Felicia Hardy

Growing up, Felicia Hardy was very close to her dad, Walter Hardy, who, unbeknownst to her, was a world-renowned cat burglar. When she was thirteen years old, he was arrested, and not wanting his daughter to follow in his footsteps, he asked Felicia's mother Lydia to tell her he had died in a plane crash. Felicia was devastated but soon found out the truth and began looking into his deeds, feeling inspired by all the stories about her father's heists. As news of Walter's conviction spread, Felicia became an outcast in school. Already a great gymnast, she decided to join karate classes to improve her fighting skills, quickly rising in the ranks as she mastered the finer points of Gōjū-ryū. A few years later, she found her dad's lock picks and rapidly mastered their use as well. Later in her teens, she got pinched after a heist gone wrong, but was freed from prison by the Black Fox, her father's mentor, who took Felicia as his new pupil, alongside fellow thief Tamara Blake. They pulled many heists together for many years, but eventually, she decided she had learned everything from Black Fox and decided to move on. Feeling Tamara wasn't ready and not wanting her to get pinched, she decided to leave without saying anything to her. After finding out her father had terminal cancer, she decided to provide him with a worthy ending. She donned the Black Cat costume for the first time and broke into the police precinct's files to identify ex-cons Boris Korpse and Bruno Grainger, who she paid to help break her father out of prison. She ran into Spider-Man but successfully eluded him, bringing her father safely home, where he perished in the company of her mother.