Catwoman (Patience Phillips)

Patience Phillips is a fictional character in the 2004 adaptation of Catwoman. Patience is the latest in a long line of mystically empowered champions; known as Catwoman. Patience Phillips was a meek and lowly artist who was working as a graphics designer for a cosmetics company, who overheard a plot of selling defective beauty products that would cause people's faces to deteriorate over time if they stop using them. She tries to escape the factory where she overhears this plot by using the water conduit pipes, only to be forcefully flushed out and drowned. Lying lifeless and washed ashore; but Patience was brought back to life; by a mysterious cat she had saw earlier; with this resurrection, she started developing unusual powers similar to that; of a cat; with her behavior becoming more cat-like. With the help of a researcher, named Ophelia Powers, Phillips understands tha;t she is becoming a "catwoman", a warrior; with the force of a cat; who prowls at night in the search for justice. Wearing a mask to disguise her identity, she takes to the streets as "Catwoman", seeking the answer from those; who have killed her and why. Eventually Patience discovers that; it is the wife of the cosmetic company's owner and a primary user of its beauty products, Laurel Hedare; who is responsible for killing Patience. Though unable to hurt Laurel; due to her constant use of the skin cream turning her skin; into "living marble", Patience did manage to mar her face; before she fell to her death; by being thrown out of a window and seeing her reflection; prior to falling. While Patience was cleared of any charges; made against her of murder; by the police, she continues to live outside the law enjoying the freedom she now has as the mysterious Catwoman.