Marvel Uses Black Cat To Create Its Own Mission: Impossible
Warning: contains spoilers for Iron Cat #1!
Marvel's Black Cat embarks on a brand-new mission of her own in her latest limited series, which sees more than a passing resemblance to the increasingly-popular Mission Impossible franchise. The adventures of Felicia Hardy as Spider-Man's third love interest always make for an exciting read, as the character's mysterious past and occasional femme-fatale demeanor lend themselves nicely to a spy narrative. But Iron Cat #1 brings the Mission Impossible style along with an interesting Marvel twist.
The Black Cat is a fan-favorite character in the Spider-Man universe, albeit one not seen as frequently as Mary Jane or Gwen Stacy. She first appeared as a villain inAmazing Spider-Man #194 in 1979 as the daughter of a world-famous cat burglar. Although she was introduced as an enemy without any powers, the Kingpin changed her and granted her the unconscious power to affect probability fields, granting «bad luck» to her enemies (this is rarely mentioned in modern-day comics, however, and the canonicity is largely determined by whoever happens to write the character at any given time).
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In Iron Cat #1, written by Jed MacKay with art by Pere Perez, Black Cat reminisces about an earlier adventure in Pershyy Misto, the Republic of Carnelia twelve years before the present day. Even before Black Cat's origin, she was being chased by a squad of police cars while delivering a stolen diamond to her handler, employer and friend: the Black Fox. Stylized after a gentleman thief archetype, the Black Fox is polite, cunning, and devious to the extreme, employing the unstable government of the location to essentially call the police
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