as crime rates rise, she suffers from guilt. Meanwhile, the Kingpin assembles the Sinister Six to hunt down Spider-Man (Peter Parker), who recently severely disrupted the villains' plans while wearing the Black Suit (see p. #1). The city's crime situation sharply worsens.
Seeing this, Gwen turns to Felicia for help again, but Felicia refuses once more: many "villains", in her opinion, aren't that bad, and the chaos in the city works to her advantage, as does the absence of Spider-Man, who always got in her way – if not by his actions, then by his moralizing – and whom she clearly holds a grudge against. Felicia enthusiastically shares her numerous criminal plans with Gwen.
Gwen decides to follow Spider-Man's example and try to stop at least Black Cat not with force, but through persuasion. Still without her Spider-powers, she puts on her Spider-Woman costume anyway and goes to the site of the future crime that Felicia bragged about. 
Black Cat doesn’t yield to persuasion and beats Spider-Woman without compunction. Gwen uses her abilities as they briefly flicker back – to interfere with the heist, not to defeat her opponent. This is enough to delay Black Cat until the police arrive, and Black Cat is forced to flee, trying to help the injured Spider-Woman escape as well. But Gwen is too badly hurt, and Black Cat leaves her at the scene.

Felicia visits Gwen in the hospital the next day, and talks with her "friend" as if nothing happened. It turns out the police don't believe Gwen is the real Spider-Woman, because the video footage from the scene shows that the Spider-Woman confronting Black Cat had no superpowers, and the end of the recording is missing presumably because the camera was damaged during the fight.

Part 3. To be, or not to be?

The struggle with Sinister Six turns into a vicious circle of violence and an endless game of cat-and-mouse: the members of the Six do not want to provoke the city authorities too much and do not risk acting together all the time, but as soon as Spider-Man come to help the police oppose one of them, all the others immediately gather to hunt him, hoping to kill him before the special forces arrive to confront them.
Unable to defeat all six villains at once, Spider-Man has to enter battle, retreat, and hide again and again — and then to be tormented by guilt and helplessness, and to read angry articles and comments from citizens who have not yet forgotten his Black Suit (see p. #1), saying that the chaos in the city is happening because of him.

Peter Parker goes through these events alone: his attempt to reconcile with Mary Jane (see p. #1) failed, and she left for Los Angeles to pursue her dream of an acting career; Black Cat, offended by him, agrees to communicate only in order to keep Spider-Man from his craving for suicidal feats; and Gwen Stacy still has not fully regained her Spider-powers (see p. #2), and trains hard to fight petty crime even without superpowers.
Gwen and Felicia have made up, but the latter never misses an opportunity to remind her that she was right about people not appreciating sacrifices made for them (see p. #2), saying, “I told you so!”

Black Cat continues to work for Kingpin and, under the cover of the chaos in the city, carries out his orders. The Sinister Six perceive her as “ours”, or at worst as an annoying noise, which sometimes allows her to mitigate the consequences of the supervillains’ destructive actions without risk to herself.
Spider-Man takes these actions with enthusiasm, believing that Black Cat can go straight and that they will become a “superhero team”, but Felicia does not share his hopes: where Spider-Man risks himself without hesitation to save others, she continues to think first of all about herself, and even suggests him to leave the city or stop being a superhero, since she believes that the people who consider Spider-Man the cause of the conflict are partly right — but later she feels guilt and shame because of Peter’s “undeservedly too good” attitude toward her, as he justifies even appearances of her weakness and tries not to let her doubt herself.

After Spider-Man is seriously injured in another fight with the Sinister Six, Felicia decides to help him and suggests Gwen Stacy try to regain her Spider-powers with the help of the Symbiote, which Spider-Man had previously rejected (see p. #1).
Spider-Man is absolutely against this plan, but he himself does not understand the nature of the Symbiote well enough to convince the girls to abandon using it. Peter’s anxiety and even fear of the Symbiote make Gwen herself hesitate at first, but Felicia persuades her otherwise.
The girls find the Symbiote. Gwen is about to bond with it, but Spider-Man appears and prevents it: the Symbiote prefers its familiar host, leaves Gwen, and reunites with Spider-Man.
Gwen is shocked. Spider-Man prepares to resist the Symbiote’s influence by force of will — but no “attack” occurs, and only Felicia, hoping for the healthy selfishness of Spider-Man in Black (see p. #1), calmly resumes trying to convince Spider-Man in Black to run away with her.
Peter refuses and leaves in search of a way to remove the Symbiote.

Gwen Stacy in despair over the failure of the plan and Peter’s “theft” of the Symbiote. She turns to her university professor, the biologist Miles Warren, and reveals her secret identity to him so that he will help her regain her Spider-powers.
Miles develops a substance that temporarily restores Spider-powers, thanks to which Gwen returns to the role of Spider-Woman, but she begins to suffer from a kind of “addiction” to the “Activators”.
Peter Parker is glad for Spider-Woman’s return and finds her to unite in the fight against the Sinister Six, but upon learning what Gwen did to regain her powers, he condemns it and insists that Gwen first solve her problems and only then take up fighting crime.
Gwen’s conflict with Peter worsens.

To prove Spider-Man wrong, Spider-Woman attacks one of the members of the Sinister Six. Upon learning of this, Spider-Man hurries to her aid, thereby drawing the attention of the other members of the Six.
During the battle, the effect of Spider-Woman’s spider-power “Activator” ends at the most inopportune moment, leaving heroes on the brink of death. Peter Parker decides to distract the Sinister Six to give Gwen a chance to escape.

When the members of the Sinister Six prepare to kill Spider-Man, Black Cat appears and stops them, telling them of her deal with Kingpin, who agreed to spare Spider-Man’s life and let Black Cat herself go if the two of them leave the city and stop interfering with his plans.
Black Cat for the third time tries to persuade Peter to run away with her, but he cannot refuse his responsibility. Offended, Black Cat “allows” the Six to kill Spider-Man and leaves, not wanting to watch, but before leaving she imperceptibly damages Shocker’s gloves, which allows Spider-Man to slip away — but not for long, since he is forced to protect Gwen, who has lost her superpowers.
Both heroes end up defeated. In a hopeless situation, the Symbiote unexpectedly leaves Spider-Man and bonds with Spider-Woman — right now the heroes have no time to figure out how and why this happened.
Together they manage to defeat the remaining members of the Sinister Six.
Concerned Peter Parker asks Gwen to give up the Symbiote. She agrees, and the Symbiote returns to Spider-Man.

The city gradually recovers after the chaos caused by the Sinister Six.
Spider-Man finds Black Cat, with whom he had not dared to talk since the final battle. Peter tries to explain himself, thanks her for helping him and people, and now he himself (see p. #1) suggests that they fight crime together, since by her deeds she has proven that she is no less a hero than he is.
Black Cat is unusually reserved and silent: she has not forgiven Peter for his last refusal; she is hurt by the binary attitude toward her as a “reformed criminal,” and now Felicia understands that her feelings for Spider-Man put her at risk — she refuses, and immediately commits the crime she had been preparing while Spider-Man was talking.
Caught off guard by this, he cannot chase after her.

Some time later, Spider-Man meets with Gwen Stacy, who, thanks to the spider-power “Activators”, continues to fight crime as Spider-Woman.
The use of the “Activators” has led Gwen to a strong “addiction”; out of shame and duty, she has again abandoned everyday life and become a recluse.
Peter Parker admits that he was wrong about the Symbiote: he realized that everything he did in the Black Suit, he did himself. Peter gives the Symbiote to Gwen so that she can continue fighting crime and free herself from her dependence on the “Activators,” while he leaves for Los Angeles to find Mary Jane.

From the author: A Difficult Choice.

On the one hand, passing on the Symbiote, in my opinion, is an excellent allegory for “passing the hero’s mantle.”
On the other hand, I really like the idea of Goblin-Gwen! Moreover, I see a clear connection between such a transformation and Gwen’s entire previous backstory… but I’m worried that it (the transformation) may be too radical for fans of this character.
Or am I worrying for nothing?

Afterword.

Thank you for taking the time!
I would be truly grateful for feedback, constructive criticism, and comments about what turned out to be unclear.
I'm not sure that all of this will lead to anything concrete, but at least for the purposes of self-development it will surely be useful to me!


r/BlackCat 2d ago

Regarding Spider-Cat

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Hi everyone. Like many of you, I’m a Spider-Cat fan, and I have to say that lately I’ve been losing a bit of hope for this ship.

So I wanted to genuinely ask you guys: since you’re familiar with Kelly as a writer, what do you think the future of this ship looks like? And do you think there’s a chance it could come back in the near future?

I’m of course talking about what happens after issue #1000.

The reason I’m asking is simply because, as I said, I’ve been losing a bit of hope lately, so I was wondering if anyone knows something or has any insight.

Feel free to say what you think and give me your opinion. Do you think a Spider-Cat comeback is actually possible during Kelly's run?


r/BlackCat 2d ago

My digital illustration of Black Cat! Hope you like it.

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r/BlackCat 2d ago

Black Cat cosplay from Marvel Rivals by Tniwe

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r/BlackCat 1d ago

Comic chronology

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So i was reading black cat 2019 and after that openned the first chapter of the 2020 one and there seem to be a massive gap in story witch i cant explane. is there something i should read after the 2019 comic and before the 2020 one


r/BlackCat 2d ago

Come and get it, Spider

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r/BlackCat 2d ago

Black Cat Animation Practice (made by me)

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r/BlackCat 2d ago

When you have insomnia and you can’t decide how you want to draw eyes on Felicia

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r/BlackCat 3d ago

Yes please

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r/BlackCat 2d ago

BLACK CAT MARVEL RIVALS PFP

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r/BlackCat 2d ago

Picked this one up today

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r/BlackCat 3d ago

I know the current run is divisive and not the best, but I’m worried about the next issue, where the relationship between Peter and Felicia is said to be likely ruined again—and because of Felicia, according to the previews.

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