Hey everyone, it's Renash30 and today I've gone through the evolution of Catwoman to recap
all she's done in the dc movie timeline, so without any delay, let's begin.
Alright, so we start with Selina's first appearance in Batman: The Movie, where
disguised as the Russian journalist Ms. Kitka, she attempts to unmask batman in front of the press.
Though unsuccessful, she regroups with her supervillain team, the united underworld,
and forms a plan to rule the globe. Using her charming personality as Ms. Kitka,
she deceives Bruce into liking her, only to get him kidnapped so they can lure Batman to trap him.
After Bruce escapes, she helps dehydrate the World Security Council,
until the Dynamic duo later arrives and her identity is discovered when her mask falls off.
The united world-building dear comrades in crime
our objective the security council sitting like fat birds in a tree just waiting to be snatched
and you bundled it again again the dynamic duo escaped our trap
Decades later, she returns to the big screen in Batman returns, where Selina's a secretary
for Max Shreck until she discovers his plot to steal Gotham's electricity.
Though Max pushes her out a window, she miraculously survives the fall, but goes on a
psychotic rampage and designs her Catwoman suit. After making her appearance as Catwoman, she's
inclined to work with the penguin to get revenge on Shreck, however, things get complicated when
she shows affection for both Bruce and Batman. While she almost dies seven times in the film,
living up to the legend of a cat with nine lives, she later sacrifices herself to kill Shreck.
As Bruce searches for her in the end, she briefly appears when the bat-signal lights the sky.
Thanks. You make it so easy, don't you. Always waiting for some batman to save you.
I am Catwoman.
Now appearing in her standalone film Catwoman, we follow the life of Patience Philips,
a designer for a cosmetic company who, unlike Selina Kyle, isn't a thief with a black costume.
Like Batman Returns, she discovers a conspiracy within the company and is killed to be silenced.
Now, this is where the story differs as an Egyptian cat revives her, which gives her cat-like
abilities and the desire to become Catwoman. While she initially stops a robbery and takes
the jewelry, using her new persona, she tracks down her killer, the wife of her former employer.
The other night you killed somebody why cat got your time you know they told me
to flush the pipe so I flushed the pipes what there's something wrong with b or lean
she heard something she wasn't supposed to hear and her deer is covering it up
Selina then makes her animated film debut in Batman: Year One, where after watching Bruce
hurt her close friend holly, she engages him in heavy combat with almost identical moves.
When a couple of months then pass and she sees Batman as an inspiration,
she leaves her escort job and creates her own costume to begin her career in crime
as Catwoman. Though after no success when stealing from Commissioner Loeb, she decides
to put her eyes elsewhere and steal from Falcone. During her heist, she stops most of his men before
Batman's intrusion and decides with no jewels, she might as well leave her mark on Carmine.
In Selina's final scene, she becomes furious again for now being labelled as Batman's assistant.
they're giving the credit to batman but Selina you don't want them to know it's you. I hear
Falcone's got a fortune of old stuff. Maybe i'll give the roman a little scratch before I steal it
on the face I don't think it's Batman if I give him a scratch
Now continuing in the same universe in the short film, DC Showcase: Catwoman,
Selina returns with a new outfit that we as fans are familiar with,
to track down a mysterious cargo shipment in Gotham. After finding a recognizable necklace
around a cat, she investigates and begins causing significant trouble for the crime boss Rough Cut.
While sustaining numerous injuries through her fights with him, she defeats him and
finds his mysterious shipping container. Whilst opening it, she finds and frees trafficked girls
who amongst them is her friend Holly from the first film. After returning Holly's necklace,
Selina gives a heartfelt goodbye and provides her diamonds to leave Gotham.
Why do you never listen to me? Sorry Selina,
I really was leaving town I just needed some travelling money.
Next, appearing in the dark knight trilogy conclusion, The Dark Knight Rises, Selina
poses as a maid to take Bruce's fingerprints to trade for a clean slate but also steals Martha's
pearls as an added bonus. While anticipating a double-cross for her deal, she suits up in her
Catwoman suit to search for the drive where batman later saves her from Bane's army. After he asks
for her help in her apartment, where she's seen taking care of a girl again, she betrays him to
stop Bane's men, and witnesses Batman being brutally injured. Though she gets arrested,
she escapes when Gotham's under siege and when Bruce returns, she helps him retake Gotham from
Bane's army, gives him a kiss before he fakes his death and creates a life with him in Florence.
You took my wallet. No, I didn't. Get out, she took my. Now.
I don't know what he's so upset about there's only 60 bucks in here. Probably the watch.
Now back in Year One's universe, in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2,
many years have passed and Selina is now the head of an escort service, similar to her life
before becoming Catwoman. After keeping up with recent news, she suddenly drops
her drink when the Joker surprises her in her apartment, and frightened, she's kissed with
the joker's new mind control lipstick. When she's later rescued by Bruce and found tied
up in a wonder woman costume, she warns him that the joker is worse than ever.
After Bruce kisses her to comfort her, he fakes his death in a fight with Superman, so
Selina confronts Clark for causing the death of a good man.
Bruce, he's worse than ever. He's using lipstick, mind control.
The police are going to be here soon. Bring the wing in close. Don't take the girl, don't worry.
Next appearing in a film based on the second lego batman video game,
Catwoman breaks out of Arkham Asylum when the Joker frees supervillains to provide
a distraction for his escape. Knowing Batman and Robin will come to help control the chaos,
she and the other supervillains outnumber them upon their arrival and use their respective
vehicles to escape. Catwoman leaves using her motorcycle
and drives through a maze to lose her tail however robin closes in and causes her to crash,
leading to her arrest along with the other supervillains.
Holy baloney, totally scared Catwoman. Did you see that?
Robin. Now robin, what were you saying something catty I believe.
Returning to her 60's appearance but in animation, in Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders,
she once again teams up with the same supervillains to take over the world.
Though she's usually on the sidelines admiring Batman in combat, to get him on their side,
she scratches him with a substance called batnip, which initially doesn't work. After
being betrayed because of her affection for Batman, Batman becomes eviler than anticipated,
so she agrees to help Robin cure him. While the antidote doesn't work, she fights an army
of Batmen until Batman returns to normal, is granted a kiss before she's taken to prison,
steals artwork from her old team and chooses to drop into a chimney instead of surrendering.
How do you turn a bat into a rat? I call it batnip, one scratch and mass muscles will be
mine to manipulate. That's been tried before by better crooks than you.
Watch your tongue, no one challenges the princess of plunder
Continuing in the sequel of the previous film, Batman vs Two-Face,
Catwoman has a brief date with Batman behind bars until her perfect kiss is interrupted by Robin.
Wanting out of prison, she signals her cat outside to help switch places with the
public defender to escape. She then receives an invitation for the unmasking of the dynamic duo
where each supervillain will bid for their identity. Upon her arrival, she initially
bids 3 million dollars and then 5, but when she's outbid, she frees batman and robin and helps face
off against Gotham's most notorious criminals. After they're defeated, she lies to Batman about
turning herself in and later makes the first bid at a bachelor auction to go on a date with Batman.
Hey, silence. No one outbids the princess of plunder. Batman is mine to undo
when I see fit and not before. No one will see under his hood, besides me. Five million.
Transformed into lego again in The Lego Batman Movie,
Catwoman appears more of a side character who only shows up when other supervillains appear. She gets
a very brief introduction when the joker executes his plan but she among the other villains;
fails to stop Batman, regroups at Joker's hideout and is forced to surrender by
the joker. Later, after the Joker attacks Gotham with villains from the Phantom Zone,
Catwoman and other Gotham supervillains escape Arkham but team up with Batman to retake the city.
Next, with her appearance in Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold,
Catwoman briefly shows up in one fight sequence, unlike her other appearances,
and teams up with other supervillains to help the Riddler face batman and his allies. Though she
initially has the upper hand against The Question, she inevitably gets stunned
by Batman and Aquaman along with the other supervillains and is taken back to Arkham Asylum.
Did someone mention a dance, meow.
Poor thing, must be hard to see in that mask. Let me scratch some eyes out for you.
Now, making her 19th-century appearance in Batman: Gotham by Gaslight,
Selina, an actress, interrupts a council meeting to accuse the police of not catching a killer.
After, she gets attacked by Jack the Ripper and uses her skills with a whip to defend herself
but is inevitably saved by Batman. Following her performance at the theatre, Selina grows
affectionate for Bruce, and discovers his identity when she helps Batman hide from the police.
As she later reveals she was a circus lion tamer and loved her cats deeply,
Bruce is falsely arrested for being Jack, so Selina tells Jim Gordon he's Batman, only to
discover that he is Jack the ripper. Drawing a bat using blood,
she lights up the sky to signal Batman, just in time for her rescue before Jim kills her.
I grew up with those cats, looked after them,
loved them. And now you look after all the strays in skinner's end.
Someone has to, they don't have anyone else to protect them, until now, until the batman.
She then appears in an anime art style in Batman Ninja, where she travels to feudal japan when
Gorilla Grodd's time machine goes off at Arkham Asylum. As she greets Batman in Feudal clothing,
who arrives two years later, she reveals that supervillains have taken over the states of Japan
and surprises him with Alfred's appearance. Now in her feudal costume,
she helps deal with the Joker but allies herself with Grodd to be taken back to the future.
In the final battle when the Joker attacks, she's rescued by Red hood and joins the Batfamily in
defeating all the supervillains. Using the time machine, they return to the present, but still
making a score wherever she goes, she sells the same antique vase that Grodd threw his banana on.
Where did you get that? I lifted it from Harley Quinn during our fight.
It's part of your fancy quake machine, isn't it? And what do you want in return?
Take me back to the future. It's a deal. I thought we could do business.
Now debuting in the DC animated movie universe film, Batman: Hush, Selina reconnects with
Bruce after straying from illegal activities but gets tangled back into it after a text message.
Influenced by Poison Ivy to steal a ransom, she's chased by Batman but then rekindles her
romance with him, and helps him stop Ivy in Metropolis. As Batman reveals his identity,
their relationship develops and they become partners in crime-fighting
until Hush kidnaps Catwoman to get his attention. While Selina is saved by Batman just in time,
during their brawl with the riddler, the factory explodes when Batman tries to save him.
To ensure their survival, Selina cuts his line so they can escape,
but she ends their relationship when Batman feels he didn't have to die.
You and your goddamn code, and you'll die because of it, you know this right?
Will that make it all better? I can't believe I let myself get caught up in this again.
No, I changed, I would have changed more, a lot more, for you, for us.
Next appearing in Parts 1 and 2 of Batman: The Long Halloween, Catwoman watches and listens in
on a meeting between Batman, Gordon and Harvey with their plan to take down Carmine Falcone.
When she's spotted, she's chased by Batman and has fun I might add,
though leads him to Falcone's money stash, with the mysterious interest in his downfall.
After showing her affection to Batman, she helps him fight a gang, surveys Falcone, and as Selina,
has a thanksgiving dinner at Wayne Manor. Then on New Year's eve, after stealing an expensive
necklace, she discontinues her relationship with Bruce because of their other identities,
though as she connects with Falcone's son Alberto, she witnesses his death by the killer Holiday
Why are you trying to hurt Falcone? Why are you? It's not personal sweetheart, it's justice.
Justice can be personal sweetie. I don't know,
Gordon says I'm supposed to work in the light. Well then light it up. I owe you one.
Now in part 2, when Bruce is under Poison Ivy's influence to hand over his company to Falcone,
Catwoman intervenes and helps him break free from her control. After she again helps him
out when he's exposed to Scarecrow's fear toxin, she surveys Falcone, and saves Harvey's life but
loses control when fighting his attacker. Then, she later saves Batman from Falcone,
only to reveal the ultimate revelation of her obsession with him, that she is his daughter.
After a brief kiss, she teams up with him when Harvey and other supervillains kidnap Falcone
but lets loose when Harvey kills him. Though she discovers her mother's name
with Falcone's dying words, she leaves him and celebrates Halloween with Bruce and Alfred.
I don't even know my mother's name but I think there's someone who can tell me. Your father.
When the time comes I'm not sure I'll have it in me to ask,
is there even such a thing as a normal family in this city. Maybe not, for people like us.
Now appearing in a film that is loosely based on the Injustice video game,
while on a job, Selina is advised by Superman to check on Bruce
after the death of Nightwing. Finding him in the Batcave letting out his anger,
Selina comforts him and promises to hold him together. After, she and other heroes
join Batman's insurgency with a plan to take down Superman. As she unlocks the fortress of solitude
so they can steal a red sun cannon, their plan goes sideways and they barely escape. With only a
few heroes left, she and the others help Superman and Wonder Woman defeat AMAZO, though as Superman
later surrenders himself, she gets a kiss in the end when Batman gets a change of heart.
Quiet eh. On the upside, no crime, like you always wanted. Superman has created a police state
and allied himself with Ra's al Ghul, not what I wanted. Not what I wanted.
Returning to an anime art style in Catwoman: Hunted, Selina infiltrates a party as
classic Catwoman and changes outfits when she steals the Cat's eye emerald from Leviathan.
After escaping in a car chase, Batwoman and Interpol recruit her to help take down Leviathan
in exchange for a full pardon for her crimes. So, after she surveys a
meeting and fights Cheshire, she and Batwoman distract Levaithan's bosses until Interpol
arrives. Though she gets her pardon, Talia sends assassins, Grundy and Cheetah after her.
While they fail, Selina reveals that she wanted vengeance on them from the start
for human trafficking girls, and as she always has a plan, she secretly steals the
emerald to provide money for the girls and heads to London for another heist.
Oh, I love your pearls, I might just steal those away too.
I don't believe we've been properly introduced. The name's Selina Kyle,
but please, call me Catwoman.
Spoiler alert, this next part will include heavy spoilers for The Batman!
Now making her final appearance in 2022's most anticipated film, Selina works as a waitress at
the Iceberg Lounge and after meeting the Batman, she heads home as he connects her friend Annika
to his investigation. To get her out of Gotham, Selina suits up to steal Annika's passport back,
until she has a brief fight when she encounters Batman again. They then team up when Annika's
missing where she reveals that like in year one, she has a thing for strays. When she later
discovers she was murdered by Carmine Falcone, she reveals to Batman that like the long Halloween, he
is her father. As she attempts to kill him, Batman stops her and the riddler kills him instead.
Later, when the Riddler's followers create chaos, Selina saves Batman and helps deal with them,
but in the aftermath, she feels Gotham's unsavable and leaves for upstate or Bludhaven.
You're pretty good at that. Catwoman meets batman who's looking for
a serial killer in Gotham. New friend of yours. I'm not so sure. They're both people who
fight for what they believe in. They aren't afraid to die for what they believe in.
Now with the end of her evolution till she makes another appearance,
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