YESSS LITERALLY THE MOST ICONIC CAT WOMAN😭

I love Michelle's interpretation but I also would put Zoe's Catwoman at the top because of her accuracy in her character to the comics.

I would agree the same for me

Hard disagree. Eartha Kitt is the most iconic cat woman.

YES! I love Michelle Pfeiffer and anne Hathaway's take on cat woman. Michelle... iconic Anne....amazing They gave the character Catwoman such depth and personality and made her more than just some hot woman in leather.

Agreed, with better writing she could have killed it in that role.

Sidenote, I love your content 👏🏾🖤

FACTSSSSSS

I remembered loving that movie as a child

@@theprettiestleoxoxo she was awesome and I like that costume.

I tend to score Eartha as the #1 Catwoman, her immersion into the role made it the perfect balance of threat, intelligence and ability that this villain required. No rocks being tossed at Pfeiffer or Hathaway but neither one of them had their threat level up to par when it comes to facing Batman.

Wow their trash 🗑 for that 🙄

You'r not the only one, love her music too...she is the original singer of Santa baby.. And the second black woman on TV..

Julie Newmar Nr1 with a long shot

@@Inkbkank.2029 I think in the 60s the shows were short and sweet. She made appearances everytime the role called for it. She was cast for only the last season of the show. They couldn't offer her anymore screentime as she was only one of many 'villains' that had to fit the roster.

😭 I’m like pretty sure those writers had mommy issues Also I think he has more of a mix of dissociative identity disorder and bipolar disorder.

playing card come to life lmaooo hilarious comment

to be fair, the 40s was a lifetime ago

LMFAO that's awesome🤣🤣🤣🤣 and yes,with only a cat option? Naay, what if I want to be a wolverine🤣🤣🤣

@@darthtepes ikr!?!! I wish I could have grown up with a female wolverine type character^---^ 💜💜

That shit made laugh out loud I swear 😂😂😂😂

there are boomers out there that grew up believing all dogs were male and all cats were female 🤣

Also that’s not even true for cats - it’s like he never met either a woman OR a cat. Maybe he’s an alien lol

Dog understand no better than men

yeah, i've never really understood why so many apparently heterosexual men like to spend so much time with other men talking about women in a clueless manner instead of talkling to women.

Especially because Bruce being a barely-functioning human being was kinda the point of his character.

agreed

Yup !

@@meko98743 yup the Bale Batman was already a fleshed out character both in and out of the costume. The Pattinson Batman is kinda an egdy recluse that's just starting to see how he's supposed to be as Batman or Bruce.

@@peteartieda58 Pattinson batman is basically Rorschach with a no-kill rule except less sexist and with a good end.

That’s how I felt too - the awkwardness was real lol, but it fit them more than being suave

That’s what you call boring shit, healthy 🫢🤣

Yes! Exactly!

I doesnt make sense to me. Just because they are traumatized or something doesnt mean they have chemistry on each other and would make them be attracted to each other. Especially that Batman isnt lonely but only socially awkward and Catwoman is the only lonely character makes the romance more unnatural. To me Catwoman is only trying to manipulate Batman to help her by her sex appeal and is not really attracted to him, but if they do plan to make a sequel to the film and they would include Catwoman again i hope they would actually put a reasonable reason on why she really is attracted to Batman.

Their relationship is based on mutual respect rather than desire. It feels weird to me that that confuses people.

Yea, they focused too much on making her sexy when a cat suit would get that point across easily

Me too

Same. Me growing up as a black latina from the 3rd world i was so amaze when I saw this beautiful black woman and that was a hero/villain but was so cool. I just love the entire movie and every scene but people there hate it.

OMG. So true, I was around that age too and remeber watching it every time it was on TV and loving it!

But in the movie she isn't Selina she's another character

EXACTLY!! Zoë's version is the most comic accurate out of all of them. Anyone who has read Catwoman's comics would appreciate this version. Zoë's performance was amazing. Matt Reeves really did the character justice. 👏

@@luigilove254 so true. Reeves clearly cared about the characters and was familiar with who she is in the comics. Props to Zoe too for a great portrayal of Selina

Yeah. Zoë Kravitz is the most comic-accurate Catwoman and most perfectly suits the movie's overarching theme of vengeance. Michelle Pfeiffer is the Catwoman who most iconically defines the role and fits into her movie's style most perfectly. Eartha Kitt is the Catwoman who most perfectly embodies a woman with a cat-like personality and style.

Anne Hathaway played a role as a Catwoman? Get out of here! Really???

Hmmm looking at the movies that came out in 2012, I bet that movie got overshadowed thanks to Avengers coming out that same year. I also checked the release dates and Avengers came out a couple months before The Dark Knight Rises.

Ann was GOOD , Michelle was GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!! think the ranking been VERY accurate

There are also subtle nuances to Anne's performance that most will not pick up on during the first viewing of TDKR. Anne goes through a wide range of emotions in a short amount of screen time.

@@turtleislandlac1490 no argue , Ann is GOOD but to me THE BEST cat woman was Michelle, her combination of streangth and vulnerability. sexy and innocent sanity and insanity she capture cat woman duality perfectly.

Nine lives! Well played.

Woah

agreed i dont call my “friend”, BABY like that

I was so disappointed and confused when I watched it. My sister asked me several times if she was her girlfriend or not and I couldn't answer until it was clearly stated. I felt a bit queerbaited lol

Yea,agreed!! I was like omg she has a gf!!! And she was like "annika is my friend" i was like "wot mate""

They were never romantically involved, they're really just friends. Even the director said Catwoman has a sort of mother-daughter protective relationship with her. I'm in a friend group where we all call each other "Baby, bb, b" and I honestly thought this was pretty common. We'd crack up if people thought that we were lesbians over that lol

I mean, I call my friends ‘baby.’ It’s not just for romantic use. And throughout the movie, I always felt that it was a mother/ daughter type friendship. But this is just my opinion.

what does height have to do with it ?

@@Emietmolaisa2012 When I think of a cat or something catlike it's usually something small. A smaller stature also makes the movement look more fluid and precise because the limbs are shorter.

Disagree. Cat woman is supposed to be long and slender, like a cat. I thought Zoe was perfect face wise but too short. It was like kitten woman not cat woman

There are many small and tall cats - so that’s a moot point, it’s about the way the actresses carried the character and their mannerisms

@@ep3989 catwoman is tall and slender. end of discussion

And "BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT "

Hell yes!! Imagine the career Ms.Kitt would have, if she came along today. …

​@@coricori7661She had a pretty major career.... wouldn't have been much bigger today.

That was Erica kit was haillie bery

I'm not black, but Halle Berry's Catwoman still has a special place in my heart for fairly similar reasons, because she got a super-powered/animalistic/heroic/lead-character storyline typically given to male characters-and I think she was actually my personal introduction to the Catwoman character in general as a young early-teens-aged girl too. I became obsessed with seeing just about every other iteration of the character I could get my hands on after that, but Halle Berry's version is still first in my heart. (I also _really_ don't understand, personally, the current modern take like being sexual and being objectified are inherently the same issue. You can absolutely be sexy &/or sexual without merely being objectified. ..But maybe that's just me.)

@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341 I agree, she was also my first live action introduction to cat woman and I really liked that she had supernatural animalistic powers. With the sexy=objectification thing i think part of the issue is that when writers (especially male writers) create a sexy female character she's often only allowed to be sexy and is deprived of depth and complexity which seems to make it easier for the audience to only see her as a sex symbol

@@KIJO2696 As a little kid I pretty much used to only read or watch stories IF there were animals in them, because I'm an avid animal lover and I just found animals way more interesting to me than human-people, but stories where the animal characters were anthropomorphized a bit or where the human people were a little bit animalistic[ like Halle Berry's Catwoman] really helped me gradually start to realize and come to appreciate a lot more as I grew up that human beings could be interesting too. (And it was so rare to see that kind of a character not be a guy! Outside of books, I think it's still more rare than it should be, honestly.) Lol She was powerful, she was beautiful, and she started off basically as a nobody who just finds her way to really come into her own and become an individual somebody(with a little supernatural help - kind of as if the supernatural or whatever saw what was already special in her even when everyone else overlooked or underestimated it) and she learns to stick up for herself and fight to get justice like she deserves when people wrong her in ways that shouldn't happen; I really loved it. True enough about the sexy=objectification thing, though-I suppose it often can/does. I guess I was just trying to say, I think sometimes it feels like people think of it as somehow making a character automatically less 3-dimensional JUST because they ARE sexy/sexual[ or such] even when that character isn't actually all that flat or shallow or 2-dimensional of a character or whatever overall, and I just personally find that kinda sad...like, you should be allowed to be a sexy/sexual/ person or character AND _STILL_ be seen as also being a deep or complex or layered character at the same time too. (If that makes sense?) Like, I don't really remember feeling personally as if "sexy" was literally *ALL* there was to Halle Berry's Catwoman myself, even though she was also obviously very very sexy too[ and looking back on it now in some of those clips shown in this video especially perhaps it was accentuated unnecessarily much sometimes] .. but maybe that was just me?? (idk) 😅🤔🤷‍♀️ Lol ((I mean, perhaps it helped me a lot that I didn't really entirely care yet if people were sexy or not, so I kinda just mostly ignored that aspect anyhow .. so maybe I just only saw everything else about the story & character instead without even really thinking about how sexy it was or wasn't whatsoever, myself, until later on.😹 .. I dunno. 😁 🤣🤣)) It's been too long since I last rewatched it, I should really give it a more recent rewatch soon! ^-^ 😊

But she’s biracial 🙃

I think Zoe Kravitz’s catwoman isn’t yet going by the moniker of catwoman, which is why she doesn’t have a proper mask, but I do feel like it would’ve been nice if they at least gave her goggles or something to make her disguise more of a disguise. I have a feeling she’ll get a more proper mask in a sequel batman film.

Eartha Kitt was made for the role, she is catwoman. Too bad she only appeared in 3-5 episodes and didn’t get a full story. She would have killed.

@@themelanatednomad6989 Very true. I think she left a big impact in spite of having not as many episodes as other villains.

Michelle Pfeiffer literally licked herself as Catwoman too. That clip is even in this video! Lol

Halle Berry's Catwoman is basically a superheroine/cat-version of a werewolf. I personally think it's actually kind of fantastic. And I kinda suspect most people largely dislike it just for deviating so far from the original canon source materials. (But that's just me. Lol)

OMG yes Descendants !

the director has confirmed that she will play a more villain role in the future.

Meh, I want her to get her own movie

@@oswiroa4973 i can't wait Zoe Kravitz is gonna own it

@@marlonclark1896 yeah like in this movie Catwoman doesn't have a proper whip but instead a bike chain.... and that's on purpose. To show some development when she comes back. Same with the mask.

Yes! I think so too. I kinda liked the awkwardness in it - they’re both young, broody, and broken people, do not knowing how to flirt made sense lol

yeah the batman 2022 does a nice job in setting the foundation for their relationship.

you will get your wish ,a sequel for the batman was anounced and Zoe Kravitz was confirmed to be returning

@@sonorasgirl Right! Some people based chemistry more off the writing than the actual characters/actors, which is not fair. It was written to be awkward, but anyone with common sense could see how well Robert played the lust in his eyes when he was around Zoe. It's a slow burn. Same thing with Bridgerton 2, many karens thought the couple didn't have chemistry but the plot was an enemies to lovers narrative that was written.

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i totally agree!!!!!

💯💯💯One of my favorite movies of all time. Only the elites get it.

you know what? i agree with you. i do.

The Spiderman comparison is such a false equivalency lol. But have you seen the movie? The directing is horrible and the script suchs too. Lets be real if Halle Berry wasnt the lead we would of forgotten then movie. Its just really bad structurally.

It sucks the script wasn't better halle wasn't even given a fair shot to make the movie somewhat tolerable

Ikr she was a very classy and smart iteration, In terms of emotional manipulation she was also great at that

Yes exactly! She will always be the best cat woman!

I disliked her the most as cat woman, her vibe didn’t match the character at all.

Her vibe was off. She was a cool, great character. But not a great catwoman.

Her acting was pretty good but Anne just doesnt have the look. Come on. With her baby face and big, doe eyes, she gives me more puppy vibes than anything remotely feline.

Oh and I feel bad for never feeling too strongly about Anne Hathaway’s portrayal, but I think it has to do with the messiness of that third Nolan movie and I like the sassy and more unhinged version that is difficult to coexist within a “grounded” Nolan Gotham city.

I don't understand why people are surprised that someone lonely, abused, and cynical would decide seduction is an easy way to solve social awkwardness. It automatically gives you a script to work with, and a goal to aim towards. Especially if you really want to get a reaction out of someone. Or just to figure out where everyone's boundaries are. You go with the options you know, not the ones other people wish you knew.

This is technically the beginning of catwoman

i actually wish that the suit would've been changed to fit the balaclava, not the other way round! i fuckin loved the balaclava, it seemed like something more along the line of what 2022 selina would've gone for - i mean, she isn't bruce wayne, who's rich and unhinged enough to buy an entire custom dramatic suit. she's a burglar, and not really super wealthy, she'd probably use something more accessible to obscure her identity. i wish they'd given her something more similar to a tight-fitting motorcycle suit or something like that, since she rides around on her bike.

but yeah, it does reveal a lot of her face lol. not very anonymous

It's because she's not actually Catwoman yet. She's not at her full potential.

She was not referred as Catwoman in the movie.

@@ellimendi5137 exactly

same

She is still better that many of others on list. She def. deserve higher rank on this list.

@@mar.s6516 i agree

Thank you! People seem to miss the fact that this version of batman is supposed to be a grounded take on him rather than the male power fantasy we are used to seeing If a millionaire who saw his parents get shot infront of his eyes were swinging around in a bat costume beating people up against the law in the name of vengeance, ofc people would think he’s mentally unhealthy and this movie shows that perfectly! It exposed Gotham as this a grim city where the citizens have been so twisted and abused by corrupted higher-ups that actual love seems impossible instead of just a dark Pinterest aesthetic (not that there’s anything wrong with that Tim Burton, it’s just a different approach) Edit: ALSO What makes their relationship special is that they both give eachother something the other isn’t used to Cat woman: a man who won’t immediately fall for her charm Batman: vulnerability form someone equally as strong (and maybe damaged) ANOTHER EDIT OOPS: also the sock mask thing pays homage to her burglar-ness and isn’t meant to be a disguise, just to hide her face while doing crime I’ve seen people say the mask covering only half her face was only to sexualise her even more but she’s CATWOMAN, she’s meant to be hot (if u had a jawline like Zoe it’d also be a crime to hide it) + her entire head being hidden in black would hinder acting and she’d blend in to the darkness of Gotham too easily

THIS THIS THIS 👏👏👏 PERFECTLY EXPLAINED!!

@@yenzi930 The Batman with an indestructible suit that tanks gunfire and survives explosions to the face, I liked this move I really do but the idea that this is the first time or only time that Batman or Gotham has been depicted this way is insane

zoe kravitz catwoman is easily #2. She has an actual story in the batman 2022 unlike the catwoman from the dark knight rises. This video is so bad lol

@@oswiroa4973 Yeah. Her story is that she had daddy issues. And she is literaly the same character at the end of the move as she was at the begining. Atleast the dark knight rises catwoman really had development to her character. And she also didn't had cringey lines

I totally agree

Thank you for posting, yup 'n yes :-)

Yes! She gets too much hate for that role, it could’ve been amazing if her character in that movie was written better :(

yeah

I think because the script and the fact she wasn't "selina kyle"

Her acting was great, but the direction was abysmal. I saw it just the other week and I swear half the film was long, pointless "action*" scenes using bad CGI (*lots of this just being her running over rooftops). The basketball scene was also cringe. She didn't deserve a razzie for a bad script and director!

as a huge Catwoman fan, I was annoyed that it was the first (and so far, last) time a Catwoman movie was being made and it had nothing to do with the character I loved New character and background, new setting, new supporting characters… the ONE thing I was pleased with was they showed Catwoman using her claws to cut a circle out of a glass case

also because it wasnt even selina kyle,had horrible writing and a bad plot with an even worse main villain lol

Maybe another factor was that it was the era of dark edgelord superhero movies. Like you were supposed to be serious and brooding over a rainy city, not eating tuna out of a can and being all sexy and corky at the same time

Independency is the biggest reason of me liking Halle's Catwoman. Unlike the other Catwoman she can do all by herself and she don't even needs a Batman

I loved it too. She's my second favourite, coming up right behind Zoe Kravitz.

Yup she’s the best live action version of the character we’ve gotten so far imo

same

How do u feel about lilli Simmons as catwoman?

I love the airport outfit and the way she walks and acts wealthy in it even though we know that she’s secretly dirt poor. The police are looking for Selina Kyle, a poor criminal trying to escape from the airport. Therefore she tries to make it appear that she’s a pampered lady in expensive clothing, even though she just came from her run-down apartment in the rough part of the city. The grifter/con artist aspect of the character is best explored in The Dark Knight Rises. They ignored this part of Catwoman in Batman Returns. They somewhat attempted it in The Batman by regrettably putting Zoe Kravitz in colorful Party City wigs in a club setting where she doesn’t even need to be disguised.

Ikr! I’ve just learned to ignore people who claim there was no chemistry. Like c’mon! They are the minority. Just look at all the reaction videos on KZfaq. The vast majority ship Bruce and Selina in Batman 2022.

Right! I think it's mostly Karens saying they do not have chemistry because they usually say that whenever it's a black woman being desired by a hot white guy. lol

Literally! Not to mention they're both incredibly distrusting individuals from completely different walks of life who value their independence and have just met. You gotta let the romance build, it can't be fireworks straight away

I think her Portrayal was a better match for the Show's tone than Newmar's. Though that may just be my Bias to anything Eartha Kitt Related. A truly remarkable woman both onscreen and Offscreen.

@@nekusakura6748 Hello there fellow Ms Kitt lover! She was a sensual force of nature

@@nekusakura6748 Newmar's catwoman looked more like the og catwoman while eartha kitt appeared only for 16 minutes in the series

@@alessia1940 ok and? she's still iconic.

Well the Catwoman does not have to be serious and neither does Batman, so I completely agree

Plus when they reunited, it'll be filled with sexual tension cause they'll have a history

THIS! It is the most naturalistic mainstream movie depiction of the messy awkwardness of a blossoming yet undefined relationship with some sort of intimate tension between both characters - IN YEARS! - and to have it take place inside a comic-book super-hero movie franchise (of all settings thinkable) says a lot about the current state of Hollywood.

This! Thank you.

What do you think of Lee Merriweather's portrayal?

@@nekusakura6748 She’s definitely my least favorite of the three, but she wasn’t bad by any means. I enjoyed her more when she was playing as Miss Kitka than when she was actually in costume as catwoman

@@cozytheoverlord4905 She's also the voice of Solid Snake's mother in Metal Gear Solid 4

Agreed! Love Michelle Pfeiffer, but Julie Newmar has been my favorite since I was a kid.

Newmar was amazing, and Lee Meriwether did a great job in the movie.

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..yes, in American television

No, Lt. Uhura and Capt. Kirk, we’re the first Black/ White interracial kiss on American Network tv.

Kravitz is half white. I don’t see her as a representation of me or any Black woman tbh.

@@witchplease9695 This is a really fair point: melanin rich women aren't cast enough in these roles, and that loss of representation can be so harmful. i think it's equally unhealthy to validate or invalidate someone's blackness; though it's fair you don't identify with Kravitz. Light skin allies have a duty to use their privileges where they can, but to pick and choose who is and isn't black enough for you (biracial, "white-passing," afro-latinx) I don't feel is the best use of power. That opens the door to discredit/invalidate the voices & experiences of community members like President Barrack Obama, Zendaya, Tracee Ellis Ross to name a few. ALL of this to say, yes, I agree with you, there needs to be greater casting of black women (other than/in addition to light skinned), I just don't want to discredit anyone's black experience, whether they look like me or not.

Cool but she's still only half, and so is Halle berry now that I think about it. I wouldn't want a mixed person representing black women's ability to pull off multiple hairstyles.

@@material-cheshirekhatter2413 This is just dumb. GAWD.

I see what you mean @@material-cheshirekhatter2413. The point of my original comment was: the use of wigs shouldn't necessarily be seen as an aspect of escapism but a mode of expression/power/agency for the wearer. Experienced most commonly in my own, personal specific scope: black women. A white author may not see the significance of a wig the same way we do. And I don't want that scene or act of power to be misread and therefore stolen, that was the hope of my original comment. Also I have to reiterate again, Biracial-black people are still black people; They are part of the beautiful spectrum of color and rich diaspora we share as a community. I have No interest in validating or invalidating anyone's blackness (people like Vice President Kamala Harris, Saweetie, H.E.R., Yara Shahidi, Jordan Peele to name a few more). Lets agree, perhaps we are interested in seeing a darker, richer melanin actor take on this role, as we've already seen Eartha Kitt & Halle Berry. Yes, let's encourage that, but let's not discourage any black person's (whether "full" or "half" / light or dark) black experience or black hair experience. That is also my hope

Yep! That dominatrix look was inspired by Selina's look in the "Batman year one" comic

I'll never forget her. I bought her Season 1 and season 5 jackets and her blue one (but in black) that she wears in s4. And her maron one she wears in S4 too

even her fighting is agile and quick, like a cat. I love that!!

Zoë definitely takes the crown!! 👑 Her version was just purr-fect. It's very comic accurate. Anyone who has read Catwoman's comics would agree that she's the best live action Catwoman so far. Her portrayal of Selina Kyle was *chef's kiss*

@@luigilove254 then have Zoe as a comics best catwoman, even though not original story but hey I can let it slide. From movies, Michelle Pfeiffer is so iconic nobody can eclipse her. Maybe if Zoe had a better costume... nah...

(Only film you've watched on the list is The Batman)

@@HonkeyKong54 even though zoe doesn't have the best costume, she has so many other good points that make her better than the rest of catwomen except for Michelle. Catwoman is more than just a good-looking girl in a tight outfit.

same!

I just watched it now 😭

did you like it?

@@emilyflowers111 it was interesting but long I rate it an 8.9/10, i personally think it’s better than no way home as a film

same

Celty's Dub VA Kari Wahlgren should voice Catwoman at some point

Lol