| Selina Kyle | |
 Selina Kyle in 2389 | |
| Full name: | Selina Kyle |
| Known aliases: | Catwoman |
| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | Female |
| Eye color: | Blue |
| Hair color: | Blonde |
| Homeworld: | Earth |
| Birthplace: | Earth |
| Born: | October 31st, 2332 |
| Affiliation: | Herself, Patience Phillips (Catwoman), Miranda Tate (The Cat) |
| Family | |
| Mother: | Mrs. Kyle |
| Spouse(s): | Typhuss J. Halliwell (ex-boyfriend; husband; m. 2394) |
| Children: | Helena Kyle (b. 2350; daughter) |
| Career | |
| Occupation: | Criminal, Cat burglar, Vigilante (in secret) |
- "Life's a bitch, now so am I."
- — Selina Kyle
- "Typhuss: Why you're doing this? Let's take him to the SCIS. Then, we can go home together. Selina don't you see were the same we are the same split right down the center. Selina, please."
- "Selina: Typhuss, I would love to live with you and Helena in your castle forever, just like in a fairytale. I just couldn't live with myself. So don't pretend this is a happy ending. Lex: Selina! Selina Kyle. You are defeated! And Typhuss James Kira why are you dressed up like Green Arrow? Selina: Because he is Green Arrow, you moron! Lex: Was. [Shoots Typhuss with a gun] Selina: Don't! You killed me. Black Siren killed me. That's three lives down!. You've got enough in there to finish me off? Lex: One way to find out. Selina: Four, five, still alive! Six, seven all good girls go to heaven. [Laughs at Lex] Two lives left. I think I'll save one for next Christmas, but in the meantime good bye you son of bitch."
- —Typhuss, Selina and Lex Luthor, 2393 in a dream
Selina Kyle is a female Human born on October 31st, 2332. In 2349 Selina started to date a boy named Typhuss James Halliwell. Selina Kyle was a lonely, frustrated girl pushed over the edge into obsession and crime after her boyfriend Typhuss James Halliwell broke up with her.
Selina didn't tell Typhuss that she was pregnant with his daughter Helena Kyle in January of 2350. Selina Kyle's repressed rage towards her ex-boyfriend Typhuss allowed her to transform into the clever supervillainess Catwoman.
During the 2380s Selina took a protégée, Patience Phillips, who is the second Catwoman. Selina is mentally unstable.
Biography
Early life
Selina was born on October 31st, 2332 on Earth. She broke out of a women's correctional facility for the first time when she was sixteen years old. Selina didn't tell Typhuss that she was pregnant with his daughter Helena Kyle in January of 2350. (Star Trek: Intrepid episodes: "Launch", "Revelations Helena", "The Return of Catwoman")
Prior to her life of crime, Selina Kyle worked as a secretary for the powerful and ruthless Max Shreck, the owner of a business empire and the department store Shreck's. Despite being her role, Selina fancied herself as more as an executive assistant since she helped out in more ways than the others seemed to appreciate, something which Shreck himself also seemed to acknowledge. Residing in a lush apartment, she lived with a black cat named Miss Kitty and fed many of the local strays. She also seemed to have a strained relationship with her mother and in a relationship with Typhuss James Halliwell.
Becoming Catwoman
Catwoman is born
Selina Kyle was a lonely, frustrated girl pushed over the edge into obsession and crime after her boyfriend Typhuss James Halliwell broke up with her.
Selina Kyle's repressed rage towards her ex-boyfriend Typhuss allowed her to transform into the clever supervillainess Catwoman. Selina appeared to suffer a psychotic break: ransacking her apartment, destroying her possessions, and sewing a homemade cat suit in preparation for her revenge on Typhuss.
Calling herself Catwoman, Selina became a vigilante in her own right; on her first night, she brutally beat a mugger for trying to rape a helpless woman, but then chastised the woman for being unable to defend herself. Over the years, she developed a long record of criminality. (Star Trek: Intrepid episodes: "Launch", "Revelations Helena", "The Return of Catwoman")
The years away
Catwoman actually stayed in New York City but maintained a low profile, leading many to doubt her existence as an urban myth. Over the next year, Selina began to change the Catwoman suit, integrating longer gloves, boots and a belt. Despite him assuming she was gone, Catwoman began following Typhuss from afar, though never made contact with him for the next few years. Though he continued to search for her, she avoided making contact with him.
Reuniting with Typhuss
With her old occupation gone, she began investigating white-collar crime and people in power, using her civilian identity infiltrate companies and investigate them from within. Rather than hand evidence over to the SCIS, she would regularly steal from her targets, using the profits to help finance herself and her operations. By Halloween of the following year, Catwoman had begun investigating the Lincoln Savings and Loan company, during which she uncovered links between them and crime lords. However, before she could investigate them further, a heist was attempted from the bank by the "Joker Gang", though this was ultimately foiled by Red Arrow.
When copycat criminals dressed as Red Arrow set light to the Royal Hotel, Catwoman attacked and subdued the criminals, scarring their faces with her claws to make tracking them easier. When Red Arrow arrived on the scene, she stayed behind to greet him. While he returned to the scene to respond to the fire, she remained behind to seal the gang into a dumpster, only asking for a kiss before he left her. Catwoman remained on the scene, though only observed the scene from the rooftops. While Typhuss gave his statement, he noticed her, prompting her to salute him and leave the scene.
Selina slipped a note on his Arrowbike cryptically giving him the meeting spot of their rooftop where they first fought. Briefly engaging in a chase when he arrived as Red Arrow, Catwoman was subdued finally subdued when he entangled her legs with a Bola arrow. Soon joined by Typhuss, they quickly began flirting and romancing each other, where she revealed her "work" since they'd last met. When he expressed displeasure, Selina confronted him on his inaction investigating white-collar crime and how his actions only affected the poor of New York City. She also revealed that she was seeing a psychiatrist about their relationship, though claimed that her comments weren't taken seriously. When an series of fires and explosions went off around the city, Catwoman and Red Arrow to divert their attention to them. She separated with Typhuss during the event.
SCIS infiltration
Planning to steal information from the SCIS's mainframe, Selina infected their systems with the "KitKat" virus. Posing as an IT technician, she infiltrated the building, claiming she'd been sent to remove the virus. Selina was interviewed by Barbara Gordon, giving a partially fictitious employment history. During it, they discussed Shreck's murder and the apparently unfinished investigation. When Gordon was called away to help officers search for criminals, Selina continued the "scan", in reality copying files to a device.
Contact with Barbara Gordon
After the events, Selina began her operations once again, stealing money from Typhuss to aid her. Deducing that Harvey had sent a package contained an unmasked Typhuss to Barbara, she sent a message proposing an alliance to help her operations. Catwoman could later be seen patrolling the rooftops of Gotham, unknowingly being watched by Huntress.
Catwoman left New Gotham, though her exploits became well known. Dr. Chase Meridian also learned of the attraction between her and Typhuss, later noting that he seemed to like strong women with "skin-tight vinyl and a whip".
Abilities
- Hand-to-hand combat (advanced): Kyle has shown impressive fighting skills during a large brawl against several henchmen.
- Expert thief: Selina has shown amazing thieving abilities and can leave a crime scene without leaving a trace. Selina is a master thief, known throughout New York city for her burglary of cat-themed objects and/or gems and jewels of the highest quality.
- Stealth: Selina is as stealthy as any large cat. She has easily been able to sneak up on large groups of people. She shows marked prowess in this ability while she's on the prowl for her next job.
- Strength: Catwoman possesses the peak human strength level of a woman her age, size and weight, in addition who engages in intensive regular exercise and combat training. Catwoman is capable of pressing up to twice her own weight (270 lbs). She is capable of swinging uninjured with a grapple or whip.
Weaknesses
Mental Illness
Weapons
Whip
Behind the scenes
- Annette Bening was initially cast as Catwoman, but was forced to drop out due to pregnancy. Jose Fernandez had already sculpted a cowl for Bening, which looked more animalistic, covering her nose and upper lip. When Michelle Pfeiffer was chosen to replace her, it was decided to make a cowl that revealed more of her face. Pfeiffer trained at the Steeleboxer kick boxing gym two hours a day for six months. She also practiced yoga, weight lifting and karate. Additionally, she spent three months training with a 12-foot bullwhip.
- This version of Selina Kyle is based on Selina Kyle from Batman Returns (1992, Earth-89)/Batman '89 (comic book limited series) played by Michelle Pfeiffer.
Inspiration from Comics
Despite claims to contrary, there are many similarities to the original Catwoman origin, in which she was depicted as Stewardess at Speed Airlines who turned to crime after suffering a head injury during a plane crash. The film switches the occupation to corporate secretary, but the symbolism remains the same increasing the sexism and patriarchal oppression.