Cyber Catra

"Heeeey Adora..."

### Aliases

Catra, Cyber Catra, Temporary Catra, Palpatine/The Senate (By Victor), Wild Cat (By Scorpia)

## Production Information

### Last/Current Appearance

Crossover Forces

> "*Everything in Etheria was this pacifist, carefree, goodie-two-shoes princess nonsense. Acting like everyone is friendly. Chill. I'm a realist. And reality is cruel, harsh, and spiteful.*"
> ― Cyber Catra's ultimate perception of Etheria[[source]]
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Cyber Catra (or just Catra) is the version of the character recovered after the events of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Season 3 where her body was gruesomely distorted during the warping of reality and her lucky but terrible entry into the Toon Wars Multiverse during the closing of the Toon God fight. She was found barely alive by Dr. Flug, Dementia, and 505 and repaired with extreme cybernetic augmentations using various scraps from the Toon Wars. 2 years since Toon Wars: The Final Days, she took charge of the newly formed Horde Syndicate and sent her forces across the Toonverse with Orangusnake and the Echo Drones. After abducting Tulip Olsen and One-One from Toon City, she and her forces invaded Pure Heart from aboard their gargantuan dreadnought, the Invincible, taking the giant Ruby Heart for themselves. With One-One in their control, Catra and Orangusnake used him and the Ruby to fuel their Battloon Syndicannons in preparation for a frontal assault on the Toonverse and eventually Etheria. Fortunately, the New Toon Force created by Blue Hat were able to stop her operations in under a few days, defeating her associates and putting her in Blue Hat's custody. To the surprise of everyone, however, Blue Hat explained he was indeed the Villainous Black Hat having played the role of hero to gain everyone's trust and get access to the Fourth Wall. With Catra's help, he was finally able to achieve his end goal, quickly subjugating the Toonverse into their new Horde Empire.

While the countdown for Etheria's invasion was still going, Catra was restored by Black Hat when he accessed the reality controls. However, she was quickly brought into a heavily glitched state by Entrapta's Glitch Gun when Mao Mao returned with a full rebellion against the empire. Impatient, she forcibly teleported the Horde Capital itself outside of Etheria in Despondos, attempting to launch the Battloon Fleet ahead of time only for Max and One-One to destroy it. Catra was fought and defeated by an Enraged Hedgehog along with shots from Entrapta's invention, forcing herself to have to interface with the reality controls, installing enough assets that she became a new Toon Goddess referred to as Viral Catra. In this form, she attempted to erase Etheria from reality itself with her new cosmic powers but was thwarted when Mao Mao and Tanya Keys bounced her Erasure Beam back at her.

Although Catra was able to save some of her code to regenerate, the data that was recovered was only enough to bring her back to her toddler years with no memory of prior events before her reboot. Ultimately, this would prove to benefit her as her constant desire to restart was finally met, albeit different from how she intended. To distinguish herself from her villainous past, Baby Catra was renamed Kitra, which she really preferred. As hinted by the end credits, its possible that Kitra still recognizes Max somewhat and is beginning to accelerate her intelligence; likely a side effect of her viral form. Though Cyber Catra was ultimately gone, her design would be used by Supreme Nicole as one of many projections she uses to mask what she truly looked like. Cyber Catra is also recognized by Mickey Mouse in Dark Disney as an anomaly in the Toonverse prior to his takeover. Her schematics were salvaged by Oswald for his Underground and used to repair Dust from his wounds sustained following the events of *An Elysian Tail*.

Cyber Catra would also be frequently mentioned in Venomous Syndicate as the client Shadowy Figure contacted prior to Crossover Forces, who supplied her with false glorbs and a processing unit to aid her and her army.

## Appearance

Catra is a thin, tan-skinned humanoid feline with brown hair and two eye colors (Right turquoise, left pale yellow). She wears a leotard with two-toned orange, and dark leggings that expose her heels and clawed toes. Like any cat, she has a nice long tail, same color as her hair that later gets a lighter patch of fur on the end in Crossover Forces. When corrupted, the right half of her body is pitch black with rays of white to purple light cracking through. Her right eye also turns purple. When speaking, she carries a certain electric tone to her voice. This carries over to Toon Wars Legacy where her right half had to be replaced entirely with the cybernetics grafted onto her from various equipment, including the bulky right arm, shin cuffs, and shoulder pad. All of which could be customized or removed. Her face, still morbidly disfigured, was left unchanged by her request, apart from her right eye bulging with a bright yellow color. In close up shots, her pupil is beading red. The most striking part of her face apart from her skin is her mouth, resembling the appearance of a jagged jack-o-lantern. This is oftentimes seen only on her right side, but in concept art can extend to the left depending on the scenario.

For a time, Catra is returned back to her original form thanks to repairs administered by the reality controls. But when shot at by Entrapta's Glitch Gun, she slowly starts to warp into a more digital version of her cyber-form, appearing with leaking code, missing textures and a jagged mouth. Her right arm also seems to fuse with a mechanized one borrowed from a hatbot sentinel.

As Viral Catra, she mostly resembles how she was prior to Crossover Forces but with a more ambiguous coloring as described in the chapter it appeared in. It is implied, fortunately, that by design it was meant to resemble the Toon Goddess version of Nicole Watterson, who's fur color was turned purple while her eyes were pitch black with white pupils.

## Personality

Prior to Crossover Forces, Catra was typically described best as grumpy or mean as Hell. She starts off being a thrill-seeker and callous to a lot of the Horde's attacks on the people of Etheria. Even manipulating people and events several times, using her relationship with Adora and her friends to her advantage or effectively using their strategies against them. The only things holding her back were her submission to Hordak prior to Season 3's conclusion, her reluctant friendship with Scorpia and Entrapta (which she ultimately failed to realize to the end), and clear obsession with Adora disguised as love acting as the catalyst for all of her abuse towards people.

With reality being warped in season 3, she constantly tried to antagonize Adora, blaming her for the end of the world when in truth, as her old friend pointed out, it was all her doing. As was the case behind much of the episodes prior. After reality was restored, she went on to continue to seek revenge on Etheria. But unknown to her, a duplicate version of herself from the warp was present in the Toonverse, having lost her sanity from her experience and critical injuries; almost forgetting her relationship with Adora and others. While in-show she spoke with aggression, she now speaks quietly, leaving both upfront and vague comments about any given scenario. Like before, she is ever the thrill seeker, first seen when she personally enters Pure Heart to attack the palace and bringing the Invincible undetected to Toon City to abduct Tulip. Unlike her time with the Horde, she isn't rude to her men. Instead talking to them knowing their obedience to her; with the exception of Bob who is more independent. Surprisingly, this version of Catra also seems fully aware of her obsessions and abuse in the past, openly admitting to them and actively trying to start over once her goal is met.

As evident by her cool demeanor once she was defeated, Catra is shown to have great confidence in her and Black Hat's plan, which was later revealed in detail to the heroes once they brought Black Hat to the Fourth Wall controls. Although he is typically shown to be the scariest and most villainous of the *Villainous* cartoon, Catra is not afraid of him in the slightest, usually working in partner with him even with the Fourth Wall at their disposal. However, once Mao Mao returned with a new rebellion and Entrapta (also copied from Catra's first reality warp), her cool was broken, trading it for sheer aggression when trying to face the heroes. For a while, she also seems to develop somewhat of a fear when Hedgehog, enraged from Flug's experiments, causes her to attack with force too powerful for Catra to sustain. She also expresses full well that to her, Etheria should pay for making her the way she is, agreeing that most of her choices was her fault, but driven mad from the constant neglect she faced while with the Horde. To her, reality is cruel, much like Black Hat's perception of evil.

While battling Hedgehog and getting blasted by the Glitch Gun, Catra slowly begins to fall further into madness, constantly glitching and shouting. When interfacing with the reality controls and installing assets from them, she completely loses her sanity, laughing uncontrollably while visibly shedding tears in minimal dialogue. Ultimately, her long desire to start over from the harshness of her past became a reality when she was reset back to her toddler years as Kitra, who Entrapta hopes to treat better than the Horde.

## Relationships

### Adora and Others

As described in her personality, Catra is typically possessive of Adora in the series up to Season 5, where they eventually became a couple (pretty hard to believe. I know). Since life in the Horde was rough, Adora was mainly the only friend Catra had and would often be yelled at, sometimes physically hurt, whenever it seemed she was leaving Catra for someone else, even for the most mundane things. As an example, Catra attacked a Horde soldier when it seemed as though Adora was becoming attached to them when in reality it was just a normal conversation. Nevertheless, they remained friends for years until the sword of She-Ra was discovered (likely remaining that way due to Catra's possessiveness). Once Adora joined the Rebellion, Catra became solely committed to ruining her old friend's life by staying with the Horde, becoming Force Captain and waging war on the land with Hordak. Even if it meant going to such extremes that it would effectively destroy the planet itself. Though, at times, Catra would try to emphasize with Adora on why she does this and blames her actions on others, Adora firmly states that it is Catra herself who's to blame for making these decisions, eventually leading to Cyber Catra's creation following the restoration of reality in Season 3.

Although Cyber Catra is almost the same as she was the moment she was knocked out by Adora, her mindset towards her and the rest of Etheria became that of pure spite, embracing her actions and actively trying to restart by destroying the planet come her return. As pointed out by characters within Crossover Forces, Catra's earlier claim that she was simply in love with Adora throughout the series was really a twisted obsession, to which Cyber Catra actually agrees and freely admits having fully realized her actions. To her, her misunderstanding of what love is can be attributed to how she was raised in the Horde, though she also doesn't deny her own mistakes.

### Scorpia and Entrapta

Scorpia was one of, if not the only one out of everyone in the Horde who partnered with Catra almost as much as Adora did, but was constantly verbally abused by her new "friend," usually due to her clumsiness and otherwise peaceful nature. Despite her and Entrapta's kindness, Catra saw them more as henchmen rather than friends; only occasionally showing a soft side whenever they get assertive with her, which was few and far between. This would be most apparent to Entrapta when conversing with Hordak while Scorpia's irritation grew slowly over time to the point where she was annoyed when Catra used her hard claws as a nail filer. In Season 3, Catra's hasty and foolish decision to activate the Horde portal prematurely led to Entrapta openly shouting at her not to go through with it knowing the risks. Catra refused, of course, stunning her and sending her away. Scorpia initially tried to protest for Entrapta, but Catra threatened her with the same treatment, eventually leading to her leaving the Horde with Emily by the time of Season 4.

Her Cyber-self in Crossover Forces briefly brings up the two when conversing with Max on the way to his cell aboard the Invincible, describing them as "Co-workers." When Entrapta returns, also duplicated from the reality warp, Catra gets incredibly irritated, hoping to kill her but finds herself getting severely corrupted by her Glitch Gun. Although she speaks the same as always in a jolly tone, Entrapta makes it clear that she has no hesitation to delete Catra not for her abuse to her but for the evil she's done. This would be their last interaction before Catra wasc ompletely reset into Kitra, who Entrapta hopes to treat better than the Horde.

### Mao Mao

Initially, Cyber Catra was annoyed at Orangusnake's constant mentions of Mao Mao, but over time, she became fascinated by their similarities to one another. Curious, she ordered Orangusnake to inform his long-time rival to see her alone, finding herself to be most impressed with the sheriff. To her, both have a relatable past in that the two always sought respect from their old superiors (Hordak/Shin Mao), have/had two partners (Badgerclops and Adorabat/Entrapta and Scorpia), and have had a fallout with someone close to them (Adora/Tanya Keys, though she and Mao have since reconciled). In many ways, Catra praises him for his determination and ability to plan things ahead, finding him and his team to be braver and in most cases more adept than those in the Rebellion and the Horde. As such, when it seems at times Catra gains the upper hand, she tells him he would go out as a hero instead of a grunt.

This respect for Mao Mao later causes Catra to admit that she, in a way, misses him when it seems he would die when he was sent to the Trashbin. But her commitment to her end goal (possibly including her distrust toward others similar to those on Etheria) outweighs her feelings for him and his team. She quickly loses respect, however, when Entrapta returns to Mao Mao's aid, even when he offers her a chance to stop the attack and live peacefully in the Toonverse. He and Tanya deliver the final blow to her before she could delete Etheria. Though, it also led to Catra's wish to restart to come true as she was converted back to her toddler years to be raised lovingly by Entrapta.

### Max

While aboard the Invincible as prisoner, Max was often brought to Cyber Catra whenever the villains would meet her. So much that she requested Orangusnake to leave him with her in the bridge knowing he wouldn't do anything. Along with Bob, she asks Max for an opinion on her evil monologue since he was there. Catra promises Max that even though Hedgehog and Oscar are actively opposing her, she would not invade Summer Camp Island once her mission is complete. Max, however, still objects to this and finds disappointment for himself for bringing his friends to the outpost created on the island by the Horde Syndicate. In a surprising word of encouragement, Cyber Catra tells him that as a friend, him owning up to his mistakes like he has now and actively trying to fix them is something just about anyone, including Hedgehog and Oscar, would want; using her relationship with Scorpia and Entrapta as a foil for what a friend isn't. Her last physical encounter with him was when she walked with him to his cell.

In a way, Catra's brief talk with Max had led to him learning the passcode to shut down the Battloon Fleet prior to Black Hat's true intentions coming to form. This also may have inspired him to go out of his way to oppose the Horde Empire, actively gathering people to start a resistance with Mao Mao and company. At the end of the story, it's possible that as Kitra, she still recognizes Max even after being completely reset, waving at him as a baby.

### Horde Syndicate

Though not much interaction between them is shown, its heavily implied that Catra's relationship with the other villains was fairly healthy. Unlike her time with the Horde, she never shouts at anyone or insults them. Instead, she commands the army at the Invincible while giving updates to them on where to go to attack (much like Blue Hat's role with the New Toon Force). Orangusnake saw Catra as an excellent partner while HueHue saw her as both very intelligent and manipulative. Since the 4th chapter, Bob was referred to by name from her and distinguished among the rest of the Echo Commandos; even asking for his and Max's opinion on her villainous monologue. All this, in reality, was secretly part of her and Black Hat's ultimate plan, later admitting the Horde Syndicate was destined to fail. As part of the process, she gave Orangusnake a similar outfit to Hordak's, which would have turned him into an obedient version of her former master to serve under Catra and the Horde Empire. If the transformation failed, it would surely kill Coby (the snake half of Orangusnake). HueHue was also never brought up by Catra in the later chapters after his defeat.

To drag her battle with the New Toon Force on a bit longer, and to escape with the passcodes to the Battloon Fleet, Catra stumbled across Bob's disembodied head after his body was crushed from rubble. Though initially he was joyful that she could save him and install his head onto another frame, Catra stole his generator to power her robotic arm, shutting him down. Much later in the crossover, Bob was reactivated by Max, upset with Catra enough that he joins the heroes.

### Black Hat

Having been rescued by Black Hat's men, Catra generally holds tremendous respect for them and is best described by Black Hat as "the perfect evil." Tough not wanting to show much affection, the two are constantly seen on good terms with each other to the point where they both yell at the same time when Flug interrupts them. Even when there's ample opportunity for either or to betray each other, it never crosses their minds. Black Hat trusts Catra enough to use the reality controls that he isn't present whenever she interfaces with them. Catra also seems totally happy to work in partner with him when it comes to ruling the Toonverse even if their plan for Etheria's destruction failed. After Catra's final defeat from Mao Mao and Tanya, and her subsequent reset into Kitra, Black Hat still remains loyal to his partnership with her, vowing to retrieve her to get their revenge before he's frozen by the reality controls.

### Professor Venomous/Shadowy Figure

Prior to Crossover Forces, Cyber Catra made direct contact with Shadowy Figure - the darker alter ego of Professor Venomous - to strike a deal to supply her with false glorbs to power her machines and aid them in combat. The processing unit he gave her was an entire pumping grid within the Invincible which Tulip Olsen and Dementia would go on to destroy. However, by then, Catra's cybernetics and her forces would no longer need the machine as they had been completely fueled by it and the Ruby Heart onboard.

## Cybernetics

Due to the extensive damage done to her body from both Etheria's reality warp and her crash entry into the Toonverse, Catra was forced to implement extreme cybernetic augmentations. Including but not limited to:

* a prototype version of the Echo Commando arms from the Siege of Rhyboflaven to replace her right limb, complete with a built-in heavy dual cannon
* four connector nodes in her back to plug into large cables and interface with technology; in addition to pumping glorb energy
* two leg parts from the Syndicate's retired BorgCys biotech project, replacing her mangled limbs
* and an unused armored version of Vlad Plasmius' boots sold in the black market.

All of these parts could be customized by Catra. However, her face, still morbidly disfigured, was left unchanged by her request, feeling the look suited her. Her voice has a slight bass to it due to the corruption and the electronics connected to her lungs. As admitted by Catra herself, this form has a number of drawbacks that greatly hinder her performance, such as her new arm weighing more than her left side, slight discomfort, or an occasional looseness of the hinges. Each of these cons would tend to be ignored as this was described as a temporary fix until her body could be completely restored somehow. An inside source within Black Hat's operations later leaked construction documents that reveal the process of Catra's repairs, as well as the parts needed to pull through. A copy of these plans were kept in Jimmy Neutron's lab and used by Oswald the Lucky Rabbit a century later to repair Dust's grievous injuries following the attack on his world.

## Viral Catra/Toon Goddess

*See Toon Goddess for more details*

When installing assets from the Fourth Wall controls directly onto herself, Catra was almost instantly transformed into a new version of a Toon Goddess referred to as Viral Catra. In this form, she appears as she normally does without augmentations or glitched parts, but with a more ambiguous style; vaguely described as closely resembling the Toon Goddess version of Nicole Watterson. Although she is only seen in this form for a few minutes, Catra was able to manipulate reality so much that it began to break the Netflix Omniverse itself; exposing its inner workings from the real world. Figures of her face were also seen hovering in the skies and infinite space laughing uncontrollably. She could fly, teleport, and used only one attack, The Erasure Beam. Though, it was deflected back at her by Mao Mao and Tanya Keys, reducing her to a toddler.

## Abilities

* Dual Laser Cannon
	+ Pulse Bomb
* Spiked Ball
* Pulse Beam - Often to push someone back, Catra tends to use the palm socket on her hand to deliver a gravitic pulse.
* Rocket Fist - During her and Mao Mao's battle with each other, Catra smashed his Magisword from a distance by unhinging her arm joint and shooting her fist forward.
* Superhuman Strength - Gained from absorbing a liquefied version of glorbs and her robotic parts.
* Feline Reflexes

## Stats

From the start, Catra was one of the biggest threats faced by the Rebellion of Bright Moon, and most especially Adora even when she's being She-Ra. Although her feline reflexes don't always work out, usually erratic from anger, her cunning and tactics had a great impact on much of the lands of Etheria. As time in the show went on, despite being initially afraid of those such as Hordak or She-Ra herself, she began to manipulate both sides enough that she knew how to break them with or without physical prowess. However, on her own, even at her meanest, she is still beatable knowing her strategy in a fight.

Due to her physical limitations as Cyber Catra, she had to trade most of her feline-based attacks for her augmentations, often utilizing her robotic arm as a ranged weapon. She still used most of her speed and agility, but preferred to stay at a distance unless the enemy is unarmed or lacks any range. In her duel with Mao Mao, she wasn't afraid to get up close and personal when he had a sword, remaining stationary while blocking each slash with her new limb as a shield. This on its own was strong enough that it smashed a heavy turret on the main deck of the Invincible, taking in the equivalent of a semi truck at full speed. This was made possible thanks mostly to the glorbs absorbed during this time, allowing Catra to regain some of her speed from the show for a brief period. When restored, she is mostly the same as her original self but lacks the defense of her cyber self, easily being beaten and dismantled by an enraged Hedgehog and Entrapta's Glitch Gun. When she saved herself using the Fourth Wall controls, becoming a new Toon Goddess, Catra became roughly the equivalent of Nicole when she was corrupted in the Final Days, just without composure and mental willpower. She was easily erased by Mao Mao and Tanya Keys with a combined attack from them that deflected her own. It is currently unknown if Kitra inherits any of the abilities gained from the Toon Goddess.

 Crossover Forces (Cyber Catra)
 Crossover Forces (Viral Catra)

## Trivia

* Like Angelica from Rugrats, Frozarburst seriously dislikes Catra, describing her as mean as Hell or an abuser with an obsession. This is what led to him picking her as one of the main villains for Crossover Forces. Later, when She-Ra and the Princesses of Power concluded in Season 5, Frozarburst included a few additional lines to further distinguish her cyborg counterpart from her. These typically refer to her possessiveness of Adora.
	+ On that note, Frozarburst often describes Cyber Catra as Palpatine; unhinged evil
		- In light of that comparison, Catra makes the familiar Dark Side scream Palpatine makes in Episode III during her fight with Mao Mao aboard the Invincible.
* Though Frozarburst wasn't one to shy away from saying he hated Catra and how the series ended, fans thoroughly enjoyed the way Cyber Catra was portrayed in Crossover Forces and hoped to see more of her in the future.
	+ Although she technically isn't dead as she's been de-aged into Kitra, fans had speculated that in some form or another, Cyber Catra would return or Kitra would one day meet her prime counterpart (the latter of which was confirmed by Frozarburst). To remedy this, a lot of events following Cyber Catra's introduction tend to take some influence from her or give mention to her actions, such as when Supreme Nicole borrowed her design to project herself from her base.
* While writing Crossover Forces, Frozarburst was listening to different tracks from various media to get the feel of each different scene. "Mean Green Mother" from Little Shop of Horrors was heavily used while scripting a fight with Catra and the heroes.
	+ She also would have said some of the lines from the song in the first phase of her battle had the script not been updated.
* An early version of her cybernetics would've included a visor over her eyes, but was never drawn. The visor concept did eventually become part of the design for Max when he found Cyber Catra's tiara discarded and fixed it.
* The proto-arm scarily is strong enough to shatter Mao Mao’s sword and smash a heavy turret at the deck of the Invincible. Must be some very expensive material.
* Though it is present, none of Frozarburst's art at the time of Crossover Forces' development showed that there's a ball joint underneath Cyber Catra's shoulder guard. However, Kainsword-Kaijin was able to properly show one in a drawing he made for him.
* Cyber Catra nearly slips up when discussing her plans with Mao Mao, saying she didn't understand the purpose of invading Summer Camp Island despite being the one behind its occupation.
* Her design bears similarities to Zamasu from *Dragon Ball Super* and Cyber Erol from *Jak 3* as both ended up having a horrendously deformed right side with an oversized hand.
	+ The final infinite form of Cyber Catra also closely resembles Infinite Zamasu and his physical merged form from Dragon Ball Super.
* While Cyber Catra acts as an incredible force to be reckoned with worse than her original self from the series, she's very affectionate towards Max, not once threatening him and typically treating him as though he’s a reluctant guest. Perhaps taking into account all the times she abused people in the show. This would sort of explain why Kitra seems to like him as well.
* According to developers, Catra's last name is Meow Meow. Coincidentally, it's pronounced the same as Mao Mao.
* Originally when Catra became Viral Catra, she was going to be defeated by getting scared to death by Nicole Watterson when summoned by Danny Phantom, who would've returned minutes ahead of time instead of after Catra's fall.
* Since Viral Catra's design is ambiguous, only one piece of concept art was created that depicted her as a raging black ghostly figure.
* Catra briefly confused Tulip for Adora by mistake. This is because of their ponytail and similar height.