This article contains spoilers for the Black Cat Annual 2021.

Marvel's Korean Avengers are taking inspiration from DC's Suicide Squad -as they force the Black Cat to join the team. Marvel's comics tend to be focused on North America, which means American teams like the Avengers are often treated as though they're the only superheroes in the world. In reality, though, there are supposed to be mutants and metahumans all over the globe, meaning most countries have assembled their own Avenger equivalents.

Take, for example, the Republic of Korea. Super-spy White Fox is the leader of Korea's Tiger Division, a superhuman response team that includes some serious heavy-hitters. Their most powerful member is Taegukgi, named after the national flag of South Korea, who's as strong as Hyperion or the Sentry; other team-members include the living totem known as the General, an unkillable god called Mr. Enigma, the cryokinetic Luna Snow, the android GUN-R II, and the sorceress Auntie Ante. But when Taegukgi falls under the psychic control of a terrorist group determined to wreak havoc, White Fox elects to add another member to the team - Black Cat.

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As seen in Jed MacKay and Joey Jazquez's Black Cat Annual, Felicia Hardy is spotted on a stopover at Incheon Airport, and White Fox borrows a trick from DC's Suicide Squad by offering her a literal get-out-of-jail-free card in exchange for going on a job for the Republic of Korea. Black Cat agrees to the mission before knowing the scale of the problem she's dealing with, but when she attempts to bow out, White Fox reveals she's been implanted with a nanomunition in her neck that will kill her if she tries to skip the country. It's not quite as explosive as the DC version - apparently, it would simply cause Black Cat to bleed out internally - but a bomb in the neck is straight out of Amanda Waller's playbook.

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White Fox insists there was no way she was going to tell a sneak-thief like Black Cat a state secret without some sort of insurance, but the real comedy comes from the revelation this isn't the first time she's used such a technique. Apparently, she did the same with Mr. Enigma, but he turned out to be just as indestructible as his reputation. Still, this may well mean past members of Tiger Division have been recruited using the Suicide Squad method as well, meaning Korea's Avengers may turn out to be a team Amanda Waller would be proud of.

The plot of the Black Cat Annual is tremendous fun, and hopefully, it's a back-door pitch to a new Tiger Division series as the characters are deeply compelling, and it would be fun to see more of them. Perhaps they could even return in the pages of Marvel's current Black Cat book, given the great dynamic between Felicia Hardy and the White Fox - and maybe next time South Korean hero Taegukgi will be an ally rather than an enemy.

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