Sharon Smith (Earth-616)

Catseye was a member of the original Hellions recruited by Emma Frost to be a competitive team to the New Mutants and a tool for the Hellfire Club. She had the mutant ability to transform herself into a feline humanoid. Her power was the antithesis of Wolfsbane who could transform into a wolf. She engaged in several battles with the New Mutants mostly petty competition but occasionally got along with the students, sometimes having dances for socialization. Her personality was that of a free spirit. Catseye's youth and comparative lack of sophistication belief a ferocious intelligence. She was capable of total recall from her photographic memory, and instinctively knew when she was being lied to. Under Frost's tutelage, Smith progressed from total illiteracy to upper grade school reading levels in less than a year. She still retained several feline qualities whilst in human form, having been forced to provide for herself since earliest infancy. Catseye more resembled a carefree child in tune with the environment around her. Upon her first meeting with Wolfsbane, rather than attack out of an animal nature, she smelled Rahne and said that the two of them shared a kindred spirit and that they should be friends—this in spite of the obviously played feline/canine feuding roles.

When the New Mutants were in a state of emotional turmoil over being killed and resurrected by the Beyonder, Emma Frost saw it as her opportunity to sweep in and take control. She convinced Magneto—the current leader of the team—to allow the New Mutants to come to the Massachusetts Academy for psychic counseling, where she promptly accepted them into the ranks of her Hellions. Catseye shared a room with Rahne and the two of them became close friends. The two teams became quite fond of one another but were separated when Magneto realized that his emotions had been manipulated by Empath to convince him to relinquish the students.

Soon after, Emma threw another party which the Hellions as well as the X-Men Gold team attended. It was there that Trevor Fitzroy—a member of the villainous group known as the Upstarts—crashed the party with the goal of killing Emma in order to gain points within the group. The Hellions were mere formalities: some were killed in the crossfire and the rest, including Catseye, were drained of their life energies in order to fuel his teleportation portal.

Catseye, along with all other deceased Hellions, have been resurrected by Selene and Eli Bard with the Transmode virus.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Ailuranthropy: ability to transform herself into a lavender-furred feline humanoid. She can transform into either a house cat or a human-panther hybrid (a were-cat).

Superhuman Senses

Superhuman Agility

Superhuman Reflexes

Healing Factor: limited ability to heal damage.

Razor Claws

Prehensile Tail: excellent at grappling, aids her in walking up walls.

Abilities

Catseye retained her human intelligence while in her feline form.

Strength level

In human form she possesses normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build. In feline form her strength is roughly equal to a large tiger’s. As an adult her strength in this form will be greater.

Trivia

It was stated in earlier New Mutants stories that Catseye may in fact be a mutant cat with the power to assume human form, explaining why she found human speech difficult and appeared to be more "animalistic" in character.

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