No actually Black Cat is a lot different. I'm just going off of TDKR mostly tho, cuz that and Burton's Catwoman are all I know enough to speak about.
There's different angles that people take on the relationship, but I think she'd work best in a movie (and I don't mean this in a crude or simple way) as an 'other woman' that Peter ends up using as an escape from the complexity of grown up marriage with MJ. Like at that point where you so much love a person that you can't walk away, you actually want to work things out with them and be a responsible adult and own up to the mistakes and faults about yourself, but you keep running into the same problems and it just seems impossible for anything to ever work out. And then you start to blame yourself and them and you start thinking sometimes that love really shouldn't be so much work.
So after Spider-Man and Felicia get over all the meeting, and fighting and getting used to one another, they get along real perfectly, and there's no issues about him being a super-hero becuz she's kind of one too, and he doesn't have to think or deal with all the real life stuff. And MJ can sense something of course, and it becomes like an addiction that just further estranges them and eventually leads to a choice he has to make about what he's going to value in his life, or if he has any right to keep putting MJ through the torment of maybe wasting her love and sacrificing her own needs to be married to Spider-Man.
And becuz of all that, I think she'd work real perfect against the backdrop of the whole symbiote suit, first the initial high and then thru the following crash, when Peter is drained and worn down from it, more impulsive, and more selfish in acting on his own needs. There's a lot of stuff for her all throughout a story like that.
But even besides my own obsession with her playing that role in a Venom trilogy, there's things about their relationship with each other that sets Black Cat apart from Catwoman. Like early on, she's really obsessed with Spider-man, like in a crazy way. And I think there's always kind of a feeling that she loves Spider-Man and not Peter, at least romantically. There's a famous issue that I think they have sex, she's not in any costume, but he keeps his mask on. I haven't read that one so I don't know if that's specifically her idea or not. But then also, she becomes a close friend of MJ's at certain points cuz they both know his secret identity and she's a lot of comfort to her and helps MJ out a lot too, which is a really cool aspect of the whole thing with Black Cat, how close she and Peter actually became as friends.
For some reason, women in the Spider-Man comics often seem to be really well written and more fleshed out than what is typical in other books.
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