Selina Kyle

"*You scratch my back, I scratch yours. That was the deal, Bruce! I look forward to seeing you around though. Till next time!*"
—Selina to Bruce Wayne before her escape.[src]
**Selina Kyle** (December 14, 1988 – January 7, 2019; resurrected January 21, 2019), also publicly known as **Selina Falcone**, is a well-known cat burglar based in Gotham City, the on again/off again lover of Bruce Wayne and the ex-girlfriend of Roland Zellerbach. After her mother was murdered by mobsters, Selina was an orphan who learned to barely survive on the streets of Gotham. She grew up to become a very skilled cat burglar and later became the master thief known as **Catwoman**. After discovering the banking information to the Falcone family fortune, Selina became an extremely wealthy woman and managed to build up a reputation of a popular socialite for herself. She later began a relationship with popular businessman Roland Zellerbach.

During the No Man's Land incident within Gotham, Selina aided Bruce and the Bat Family on-and-off, also spending time collecting expensive artefacts and jewels from abandoned museums. She was later murdered by the Joker as she and Bruce attempted to take back Wayne Enterprises from his grasp. Her corpse was eventually discovered by Oswald Cobblepot and experimented on by Hugo Strange, eventually resurrecting her as a new meta-human. She served as Penguin's enforcer for sometime before his downfall, later joining Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn as a member of the Gotham City Sirens as she attempted to recover her sanity. After suddenly remembering her relationship with Batman and her penchant for doing the right thing, Selina took down Harley and Ivy and returned to a life on the run as a thief, with multiple lives still remaining.

After taking young runaway, Holly Robinson, under her wing and helping her get out of prostitution, Selina aided Batgirl in defeating Hush in order to recover her stolen loot, bidding goodbye to Batman and feeling Gotham alongside Holly.

## Biography

### Early Life

Selina Kyle was born on December 14, 1988 in Gotham City to former lovers Carmine Falcone and Maria Kyle. In order to hide his affair, Falcone cut all ties with Maria, forcing her to move back in with her abusive ex-husband and allowing Selina and her half-sister, Maggie, to meet. Eventually, Maria grew tired of Brian's abuse and decided to steal money from Falcone in order to have a better life with her daughters. However, she was captured and murdered by Falcone and his crime family, leaving her daughters alone with Brian.

Growing up with an abusive father was hard on both the girls as he would constantly beat them. One night, he almost killed beat Selina to death until Maggie stabbed him in the back, allowing him to bleed out and die. With no one left to care for them, Selina and Maggie lived on the streets together, with Selina training to care for them both by stealing.

### Becoming Catwoman

#### Life on the Streets

Eventually, Selina became an avid thief and expert acrobat being able to sneak into even high-quality businesses. Eventually, Maggie couldn't take the pressure of living on the streets and stealing from hardworking people, so she was taken into the Immaculate Virgin Mission by nuns, leaving Selina to remain on the streets by herself after she refused to be cared for by nuns.

## Personality

Selina is known as a woman who is driven by greed, even after becoming rather wealthy from the Falcone fortune, she still resorted to stealing valuable objects simply because of the fact that she is attracted to the appearance of them. However, she is known to have somewhat of a conscience as she still went out of her way to help Alfred Pennyworth free Batman from Ra's al Ghul's captivity.

Besides her greed, she is also seen stealing valuable objects simply to gain the attention of Batman, showcasing her more playful side.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Meta-Human Physiology:**
	+ **Nine Lives/Limited Death Reversal:**
	+ **Superhuman Agility:**

### Abilities

* **Peak of Human Physical Condition:**
	+ **Acrobatics/Free-Running:**
	+ **Honed Senses:**

* **Stealth/Infiltration**
* **Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant/Martial Artist:**
	+ **Master Whip Wielder:**

* **High-Level Intellect/Expert Tactician:**
	+ **Master of Deception/Manipulator:**

### Weaknesses

* **Amnesia:** After her resurrection, Selina's mind was heavily tampered with by Professor Strange, resulting in her having a strong level of memory loss and amnesia moving forward. Furthermore, she would also suffer from painful flashbacks from her life previously

## Equipment

* **Catwoman Suit****:** Selina possesses a full-body, black leather suit when committing acts as Catwoman along with a black domino mask. The suit also sports sharp, razor like claws on the tips of the gloves, acting as a useful weapon against enemies.
* **Black Leather Whip:** Selina utilises a black leather whip as her primary weapon against her enemies. She later upgraded to have several small metal balls at the tip, causing much more pain to her targets.

## Appearances

### *Batman: Anarky*

Season 1
* "Curiosity"
* "Treat Them Mean, Keep Them Kean" (mentioned)
* "The Demon's Head"
* "The Secret Six"
* "Heir"
* "Battle for Gotham"

Season 2
* "Fallout"
* "Loyalty"
* "Lost Love"
* "We Are The Freaks"
* "Man of Steel" (mentioned)
* "Hello, Junior"
* "Swimming With The Fishes" (mentioned)
* "Welcome To Earth-2" (mentioned)
* "Vengeance" (mentioned)
* "Metapocalypse"
* "Arkham Has Fallen"

Season 3
* "New Beginnings" (mentioned)

Season 4
* "Blood Is Thicker Than Water"
* "Family Is Everything"
* "Whom To Trust?"
* "How To Solve a Problem Like a Falcone"
* "The Hangman"
* "Betrayal"
* "Joy of the Holidays"
* "Two-Faced"
* "Agencies"
* "Better Half"
* "Order & Chaos"
* "Huntress Becomes the Hunted"
* "Friend or Foe"
* "A Tale of Two Sisters"
* "So You Wanna Start a War?"
* "Shadows"

Season 5
* "Crazy Love"
* "The Owls are Watching"
* "Allegiances" (mentioned)
* "Watch Your Back" (mentioned)
* "Girls Night Out"
* "Backstabber"
* "Heritage"
* "Underworld Unleashed, Part 1"
* "Speak Not a Whispered Word" (mentioned)
* "Regrets" (mentioned)
* "Harley & Ivy"
* "Attack on the Nest"
* "The Joke's On You"
* "The Gray Son of Gotham"
* "Sisters Are Forever"
* "Judgement Day, Part 1"
* "Judgement Day, Part 2"

Season 6
* "No Man's Land"
* "Fear the Reaper" (flashback)
* "Fire and Ice"
* "We Are Legion"
* "Chaos Lives"
* "Enter the Sirens"
* "Gotham in Green"
* "Hope"

Season 7
* "Mad as a Hatter"
* "The Identity Thief"-
* "Trial of the Batman"
* "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
* "Desperate Measures"
* "The Retribution of Bruce Wayne"
* "Hush, Hush"

## Behind the Scenes

* In DC Comics, **Selina Kyle** is the master thief known as **Catwoman** who is primarily associated with the superhero Batman. She has worked as both a villain working against him and an ally working with him with the character never really choosing a permanent side, working mostly as an anti-hero.