At first, she was glad that the princess was improving the Horde's weaponry, albeit with some annoyances at Entrapta's upbeat, bubbly, and hyperactive personality and scientific mannerisms. She told Adora she had to stop him and that she wanted to go home. When the Best Friends Squad head to Krytis, It is revealed that Catra does not like being called cute as Bow commented Catra about the ear indents in her helmet and when a piece of magic pollen made her sneeze, and Bow again commented on how cute she is. Shop affordable wall art to hang in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls aren't welcome. Double Trouble finally told her the reason behind their betrayal was not personal but rather for their own survival because the Rebellion had just gotten the upper hand and reveals that they have an ancient super weapon they were going to use against the Horde and then left Catra broken and alone. Catra uses the Black Garnet and Entrapta's technology to weaken the Whispering Woods and leads an invasion force on Bright Moon. Catra then bluffs Glimmer and Bow into releasing her and reveals that Entrapta is helping the Horde willingly. Catra's space suit look seems to have the same design as her Season Four outfit. She soon realized that Prime was not so easily fooled as Hordak and that the galactic tyrant was far more superior at mind games than she was. Wildcat (Scorpia)Kitten (Double Trouble)Force Captain (Hordak)Little Sister (Horde Prime)Stubborn Brat (Adora)Horde Scum (Glimmer) After Catra saves Glimmer and is subsequently rescued by the group, Bow is reasonably unsure about trusting her after their history, but gradually warms up to her and becomes so cordial with her that Bow even accepts her into the Best Friends Squad, which Catra is clearly very happy about. As she was growing up, she was always placed second best to Adora and Shadow Weaver herself said that that she was only kept in the Horde because Adora liked her. Meanwhile, Entrapta learns more about the First Ones by decrypting a data crystal and discovering the First Ones' technology is integrated into the planet of Etheria itself, with the princesses' runestones as a means to tap into it. Adora leads an attack on the Horde's camp, and convinces the Plumerians to fight back against the invading army. After Scorpia abandons her, Catra finds herself confronted with her abandonment issues from when Adora left her. Meanwhile, Wrong Hordak experiences an existential crisis upon realizing that Horde Prime is not all-powerful and can be opposed. She said it at the end of the training session in. However, Adora is not happy about Glimmer learning magic from Shadow Weaver, causing some friction in their friendship. However, at the beginning of season four, we can still see that she continues to try to be Catra's friend. George and Lance subsequently decode the message as referring to a star constellation bearing the name Serinia which will soon appear above the Crimson Waste. That is when Bow included Catra into the Best Friends Squad and they did not need luck, which Catra smiled at. Team Release year: 2016. After catching up on current events, they liberate Erelandia and drive Spinnerella away after Netossa manages to briefly disrupt the mind control on her. When she said that was impossible Prime called Hordak forward and demonstrated the reconditioning ceremony on him. In the following episode, Catra reluctantly allies herself with Scorpia to come up with a plan to capture Adora in order to keep her position as Force Captain and at the same time, increase her rank in the Horde. Evading her, Adora then meets Madame Razz, who tells her that Mara had triggered such a cataclysm before when she displaced Etheria, and gives Adora the advice to "go back to the beginning". Despite their common cause, the Princess Alliance members face internal dispute while attempting to restore the Whispering Woods, as Catra deploys platoons of robots to prevent them. However, when Double Trouble reveals to Hordak the truth about Entrapta's supposed betrayal, Hordak tries to kill Catra. Afterwards, once Light Hope is fully rebooted, she reviews her memory of Mara and coldly deletes it. Catra was teleported on Horde Prime's ship along with Queen Glimmer and Hordak, where she convinced Horde Prime to spare Etheria by telling him about Glimmer's connection to the super-weapon at the center of the planet. In Season Four, Catra has a new outfit and hairstyle. In the past, Razz first met Mara after she arrived to study the magic of Etheria for a secret project called the Heart of Etheria. October 28th Michalka, and Aimee Carrero discuss Adora and Catra… Adora and her companions rejoin the remaining rebels and track Scorpia back to the Fright Zone, while Bow and Glimmer set out to find Bow's fathers. After her reform, she became Adora's girlfriend. Unfortunately Frosta saw Catra and punched her with an ice-coated fist , but before Frosta could attack again Adora vouched for Catra saying she was the Rebellion now. Catra persuades Horde Prime to take her into his service. When Catra launches an attack, she informs him about She-Ra's absence and that the princesses were in chaos; this pleases Hordak and congratulates her on a job well done. Catra faces Hordak's growing displeasure about her performance, driving her to seek the imprisoned Shadow Weaver's aid. Upon learning of a fail safe to destroy the Heart of Etheria, Shadow Weaver stepped into the base and reveled to the group that she and Castaspella know were it is and that they needed to go to Mystacor. When Darla's crew was a day from Etheria. In order to complete his project, Hordak requires Entrapta's notes, which Catra orders Scorpia to find. This also has the effect of reassuring her position within the Horde after her failures in Season Two. Glimmer ultimately chooses to spare Catra and instead attempts to stop the awakening of the Heart of Etheria. Thus begins her descent into darkness. Adora prepares to become She-Ra to destroy it, but is unable to do so due to the infection setting into her wounds from Horde Prime's virus. She tried to use fighting with success to compensate the empty hole she felt when Scorpia left her. With his mind-wipe at the end of the season, any relationship, good or bad, comes to an end. In the season four finale, Scorpia is the final form that Double Trouble used when they reviewed Catra's "character", making her give in to her despair. On the way to Bright Moon, Catra upsets her captors by telling them that Entrapta is being tortured, and exhausts Glimmer's powers with uncooperative antics before activating her tracking beacon for Scorpia to find her. As they team return to the Fight Zone both Catra and Adora recall all their memories there, most of which were bad. Sea Hawk takes Bow and Swift Wind on a Boys' Night Out, but ends up getting them captured by the Horde in a foolish attempt to cheer the Princesses up with a rescue mission. When Perfuma offer Catra guided mediation, Catra told her "One step at a time". I don't know, fun? In the 2018 reboot, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Catra is one of the major antagonists for the first four seasons before becoming an ally to the heroes in its final season. However, it is shown that Shadow Weaver blames Catra for everything and always shows hatred towards her. Then Double Trouble showed her via transmitted video that her forces were destroyed, demoralizing Catra even further. The magical explained to her that Prime wrecked destroyed her species, and she was the last one left. Catra realizes this and keeps her cool while befriending the magical creature. After she defeated Hordak she saw Adora; this upsets Catra and says she could not be here and take this from her now. Entrapta's experiments on the Black Garnet runestone cause an imbalance on Etheria, which freezes over the Whispering Woods, leaving Bright Moon exposed to an attack by the Horde. The grief allowed Adora to awaken hidden powers, magically summon a new sword and transform into She-Ra. This implies that Catra has come to believe that Adora only saw her as a second, and was being a hero for the sake of glory. Adora and Swift Wind discover the ruins, but Swift Wind's excited prattling makes it hard for Adora to ask for his assistance until they find a common understanding and thus establish their bond. He was originally going to send her to Beast Island, but instead sent her to the Crimson Waste to get First Ones' tech (after the insistence of Entrapta), thinking she would not return. At first, Catra is determined to get her back, but eventually, this turns to vengeance as she is determined that Adora was part of her downfall and she now needs to rise. In the show’s penultimate episode, Catra runs away, only coming back to save Adora. To Hordak's surprise, the next activation succeeds and he accepts Entrapta's offer to assist him. Catra, as the rival to She-Ra, is an extremely powerful character, having beaten almost every character in the series (with the only exception of Horde Prime), and dethroned both Shadow Weaver and Hordak. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works She was taken prisoner by Bow and Glimmer in an attempt to rescue Entrapta and made it difficult for them during the journey back to Bright Moon when she was freed by Scorpia she revealed to Bow and Glimmer that Entrapta was willingly helping the Horde much to their dismay and Catra's amusement. Hordak tells Catra of a successful mission, Catra also reports that she has also made tremendous progress. Catra is the second character to be in the same intro twice. In Adora's vision of the future, Catra has let her hair grow long and messy again and has put it in a ponytail. However, the true nature of Catra's descent is covered in the episodes "Razz" and "Promise". Using the fight as a distraction Adora entered and accepted the fail-safe. Home Planet However, Glimmer and Bow free their friend with the assistance of Swift Wind. In "Princess Scorpia", Hordak is looking for one of Entrapta's records to complete a then-unnamed weapon. When she switches sides and frees Glimmer, she warns Adora not to rescue her and risk her own life. Seeking a weakness that they can exploit against Horde Prime, Adora's party gets Wrong Hordak to admit that such a weakness can be found on the planet Krytis. The Rebels prepare to retake a Horde-controlled fortress controlling an important passage, but the operation gets stuck in its planning stage when Adora, Glimmer, Bow and the other Princesses begin arguing about strategy, each proposing an outlandish or self-aggrandizing plan of attack. Adora manages to use the gathered magic within her to shatter the Sword of Protection, thus stopping the weapon. At the end of Season 1, Hordak recognized her achievements and made Catra his second-in-command, but when she tried to cover up Shadow Weaver's escape, he punished her with his gravity generation device. Scorpia wants to retrieve Entrapta from Beast Island, but Catra perpetuates the lie that Entrapta sabotaged the portal. Adora and her companions are unable to defeat Entrapta's prototypes, and retreat to salvage more technology from the Beacon. Adora manages to calm the monster, but when she reverts to her usual form and Glimmer takes the sword, it attacks again. Eventually, when Entrapta said Adora was right about the portal not being safe, she snapped, used her stun gun on Entrapta, and had her sent to Beast Island. Catra wins Entrapta over to the Horde by claiming the others abandoned her and allowing her to use the Horde's resources for her research. Despite her cruelty, Catra actually cares about Shadow Weaver somewhere deep down, because she was the one who raised her and despite the manipulation and abuse, she craves her affection and approval as a result of having been consistently put down. However, Shadow Weaver wrote Catra off very early and expected nothing but failure from her. She implores Adora not to trust Light Hope, who had been reprogrammed by the First Ones to activate the Heart at any cost. In Season 4, she has guilt-inducing nightmares about what she had done to her, but she went with the lie until the truth was revealed. "-The Battle of Bright Moon (episode), "It's never been a game to me. Voice Actor Despite no longer being able to transform into She-Ra, Adora remains determined to fight. Things get out of control and Adora falls off the skiff, and unknown to Catra, her friend receives visions, to which Catra questions as to whether she's brain-damaged. It was then revealed to be Double Trouble who finally figured out Catra's "character" and took Catra's form saying that her heart was never into being "The Big Bad Villain", Catra told them to stop but they continued by taking the form of Shadow Weaver, Hordak, Adora again and Scorpia all the while telling Catra that she drove everyone away and has no one to blame but herself. She entrusted Melog to get her friends there safe as she and Shadow Weaver went to catch up to Adora. However, her memories of her childhood friendship with Adora finally inspire Catra to free Glimmer and send her to Adora via teleporter before she is captured. When an apologetic Catra approached Scorpia, she was content with and even enjoyed letting Scorpia hug her, when before she was annoyed by it; showing how much she changed for the better. Both were utilized in Bow's fantasy in ", Catra's catchphrase "Hey Adora." The Horde (formerly)The RebellionAdora Scorpia thus starts to realize the real nature of Catra. Angella keeps her runestone safe while She-Ra, Glimmer, and Bow lead the defense. The Rebellion (formerly)Adora (formerly)Horde Prime While Glimmer receives validation through healthier methods, and Catra is manipulative and conniving, both characters are products of their environments. When Catra admits to knowing all along what the Horde truly was, Adora refuses to return with her. "But Adora joined the Rebellion because of She-Ra," Catra said, frowning somewhat in confusion. Note that her power level is not constant throughout the show - initially, we are shown that she cannot beat Adora in a fight, but it is not long until Adora, like almost anyone else, is fundamentally incapable of even putting up a fight against her (assuming she is not in She-Ra form). Adora is rescued by Catra and Shadow Weaver, and while Shadow Weaver sacrifices herself to defeat the monster, Catra escorts Adora to the Heart. Usually, in their encounters, she immediately attacks him on sight. In season 5 Catra still showed resentment toward Shadow Weaver but she burst into tears after her mother figure sacrificed herself, but not before finally telling Catra she was proud of her. Shadow Weaver helps improve Glimmer's powers so she can teleport them, Bow, and the other princesses right into Hordak's base, but they are soon discovered and forced to fight their way through.