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    Character » Catwoman appears in 3418 issues.

    Catwoman is a fictional character originating from DC Comics. Under the costumed alias of Catwoman, Selina Kyle, is a cat burglar with an on-again, off-again, romantic relationship with Batman. She is shown as a woman who is very strong-willed, independent and morally dubious.

    Catwoman, hero or villain?

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    #1  Edited By Sinestro2828

    Is Catwoman a heroine these days or has she gone back to being a villainess?  I've heard that she reformed but then heard she's joined forces with Poison Ivy and Harley Quin, both supervillains.  So has she gone back to super villainy or is she spying on Harley and Ivy for Batman or something?

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    #2  Edited By greenenvy

    They all together are  anti heroic with ivy as the most ruthless  one in the gang. but no cat woman is actually more of a anti heroin  and will be teaming up with batman soon as a matter of fact so she is a decent good little kitty right now. Its poison ivy that might get a little mysterious there and there and then Harley is just trying to fade away from joker making her almost an every day blond so yep. 

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    #4  Edited By Silver2467

    Villain. She has aided BatMan in the past and currently aided Dick a few times, but she has never truly reformed. 

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    #5  Edited By agent9149

    anti-villain

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    #6  Edited By chipsnopotatoes

    I like her best as thief.

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    #7  Edited By ragdollpurps

    to the gotham public, she's still a villian and was just recently blamed along with harley for some "wrongdoing", thanks to ivy. but batman knows that deep down inside she isn't evil or bad or whatever you want to call it. she's walking the neutral line.

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    #8  Edited By Comicgirl93

    I'd say that Catwoman now days is on the between side or is more Vigilante and sometimes tries to be more like Batman getting ride of other types o scums out there in the dark end of the streets. 

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    #9  Edited By Aqua11500

    She is still a thief,but she means no harm,she just steals for her personal wants in life.As long as you don't cross her she won't hurt you. 
     
    she is kinda vigilante,but neutral.so i would say she plays for both teams.

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    #10  Edited By DarkChris

    Mostly an anti-heroine. She will help Batman whenever he needs her but she can't resist to her thief side (I think).

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    #11  Edited By saiyan_earthling

    neither

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    #12  Edited By wordchallenge

    Wow there's a lot of different answers to this one. Based on the latest things I've read with her in it I would say that she is a reformed villain still figuring out how to be a hero. Overall she is on the good side of things now, but still has some darker tendencies, like stealing.

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    #13  Edited By Mercy_

    Neutral. Simple as that. 

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    #14  Edited By Jakesully1981

    Anti-heroine that's for sure

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    #15  Edited By x_29

    Anit-heroine

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    #16  Edited By moywar700

    catwoman is chaotic good.

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    #17  Edited By Avenging-X-Bolt

    Neither.

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    #18  Edited By thespideyguy

    anti-hero

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    #19  Edited By Jakesully1981

    Anti-heroine sounds like she's anti-drugs but anti-hero works well. LOL

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    #20  Edited By LoganRogue24

    i think it depends on the mood selinas in at the moment.

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    #21  Edited By acer51

    she plays hot and cold with Batman alot.

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    #22  Edited By Stronger

    I think she is a little bit of both.

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    #23  Edited By FatihBATMAN

    too true! she has never stood on one side permanently, thats her personality man... she has no side..

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    #24  Edited By ReadItNow

    Villian who sometimes fights other villians. Thus why the relation with batman is so good. Which side of her is he attracted to?

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    #25  Edited By Strafe Prower

    @Mercy_ said:

    Neutral. Simple as that.

    This

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    #26  Edited By vigilante83

    I think turning catwoman to the good side is strongly related to growth of feminism

    as much as number of indipendent successful women increased this idea spread between comic creators wich more femenist society do not accept female charecter as villians or follower sidekicks of male heros like catgirl so they start to create strong independent female heros or at least reforming the strong female villains to good side .

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    The Flaming Fence

    I liked Anne Hathaway's interpretation of Selina Kyle/Catwoman in Christoper Nolan's bold "The Dark Knight Rises" [2012].

    Though the Nolan film really highlighted the ominousness of the brutish maniac Bane, Hathaway's Catwoman offered a nice complement and guilty pleasure, and her interpretation of Selina Kyle/Catwoman as a female rendition of an Artful Dodger-esque street-crawler nicely highlighted this DC feline's urban consciousness.

    If Bruce can win Selina's heart, then Catwoman is as redeemable at least as Talia al Ghul (with whom Bruce fathered Damian Wayne who went on to become a new incarnation of Robin).

    In my humble opinion, Selina/Catwoman is very extreme and volatile but shares Batman's attitude towards vigilance.

    I think "Batman: Year One" (Frank Miller) offers a nice portrait of Catwoman too.

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    Catwoman has been an anti-hero since late 1980s

    in the 1980s before Crisis on Infinite Earth, she actually reformed and became a crimefighter that worked alongside Batman and Jason-Robin

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