Catra is the former secondary antagonist-turned-deuteragonist of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
She serves as the villainous deuteragonist in Season 1, the secondary antagonist of Season 2, the one of two main antagonists (alongside Hordak) of Season 3, one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Hordak) of Season 4 and the deuteragonist in Season 5. She is the Force-Captain of Hordak's Evil Horde (a position previously held by Adora before she defected). Catra later becomes second-in-command of the Horde after Shadow Weaver's imprisonment.
Catra was Adora's childhood best friend and is obsessed with her, as she claims to have feelings for Adora, but in the first season, Catra felt hurt and betrayed when Adora joined the Rebellion and became She-Ra. She is She-Ra's arch-rival-turned-lover during the war for the first four seasons, but reforms in the fifth and final season when Horde Prime arrives and joins the Rebellion against him. Catra reconciles with Adora, and they become lovers.
Appearance[]
Catra is a slender, tan-skinned person of feline origins with athlete body physics. She has angular features, such as a pointed chin, straight nose, and slanted almond-shaped, heterochromatic eyes in the shades pale yellow (Left) and turquoise (Right). She features three freckles on her cheeks, soft curving dark eyebrows, and a thin fiendish smile with fanged teeth.
Due to her feline display and ancestry, she is depicted as a young woman with sharp claws on her hands and toes, small fangs, large, black, catlike ears, and horizontal markings on her arms and three on her back that resemble a tabby cat's stripes. She also sports wild, slicked back, spiked, grayish-brown hair held back behind a cat-inspired reddish-brown headpiece.
She wears a two-toned orange leotard tank top over torn reddish-violet leggings that wrap around the foot, exposing her toes and heels. Additionally, she's seen in two belts, the thicker of the pair sporting the Horde symbol, and, as the show progresses, we see her sport the Force Captain pin on her shirt over her heart.
At the time she sided with Adora, Catra wore a fusion between her two previous outfits, no longer wore her iconic tiara and now had short hair.
Personality[]
Catra is a fairly teasing, lazy, irritable, cynical, disrespectful, impulsive, self-centered, stubborn, provocative, violent and abusive person. Although she got along with her best friend Adora before she left the Horde, Catra because of her aggressive and violent nature never seemed to be able to be friends with anyone else even at an early age. As a result she was a lonely person In her childhood. Even if she enjoyed the company of Adora with whom she spent time having fun.
Because of irritable, disrespectful, impulsive, self-centered, stubborn, and violent personality, and her tendency to cause others harm (such as scratching out Octavia's eye, just because Catra didn't like Octavia's face) she was frequently admonished and punished by Shadow Weaver. Because of her self-centred and egotistical personality Catra developed a feeling of inferiority because she believed she was living in Adora’s shadow and that would later make her a more selfish and power-hungry person that always needs to prove herself to be the best. She also frequently blames, shift-blaming and scapegoating others for her faults and actions, never taking responsibility for any of her shortcomings or misdeeds.
As Force Captain, Catra remains largely focused on the success of the Horde. It gets worse as her rank increases, Double Trouble even notes that Catra takes the war against rebellion too seriously. After she lost Scorpia's friendship, Catra suffered a psychological breakdown. In the end, her all-consuming ambition was finally shattered when Double Trouble betrayed her wrongly claiming that catra isn't a villain, when in reality she was. This act only served to further destroy Catra psychologically, causing her to further believe herself to be a victim and triple down on blaming, shift-blaming and scapegoating others for her faults and misdeeds.
Following the total failure of her conquest of Eternia within the Horde and Double Trouble destroying her psychologically, Catra begins to question herself to the point of doubting her life choices. She also attempts bonds with Glimmer due to their similarity in making a lot of misjudgment and pushing their own friends away. Catra risks her life to save Glimmer's and apologizing to Adora for all she has done, claiming to have regretted her past actions and claiming that she realized that Adora has always been there for her,
After her release from Horde Prime's mind control, Catra struggled to fit in with the group, acting in her typically anti-social ways even when Adora wanted to help her, wanting to be left alone, stating that everyone hates her and calling Adora an idiot for saving her. Catra faces her mistakes when she apologizes to Entrapta and becoming touched when the Princess of Dryl forgave her without hard feelings, she would also be touched by the group the accepting among them.
From there, Catra reverted to her teasing personality of her time as a cadet but retained a certain vanity and a bit of her pessimism. She was not happy to see Shadow Weaver again due to her long bitterness towards her but cried when her mother figure sacrificed her life. At the end of the series, Catra seems to confess her romantic feelings for Adora and reconciles with Scorpia, while being up for new adventures with Bow, Glimmer, and Adora. In the end, Catra found happiness.
Biography[]
Past[]
Most of Catra's past is unknown, only that she has feline origins and is not a typical Etherian. At some point in her early life, she was left as an orphan under unknown circumstances. She was eventually taken in by the Horde as an infant, primarily raised by Shadow Weaver alongside Adora to become a child soldier.
One day Catra believed that Adora had chosen a girl named Lonnie as her best friend, therefore Catra hits her then runs into a hiding spot. Adora goes to find Catra to resolve the incident, and is clawed across the face by her as well. When Adora comes back later to try again, she is finally able to comfort her, but when she asks Catra to go apologize to Lonnie so they can all be friends, Catra gets angry again and shoves Adora to the floor, jumps on her stomach, and flees, screaming that she will never ask forgiveness from anyone.