Catwoman

## Selina Kyle

* Selina Kyle
* Catwoman

**Selina Kyle**, also known as **Catwoman,** is one of the antagonists in the series *DC Super Hero Girls*. She appears as Selina Kyle in the show's opening segment and first appears as Catwoman in the episode *Beeline*. Her first prominent appearance is in the episode *Fight at the Museum*. She is voiced by Cree Summer, whose rolled Rs, purrs, meows, and laugh resemble the manner the character is portrayed by Eartha Kitt.

## Depiction

### Cartoons

Catwoman first appears in the episode *Beeline* where Harley Quinn says she lost a coin toss to lead the gang—Harley, Poison Ivy, Star Sapphire, Giganta, Livewire, and herself—for the night. Harley decides to bomb a bridge so her math teacher gets stuck in traffic and can't give her a math test. Their plan is foiled by Bumblebee and the team. Catwoman next appears in the episode *Fight at the Museum*, where she steals jewelry, shoplifts from the Sweet Justice cafe, flirts with Barry Allen makes him slightly bewildered, and tricks Supergirl into breaking a safe containing kryptonite so she can weaken Supergirl and steal valuables from the Lexplorium science museum. After the heist, she says "I think I'm gonna like it here. Gotham city is nice, but this place is the cat's meow."

Catwoman is enlisted, or blackmailed, by the Super Hero Girls to help them steal the Book of Eternity in the episode *Ally Cat*. Zee and her friends see Lex unearth the book on television, and Zee warns her friends that the book is dangerous because it predicts the future. Babs suggests the girls steal the book to prevent Lex from using it to cause harm, but she can't help her friends plan the heist because she's taken by her father to see her grandmother. The girls decide to enlist Catwoman by promising her they won't arrest her if she helps them. Catwoman happily obliges. She plans a heist, but the girls bungle the execution and only barely manage to get to the room where the book is held. They find that Lex is holding the Super Hero Boys prisoners, and when they try to stop him he manages to imprison the girls too. He tells the girls that knew of their plan, enlisted Catwoman's help, and managed to capture them thanks to the knowledge he gained from the book. He tells Catwoman his plan, and she plays along until she confronts him again after freeing the girls, telling him that she ripped a page out of the book so he couldn't predict her actions. Catwoman tells the girls "What can I say, I like the world. It's where I steal stuff."

Selina appears again in the episode Scrambled Eggs where she attends Metropolis High School. Mr Chapin is substituting for the home economics teacher and gives each pair of students an assignment to care for an egg, and Selina is paired with Hal Jordan. She is silent and surly for the entire episode.

#### Secret identity

Lauren Faust wrote on Twitter that the Super Hero Girls and Catwoman don't recognize each other on the heist because they were "stepping away from their theme colors" and that in their world "a pair of glasses" preserve secret identities.

Catwoman briefly appears again in *Am Batgirl* part 2. Catwoman steps out of the shadows in the secret hideout and Bumblebee asks her how she found it, which Catwoman answers with "darling please" and a wink.

### Comics

Catwoman is depicted in the comic *Teenage Crisis*, stealing the largest diamond in the world from the Metropolis Museum along with Harley and Ivy. They are foiled by the team and the diamond is returned to the museum, but the thieves escape.

## Gallery

* Gallery

Poison Ivy, Catwoman, and Harley Quinn
Catwoman narrowing her eyes

Poison Ivy, Catwoman, and Harley Quinn

Catwoman narrowing her eyes

## References

1. ↑ Lauren Faust, March 9, 2020. "Just stepping away from their theme colors to try to suggest they're preserving their secret identities from Catwoman, and Catwoman from them. (It's a stretch, but in a world where a pair of glasses do the trick, we felt it worked well enough.)" Twitter