Catwoman (Arkhamverse)

Do-Gooder
Full Name	Selina Kyle
Alias(es)	Catwoman
Origin	Batman: Arkham City
Occupation	Professional thief Ally to Batman and the Bat Family
Powers / Skills	Fighting skills Skilled with a whip Intimidation and interrogation Athletics Thief Vision Skilled pickpocket Master cat burglar and thief Stealth
Hobby	Seducing Batman. Thieving jewels.
Goals	Loot Hugo Strange's vault in Arkham City (succeeded) Get revenge on Two-Face for attempting to kill her and stealing her loot (succeeded) Escape the Pinkney Orphanage with the help of Batman (succeeded) Get revenge on Riddler for kidnapping her (succeeded)
Family	Holly Robinson (adopted)
Friends / Allies	Batman Joker (formerly) Poison Ivy
Enemies	Batman (formerly) Bane Joker Harley Quinn Poison Ivy (briefly) Riddler Two-Face
Type of Hero	On & Off Anti-Heroine

“	Perfect. What little girl doesn't dream of being bait for her strapping Dark Knight?	„
	~ Catwoman's sarcastic remark of being kidnapped by the Riddler as bait when she removes a blindfold from her eyes and tosses it aside after Batman unites her from an electric chair at the Pinkney Orphanage.

Selina Kyle, also known as Catwoman, is a major anti-heroine in the Batman: Arkham videogame series. She appears as a cameo character in Batman: Arkham Asylum, as the anti-heroic deuteragonist of Batman: Arkham City, as the titular anti-heroic main protagonist of it's Catwoman Episodes, as the anti-heroic main antagonist of Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, and as one of the tritagonists of Batman: Arkham Knight, as well as the titular anti-heroic main protagonist of it's sequel DLC episode Catwoman's Revenge.

She was voiced by Grey DeLisle, who also voices Jeanne, Mandy and Yumi Yoshimura.

History

Past

Selina Kyle was orphaned at a young age who lived in the streets. Over the years, she committed thievery to survive and was determined to improve her skills, such as learning martial arts and gymnastics, to master cat burglary on her own. After she heard rumors about Batman, she became the villainess Catwoman.

Arkham Origins Blackgate

While stealing data from a building in Gotham City, she attracted the attention of Batman. He intends on taking her in, but the pair are interrupted when a D.E.O. squad shows up in response to Catwoman's theft. Batman argues with the squad, insisting that he will be the one to take Catwoman in, which buys the Cat Burglar enough time to escape. Batman and the D.E.O squad chase after her, but neither are able to catch her, and she mocks them for it. Batman eventually does catch up to her and the two fight, and while Batman defeats her, she was still able to successfully upload the data she had stolen to her employer. She is then imprisoned at Blackgate Prison following her defeat.

The prison is overthrown by Joker, The Penguin, and Black Mask shortly after she is taken there, and gang members from each faction began pestering Catwoman about joining their group. Batman arrived and incapacitated them. Catwoman clues him in on recent events and tells Batman that there are hostages suffocating to death in the Arkham Wing vault. She offers her services in exchange for being transferred to a lower security prison and having her sentence reduced, telling Batman that Blackgate is no place for a thief like her. When Batman questions her motives, she convinces him to accept her help by telling him that she isn't a psychopath that wants the hostages to suffer. From that point on, Catwoman supported Batman, giving him valuable information and advice, urging him to hurry up and reach the Arkham Wing.

There are no hostages when he gets there, however; the only thing in the vault is a weakened Bane attached to several tubes. Catwoman appears, telling him the truth - there never were any hostages and she had manipulated Batman to get to Bane from the start. Batman tries to sympathize with her, telling her that many will get hurt or die if Bane is freed, but she coldly replies that it helps her sleep at night if she doesn't think about the negative repercussions of her actions and that she is only doing it to pay off a debt. As she had planted bombs all over the prison, Batman was unable to stop her and she was able to escape the facility with her objective. As Bane was incredibly weakened, she was only able to make it to the docks before Batman caught up to her, however. She urged Bane to escape and the two fought again, resulting, once again, in Catwoman's defeat. Batman asked who she her employer is, but she is unable to answer his question as she was hired anonymously.

An unnamed federal agency, led by Captain Rick Flag, appeared and took Catwoman and Bane into custody. A final scene revealed that a woman named Amanda Waller had Catwoman released with an expunged record and the thanks of a grateful nation, suggesting that Catwoman was working for this agency.

Arkham Asylum

Catwoman does not appear in the video game Batman: Arkham Asylum. One of the riddles from the Riddler revolves around her.

Pre-Arkham City

Before Arkham City's opening, Batman is found surrounded by TYGER Guards in a trap set up by Strange to capture him. Fortunately, Catwoman helps Batman, who had infiltrated the Prison, and rescued him using a prisoner convoy vehicle she had stolen from a TYGER Guard that was transferring Poison Ivy from Arkham Asylum to Arkham City. Catwoman tells Batman that she had made an uneasy alliance with Ivy. Batman warned her that she shouldn't be playing such a dangerous game with Ivy. Straight after Arkham City had closed its gates on Gotham's criminals, only three remained at large; Two-Face, Catwoman and Batman. While Catwoman sat in her apartment, debating whether to flee or to stay, her phone rang. It was the voice of Catwoman's enemy: Two-Face.

He says "Sorry, Kitty-cat, but one of us had to go down." After that TYGER Guards were at her door. Catwoman fought her way through guard after guard to the safety of a nearby roof. She watched as the TYGER Guards ransacked her apartment until they found her safe. She readied her claws, but a shadowy figure appeared behind her and held a gloved hand over her mouth until she passed out.

Catwoman then woke in the Batmobile as it raced through Gotham's streets. She angrily told Batman that he should not have gotten involved. Batman then advised Catwoman to give up her loot and to leave town before it was too late. She then asked how Batman knew about Arkham City. He explained that he found a secret room in Quincy Sharp's Office back at Arkham Asylum, filled with plans for the new prison complex. Catwoman thanked him and pressed the emergency eject button on her seat and disappeared back to Arkham Asylum.

Two-Face was already at the Warden's Office in Arkham Asylum, photographing the plans to the secret vault inside Arkham City.

Catwoman then burst into the room and by then, Two-Face laughed and tossed the plans into the fire. Furious at him, she knocked him to the ground, grabbed the camera and fled. The TYGER Guards are then alerted to Arkham Asylum and there was no escape for either Catwoman or Two-Face.

Suddenly, Batman pulled Catwoman to safety and left Two-Face to be captured. Later, Catwoman opens the camera and finds that the memory card has vanished. She looked down on Two-Face who was waving the card, before swallowing it. Furious, Catwoman sliced through the line and fell to the ground, only to be surrounded by TYGER Guards. She was then arrested and taken to Arkham City.

Arkham Asylum's former administrator, Quincy Sharp, won the election to become Mayor of Gotham, incarcerated all prisoners and mental patients from Blackgate Prison and Arkham Asylum within a sealed-off perimeter known as 'Arkham City', including Catwoman. Lawlessness reigned and armed mercenaries patrolled the walls of the prison city to ensure no one attempted to escape, with Sharp hoping that the society of villains housed inside will kill each other and rid Gotham of its worst criminals.

While in Arkham City, Catwoman decided to break into Hugo Strange's Office to retrieve her loot that was confiscated upon her arrest. TYGER Guards capture her and take her to Strange, where he conducts a psychological interview with her to discover her criminal motives and her relationship with Batman. Catwoman refused to answer his question until he threatened her by revealing he has a TYGER agent who has Holly Robinson in sight, waiting for an order from Strange to kill her if necessary. Catwoman then answered his questions, and in return, Hugo reveals the location of the Confiscated Goods Vault plans is located in Two-Face's vault in his former campaigning office which he used when he was running for District Attorney of Gotham City.

Arkham City

Catwoman infiltrates Two-Face's old campaign office in order to find the Confiscated Goods Vault plans, beat up members of Two-Face's gang, but ended up captured by Two-Face.

She was then about to be publicly executed by Two-Face in the Courthouse, due to her previous theft as a means to ensure Two-Face would rise in the ranks of Arkham City. Two-Face then decided after flipping a coin to hold a trial instead of killing her immediately. This conveniently gave Batman enough time to infiltrate the courtroom and beat up his gang. Before Batman is shot by Two-Face, he is going to execute her, but she frees herself and scratches the good side of his face. Two-Face then takes out a second gun to kill Catwoman, but Batman captured Two-Face and left him hanging above the acid vat. After she is saved by Batman, she doesn't elaborate on any knowledge on what is going on in Arkham City or on what Hugo Strange is up to, but she doesn't trust the latter either way as he was absent for a year and then came under command of Sharp. As she tried to tell him more, the Joker tried to assassinate her only for Batman to quickly move her out of the way. Batman told her that she's not safe in Arkham but Catwoman told him she'll be fine.

With Batman busy, Catwoman plans on stealing her loot from Strange's vault. However, she is unsure about how to get in. After retrieving her weapons from her apartment, she went to Poison Ivy for help. Ivy refused to help Catwoman because of their last encounter, in which Catwoman accidentally killed a rare plant of Ivy's, the last one that remained in Strange's vault. Catwoman made a deal with Ivy to retrieve the plant from the vault if Ivy could get her in. Ivy agreed and smashed the door down with her plants. Catwoman snuck in and stole security cards from the TYGER Guards and was able to take them down stealthily and enter the vault. Catwoman found Ivy's plant, but she smashed her plant for trying to tie her up in it. In the midst of all this, Strange activated Protocol 10, destroying a whole city block nearby. Catwoman reluctantly left behind her stolen goods and went to rescue Batman, who the TYGER Guards said to be nearing death. She found Batman buried beneath rubble and helped him get out from underneath it. At the very end, Catwoman watched Batman carry Joker's corpse out of the Monarch Theater.

After the Joker's death, Catwoman went to her apartment to get her stuff and leave the city, but her apartment was destroyed in an explosion that was triggered when Catwoman tried to enter. Catwoman was briefly knocked unconscious. A group of Two-Face's thugs surrounded her and wondered if she was still alive. Catwoman woke up and quickly beat up the thugs. Angry, she interrogated a thug and threatened to slice him to pieces with her whip in order to tell her where her things were taken. The thug told her that Two-Face had her things at Penguin's Museum, and Catwoman responded by knocking him out with a knee to the face. She went to the museum, fought Two-Face, and discovered that due to his obsession with duality, Two-Face kept half her stuff and gave the other half away, angering Catwoman who then knocked him out with a solid punch to his face. Soon after, she then went around the city to fight Two-Face's thugs and got her items back.

Pre-Arkham Knight

Catwoman showed no interest in Scarecrow's plans for Gotham, believing they would fail. Instead, she decided to infiltrate Arkham Asylum in order to eavesdrop and get information she could use as leverage against Batman when he eventually confronted her about her crimes. She manages to get in, but makes a misstep and is discovered by a security drone. She curses herself for being careless and escapes without learning any useful information.

She is eventually contacted by the Riddler, who invites her to a meeting by claiming he wants to hire her to steal a special power core for his newly-built robots in exchange for information regarding Scarecrow's plan. As she is usually hired by other villains to steal items they need for their plans, Catwoman doesn't suspect Riddler's intentions and complies. However, upon meeting him, she is taken hostage by surprise when one of his robots grabs her, which revealed to her that they were already active. Catwoman angrily demands from Riddler the meaning of what is going on, to which the latter states that she is to be used as the perfect bait for Batman in order to force him to play his demented games, even going as far as to say that this was because he has studied the relationship between Batman and Catwoman. She then remarks that Riddler will regret his actions, but he merely laughs at it, saying that the World's Greatest Detective does not scare him, but she says he isn't the reason, as she is stating that she is basically swearing vengeance on the narcissistic madman.

With Riddler's plans in play now that he has the perfect hostage as the ultimatum of his plans, he starts making the final preparations of his schemes in store for Batman. Riddler has his robots and one of his henchmen take Catwoman to the abandoned Cyrus Pinkney Orphanage on Miagani Island. There, she is tied to an electric chair embedded in the main room and blindfolded. Afterwards, her neck is outfitted with an explosive collar that would require nine keys to unlock it via various puzzle challenges inside the orphanage and across Gotham, with the collar being wired to go off should she try to get past the collar scanner in an attempt to leave the building, pick the lock on the collar, or remove it too soon before using the final key to unlock it.

Arkham Knight

After defeating the militia soldiers and re-enabling the city bridge controls at Grand Avenue Station not far from where the Pinkney Orphanage in his quest to save Oracle from the Arkham Knight, Batman sees that the Riddler has kidnapped Catwoman when he broadcasts to Batman on the triple screen TVs by the side of a building right next to the station about what he has planned for him as revenge for his humiliating defeat in Arkham City, with the Riddler briefly showing Catwoman in her peril. He then gloats that he will finally beat him this time, and threatens to kill Catwoman if he doesn't come to the orphanage before ending the broadcast. Batman complies, and upon arriving in the front of the orphanage entrance, he takes out a group of rioters and the Riddler goon who brought Catwoman to the orphanage outside as the thug himself attempts to recruit the group of hoodlums to work for his boss. Batman proceeds to interrogate the Riddler lackey about why his employer has taken Catwoman captive and what his plans are after the gang of criminals are subdued. The Riddler thug just reveals that he has no idea as he just brought her and tied her up inside, in addition to placing Riddler trophies nearby before being knocked out.

Batman enters the building to see Catwoman's blindfolded face projected on a big screen projector in the main hall of the building where she is being held in her current predicament. Batman comes down and walks towards her captive position, and when he approaches closer, the projector turns off. Simultaneously, a restrained and blindfolded Catwoman hears Batman's footsteps as he comes closer and proceeds to shout out his name (believing it to be him) and ask if it's really him and that he had "better be sorry" for being the reason she is in her current situation. Batman confirms by telling her to hold still as he proceeds to undo the armrest cuffs of the chair, allowing her to untie the knot of her blindfold as he undoes the chair's leg cuffs and inquires if she is unharmed, to which she sarcastically remarks of being kidnapped as bait after removing the blindfold from her eyes and tossing it aside. Batman tells her they are leaving, but she says she can't. Suddenly, Riddler appears on the projector screen and reveals his robots to pit them against the pair. Together, the duo take out all of the robots through teamwork. Afterwards, Riddler proceeds to tell the Dark Knight about Catwoman's explosive collar and the details of his twisted games. Batman tells Catwoman he will come back for her as he goes back to finding Oracle, to which the former tells him to not keep her waiting.

After Batman frees Catwoman by participating in all of his twisted challenges, she laments that he's all about work when he turns her down when she suggests they find a hotel room. She then leaves to plunder Gotham; teasingly suggesting that she breaks into Wayne Manor aside from several art galleries. She eventually returns to assist Batman against Nigma (wanting revenge) despite Batman's insistence the situation was under control. After defeating him, she kisses Batman acknowledging his identity as Bruce Wayne and sadly departs after he tells her of his plan and insists on doing everything alone much to her dismay.

Catwoman's Revenge

After the Arkham Knight Incident, Catwoman infiltrated Riddler's hideout underneath Winslow's Toy Shop to get revenge on him for imprisoning her during Halloween. Catwoman tracks down his secret hideout being guarded by his own henchmen. She gains entry into the lab where she is greeted by Riddler's A.I. Computer and Riddler himself, still in custody of the GCPD and talking to his computer via a phone, pretending that he is talking to his lawyer. As he finds out that his lair has been entered, Riddler orders the computer to send robots after Catwoman. Catwoman fights the robots, surviving all of Riddler's deathtraps, lasers and even an electric floor. She gains access to the main computer and start's wire transferring all of Riddler's millions to her own personal bank account. As she activates the factory's self-destruct protocol and leaves the building, Aaron Cash can be heard tasering Nigma, as the talk with his "lawyer", was getting too heated and suspicious.

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Trivia

• Catwoman is a playable character. She can be added for free when the game is purchased new or available as DLC for a cost.
• Players can also download Catwoman outfits from Batman: The Animated Series and The Long Halloween, though it lacks the distinctive tail and whiskers associated with the costume.
• In Catwoman's third story mission, if the player chooses to have her leave Arkham City with the loot as opposed to saving Batman, the game will appear to end with Catwoman escaping into Gotham saying "Screw him". However, after a few moments of credits the game will suddenly reverse as though it were a video tape being rewound to the point were Catwoman exits the vault, so that the player may make the right choice and continue the story.
• Catwoman's design in Batman Arkham City is featured as an alternate skin in Injustice: Gods Among Us, which used to be exclusive for those who pre-order the game at Walmart but it was later made available to buy on the PSN or Xbox Live.
• In Batman: Arkham Knight's upcoming skin pack DLC collection, Catwoman's outfit 1990's purple catsuit will be available as well as Julie Newmar's Catwoman suit from the 1960's Batman tv series.