Selina Kyle, more famously known as Catwoman, is a thief-turned-vigilante, and an ally as well as love interest and former girlfriend of Batman.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Selina Kyle is Catwoman, a Gotham City vigilante and thief, who cross path with Batman on several occasions. She later starts operating as a frequent ally of the Bat-Family.
Batman vs. Robin[]
In Batman's drug-induced hallucination, courtesy of the Court of Owls, Catwoman was one of the dead surroundings of an adult Damian Wayne, whose rage destroyed Gotham City.
Selina appears as one of three women in Bruce's dream, another one being Samantha Vanaver.
Batman: Hush[]
Bruce met Selina at a party organized by his friend Tommy Elliot and became suspicious. She stole the money meant for a child's ransom while under the control of Poison Ivy. Bruce as Batman tried to chase her down but was interrupted by Hush. She and Batgirl save him from a group of thugs while he's injured.
Selina later hands over the money to Poison Ivy, who engulfs her lips in a deep kiss to keep her under her hypnotism. She later agrees to tell Bruce about Ivy's location, wanting revenge for her manipulation, but says she isn’t done with her demands. She slips her arms around his neck and kisses him passionately. The two start becoming romantically attracted to each other, and she allies with him in order to take her down.
When they are confronted by Superman under the control of Ivy, Selina drops Lois Lane from the Daily Planet to break him out of the hypnotism. The three ally to take Ivy down, who reveals that she was made to do it by Hush. Bruce and Selina later go on a date, which is interrupted when Harley Quinn attacks them.
After a confrontation with Hush, Batman asks Selina to leave Gotham and entrusts her with his secret identity. She, however, decides to stay by his side and take down Hush. While investigating a graveyard break-in, she and Nightwing are attacked by Scarecrow, but she manages to defeat him. Selina is however captured by Hush.
Hush tries to kill her, but Batman's intervention allows her to escape her shackles. After Bruce gets injured in a fight with Hush, revealed to be the Riddler, she helps Bruce in taking him down. Batman tried to rescue him from falling to his death with his grapnel as the factory explodes around them.
Selina however decides to let the Riddler die and cuts Batman's grapnel line to allow them time to escape. She states that she understands his moral code, but she isn't like him, deciding to end their relationship and hoping that they can resume it again someday.
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War[]
While Selina Kyle's fate is uncertain during the Apokolips War, she is presumably killed by Paradooms along with most of the residents of Gotham City.
Tommorowverse[]
More info: Selina Kyle (Tomorrowverse)
Physical Appearance[]
Selina is a beautiful young woman with fair skin and a slender, athletic build.
She has captivating olive-green eyes, red lips, straight nose, and a black pixie haircut.
As Catwoman, she wears a black skintight catsuit with a matching cowl with short cat ears and emerald-green goggles, black gloves with retractable claws and black flat-soled boots.
Her citizen outfits consist of black-sleeveless dresses and black-heeled shoes.
Personality[]
Selina was a greedy, tricky, mocking and thieving woman who enjoys robbing Gotham City. However, deep down, she is caring, heroic, athletic, brave and bold. She loves and cares about the people she is close to her, especially Batman.
Selina is a helpless romantic who enjoys seeing Batman fight other criminals and break things and shows her romantic side to Bruce at her apartment and Wayne Manor.
Selina is easily manipulated as shown when she was placed under Poison Ivy's spell to steal the ransom money from Bane. She also has a vengeful side as shown when she threatens Ivy for brainwashing her with her kiss and sends Riddler/Hush to his death after she sliced through Batman's grapple line.
Selina shows her caring side during Thomas Elliot's funeral, she places her hand on Bruce's to comfort him, and the confrontation with Scarecrow at the cemetery when Nightwing was infected by Scarecrow's fear gas, Selina injects him with the antidote from the syringe he dropped.
Selina can sometimes feel foolish for her actions as shown at the end after Hush's death when she and Batman escaped the burning metalworks, she is seen crying after her disagreement with Batman over his moral code.
Abilities[]
- Master Combatant: Selina is a highly agile fighter. She is capable of easily taking down several grown men at once, usually with a single kick. She is also able to hold her own against Batgirl, and defeat Scarecrow, albeit she was assisted by Nightwing.
- Peak Human Speed: Catwoman´s speed, reflexes, coordination, and dexterity are nearly on par with Batman himself.
- Master Acrobat: Selina is also a highly skilled acrobat, being able to perform complex twists, flips, and somersaults to evade her opponents' attacks or to make a swift escape. Selina incorporates her prodigious acrobatics into her fighting style to make her movements more sleek and fluid, akin to an actual cat.
- Whip Mastery: Selina is adept with the use of her signature whip. She can use it to grapple or swing away, as well as use it to ensnare people's limbs, and smack weapons out of their hands from a distance.
Equipment[]
- Catsuit
Weapons[]
- Claws: Selina's catsuit includes a set of sharp retractable claws on each hand, which she can use to slash and cut her opponents.
- Whip: Selina's primary weapon is her signature whip, which she uses to swing around, ensnare an opponent's limps, and smack weapons from her opponent's hands to disarm them.
Appearances[]
Films[]
- Batman vs. Robin (visions)
- Batman: Bad Blood (dream)
- Batman: Hush
Gallery[]
Main article: Selina Kyle/Gallery
Trivia[]
- Selina was first teased back in Batman vs Robin in a hallucination and later in Batman: Bad Blood as one of three women in a lucid dream sequence.
- Her appearance is based off her look in DC Rebirth.
- She has a long history with Bruce way before Bruce knew her identity, it is alluded that they did have a relationship (though short term) back in the day.