Catwoman

The Black Cat is also a feline-themed thief, although she eventually reformed (but still commits the occasional theft) and became Spider-Man's partner and lover for a time.
. Marvel Comics' Black Cat, as initially seen in The Amazing Spider-Man, was originally intended to be a homage to Catwoman, although she eventually developed in a much different direction. A recently proposed theory suggests that some earthquakes may occur in a sort of earthquake storm, where one earthquake will trigger a series of earthquakes each triggered by the previous shifts on the fault lines, similar to aftershocks, but occurring years later. One of the recurring villains in the cartoon Xiaolin Showdown was called "Kat-nappe," and was similar to Catwoman in appearance. These oscillations of the earth are either due to the deformation of the Earth by tide caused by the Moon or the Sun, or other phenomena. Another blond Catwoman, her costume and history appeared to be based on the Batman Returns version of the character.
Another type of movement of the Earth is observed by terrestrial spectroscopy.

Catwoman was portrayed by Maggie Baird. Earthquakes such as these, that are caused by human activity, are referred to by the term induced seismicity. Selina Kyle appeared briefly (and was killed off) in the first episode of the short-lived 2002 television series Birds of Prey, which featured Catwoman's daughter by Batman, the Huntress. Thus scientists have been able to monitor, using the tools of seismology, nuclear weapons tests performed by governments that were not disclosing information about these tests along normal channels. In the TV movie Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt, Julia Rose appeared as Catwoman and the young Julie Newmar. Finally, ground shaking can also result from the detonation of explosives. Halle Berry won the 2005 Razzie award for worst actress in a film for her role as Catwoman, and collected it in person; only the second Razzie 'winner' to have done so. Earthquakes have also been known to be caused by the removal of natural gas from subsurface deposits, for instance in the northern Netherlands.

The movie became a box-office failure, and was panned by critics & fans alike. Such earthquakes occur because the strength of the Earth's crust can be modified by fluid pressure. In addition, the original "Catwoman" outfit that Patience wears when she robs a jewelry store is patterned after the "Catwoman" outfit worn by Eartha Kitt in the 1960s "Batman" tv series. at certain geothermal power plants and at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal). Ophelia Powers then throws photos of previous catwomen down to her, and one can clearly see a picture of Michelle Pfeiffer's "Batman Returns" version of the character, which hints that either there is some link between Patience Phillips and Selina Kyle, or that it was done as a means of paying homage to the original character. A rare few earthquakes have been associated with the build-up of large masses of water behind dams, such as the Kariba Dam in Zambia, Africa, and with the injection or extraction of fluids into the Earth's crust (e.g. In the scene where Patience is told of the history of the Catwomen, she is pushed off the balcony and lands in the living room floor. Some earthquakes are also caused by the movement of magma in volcanoes, and such quakes can be an early warning of volcanic eruptions.

The film was heavily criticized by both film critics and fans of the comic book character and was a failure in the box office, losing the producers far more money than it earned. Deep focus earthquakes, at depths of 100's km, are possibly generated as subducted lithospheric material catastrophically undergoes a phase transition since at the pressures and temperatures present at such depth elastic strain cannot be supported. Though Phillips has the same skills as the villain version of Catwoman, the film's story has nothing to do with Batman (who isn't mentioned during the film). Eventually when enough stress accumulates, the plates move, causing an earthquake. The movie alludes to other women in the past who have been granted such cat- like abilities. Where these plates meet stress accumulates. Patience had gained the powers from the goddess Bastet, through a gathering of cats lead by an Egyptian Mau. The Earth is made up of tectonic plates driven by the heat in the Earth's mantle and core.

This film's Catwoman bore nearly no resemblance to the comic version, besides sharing the name "Catwoman." In the film, Berry played Patience Phillips, a woman who eventually became Catwoman, a hero with supernatural cat-like powers, after a near death experience. Most earthquakes are powered by the release of the elastic strain that accumulate over time, typically, at the boundaries of the plates that make up the Earth's lithosphere via a process called Elastic-rebound theory. In 2004, Catwoman, a movie, starring Halle Berry as Catwoman. For example it has been calculated that the average recurrence for the United Kingdom can be described as follows:. While many viewers and critics enjoyed the richness and complexity of the character, not to mention the way Pfeiffer looked and acted in the heavy makeup and the shiny black costume, fans of the original comic books disliked the notorious alterations and considered not only the character but the entire film to be more Tim Burton than Batman. Larger earthquakes occur less frequently than smaller earthquakes, the relationship being exponential, ie roughly ten times as many earthquakes larger than 4 occur in a particular time period than earthquakes larger than magnitude 5. you've kind of a dark side, don't you?", to which she answers, "Not darker than yours, Bruce"), and this relationship seems to be Selina's only grip on sanity as her mental state seems to deteriorate (along with her costume, which is actually a metaphor of her) throughout the movie - now unrepressed thanks to her nightly alter-ego, the rage and resentment of her dark side are actually starting to destroy her. As a result the moment magnitude (M_W) scale was introduced by Hiroo Kanamori, which is comparable to the other magnitude scales but will not saturate at higher values.

behind the Cat"), just as Bruce Wayne finds a reflection of himself in Selina ("You.. The values of moments for different earthquakes ranges over several order of magnitude. the woman.. The seismic moment is calculated from seismograms but can also by obtained from geologic estimates of the size of the fault rupture and the displacement. Accordingly with the film's interest in the schizophrenic aspects of its characters, Catwoman finds a reflection of herself in Batman ("Who are you?", she asks him, "Who's the man behind the Bat? Maybe you can help me find.. Seismologists now favor a measure called the seismic moment, related to the concept of moment in physics, to measure the size of a seismic source. She is at the same time a feminist version of Batman, defending meek damsels in distress - exactly what she was at the beginning of the film, and probably during most of her life - but insulting them for being so, and a terrorist of sorts, blowing up an entire floor of Shreck's department store and ultimately seeking to kill him. They are still useful however as they can be rapidly calculated, there are catalogues of them dating back many years and are they are familiar to the public.

Mysteriously given new life by alley cats (in a memorable Burton-esque scene) after her corrupt boss apparently kills her, her repressed rage and sexuality - and, as one could argue, some sort of mystic feline influence as well - create Catwoman, an extreme version of everything she was never allowed - by both society and herself - to be: a loveable rogue, a sexual predator and a powerful woman. However as each is also based on the measurement of one part of the seismogram they do not measure the overall power of the source and can suffer from saturation at higher magnitude values (larger events fail to produce higher magnitude values).These scales are also empirical and as such there is no physical meaning to the values. Behind this cartoonish and rather stereotypical character, however, lies a shattered soul filled with frustration and self-loathing who only needs - and quite literally gets - a little push to break into insanity. Each of these is scaled to gives values similar to the values given by the Richter scale. As recreated by Daniel Waters and Tim Burton, Selina Kyle is a beautiful but shy and clumsy young woman who always says the wrong thing, thinks aloud, frequently insults herself and works as the harassed secretary of evil tycoon Max Shreck. Other more recent Magnitude measurements include: body wave magnitude (m_b), surface wave magnitude (M_s) and duration magnitude (M_D). Catwoman was played by Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1992 movie Batman Returns. It is obtained by measuring the maximum amplitude of a recording on a Wood-Anderson torsion seismometer (or one calibrated to it) at a distance of 600km from the earthquake.

Catwoman was voiced by a different actress, Gina Gershon, in the 2000s series The Batman. This is known as the “Richter scale”, “Richter Magnitude” or “Local Magnitude” (M_L). Whether her hair was dyed or her natural color was never made clear. Richter devised a simple numerical scale (which he called the magnitude) to describe the relative sizes of earthquakes in Southern California. In the second series, however, she appears to have shorter black hair. In the 1930s, a California seismologist named Charles F. In the first animated series Selina/Catwoman had blonde hair, coinciding with the release of Batman Returns, in which she was played by blonde actress Michelle Pfeiffer. The first attempt to qualitatively define one value to describe the size of earthquakes was the magnitude scale (the name being taking from similar formed scales used on the brightness of stars).

Barbeau also voiced Catwoman in the 2000s online animated series Gotham Girls. If you feel an earthquake in the US you can report the effects to the USGS. She was voiced by Adrienne Barbeau in 1992's Batman: The Animated Series, and its revamp in The New Batman Adventures. For some tasks related to engineering and local planning it is still useful for the very same reasons and thus still collected. She appeared on the Batman cartoon of the 1970s ("The New Adventures of Batman") wearing an all-new outfit that has never been seen outside that series. The problem with these scales is the measurement is subjective, often based on the worst damage in an area and influenced by local effects like site conditions that make it a poor measure for the relative size of different events in different places. She appeared in the Batman cartoon of the 1960s (on the "Superman/Aquaman Hour") wearing the green costume she wore during that time. No structural damage.

Catwoman has been a major character in almost all of Batman's animated series. Damage is slight in poorly built buildings. Cassandra," the next to last episode of the series. Trees and bushes shake. An uncredited fourth woman played Catwoman as part of a villain team-up in "The Entrancing Dr. Plaster in walls might crack. Lee Meriwether portrayed her in the 1966 "Batman" motion picture, based on the television series, when Newmar was unavailable. Furniture moves.

Catwoman was at various times played by Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt in the live-action Batman television series of the 1960s, her first other-media portrayal. Pictures fall off walls. She does not make an appearence in Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Objects fall from shelves. Note that The Dark Knight Returns does not hold continuty with most of the newer Batman or Justice League comics as it was written in the 80's and that Catwoman's profesion in it was most likely based on her profession in Frank Miller's earlier work Batman: Year One. People have trouble walking. She finally appears at Batman's funeral where she yells at Clark Kent that she knows who killed Batman. Everyone feels movement.

She warns him that the Joker is worse than ever, he kisses her and then leaves to follow the clue the Joker left. The value 6 (normally denoted "VI") in the MM scale for example is:. He then apparently beats her, dresses her up in a Wonder Woman-esque outfit, ties her up, gags her and leaves her where Batman finds her later. These assign a numeric value (different for each scale) to a location based on the size of the shaking experienced there. I'm lonely," second later on as an apparent prostitute whom the Joker uses to (after subjecting her to a mind control drug) gain acess to the governor through one of her girls. In the United States the Mercalli (or Modified Mercalli, MM) scale is commonly used, while Japan (shindo) and the EU (European Macroseismic Scale) each have their own scales. Catwoman appeared briefly in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, first early on as a phone message "Bruce, Selina. The first method of quantifying earthquakes was intensity scales.

[3]. Earthquakes that occur below sea level and have large vertical displacements can give rise to tsunamis, either as a direct result of the deformation of the sea bed due to the earthquake or as a result of submarine landslips or "slides" directly or indirectly triggered by it. The writer then revealed that the reason for Selina's retirement is that she's pregnant. Just as a large loudspeaker can produce a greater volume of sound than a smaller one, large faults are capable of higher magnitude earthquakes than smaller faults are. Selina is so smooth and polished; it's fun to write about someone who's a little rougher, a little sloppier." [2]. The total size of the fault that slips, the rupture zone, can be as large as 1000 km, for the biggest earthquakes. She's also going to handle her duties of protecting the East End in a completely different way than Selina, which so far has been very interesting to write. The location on the surface directly above the hypocenter is known as the "epicenter".

She's had training, and she's been on the mean streets, but she's going to make some mistakes. That point is called its "focus" or "hypocenter" and usually proves to be the point at which the fault slip was initiated. Writer Will Pfeifer has stated on the new Catwoman, "Without revealing any identities, the new Catwoman is someone with less experience than Selina Kyle -- though she's not completely inexperienced, and she's been part of that shadowy world Catwoman inhabits for years. Using such ground motion records from around the world it is possible to identify a point from which the earthquake's seismic waves appear to originate. In the new year, Selina Kyle has been forced to leave the East End and is no longer Catwoman, and someone new has replaced her. The Rayleigh waves from the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 2004 caused ground motion of over 1 cm even at the seismometers that were located far from it, although this displacement was abnormally large. After Infinite Crisis #7, the DC Universe will jump forward one year in time. Ground motions caused by very distant earthquakes are called teleseisms.

Afterwards, she was seen covering her bed with past versions of her Catwoman costume. The power of an earthquake is distributed over a significant area, but in the case of large earthquakes, it can spread over the entire planet. Catwoman's response to this revelation was unequivocal: she pitched Zatanna out a window. While almost all earthquakes have aftershocks, foreshocks are far less common occurring in only about 10% of events. Light and Batman. Most large earthquakes are accompanied by other, smaller ones, that can occur either before or after the principal quake — these are known as foreshocks or aftershocks, respectively. Zatanna gave no reason for her actions, but in flashback it was shown that she had acted with the consent and aid of five of the seven JLA members who had helped her mindwipe Dr. S-waves (secondary or shear waves) and the two types of surfaces waves (Love waves and Rayleigh waves) are responsible for the shaking hazard.

Zatanna proceeded to explain to Catwoman that she had magically tampered with Catwoman's mind, forcibly turning her from villain to hero. There are four types of seismic waves that are all generated simultaneously and can be felt on the ground. After she was done, Zatanna appeared at her side, informing her that she had some "bad news", hinting at an important revelation about her past. In a particular earthquake, any of these agents of damage can dominate, and historically each has caused major damage and great loss of life, but for most of the earthquakes shaking is the dominant and most widespread cause of damage. Capitalizing upon the advantage which her "resurrection" provided her (the villains believing she had somehow managed to cheat death), Catwoman dismantled the new East End cadre of criminals, one villain at time. liquefaction, landslide), and fire or a release of hazardous materials. The man impersonated her, and allowed several villains to shoot and dismember him, giving the impression to the underworld that Catwoman was really dead (like Clayface, the man was able to survive what would otherwise be fatal wounds). Large earthquakes can cause serious destruction and massive loss of life through a variety of agents of damage, including fault rupture, vibratory ground motion (i.e., shaking), inundation (e.g., tsunami, seiche, dam failure), various kinds of permanent ground failure (e.g.

Selina made a deal with a former criminal who had powers similar to Clayface's, who had promised to help her in exchange for his freedom. Some deep earthquakes may be due to the transition of olivine to spinel, which is more stable in the deep mantle. While her initial intentions were unclear, Selina shared her plans to infiltrate and destroy the cadre of East End villains with Batman. At subduction zones where plates descend into the mantle, earthquakes have been recorded to a depth of 600 km, although these deep earthquakes are caused by different mechanisms than the more common shallow events. At the start of the recent storyline ("The One You Love"), an influx of supervillains seized control of the East End, leaving Selina with no choice but to join the new incarnation of the Secret Society. Where the crust is thicker and colder they will occur at greater depths and the opposite in areas that are hot. Selina had no inkling that any villains had been mindwiped until Batman informed her of the events of Identity Crisis, and he now worries that her reformation may be due to mental manipulation. Most earthquakes occur in narrow regions around plate boundaries down to depths of a few tens of kilometres where the crust is rigid enough to support the elastic strain.

However, it is now unclear if her reformation was the result of a mindwipe by Zatanna, a procedure known to deeply affect and, in at least one case, physically incapacitate its victims. Large numbers of earthquakes occur on a daily basis on Earth, but the majority of them are detected only by seismometers and cause no damage . Catwoman appears to be completely reformed, and her love for Batman true (although brash and unpredictable). . In response to Batman's inquiry about her wounds, Selina departed the Batcave after curtly informing Batman that he had already "done enough.". Seismic waves including some strong enough to be felt by humans can also be caused by explosions (chemical or nuclear), landslides, and collapse of old mine shafts, though these sources are not strictly earthquakes. However, this was something of a hollow victory, since all recognized that Despero was able to pit the JLA members against one another by drawing upon pre-existing animosities and distrust. Most earthquakes are tectonic, but they also occur in volcanic regions and as the result of a number of anthropogenic sources, such as reservoir induced seismicity, mining and the removal or injection of fluids into the crust.

After a fierce struggle, Despero was subdued. Earthquakes related to plate tectonics are called tectonic earthquakes. When Despero and a faction of brainwashed League members infiltrated the cave and succeeded in brainwashing Batman, Catwoman was able to send a distress call out to the unaffected League members. Events located at plate boundaries are called interplate earthquakes; the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called intraplate earthquakes (see, for example, New Madrid Seismic Zone). Wounded, she was taken to the Batcave to recover. The highest stress (and possible weakest zones) are most often found at the boundaries of the tectonic plates and hence these locations are where the majority of earthquakes occur. Recently in the JLA story arc Crisis of Conscience, Catwoman further proved herself an ally when she fought alongside Batman and the League against the old Secret Society, of which she had once briefly been a member. Earthquakes occur where the stress resulting from the differential motion of these plates exceeds the strength of the crust.

At the end, Catwoman broke off their relationship when Batman believed that it had been influenced by the villain Hush. The Earth's lithosphere is a patch work of plates in slow but constant motion (see plate tectonics). During the Hush storyline in Batman #608-#619, Batman and Catwoman briefly worked together and had a short affair, during the course of which Batman revealed his true identity to her. The word earthquake is also widely used to indicate the source region itself. This series met with critical and fan acclaim, especially for its first 25 issues. Earthquakes typically result from the movement of faults, planar zones of deformation within the Earth's upper crust. In this series, Selina Kyle, joined by new supporting cast members Holly and Slam Bradley (a character from the early Golden Age DC Comics), became protector of the residents of Gotham’s East End, while still carrying out an ambitious career as a cat burglar. Earthquakes result from the dynamic release of elastic strain energy that radiates seismic waves.

This storyline led in to the newest Catwoman series in late 2001 (written by Brubaker initially with Cooke, later joined by artist Cameron Stewart). An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earth's surface. In a backup storyline Trail of the Catwoman, by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Darwyn Cooke, the reader followed private detective Slam Bradley's attempts to find out what really happened to Selina Kyle. Lake Tanganyika earthquake (2005). Catwoman then appeared in a series of backup stories in Detective Comics #759 to #762. Many more at risk from the Kashmiri winter. Soon afterwards she disappeared and was thought killed by the assassin Deathstroke the Terminator, ending her series at #94. Killed over 79,000 people.

Although later cleared, she displayed increasingly erratic behavior throughout the story. Kashmir earthquake (2005). When later that year during the Officer Down storyline in the Batman titles, Catwoman was initially the chief suspect. Fukuoka earthquake (2005). Harleen Quinzel (the supervillain Harley Quinn), became mentally unbalanced. Sumatran Earthquake (2005). While in prison, she escaped, and under the influence of Dr. Triggered a tsunami which caused nearly 300,000 deaths spanning several countries.

However immediately following that, she was arrested by Commissioner Gordon and put on trial, followed by being sentenced to imprisonment. Epicenter off the coast of the Indonesian island Sumatra. As Catwoman, Kyle assisted Batman against Lex Luthor in the reconstruction of the city. One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded at 9.0. Selina then returned to Gotham, which at this time was in the midst of the No Man's Land storyline. Indian Ocean Earthquake (2004). However, her plans were ruined when the supervillain the Trickster inadvertently connected Kyle to her Catwoman alter ego. Chuetsu Earthquake (2004).

She intended to use this position to run for mayor. Not large (6.0), but the most anticipated and intensely instrumented earthquake ever recorded and likely to offer insights into predicting future earthquakes elsewhere on similar slip-strike fault structures. As the series neared its end, Selina moved to New York and through blackmail, became first corporate vice president, then CEO of Randolf Industries, a mafia-influenced company. Parkfield, California earthquake (2004). The series also fleshed out more of her origin, revealing her beginnings as an underage thief, her difficult period in juvenile incarceration, and the training she received from superhero Ted (Wildcat) Grant. Bam Earthquake (2003). Storylines included her adoption of a teenage runaway named Arizona, whom she briefly took on as a sidekick; aiding the criminal Bane, followed by helping Azrael to defeat him; and Selina Kyle as a reluctant government operative. Dudley Earthquake (2002).

This series, written by an assortment of writers but primarily penciled by Jim Balent, generally depicted the character as an international thief with an ambiguous moral code. Gujarat Earthquake (2001). In 1993, following the success of Batman Returns and Selina Kyle’s prominent role in that film, Catwoman was given her first ongoing series. Nisqually Earthquake (2001). However, characters introduced in these stories (such as Selina’s young friend Holly from Batman: Year One and her sister Maggie from the 1989 miniseries) continue to appear regularly in the Catwoman series, and aspects of those plots are occasionally referenced, including recent issues that show Hollie remembering her days as a prostitute with Catwoman. Chi-Chi earthquake (1999). It is currently unclear how much of these stories remain canonical to Catwoman’s current origin, as various stories and editors' statements over the years since then have stated that Selina was never a prostitute and that other events depicted in those stories never happened. Düzce earthquake (1999).

Though more circumstantial evidence was added to the theory of Selina's Falcone heritage, no definitive proof was provided. İzmit earthquake (1999) Killed over 17,000 in northwestern Turkey. Selina's connection to the Falcone family was further explored in the recent miniseries Catwoman: When in Rome (2004-5). Killed over 6,400 people in and around Kobe, Japan. Further, Batman: Dark Victory, the sequel to The Long Halloween, implied that Catwoman suspected she was the long-lost illegitimate daughter of Carmine Falcone, although she found no definitive proof of this. Great Hanshin earthquake (1995). This led Selina to kill Stan, leaving Selina in an unbalanced mental state. Damage showed seismic resistance deficiencies in modern low-rise apartment construction.

This series showed how Catwoman’s early career was tinged with tragedy as her former pimp Stan abducted Selina's sister Maggie and violently abused her. Northridge, California earthquake (1994). Birch. Revealed necessity of accelerated seismic retrofit of road and bridge structures. This origin was expanded on in the 1989 Catwoman limited series (collected in trade paperback form as Catwoman: Her Sister's Keeper) by writer Mindy Newell and artist J.J. Severely affecting Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Oakland in California. In the course of the story, the origin of Catwoman was also re-envisioned, as a 5'7" Selina Kyle was reintroduced as a cat-loving prostitute/dominatrix who was inspired to become a costumed cat burglar when she saw Batman in action. Loma Prieta earthquake (1989).

A revision in Catwoman's origin, and the introduction of the modern version of her, came in 1986 when writer Frank Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli produced Batman: Year One, a revision of Batman’s origin. Killed over 25,000. Several stories in the 1970s featured Catwoman committing murder, something that neither the Earth-One or Earth-Two versions of her would ever do; this version of Catwoman was assigned to the alternate world of Earth-B, an alternate Earth that included stories that couldn't be considered canonical on Earth-One or Earth-Two. Armenian earthquake (1988). Catwoman's first Silver Age appearance was in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #70 (November 1966); afterwards, she continued to make appearances across the various Batman comics. Whittier Narrows earthquake (1987). The Earth-Two/Golden Age Selena Kyle eventually died in the late 1970s after being blackmailed by a criminal into going into action again as Catwoman (as shown in DC Super-Stars #17). 8.1 on the Richter Scale, killed over 6,500 people (though it is believed as many as 30,000 may have died, due to missing people never reappearing.).

Selina enjoyed this experience so much she decided to become a professional costumed cat burglar, and thus began a career that would repeatedly lead to her encountering the Batman. Great Mexican Earthquake (1985). However, her husband had kept her jewelry in his private vault, and she had to break into it to retrieve the jewelry. The official death toll was 255,000, but many experts believe that two or three times that number died. It was revealed that Selina Kyle had been the wife of an abusive man, and eventually decided to leave her husband. The most destructive earthquake of modern times. In Brave and the Bold #197, the Golden Age origin of Catwoman given in Batman #62 was elaborated on, after Selina revealed that she never actually had amnesia. Tangshan earthquake (1976).

In the 1970s comics, a series of stories taking place on Earth-Two (the parallel Earth that was retroactively declared as the home of DC's Golden Age characters) revealed that on that world, Selina reformed in the 1950s (presumably after the events of Batman #69) and had married Bruce Wayne; soon afterwards, the couple gave birth to their only child, Helena Wayne (the Huntress). Caused great and unexpected destruction of freeway bridges and flyways in the San Fernando Valley, leading to the first major seismic retrofits of these types of structures, but not at a sufficient pace to avoid the next California freeway collapse in 1989. Selina appeared again as a criminal in Batman #84 and Detective Comics #211, her final appearance for many years (until 1966). Sylmar earthquake (1971). She wound up reforming and stayed on the straight and narrow for several years, helping out Batman in Batman #65 and #69, until Selina decided to return to a life of crime in Detective Comics #203. Caused a landslide that buried the town of Yungay, Peru; killed over 40,000 people. In Batman #62, it was revealed that Catwoman (after a blow to the head jogged her memory) was an amnesiac flight attendant who had turned to crime after suffering a prior blow to the head during a plane crash she survived (although in the final issue of The Brave and the Bold, she later admitted that she made up the amnesia story because she wanted a way out of the past life of crime). Ancash earthquake (1970).

There have been many versions of Catwoman's origins and backstory seen in the comic books over the decades. Good Friday Earthquake (1964) Alaskan earthquake. . Biggest earthquake ever recorded, 9.5 on Moment magnitude scale. It has a more high tech look, with domino-shaped infrared goggles on her cowl. Great Chilean Earthquake (1960). Ed Brubaker, the master-mind behind the 2001 revamp of the character, has stated that Selina's current costume was inspired by Emma Peel's iconic catsuit [1]. Kamchatka earthquakes (1952 and 1737).

In recent years, she has usually alternated between these two costumes. On the Japanese island of Honshu, killing over 140,000 in Tokyo and environs. In the 1990s, she usually wore a skintight purple bodysuit, before switching to a black leather outfit that recalls Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman costume in Batman Returns. Great Kanto earthquake (1923). In the 1960s, Catwoman's bodysuit was green in color, which was typical of villains of that era. San Francisco Earthquake (1906). Later, she wore a dress with a hood that came with ears, and still later, a bodysuit with attached boots and either a domino or glasses-mask. Largest earthquake in the Southeast and killed 100.

Catwoman, in her first appearance, wore no costume or disguise at all, and it was not until her next appearance that she donned a mask, which was a theatrically face-covering cat-mask that had the appearance of a real cat, rather than a more stylized face mask seen in her later incarnations. Charleston earthquake (1886). She represents a gray area in Batman's otherwise black and white life where the line between good and evil blurs, and his attraction to her stems from this perception that, in her way, she's kind of a female version of himself: another dark, beautiful creature that prowls the night. Fort Tejon Earthquake (1857). Although originally introduced as an opponent for Batman, Catwoman's status as hero or villain is ambiguous; she has her own moral code (she abhors killing, though has resorted to it at times) and has occasionally teamed up with Batman and other heroes against greater threats, even saving the lives of the entire Justice League on one occasion. New Madrid Earthquake (1811). Her real name "Selina" derives from the ancient lunar deity Selene. Lisbon earthquake (1755).

Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, she first appeared in Batman #1 (Spring, 1940), where she was initially known as "The Cat". Kamchatka earthquakes (1737 and 1952). Catwoman (real name Selina Kyle) is a DC Comics character, associated with the Batman franchise. Cascadia Earthquake (1700). Deadliest known earthquake in history, estimated to have killed 830,000 in China. Shaanxi Earthquake (1556).

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