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Real Name: Patricia Walker

Other Known Aliases: Patricia Baxter, Patricia Hellstrom

Status: DECEASED

Place of Birth: United States of America

Origin: Altered Human

Powers: Heightened sensitivity to magic and psionics

Skills: Martial arts, mental discipline, occult lore

Equipment: Cat-suit (peak human strength, speed, agility, and durability; grappling hook, claws)

• Gender: Female
• Age: 31
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• Hair color: Red
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• Ethnic/racial background: Caucasian
• Other distinguishing features: None

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• History: Patricia "Patsy" Walker was the only daughter of Joshua Walker, an aeronautical engineer, and Dorothy Walker, a comic book writer. While she was still a child her mother acted as her agent, helping her at modeling and commercial work. Dorothy Walker's greatest success was the creation of a comic book named after her young daughter, featuring romantic adventures of Patsy and her real-life friends as teenagers. The Patsy Walker comic book was very popular and continued for over a decade, as Patsy grew into and out of her teens. Patsy Walker felt very strange about her mother's fictionalized exploitation of her, and was relived when the series ceased publication. Constantly exposed to comic books, Walker grew to idolize the heroes her mother's colleagues wrote about. However, she ceased daydreaming soon after high school and married her childhood friend, Robert Baxter (who had appeared in the Patsy Walker comic as her romantic interest). Baxter was in the officers training program of the Air Force, and Walker spent the next several years of her life on numerous Air Force bases. While her husband was assigned to a security post at the heavily government-subsidized Brand Corporation in New Jersey, Patsy Walker met the Beast and learned his secret identity. Walker had long idolized "super heroes", and she solicited the promise from him that, in exchange for keeping his secret, he would help her become a "super heroine". When her marriage came to a bitter end, she sought out the Beast, who was a member of the Avengers, to remind him of his promise. Tagging along with the Avengers to investigate criminal activities at the Brand Corporation, Walker discovered the costume worn by Greer Nelson in her identity as the Cat. (The man who financed the creation of the Cat, Mai Donalbain, was a former employee at Brand. His property, including the prototype Cat-suits was later confiscated by the Brand Corporation.) Putting the costume on, Walker dubbed herself Hellcat and used her natural athletic abilities to help the Avengers. Walker believed that the costume had somehow enhanced her agility and speed, and by the power of suggestion more than anything else, it had. Although she accepted membership to the Avengers, Hellcat was persuaded by the Titanian priestess Moondragon to accompany her to Titan to undergo a period of training. During her stay on Titan, Hellcat's minor psionic potential was artificially enhanced by various electronic/ organic devices (Moondragon used similar technology to give powers to Angar the Screamer and Ramrod) and was given extensive martial arts training. Upon her return to Earth, she met the Defenders and decided to accept their offer of membership. Hellcat remained a core member of the loosely-organized Defenders for several years, becoming particularly close to the Valkyrie and Nighthawk. Eventually she met Daimon Hellstrom, who in his costume guise of the Son of Satan, joined the Defenders for a short time. After he was cured of his demonic aspect she found that she was in love with him. Renouncing her costumed identity, Patsy Walker decided to wed Hellstrom. The couple was married in Greentown, Ohio, where her father currently resided. The wedding, attended by several of her Defenders colleagues, was interrupted by her ex-husband "Buzz" Baxter who had assumed the costumed guise of Mad-Dog, and the villain team Mutant Force. The Defenders repulsed the attack and Hellstrom himself subdued Mad-Dog. The Hellstroms then moved to San Francisco and established themselves as occult investigators. In this capacity, they helped several superheroes in mystical problems, notably the Avengers' West Coast branch. In helping the Avengers, Pasty again donned the Hellcat costume and remained on hand to help them capture the villains Tiger Shark and Whirlwind. Sometime later, however, Hellstrom's dark soul reasserted itself and Patsy was driven mad at the sight of it. She languished in a near-vegetable state for months afterward until the mercy-killing entity Deathurge sensed her despair and, at her request, freed her spirit from her body, effectively killing herself. She soon after contacted Earth from a spirit plane and announced her intention via radio to return in the near future.