History ComicBook / Hellcat

''Hellcat'' is the title of several comic book series from Creator/MarvelComics, all of which star Patsy Walker as the titular Hellcat and are set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

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ComicBook/PatsyWalker is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Otto Binder and Ruth Atkinson, first appearing in ''Miss America Magazine'' #2 (dated November 1944), later reimagined as Hellcat by Steve Englehart and George Pérez in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #144 (dated February 1976).

Initially introduced as the protagonist of romance comics in TheForties, Patsy Walker was integrated into the MarvelUniverse decades later during the TheSeventies, serving as the lab assistant of [[ComicBook/BeastMarvelComics Dr. Hank McCoy]]. (Patsy's eventual [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands inability to stick to one career]] eventually becomes a {{running gag}}.)

When Patsy comes into the possession of a [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman superpowered suit]] formerly owned by Greer Grant (better known Tigra), she officially adopts the persona of Hellcat. In the following years, she becomes a stalwart member of both ComicBook/TheAvengers as well as ComicBook/TheDefenders, becomes close friends with ComicBook/SheHulk, and even marries ComicBook/DaimonHellstrom -- the son of {{Satan}} himself. (Yes, really.)

Patsy (sometimes as Hellcat) has appeared in other media. She's most notably appeared in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as Trish Walker, portrayed by Creator/RachaelTaylor. This version is the secondary protagonist of ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' and is Jessica's best friend and adoptive sister. Trish borrows elements from both her mainstream and ComicBook/{{Ultimate|Marvel}} incarnations, characterized as a {{former child star}}[=-=]turned-media personality. Outside of ''Jessica Jones'', she later shows up in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', and a voiceover cameo in the first season of ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''. It isn't until the end of ''Jessica Jones'' season 2 that Trish finally goes on her way to becoming Hellcat, when dosages of experimental drug gives her heightened (catlike) senses and improved strength.

For tropes specific to Patsy's original incarnation, please refer to [[ComicBook/PatsyWalker that page]].

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!! Hellcat appears in:
[[AC: Notable Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' (various volumes)
* ''ComicBook/TheDefenders'' (various volumes)
* ''Hellcat'' (2000)
* ''Patsy Walker: Hellcat'' (2008 -- 2009)
* ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' (vols. 3 & 4)
* ''ComicBook/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat'' (2015 -- 2017)
* ''ComicBook/IronMan2020Ongoing'' (2020--)

[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (2015 -- 2019), portrayed by Creator/RachaelTaylor:
** ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' (2015 -- 2019)
** ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' (2016) [[note]](voice cameo)[[/note]]
** ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' (2017)

[[AC: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelsAvengers'' (2016)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' (added in 2016)
* ''VideoGame/AvengersAcademy'' (added in 2016)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'' (added in 2017)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'' (added in 2020)
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!! Hellcat provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: What she has become as Hellcat.
* AmicableExes: Averted with her first (and ex-)husband, Buzz, who becomes {{supervillain}} Mad Dog. Then again, [[AnimalJingoism it's less than likely for a cat and a dog to be amicable in the first place]]. Also Daimon, who clearly isn't over her even if she doesn't want the guy who drove her to suicide back.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: mostly animal alias variety, as her superpowers are "only" PsychicPowers and thus have nothing to do with a cat. Her claws are derived from her costume.
* AscendedFangirl: She has long idolized superheroes of Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
* BadassAbnormal: Along with peak athletic capabilities, Patsy has minor PsychicPowers and InstantCostumeChange.
* CatGirl:
** Cat-Eared Headband Costumers variety. [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071204143853/marveldatabase/images/f/fc/Marvel_Comics_Presents_Vol_2_2_Textless.jpg Her costume]] was given by the original The Cat, Greer Grant Nelson, who is now known as Tigra, an actual catgirl.
** She's a traditional CatGirl in the ''Comicbook/HeroesReborn'' universe, as she's a CompositeCharacter with the aforementioned Tigra. Also in Comicbook/UltimateMarvel, where Loki eventually mixes Patsy with a leopard.
* DeadpanSnarker: While she remains quite idealistic, everything Patsy's been through helps her react this way to her surroudings.
-->I know what you're thinking. Oh, this is disgusting. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Never never never go swimming with possessed and possibly mythical creatures... by yourself... in Alaska.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: During UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks, Daimon had a hard time controlling his demonic side, which led to Patsy taking her own life. Fortunately, after righting himself, Daimon was able to have her brought BackFromTheDead.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Her superpowers are her psychic powers. Aside from wearing costume with claws and grappling-hook, her fighting abilities are natural.
* EvilCounterpart: Her first ex-husband, Mad Dog
* TheFashionista: She might have retired from being a model, but [[http://englishfortamils.com/comics/cache/Marvel-Comics/Patsy%20Walker%20-%20Hellcat/Patsy%20Walker%20-%20Hellcat%20002/Patsy%20Walker%20-%20Hellcat%20002-014_795.jpg clothes still tickle her fancy.]]
* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: AnimalThemeNaming variant. She is cat-themed superheroine and Buzz is dog-themed supervillain.
* FemmeFatalons: Her costume has retractable casehardened, steel alloy claws on both the gloves and boots, enabling her to rend brick or stone. She later replaced them with conventional gloves and boots.
* FieryRedhead: Just like the fictionalized Patsy, this real Patsy is a redhead and fiery.
* FormFittingWardrobe: Just look at her costume in the picture, which is given by Tigra.
* FunPersonified: Ever since her post-death {{retool}}. With rare exceptions when her life is really down, she's always giddy, seeking fun things to do, and firing quips about her surroundings. To the point that Comicbook/{{Gambit}} [[http://68.media.tumblr.com/e90e449b0f105c9de88a700db2194b1b/tumblr_mhi0wizaKe1r317y8o1_1280.jpg is afraid when he sees the girl he's been set up on a date is Patsy...]]
* GrapplingHookPistol: Hellcat occasionally employed her cable-claw, which straps to her wrist and uses a compressed-gas firing mechanism to propel a four clawed grappling hook connected to a 30-foot length of steel-niobium alloy memory-cable (that coils itself back into its spool upon rewinding), which she used for swinging or tightrope walking.
* InstantCostumeChange: Ever since her return from Hell, Patsy can summon her costume at will.
* LegacyCharacter: To the original Cat (Tigra).
* MaleGaze / DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5bd9e5fcf0504583f58468340b156b39.jpg Was this actually necessary?]]
* PsychicPowers: She once possessed enhanced psionic abilities, due to the mental stimulation of Moondragon's Titanian technology. She could [[MindOverMatter move small objects telekinetically]], resist mental control, and on one occasion was able to generate a psychokinetic force-blast. Moondragon has since used her own advanced psionic powers to undo the effects of her psychic augmenter. Since then, Walker’s psychic abilities have returned but to a far lesser degree than at their peak. She no longer has any psychokinetic ability, but she is still sensitive to certain psychic phenomena.
* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex-Husband]]: Two of them, Mad-Dog and Son of Satan. The latter in particular is a ''literal'' ex from Hell who frequently wants Patsy back.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: The miniseries ''Patsy Walker: Hellcat'' had Patsy's assignment in the [[ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative Avengers 50 State Initiative]] be part of the Avengers team in Alaska - well, a team of one, given there was a shortage of personnel... at first, she feels as if it was a punishment like most cases of the trope, but ends up having much fun in The Last Frontier.
* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: Twice, after her suicide (the Avengers unknowingly rescued her soul from Hell thinking she was the recently deceased Comicbook/{{Mockingbird}}) and after she [[DealWithTheDevil accepted to stay with Daimon if he cured Firebird's cancer]] (leading Firebird, Black Cat and Photon to go save her).
* {{Retool}}: She went from being a mostly comedic character, [[TookALevelInBadass to the superheroine Hellcat]], to HappilyMarried with Daimon Hellstrom - until he went evil, drove her mad and made her kill herself. She came BackFromTheDead, and has been a mostly lighthearted heroine ever since.
** The contrast between the teen humour book and the suicidal superheroine was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d with the title of her in-universe autobiography: ''Film/{{Gidget}} Goes to Hell''.
* SelfDeprecation: She's not actually comfortable about her mother’s fictionalized exploitation of her, and was relieved when the InUniverse series ceased publication.
* ToHellAndBack: She died at least twice, when an evil Asgardian tried to take over Valhalla with an ArmyOfTheDead, and after Daimon fell into TheDarkSide, leading Patsy to insanity and seeking relief through suicide.
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* ''ComicBook/IronMan2020Series'' (2020--)

* ''ComicBook/IronManVol6'' (2020--21)

When Patsy comes into the possession of a [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman superpowered suit]] formerly owned by Greer Grant (better known Tigra), she officially adopts the persona of Hellcat. In the following years, she becomes a stalwart member of both ComicBook/TheAvengers as well as ComicBook/TheDefenders, becomes close friends with ComicBook/SheHulk, and even marries [[AntiAntiChrist Daimon Hellstrom]] -- the son of {{Satan}} himself. (Yes, really.)

* Main/EvilCounterpart: Her first ex-husband, Mad Dog

Patsy (sometimes as Hellcat) has appeared in other media. She's most notably appeared in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as Trish Walker, portrayed by Creator/RachaelTaylor. This version is the secondary protagonist of ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' and is Jessica's best friend and adoptive sister. Trish borrows elements from both her mainstream and ComicBook/{{Ultimate|Marvel}} incarnations, characterized as a {{former child star}}[=-=]turned-media personality. Outside of ''Jessica Jones'', she later shows up in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', and a voiceover cameo in the first season of ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''. It isn't until the end of ''Jessica Jones'' season 2 that Trish finally goes on her way to becoming Hellcat.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (2015 -- present), portrayed by Creator/RachaelTaylor:
** ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' (2015 -- present)

Initially introduced as the protagonist of romance comics in TheForties, Patsy Walker was integrated into the MarvelUniverse decades later during the TheSeventies, serving as the lab assistant of [[ComicBook/BeastMarvelComics Dr. Hank McCoy]]. (Patsy's eventual [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs inability to stick to one career]] eventually becomes a {{running gag}}.)

Patsy (sometimes as Hellcat) has appeared in other media. She's most notably appeared in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as Trish Walker, portrayed by Creator/RachaelTaylor. This version is the secondary protagonist of ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' and is Jessica's best friend and adoptive sister. Trish borrows elements from both her mainstream and [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate]] incarnations, characterized as a {{former child star}}[=-=]turned-media personality. Outside of ''Jessica Jones'', she later shows up in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', and a voiceover cameo in the first season of ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''. It isn't until the end of ''Jessica Jones'' season 2 that Trish finally goes on her way to becoming Hellcat.

** The contrast between the teen humour book and the suicidal superheroine was {{lampshaded}} with the title of her in-universe autobiography: ''Film/{{Gidget}} Goes to Hell''.

ComicBook/PatsyWalkeris a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Otto Binder and Ruth Atkinson, first appearing in ''Miss America Magazine'' #2 (dated November 1944), later reimagined as Hellcat by Steve Englehart and George Pérez in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #144 (dated February 1976).

'''ComicBook/PatsyWalker''' is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Otto Binder and Ruth Atkinson, first appearing in ''Miss America Magazine'' #2 (dated November 1944), later reimagined as '''Hellcat''' by Steve Englehart and George Pérez in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #144 (dated February 1976).

Initially introduced as the protagonist of romance comics in UsefulNotes/TheForties, Patsy Walker was integrated into the MarvelUniverse decades later during the UsefulNotes/TheSeventies, serving as the lab assistant of [[ComicBook/BeastMarvelComics Dr. Hank McCoy]]. (Patsy's eventual [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs inability to stick to one career]] eventually becomes a {{running gag}}.)

Patsy (sometimes as Hellcat) has appeared in other media. She's most notably appeared in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as '''Trish Walker''', portrayed by Creator/RachaelTaylor. This version is the secondary protagonist of ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' and is Jessica's best friend and adoptive sister. Trish borrows elements from both her mainstream and [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate]] incarnations, characterized as a {{former child star}}[=-=]turned-media personality. Outside of ''Jessica Jones'', she later shows up in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', and a voiceover cameo in the first season of ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''. It isn't until the end of ''Jessica Jones'' season 2 that Trish finally goes on her way to becoming Hellcat.

Patsy (sometimes as Hellcat) has appeared in other media. She's most notably portrayed by Creator/RachaelTaylor in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, primarily in ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' as the titular character's best friend and adoptive sister. This version of the character --calling herself [[AdaptationalNameChange Trish]]-- borrows elements from both her mainstream and [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate]] incarnations, characterized as a {{former child star}}[=-=]turned-media personality. Outside of ''Jessica Jones'', she later shows up in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', and can be heard in an episode of ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''. [[note]](As of ''The Defenders'', she's yet to actually suit up as Hellcat.)[[/note]]

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