Another vote for Catwoman.
Favorite Batman love interest?
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I've lived through dozens of these threads, and dozens of threads on subjects like who should play Wonder Woman, and the major concern that emerges in a majority of the posts is how hard the female in question gets the poster's cock - whether she be a drawing or a real person. Do you care to deny that?
And seriously, do you think anyone's opinion of the male sex is fully expressed in their estimation of men's reaction to superhero comic book love stories?
Excellent break down. I voted Selina Kyle. But I'd forgotten about Silver St. Cloud - and since I read those 70s comics in back issues way after the fact - I think it lessened the impact (Aparo's art stuck with me though).
She was around for a good while too, wasn't she?
Kathy Kane :P
*looks around for the 'post crisis doesn't count and nor does post-TMP Trek continuity Nazi guy*
*looks around for the 'post crisis doesn't count and nor does post-TMP Trek continuity Nazi guy*
if you look online, it's not that hard to find an unused script from the late 1970s - early 80s by Tom Mankiewicz, writer of Superman The Movie for a Batman movie that never got made. Silver is the romantic interest in it. As you've ased (and as other posters have said) she originally appeared in the 1970s comics.
It's quite a good script, actually, more like Batman Begins than the Burton 1989 movie in that it goes into Batman's origins and it's some time before The Dark Knight is seen. Imagine a cross between Superman The Movie and the 1960s Batman series - mostly played straight, but climaxing with Batman fighting the Joker on top of giant typewriters and the likes.
Back on topic, I voted for Catwoman.
Robin. I mean, Catwoman. The dichotomy between Catwoman and Batman is just perfect. I like Batman Returns a lot because even though Catwoman's origins are completely screwed up, Burton still managed to nail the relationship between them.
Andrea Beaumont, easily. Out of all the (dozens of) doomed relationships Bruce gets into, this is the only one I can think of where the reason for their inability to be together has as much to do with their similarities as their differences. I loved the symmetry of it when they brought her back for the JLU 'Epilogue'. She was instrumental in the birth of Batman, twice and twice almost prevented it from happening altogether.
I do like Selina, on the extremely rare occasion when she's handled right, but from a love interest point of view it's always been a bit of a non-starter.
I do like Selina, on the extremely rare occasion when she's handled right, but from a love interest point of view it's always been a bit of a non-starter.
Of the two majors, Selina and Talia, Selina's easily my favourite. The dynamic between them, when handled properly, works very well.
Talia's a character with a short shelf-life; she very quickly gets annoyingly indecisive (the past few years have had her go for a more definite villain stance, which, whatever else might be said, supplies her with some backbone).
Talia's a character with a short shelf-life; she very quickly gets annoyingly indecisive (the past few years have had her go for a more definite villain stance, which, whatever else might be said, supplies her with some backbone).
What I think is that some of us appreciate female characters for more than just what they look like. We can still appreciate what they look like but that doesn't not exclude anything else.
<-------------- Case in point.
Wonder Woman's looks when it comes to casting the character are important, she's supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world after all - and they did pretty damned well the last time they cast her. This thread is not about Wonder Woman, however.
Wonder Woman does, for me at least, struggle in one department that affects whether or not I can see a character as a love interest for a male character I like - likability. It's a good reason why guys usually don't enjoy romantic comedies - because the female lead is never likable.
I like Ms. Marvel, hence my fanboy squee when Spider-Man asked her out. I like Jessica Jones, so I liked her storyline with Luke Cage and so on and so on.
So, for us guys to accept someone as a love interest for someone like Batman, who I don't even think should have love interests, she has to be especially likable.
I feel just the opposite. I grew up reading Wonder Woman comics, and love the character (though, admittedly, I seem to only like her comics written by Perez or Marston), but I really dislike Ms. Marvel.
Specifically, it seems to be Carol Danvers whom I dislike (I've enjoyed Moonstone's starring turn in the series), which I don't entirely understand, as she should be interesting in concept (Air Force pilot turned CIA agent turned superhero). Maybe she seems too ... self-absorbed? In every story I read, she seems to be thinking mostly of herself, or of how something or someone relates to herself or her career.
(Ironically, Moonstone - a villain - has seen her issues characterized by her avid defense of a group of children that she doesn't seem to understand why she's so determined to defend - but she spends her time worring about them, not about why she cares about them, which seems to make all the difference. She actually feels heroic, even though she's the bad guy.)
Andrea Beaumont from Mask of the Phantasm is my favorite Batman love interest so I voted others. After Andrea it would be Talia and then Catwoman.
To be honest though I consider Batman kind of asexual. His mission and obsession put him above ordinary sexuality and romantic notions.
To be honest though I consider Batman kind of asexual. His mission and obsession put him above ordinary sexuality and romantic notions.
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