Catra

### Likes

Adora, winning, blowing stuff up, sweets, She-Ra, purring, making messes, Scorpia, the color red

### Dislikes

Mice, losing, sailing, water, being called cute, abandonment, teleporting, Shadow Weaver, being manipulative/controlling

## Professional Status

### Occupation

Force captain (Formerly)
Horde officer (Formerly)
Rebellion fighter

### Team

**Best Friends Squad*** Adora
* Glimmer
* Bow

## Voice Actors

### English

AJ Michalka

**Catra** (カトラ, *Katora*) is a major character in the series.

Starting out as a cadet in the Horde, Catra was soon promoted to the rank of Force Captain and eventually served as Hordak's second-in-command. After the invasion of the army of Horde Prime, Catra briefly served as an agent of Horde Prime. After her reform, she became Adora's girlfriend.

## Appearance

Catra is a slender, tan-skinned girl of feline origins with an athletic physique. She has angular features, such as a pointed chin, straight nose, and slanted, almond-shaped, heterochromatic eyes; pale yellow (left) and turquoise (right). She features three freckles on her cheeks, and soft curving dark eyebrows. Due to her feline display and ancestry, she has retractable black sharp claws on her hands and toes, small fangs, large, black, catlike ears slightly buried within hair, a long prehensile dark brown cat tail, and light brown horizontal markings on her arms, with three on her back that resemble a tabby cat's stripes. She also sports wild, spiked, cedar brown hair with two lighter colored tufts below her ears, held back behind a scarlet headpiece inspired by the one worn by her 80s series counterpart.

## Personality

Catra is a fairly teasing, lazy, irritable, cynical, disrespectful, impulsive, self-centered, stubborn, provocative, violent and abusive person. Although she got along with her best friend Adora before she left the Horde, Catra because of her aggressive and violent nature never seemed to be able to be friends with anyone else even at an early age. As a result she was a lonely person In her childhood. Even if she enjoyed the company of Adora with whom she spent time having fun. Throughout the show she is also shown to be jealous, if someone is really close to Adora.

Because of irritable, disrespectful, impulsive, self-centered, stubborn, and violent personality, and her tendency to cause others harm (such as scratching out Octavia's eye, just because Catra didn't like Octavia's face) she was frequently admonished and punished by Shadow Weaver. Because of her self-centred and egotistical personality Catra developed a feeling of inferiority because she believed she was living in Adora’s shadow and that would later make her a more selfish and power-hungry person that always needs to prove herself to be the best. She also frequently blames, shift-blaming and scapegoating others for her faults and actions, never taking responsibility for any of her shortcomings or misdeeds.

As Force Captain, Catra remains largely focused on the success of the Horde. It gets worse as her rank increases, Double Trouble even notes that Catra takes the war against rebellion too seriously. After she lost Scorpia's friendship, Catra suffered a psychological breakdown. In the end, her all-consuming ambition was finally shattered when Double Trouble betrayed her wrongly claiming that catra isn't a villain, when in reality she was. This act only served to further destroy Catra psychologically, causing her to further believe herself to be a victim and triple down on blaming, shift-blaming and scapegoating others for her faults and misdeeds.

Following the total failure of her conquest of Eternia within the Horde and Double Trouble destroying her psychologically, Catra begins to question herself to the point of doubting her life choices. She also attempts bonds with Glimmer due to their similarity in making a lot of misjudgment and pushing their own friends away. Catra risks her life to save Glimmer's and apologizing to Adora for all she has done, claiming to have regretted her past actions and claiming that she realized that Adora has always been there for her,

After her release from Horde Prime's mind control, Catra struggled to fit in with the group, acting in her typically anti-social ways even when Adora wanted to help her, wanting to be left alone, stating that everyone hates her and calling Adora an idiot for saving her. Catra faces her mistakes when she apologizes to Entrapta and becoming touched when the Princess of Dryl forgave her without hard feelings, she would also be touched by the group the accepting among them.

From there, Catra reverted to her teasing personality of her time as a cadet but retained a certain vanity and a bit of her pessimism. She was not happy to see Shadow Weaver again due to her long bitterness towards her but cried when her mother figure sacrificed her life. At the end of the series, Catra seems to confess her romantic feelings for Adora and seemingly reconciles with Scorpia, while being up for new adventures with Bow, Glimmer, and Adora. In the end, Catra found happiness.

## Powers and Abilities

Catra, as the rival to She-Ra, is an extremely powerful character, having defeated almost every character in the series she attempted to, with the only exception of Horde Prime. She's dethroned both Shadow Weaver and Hordak. Her power level is not constant throughout the show—initially, she has shown that she cannot beat Adora in a fight, but it is not long until Adora, like almost anyone else, is fundamentally incapable of even putting up a fight against her, unless in She-Ra form.

* **Master Strategist**: Catra has, time and again, shown to have a brilliant strategic mind; outwitting, outmaneuvering and physiologically exploiting Adora, the Princess Alliance, and even Hordak. In fact, most of the victories won by the Rebellion have been due to the overwhelming power of the Princesses, as opposed to any sort of strategy. When facing off against a stronger opponent, Catra does not meet force with force but rather attacks their weak point. The only other character portrayed as approaching her general level of competence is Entrapta.
* **Cat Physiology**: Due to her physiology, Catra possesses many cat-like traits such as sharp claws, flexible tail, enhanced strength, and agility.
	+ **Enhanced Strength**: Catra appears to be stronger than the average Etherian, although not stronger than Adora in She-Ra form.
	+ **Enhanced Agility**: Catra is able to jump, run and climb much better than a typical Etherian. Her speed is her main advantage. She can also block arrows in flight.
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: Catra can see, hear and smell much better than the typical Etherian, as shown when she was able to pick up Entrapta's scent through the ventilation.
	+ **Claws**: Catra's fingernails are retractable claws sharp enough to cut into metal.
	+ **Balance**: Catra has a great sense of balance, as shown in her battles with Adora.
	+ **Survival Skills**: Catra has been shown to survive several near-fatal events over the course of the series.

## Weaknesses

* **Insecurity:** Catra grew up being heavily abused by Shadow Weaver, and shows many signs of childhood trauma. She has a tendency to be ambivalent to outright hostile towards her underlings, distancing herself from them, but when they leave, she becomes clingy and jealous. She exhibits notable anger issues and demonstrates s\*icidal tendencies in seasons three and four. After joining the rebellion, her mental health has shown improvement.
* **Aversion to water:** True to her feline nature, she is very uncomfortable when it comes to dealing with water.