Copycat



Copycat is a death streak perk in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, that enables a player to copy the class of the last person to kill them after dying four times in a row (three times with Hardline Pro) without getting a kill. To activate Copycat, press the weapon switch key when you are either seeing your character die or during the KillCam. Your killer is notified that you copied their class.

Analysis
If you kill the person you copied with their own class, you get the Copycat Emblem of the CopyCat symbol and the Title ID Thief.

Using Copycat grants the player everything that was in their killer's class, regardless of whether or not the player has it unlocked yet. This includes perks, attachments, camos, guns, and equipment. You do not get Pro perks if the other player has them, however, if you do have the Pro perks, you still get to use them.

Note that the associated challenges for weapons, perks and equipment do not unlock until the equipment itself unlocks, so while copying a higher-ranked player's class may allow access to more gear, it also prevents you from improving your regular loadout, as kills you make with unavailable weapons are effectively being "wasted" rather than completing weapon challenges.

Trivia

 * Copycat's first icon was a black cat (hence the name) instead of a thief.
 * When you die 4 times, you can copy the class but when you die you need to die 4 times again. If you die 5 times, you can copy the killers class, die again, and still copy the killers class, effectively giving you two copycats for the price of 1 and a fifth Death.
 * Copying the class of someone using One Man Army perk and subsequently using One Man Army to switch to another class will cause the player to keep respawning with the copied One Man Army class.
 * If the player copies an enemy class and gets teamkilled (in Hardcore Team Deathmatch), he will respawn with the same copied class