I read something recently that prompted me to try and create a master list of every movie I've watched, arranged by the year they came out. So far, that's just been me going back through the blog archives (I'm working backwards and finished 2008.) I forgot how many incredibly shitty movies I watched on Netflix in the late 2010s/early 2020s, but also how many movies I watched in the second half of 2011, when I was mostly at my dad's house and there wasn't much else to do. Also the swings between eras. 2011 and 2010, I watched a crapload of movies from the '70s and earlier, very little from the 2000s. 2008 and 2009, almost all stuff from the 2000s.
Ben, Reed and Johnny are off on fishing trip in the Negative Zone, and Sue and Alicia have scarcely even got to relax when Felicia Hardy is at the door, surrounded by cops and covered in blood, asking for help. Felicia was dropping things off in a safety deposit box, and when she stepped out of the vault, tripped over the corpse of the bank teller (a pleasant man named Teller.) The cameras there were down for repair, there's only one access, and that means passing 3 guards, but Felicia insists she is innocent. Sue, reluctantly, for Spider-Man's sake, agrees to help.
(Also, Felicia knows Spider-Man is currently in outer space, which I didn't think was common knowledge since Norman Osborn is running around dressed up as Spidey trying to fight crime.)
One of the guards is willing to talk, after work, but then she gets fired. Not for talking to Sue, but because the guards agree with Felicia, that she was only in the vault for five minutes. But the cameras upstairs, still functional, show 15 minutes passed before Felicia and the guards' brought their Keystone Kops routine upstairs. So they must have been in on it. Sue can't see the logic in all this, committing a heist for such a paltry return and getting caught in the process, but doesn't really want to believe the Black Cat's actually innocent.
Until the time discrepancy element, I figured size-changing. Sue got in easily enough with invisibility, but someone shrinking down seemed more probable (and might explain the limited haul, if they can only shrink so much mass.) As it turns out, the culprit was actually the camera repair guy, using a busted gun of Kang's he bought and repaired the best he could, i.e., enough so it would send people 10 minutes into the future. Teller was in a little restroom behind his desk and outside the radius of the weapon, so he had to drew the short straw of getting killed. It's a little weird of a solution, but I can appreciate playing off the notion of how much weird crap gets left lying around for people to tinker with.
End result, Sue encourages the now-vindicated Felicia to hang out with her and Alicia, and the three of them leave for Vegas the moment the guy's return from the fishing trip. It makes more sense than Sue inviting Emma Frost to her birthday party.
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In ASM #975 Felicia and Clone Spidey meet up and discuss that they don't know where Spidey is but do know that he's alive. I only get one issue of ASM a year these days, just to check in, so I don't know if that thread got developed further, but I can believe that Cat went on to investigate and worked out where Peter is.
Ah, that would explain it. The last I'd seen was the Shattered Remains of Ben Reilly were trying to impersonate Peter (or steal his life), while Osborn was trying to play at being Spider-Man without letting others figure it out, though I think Miles and Spider-Gwen had confronted him.
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