<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=203270.msg10021637#msg10021637">Quote from: Matttheman89 on 24-05-2014, 00:34:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You know, I've always wondered how Black Cat's bad luck powers work. It seems like they come and go a lot, and sometimes they just work on their own, and other times, like right now in Amazing Spider-Man, she seems to be able to control them at least to a degree.<br/><br/>What's up with that? I guess it's just one of those things that vary to the convenience of the story?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I have always looked at it like this: Her powers are constantly active. They aren't so much bad luck powers as they are odd shifting powers. Things fall in her favor and not anything else's. For instance if she is running from Spider Man, and she jumps atop a ledge  the dives off it and Peter does the same, but the ledge he dives from breaks... Odds shifting in her favor for escape. Or if she is cracking a lock, something she is already very good at, even if she were to mess up the lock may open anyway due to her always active power. Maybe it's even more simple and you can look at the fact that she sneaks around in heels without making a sound. She was just lucky enough that there wasn't anyone around to hear her.