Black Cat has been teetering the line between hero and villain for a long, long time now. Though she’s spent a lot of her time with one of Marvel’s greatest heroes, Spider-Man, his morals haven’t exactly rubbed off on her.
While Black Cat has often aided Spidey in his effort to save the city, she’s also been a very bad kitty. From stealing and murder to blackmail and extortion, Black Cat has done it all. But what are the very worst things that the cat-like thief has done? Let’s find out in our list.
10 Abusing Spidey’s Secret
Like many of her villainous companions in the know, Black Cat has repeatedly used the fact that she knows the web-slingers secret identity against him.
Though she may be in love with Spider-Man, she has very mixed feelings about the man underneath the mask. She may not have spent her time threatening Peter’s family on the regular, or attempting to kill all of his closest loved ones, but with the knowledge of Spidey’s most closely guarded secret she has definitely done some damage.
9 Eating Iron Fist
Black Cat has done some pretty horrendous things in her time teetering the line between hero and villain, but perhaps one of her most horrific actions was full-blown eating a superhero.
Okay, Okay. She may have been a zombified version of herself at the time (this would be in the Marvel Zombies universe but that certainly doesn’t change the fact that she bit clean through an (apparently) scrumptious looking Iron Fist. Though he had managed to punch a hole clear through her chest, even that wouldn’t stop the hungry cat. Talk about a fancy feast.
8 Faking Her Own Death (A Bunch)
Like many found throughout the wonderous panels of comic book history, Black Cat has found herself dead and resurrected more times than she can count. What’s unique about her situation, however, is that most of the time she was simply lying about being dead.
Time and time again she has fooled an all-too-gullible Spider-Man into believing that his feline crush had met her demise. Though she may be playing a bit too heavily into the whole “cats have nine lives” stereotype, it has managed to actually save her life a few times.
7 Killing A Friend
Black Cat has done some truly despicable things over the course of her very long career, but perhaps one of the worst things she’s done is murdering her own friend. After becoming a crime boss (which will be discussed later), Black Cat decides that the easiest way for her to go about her day would be use mind control on the police and courts, so she can avoid being the target of any investigations.
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So she contacts an old friend, a mind-control specialist, in order to help her out. This friend, however, would find themselves on the wrong side of the cat’s claws after the pair become cornered by some of New York’s finest heroes.
6 Bad Luck Powers
Black Cat and Spidey have an incredibly complicated relationship, to say the least. At various times throughout the course of their long history, Black Cat has wanted to help Spidey, save Spidey, Kill Spidey and everything in between. However, it was during one of the times when she hopes to help Spidey that she managed to do the most damage.
After hanging around Spidey for a while, Cat began to feel in little inadequate as a normal human being. Spidey could do any number of extraordinary things, yet she was only capable of so much as a regular human. In order to fix the gap in their abilities, Black Cat sought out a way to get powers that would match her purrfectly. However, the bad luck powers that she received, later revealed to be the workings of Kingpin, made Spidey’s life miserable as long as she was around.
5 Becoming A Thief After Saving Her Dad
Though Black Cat has bounced back and forth between hero and villains so many times that even Reed Richards couldn’t count them all, when she first put on the costume it was for a (relatively) noble cause, saving her father. Sure, maybe her father was an infamous thief.
Sure, maybe she had broken into police precincts in order to find the blueprints of the prison that her father was locked up in, but the guy was her father. And he was about to die in prison. So sure, saving her father wasn’t such a bad thing. It was everything that came afterward that remains in question.
4 Beating Up Mary Jane Watson
Though Black Cat and Mary Jane have rarely been on the best of turns, typically it hasn’t turned violent. They may be rivals to the affections of New York’s favorite spider, but under normal circumstances, they have respected each other enough not get into an altercation.
However, on the opposite side of that, Mary Jane Watson has been attacked by Black Cat before. In Amazing Spider-Man #331, Felicia ambushes MJ in her apartment and threatens to steal Spidey away from her and threatens her. Thankfully, Mary Jane has survived Black Cat’s assaults and the pair have even worked together on several locations.
3 Stealing Peter’s Blood
This list is filled with some of the most messed up things that Black Cat has ever done. However, while she has been a very bad kitty time and time again, this is perhaps one of the worst things the villainous Black Cat has ever done.
Not only does she abuse Spider-Man’s trust by breaking into a lab and stealing a vile of his blood that a price had been put on, but she then hand delivers the vile to one of Spider-Man’s rogues, Morbius.
2 Letting Her Jealousy Take Control
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but jealousy cause that crazy kitty to do so of the worst things she’s ever done. Black Cat has vowed to destroy Spider-Man after finding out that he had gotten married to Mary Jane Watson during one of her many disappearances. As previously mentioned, Cat has opened an entire can of whoop-ass on Mary Jane before.
Black Cat may be elegant and graceful when it comes to toeing the line between good and evil, but when she gets jealous all pretenses fall away and she goes right for the kill.
1 Becoming Kingpin
Though Black Cat has made a career on becoming one of the finest thieves in the entire Marvel landscape, a Cat can only climb so far before she runs out of upper trajectory.
With this in mind, Black Cat decided to team up with the like of Scorpion and Tombstone in order to make a play for more power than she had ever been able to accumulate on her own. But as her quest for power continued, Black Cat inched closer and closer to becoming a straight-up villain.