Selina Kyle

**Selina Kyle** (セリーナ・カイル, *Serīna Kairu*), also known as "**Catwoman**" (キャットウーマン, *Kyattoūman*), is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *Marvelous DC's* *Justice Avengers* series created by Gardner Fox and Jack Kirby.

She is a morally ambiguous master thief whose goals range from pure self-interest to large-scale charity depending on her mood. Apparently, Catwoman prefers to grow up on the mean and violent streets of Gotham City instead of her broken home.

Never shying from a challenge to steal numerous treasures and objects of value and satisfy her greed and lust, her usage of stealth, agility, and sex appeal as a world-class cat bugler criminal, and her mastery of the martial arts, makes her a formidable opponent.

While on the opposite side of the law, Batman knows the good in her due to her principled code of ethics and are close and strong allies at times. Although she began her career as an amoral burglar, she has since somewhat reformed and begun protecting the less fortunate.

"*You stick with the brooding, I'll handle the wise-ass cracks.*"

—Catwoman, to Batman.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Grey DeLisle (English), Ayumi Fujimura (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Biography

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

### Appearance

#### As Catwoman

As Catwoman, she wears a black, skintight catsuit with a cat-like helmet that is accompanied with a pair of spy goggles above her eyes with red lenses which are always covering her eyes. When covering her eyes, these goggles provide Catwoman with the Thief Vision ability. Her hair is somewhat longer and it is a mixture of black and a lighter shade of brown. She gains scars run on her left cheek and right eyebrow following the explosion of her home in Arkham City.

There is also a choker with a cat pendant attached to the helmet. Catwoman's suit includes a zipper that shows her cleavage and sports a much smaller collar on the top back. She also wears black gloves with cat claws and black high-heeled boots. She seems to have a different cat pin on her cat suit. Her whip is wrapped around her waist, in the kind of way of a cat's tail.

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Green
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 5' 7"
* Weight: 125 lbs. (57 kg)

### Attributes

* Trained gymnast and athlete.
* Expert hand-to-hand comabatant.
* Highly skilled with her specialized 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.

## Abilities and Powers

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat** (Advanced): Catwoman can hold her own with Gotham's thugs, being able to render them unconscious just as well as Batman can.
* **Thievery**: Capable of breaking in to practically anywhere, Catwoman is able to crack security codes and steal from display cases without setting off alarms.
* **Acrobatics**: Selina trained herself in gymnastics and the like for years to hone her abilities. She is capable of maintaining her balance on ever the thinnest object, such as a guardrail.
* **Stealth**: Catwoman is skilled in hiding, using her dark suit to her advantage. The claws on her suit and the toes of her shoes allow her to crawl on ceilings with grates on them.

### Weaknesses

* **Kleptomania**: Catwoman has a strong impulse to steal things.

### Equipment

* **Catsuit**:
* **X-Ray Goggles**: Also called Thief Vison, Catwoman's goggles can shore her where people are and where objects of interest are as well. Unlike the Detective Mode used by Batman, her goggles cannot discern armed people from unarmed ones.

### Weapons

* **Whip**: Catwoman carries her multi-purpose whip that she can confuse, disarm, and trip enemies with. She can also climb vantage points with the whip as well.
* **Claws**: Selina Kyle uses gloves with built-in claws.
* **Bolas** : Used for tripping up enemies and cause noise far away to distract targets.
* **Caltrops**: Catwoman uses a custom handheld ball known as a caltrop. When the caltrop hits the floor, it breaks apart into many jack like spikes. If a henchman steps in the trap, they will fall to the floor in pain.

## See also

* Cat Avatars
* Gotham City Sirens

## External links

* Catwoman *Wikipedia*
* Catwoman *Batman Wiki*
* Catwoman *DC Database*
* Catwoman *DC Universe Online Wiki*
* Catwoman *Heroes Wiki*
* Catwoman *Villains Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* Catwoman first appeared in *Batman #1* (1940).
* While she has many bolt-holes and stash-houses, Selina kept her most personal "trophies" in the basement of the building where her mother grew up. Amongst these keepsakes was her childhood diary, some toys, pictures of her family, five thousand dollars in emergency cash and the golden doll house of the Egyptian Queen Anunaki.
* Krypto, the super-powered canine companion to Superman, has taken a liking to Catwoman, much to her immense displeasure.
* The motto Selina lives by "*Never quit. Never let them see you're afraid. Never let them see you're hurt. Never let them see you cry. Never.*" was taught to her by her mentor in the traveling carnival before his death.
* Selina has a habit of sheltering stray cats, seeing in them kindred spirits from her own time on the streets.
* Catwoman has a unique Martial Arts style in Legends and can somewhat confuse a player who uses the normal Martial Art fighting style.
* Catwoman is a big fan of jazz music. Amongst her music collection is John Coltrane and Don Cherry.
* Catwoman has a cat named Isis.
* Catwoman has been taken hostage thrice, with Batman saving her two out of the three. She was captured by Two Face as well as being held hostage by Poison Ivy but talked her way out of it. She was also captured by the Riddler though she eventually defeated him with Batman's assistance and got her revenge for being set up.