Selina Kyle (Arkhamverse)

* City
* Knight

***Selina Kyle** has character files in Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Knight.*
**Selina Kyle** is a cat burglar obsessed with stealing famous and well-protected items.

## Arkham Asylum

### Attributes

* Trained gymnast and athlete
* Expert hand-to-hand combatant
* Highly skilled with her specialised whip, a cat-o’-nine-tails
* Capable of astonishing stealth
* Obsessed with (and adept at) stealing famous and well-protected items
* Drawn to cat motifs

### Story

An orphan who learned to survive on Gotham City’s streets, Selina Kyle took to thievery to survive… but determined to do it in style, she learned martial arts and trained extensively to perfect her skills at cat burglary. Her criminal activities are often tempered by a reluctant altruism, making her an inconstant villain and occasional hero. She regularly elude capture by the Dark Knight, and maintains a complicated, adversarial relationship with Batman that frequently turns flirtatious and occasionally legitimately romantic.

## Arkham City

### Bio

An orphan who learned to survive on the mean streets of Gotham, Selina Kyle turned to thievery to survive. Determined to do it with style, she learned martial arts and trained in gymnastics to perfect her skills.
Her criminal activities are tempered by a reluctant altruism, making her an inconstant villain and an occasional hero. She maintains a complicated, adversarial relationship with Batman that frequently turns flirtatious and occasionally romantic.
Since the opening of Arkham City, reports of Catwoman burglaries are down, though underworld rumours have her hunting down Two-Face for an unknown reason.

### Attributes

* Trained gymnast and athlete
* Expert hand-to-hand combatant
* Highly skilled with whips
* Unrivalled stealth capabilities
* Obsessed with stealing famous and well-protected items

### Tape 1

**TYGER Guard**: We found the prisoner attempting to break into your office, sir.
**Hugo Strange**: I see. Leave us.
**TYGER Guard**: Yes, sir.
**Catwoman**: Well, well, as I live and breathe, Professor Hugo Strange. Your posters really don’t do you justice. You really are far more evil looking in real life.
**Hugo Strange**: Charmed. Tell me, what do you plan to do, Miss Kyle? I assume that you were attempting to break into my office in order to retrieve your ill-gotten gains.
**Catwoman**: You stole them from me.
**Hugo Strange**: Hardly. The items were confiscated upon your arrest.
**Catwoman**: Yeah, about that. This holiday camp of yours is quaint and all, Hugo, But, I don’t think I’ll be staying for too long.
**Hugo Strange**: Escape is impossible.
**Catwoman**: A girl loves a challenge.
**Hugo Strange**: So do I.

### Tape 2

**Hugo Strange**: Tell me, what would you do if I let you go? Attempt to escape, try and find the confiscated items… contact the Batman?
**Catwoman**: Why would I contact him? It’s his fault I’m in here.
**Hugo Strange**: Is it? I believe you would have escaped if greed had not got the better of you. He was actually in the process of rescuing you, was he not?
**Catwoman**: I didn’t need his help.
**Hugo Strange**: Or any man’s, it appears.
**Catwoman**: C’mon, you’re going somewhere with this? Spit it out.
**Hugo Strange**: I’ve been studying you.
**Catwoman**: I can see. My eyes are up here by the way.
**Hugo Strange**: Very amusing. Tell me, what was it like, growing up alone, fending for yourself, doing whatever was necessary to stay alive?
**Catwoman**: Please, I’m tearing up here.
**Hugo Strange**: And Holly? What would you do if I sent my men after her.
**Catwoman**: Touch her and you’re dead.

### Tape 3

**Hugo Strange**: Have you calmed down yet?
**Catwoman**: Where is she?
**Hugo Strange**: That depends on your next answer. If you could save one person tonight, who would it be? Holly? Or the Batman?
**Catwoman**: He can look after himself.
**Hugo Strange**: Good. Holly is safe for now, let us talk about Batman.
**Catwoman**: What do you think I can tell you that you don’t already know? You’ve been sending your goons after him for months. He said you were studying him.
**Hugo Strange**: So you speak. Good. You never knew your father, correct?
**Catwoman**: Enough, Strange. This is over.
**Hugo Strange**: If you say so. Captain, do you have the girl in your sights?
**TYGER Guard**: Yes, sir.
**Hugo Strange**: Kill her.
**Catwoman**: No!
**Hugo Strange**: Are you prepared to talk? I thought so. Keep the girl targeted, captain.
**Catwoman**: You bastard.
**Hugo Strange**: Shall we continue?

### Tape 4

**Hugo Strange**: Your father. Did you ever meet him?
**Catwoman**: Never knew the son of a bitch.
**Hugo Strange**: Unfortunate. He certainly seems to have made an impact on you. The distrust of men, for example. Your relationship with Batman? Would you call it close?
**Catwoman**: Me and the brooding one get along just fine.
**Hugo Strange**: But you want more? But you can’t trust men, can you?
**Catwoman**: What? Look, he’s spoken for, he must be. How else could he resist all this?
**Hugo Strange**: You are both very similar, aren’t you? A shared disregard for the law, a belief that you are doing the right thing, and a similar taste in attire. But beneath the surface there is a weakness.
**Catwoman**: Like hell.
**Hugo Strange**: You both risk everything for a chance at redemption. You tell yourself it’s to help her. He does the same for the boy. It’s all just to make his life more complete. To become the father he never knew.
**Catwoman**: You don’t know anything about him.
**Hugo Strange**: And neither do you. He hasn’t confided in you because he doesn’t trust you. And it hurts, Doesn’t it?

### Tape 5

**Hugo Strange**: I touched a raw nerve, didn’t I?
**Catwoman**: Are you still here?
**Hugo Strange**: You’re hurt because he knows who you are but you don’t know anything about him. Do you… love him?
**Catwoman**: No!
**Hugo Strange**: Holly is safe. I have little interest in the life of a teenage delinquent. Unless of course she finds herself in my facility.
**Catwoman**: What was all this about, Strange? Do you enjoy making people beg?
**Hugo Strange**: Not at all. I am only interested in what makes people do what they do. Soon, you will not have to worry about the Batman. Steal what you like, do what you must in a futile attempt to steal his heart. You will fail.
**Catwoman**: You sound pretty sure of yourself.
**Hugo Strange**: Plans are afoot, Miss Kyle. Soon, you may wish to re-evaluate you admiration for him. I will be the one standing over his body, and the world will know that Hugo Strange is better than him.
**Catwoman**: Yeah, whatever.
**Hugo Strange**: Two-Face has placed what you are looking for in the safe in his old campaign office. He is someone else who cannot let go of his past. I hope that the contents of that safe make you happy.

## Arkham Knight

### Bio

An orphan who learned to survive on the mean streets of Gotham, Selina Kyle turned to thievery to survive. Determined to do it with style, she learned martial arts and trained in gymnastics to perfect her skills.
Her criminal activities are tempered by a reluctant altruism, making her an inconstant villain and occasional hero. She maintains a complicated, adversarial relationship with Batman that frequently turns flirtatious and occasionally romantic.
Little is known about her movements since the closure of Arkham City, but a string of high-profile burglaries suggests she is still at large in Gotham.

### Attributes

* Trained gymnast and athlete
* Expert hand-to-hand combatant
* Highly skilled with whips
* Unrivalled stealth capabilities
* Obsessed with stealing famous and well-protected items