Selina Kyle (Gotham character)

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Selina Kyle
Gotham character
Camren Bicondova as Selina Kyle in Gotham
First appearance
  • "Pilot"
  • September 22, 2014
Last appearance
Based on
Adapted byBruno Heller
Portrayed byCamren Bicondova
(seasons 1–5; teen)
Lili Simmons
(series finale; adult)
In-universe information
Full nameSelina Kyle
NicknameCat
GenderFemale
Occupation
  • Thief
  • Vigilante
  • Nightclub owner (temporarily)
FamilyMaria Kyle (mother)
Significant otherBruce Wayne
NationalityAmerican

Selina Kyle, nicknamed "Cat", is a fictional character on the Fox TV series Gotham. Based on the DC Comics character of the same name who goes on to become Catwoman, Selina is a morally ambiguous street thief who becomes an ally and later love interest to Bruce Wayne, the orphaned son of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Camren Bicondova portrays Selina Kyle for the majority of Gotham's run, but is replaced by Lili Simmons as an adult in the series finale.

Character development

"The main word that I can think of to characterize Selina is that she's just surviving. She's very mischievous and very challenging to play at times, because she feels emotions but she hides them. I realized that she isn't just a street thief and a survivor; she's actually a normal girl."

 —Camren Bicondova[1]

Gotham depicts the origins of

James Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox, Leslie Thompkins, Penguin, Riddler, Poison Ivy and The Joker. Catwoman has been considered a morally ambiguous character, initially being counted as one of Batman's foes but becoming an occasional ally in later comic storylines, developing an iconic love–hate relationship, as she is also Batman's most enduring love interest.[2]

Actress and dancer

Warner Bros. Television cast Lili Simmons in the role, with Simmons and Bicondova collaborating closely on the adult Selina's characterization.[7]

Fictional character biography

Season 1

Selina Kyle is introduced as a 13-year-old street orphan and skilled thief. In the

Sal Maroni, Selina is among the street children recruited into Fish Mooney's gang. When a gang war erupts between Oswald Cobblepot
and Mooney for the control of Gotham's underworld, Selina declines to pick a side and slips away during the conflict.

Season 2

Selina later re-emerges working for Cobblepot's gang and tries to protect Bruce from corrupt billionaire

Edward Nygma (Cory Michael Smith).[13]

Season 3

When Strange uses experimental technology to revive Fish Mooney, Selina once again goes to work for her. When one of Mooney's minions catches Ivy stealing from her, Selina tries to save her, but is helpless to stop Mooney's thugs from pushing Ivy into a vat of toxic waste.

Later on, Selina encounters Subject 514A (Mazouz), a clone of Bruce created by Strange. After 514A saves Selina during a robbery gone wrong, she sees his scars and realizes he isn't Bruce. 514A explains the situation, and Selina tells him he is more normal than Bruce. With that, 514A kisses Selina and the two part ways. Later, while Selina is stealing wallets at the Cobblepot's party, she encounters Ivy (Maggie Geha), who reveals that Marv (Victor Pagan), one of Mooney's minions, aged her and gave her the power to make plants do her bidding.

After Bruce confesses his feelings for her, Selina kisses him. She tries to help Bruce and Alfred break into a building owned by the

Ivana Milicevic). Although Maria seems to want to reconnect with her daughter, Selina later discovers that she only returned to extort money from Bruce. Selina then tearfully tells her mother to leave Gotham and never return. Selina gets angry at Bruce once she finds out he kept the truth about her mother from her, and breaks up with him.[14]

514A attempts to get Selina to leave Gotham with him, but she says that he will never be the man Bruce is and that she doesn't care about him. She attempts to warn Alfred, but 514A pushes her out a window. However, a herd of cats revive her, and she is taken to the hospital, where Ivy helps heal her. She comes back to Wayne Manor to kill 514A, but Alfred stops her and throws her out. She allies herself with Ivy and Cobblepot, but is captured by Barbara, Nygma and

Jervis Tetch's (Benedict Samuel) "Alice" virus, Selina meets up with Tabitha looking for employment, which Tabitha gives her after testing her talents with a whip. Selina tells Tabitha that she is "done just surviving".[15]

Season 4

Eventually, Selina and Tabitha work for a revived Barbara Kean, even when Barbara aligns herself with

Ra's al Ghul's (Alexander Siddig
) hands. When Bruce is spotted by Cobblepot's goons, they open fire and he has to fight his way out while Selina goes back to the Siren's club empty-handed. Bruce later buys the knife at auction and Selina asks him to give it to her, but he refuses and tells her to leave. When Barbara wants to shut the Sirens down, Selina proves her worth to them by going on her own to steal from the bikers' gang. The Sirens later oppose Cobblepot after being tasked to capture Nygma for him. The Sirens then capture Sofia as an asset against Cobblepot, then end up working for her to bring him down, sending him to Arkham and taking over his empire.

Bruce and Selina meet again later in the season at the Siren's Club, where Bruce is drinking and partying to numb his guilt over killing Ra's. Eventually, Bruce asks Selina for help, but she is on her way to stop Ivy from murdering innocent people and tells him to atone for his actions, especially regarding his behavior towards Alfred. During the second half of the season, Selina is torn between her loyalty to the Sirens and her feelings for Bruce, which causes friction between the three parties. Eventually, Selina helps Bruce fight other villains like

Jonathan Crane (Charlie Tahan). Bruce is sprayed by Crane's fear toxin, but Selina is able to reach him. They share a kiss back at Wayne Manor seconds before she is shot and paralyzed by Jerome's brother Jeremiah (Monaghan). After Jeremiah and Ra's destroy Gotham City's bridges to the outside world, turning the city into a no man's land, Bruce tells Alfred to take Selina to Gotham's last remaining hospital and oversee her recovery.[16]

Season 5

Months later, Selina has undergone an operation to keep her spine from collapsing, but she remains paralyzed. She tries to commit suicide, but her doctors stop her. Bruce takes the advice of a nurse to seek out "the witch" as he asks where to find her.[17] The witch turns out to be Ivy, who reluctantly gives Bruce a strange boil to cure Selina. Once the boil is administered, Selina regains the ability to walk, as well as new, quasi-feline powers.[18] Suffering from PTSD episodes, Selina decides to get revenge on Jeremiah by stabbing him in the chest. Later, Cobblepot comes to her for help in defeating jewel thief Magpie, and the two of them plan to leave Gotham forever.[19][20]

Bruce and Selina share a surprise date where he expresses his intention to leave Gotham, which saddens her. Ivy walks in, hypnotizing Bruce and leaves Selina in the middle of a fight. Selina gets out and finds Bruce and they both violently fight each other. She manages to snap him out of it by hitting him and tearfully admitting that she doesn't want him to leave. Bruce takes Selina as his date to Gordon and

Leslie Thompkins' wedding, and kisses her.[21] However, Bruce eventually decides to leave Gotham in order to train himself to fight crime, leaving a heartbroken Selina a note wishing her well and promising to one day return.[22]

Ten years later, Selina has become a jewel thief and is being shadowed by a mysterious masked vigilante resembling a bat. Selina attends the opening of the new Wayne Tower and joins Barbara, Thompkins and Gordon in stopping Nygma and Jeremiah from destroying it. The vigilante – who she recognizes as Bruce – later tells her that he left Gotham City in order to protect her. She replies that she wanted him, not his protection. The two reconcile, but before leaving, Bruce tells Selina to return a diamond she had stolen; in response, she mutters "like hell".[23]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Burlingame, Russ (November 24, 2014). "Gotham's Camren Bicondova Talks Becoming Selina, Her Favorite Catwomen and Hopes For an Animated Gotham". Comicbook.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  2. ^ "Batman's Top 10 Love Interests". MTV News. March 22, 2011. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  3. ^ Radish, Christina (October 6, 2014). "Camren Bicondova Talks GOTHAM, the Audition Process, Becoming Part of the DC Universe, Delving into the Origins of Catwoman, and More". Collider. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  4. ^ Bricken, Rob (February 25, 2014). "What We Learned from the Script for Gotham's First Episode". io9. Archived from the original on November 8, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  5. ^ Fuster, Jeremy (April 20, 2019). "'Gotham': Camren Bicondova to Exit Catwoman Role Before Series Finale". TheWrap. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  6. ^ Camren Bicondova [@camrenbicondova] (April 19, 2019). "#Gotham My heart. 🙏🏽❤️" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ^ Stone, Sam (April 19, 2019). "Gotham: Why Camren Bicondova Won't Appear in the Series Finale". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on April 20, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  8. ^ "Pilot". Gotham. Season 1. Episode 1. September 22, 2014. Fox.
  9. ^ "Selina Kyle". Gotham. Season 1. Episode 2. September 29, 2014. Fox.
  10. ^ "Lovecraft". Gotham. Season 1. Episode 10. November 24, 2014. Fox.
  11. ^ "Beasts of Prey". Gotham. Season 1. Episode 19. April 13, 2015. Fox.
  12. ^ "Worse Than a Crime". Gotham. Season 2. Episode 11. November 30, 2015. Fox.
  13. ^ "Transference". Gotham (TV series). Season 2. Episode 22. May 23, 2016. Fox.
  14. ^ "Smile Like You Mean It". Gotham. Season 3. Episode 12. January 23, 2017. Fox.
  15. ^ "Heavydirtysoul". Gotham. Season 3. Episode 22. June 5, 2017. Fox.
  16. No Man's Land". Gotham
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  17. Year Zero". Gotham. Season 5. Episode 1. January 3, 2019. Fox
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  18. Trespassers". Gotham. Season 5. Episode 2. January 10, 2019. Fox
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  19. 13 Stitches". Gotham. Season 5. Episode 6. February 14, 2019. Fox
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  20. Ace Chemicals". Gotham. Season 5. Episode 7. February 21, 2019. Fox
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  21. The Trial of Jim Gordon". Gotham. Season 5. Episode 9. March 7, 2019. Fox
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  22. They Did What?". Gotham. Season 5. Episode 11. April 18, 2019. Fox
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  23. ^ "The Beginning...". Gotham. Season 5. Episode 12. April 25, 2019. Fox.
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