Catwoman (2004 film)

Patience Phillips, also known as Catwoman, is the titular main protagonist of the 2004 superhero movie of the same name.
Living by herself, Patience is a woman who works in the art department for a beauty product agency which produces beauty products such as a skin care cream. As Catwoman, Patience dresses in black leather, a bustier bra and pants with a cat mask, and gloves with claws. Catwoman uses her iconic whip in combat, but also shows her expert hand-to-hand combat and agility. This version of Catwoman differs from the traditional forms of the character. Instead of being portrayed as Selina Kyle, an expert gymnast and hand-to-hand combatant, she is portrayed as a woman with super-human abilities.
She was portrayed by Halle Berry, who also played Storm in the X-Men Movies and Jinx in Die Another Day. In the video game adaptation, she was voiced by Halle Berry and Jennifer Hale.
==Biography==
Patience's boss, George Hedare invites her into his office, where he tells her he isn't pleased with her recent work. He demands she re-do it and she stays late at work that night to do so. The mail department informs her that nobody is there to deliver the work to George, so unfortunately she must deliver it herself. Whilst delivering the new design to her boss, Patience overhears a plot to sell the beauty product, despite it being defective.
When the skin cream is used over a long time, it keeps the skin looking healthy and youthful. However, if the user stops using it, his/her face will start to deteriorate and become seriously damaged. She accidentally knocks a piece of equipment on a desk and she is spotted. In her attempt to flee, she runs into a set of water conduits. Laurel Hedare orders her security to flush the pipes, knowing full well Patience is in there. The pipes are flooded by water and Patience is knocked into the surrounding water, where she eventually drowns and dies.
After being murdered, her body washed up on the banks of the city. Midnight, the cat that had been following Patience over the last few days, starts to call for other cats which they eventually arrive. Midnight climbs on top of Patience and breathes a strange mist over her face, where she suddenly awakes, reborn as Catwoman. Midnight is actually a temple cat - a messenger of the Egyptian goddess Bastet. She is an Egyptian Mau and is sacred to several feline deities, such as Sekhmet and Madfet.
Midnight had been testing Patience to see if she is worthy - and in need of - receiving the gift she can give; the gift of a new life, the life of a Catwoman. When Patience wakes up, she has been transformed into Catwoman, a warrior with the force of a cat, who prowls the night in search of justice. At first she spends most of her journey trying to figure out who killed her and the reason why. She believes that George Hedare is the one who flushed the pipes, and pursues him to a ballet show, there she is discovered by police, where she escapes and is confronted by her love-interest, Officer Detective Tom Lone. Eventually, she discovers the truth about Laurel Hedare, and that she was the one who ordered the pipes to be flushed.
Laurel Hedare kills her husband (after finding out Catwoman knows the truth about the skin product) and frames Catwoman where her love-interest figures out that Patience is Catwoman and is consequently arrested. She eventually escapes and confronts Laurel, where a vicious fight ensues which ends with Laurel falling to her death. Patience and Catwoman are cleared of all charges, and Patience continues to stalk the night with her persona as an anti-heroine.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Superhuman Reflexes: Thanks to her cat-like agility and speed, Catwoman's reflexes are similarly augmented greater than an average human, allowing her to dodge attacks with ease.
*Superhuman Strength: Catwoman experiences a dramatic increase in physical strength than that of a normal human, allowing her to effortlessly overpower opponents.
**Superhuman Leaping: Catwoman's strength extends to her legs which allows her to leap great heights and distances.
*Superhuman Durability: Catwoman is shown to be nearly immune to all forms of physical harm as her skin, muscle and bone tissue have a density much greater than that of a normal human being.
*Superhuman Mobility: Catwoman is capable of terrific speed which allows her to run faster while she is extremely lithe as her muscles and skeleton are extraordinarily flexible, giving her the agility of a feline.
*Superhuman Stamina: Catwoman's advanced musculature is considerably more efficient than that of a normal human. As a result, her muscles produce practically no fatigue toxins during physical activity compared to those of humans. Her virtually inexhaustible stamina enables her to exert herself at peak capacity for an undefined period of time without tiring, allowing her to fight her enemies without wearing out. This is proven in her fight against Laurel Hedare.
*Superhuman Senses: Like all felines, Catwoman possesses extraordinarily senses, especially her sense of smell and hearing which allows her to pick up the scent of any danger or threat twice as strong as a modern cat.
**Enhanced Vision: Catwoman possesses great vision, aiding her in fighting off against her adversaries and enabling her to locate things from far distances easily. Her vision is so powerfully acute to the point it allows her to fully see clearly in darkness.
*Wall-Crawling: Catwoman is able to scale and adhere to any surface.
*Accelerated Healing Factor: If wounded, Catwoman's metabolism enables her to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissue faster, depending on how serious her injuries are.
===Abilities===
*Artistry: Patience is shown to have skills in artistry.
*Master Combatant: Catwoman is very proficient in hand-to-hand fighting as she was able to battle against opponents such as Laurel Hedare with ease.
*Expert Thief: Catwoman is known to be a master of thievery since she is extremely skilled in theft.
==Equipment==
*Whip: Patience has great skills in wielding a whip which she can use in combat.
*Clawed Gloves: Patience has gloves lined with diamond claws which are sufficient to rend most substances.
==Personality==
Primarily, Patience is an extremely quiet, shy and timid woman. She had zero confidence in herself and had always been a people pleaser. However, upon her transformation to Catwoman, her personality changes completely. She gains total confidence — a polar opposite of her former self. She looks like the same person, but deep down, is completely different. As Catwoman, she wears a black bustier bra that reveals her midriff with black leather pants.
She also wears black leather gloves, with built in diamond claws she designed herself using parts of a necklace she stole from a jewelry store. The movie ends with her stating she is neither good or bad; she's in between, which gives her an anti-heroine personality.
==Trivia==
* The Catwomen were also meant to teach a life lesson to all humanity: There is no pure good or evil. There is no black or white. We are all grey beings. This is shown when she stops three men when they rob a jewellery store but then robs it herself in the middle of the film.
* Patience's story is similar to that of the Catwoman from Batman Returns; both were killed by their bosses after discovering illegal business of their companies, both were brought back to life by cats and both wanted revenge on their bosses for killing them.
* This Catwoman is a different version from the original DC Comics character.
** Instead of being like the original version, this one is just one of many over the ages.
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