20 Things You Somehow Missed In Batman Returns
14. Catwoman’s Mother
There is a lot of speculation on what led Selina Kyle to become Catwoman. Indeed, her origin is almost as difficult to nail down as The Joker's.
The gorgeous Ivana Milicevic, who featured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series and in Casino Royale, portrayed Selina Kyle’s untrustworthy mother, Maria Kyle in Gotham but, prior to this, Selina had a mother in Batman Returns who featured prominently in the party that never stops on Selina’s answering machine.
Selina’s mother is, however, not very complimentary of her daughter, referring to her as “a lowly secretary languishing in Gotham City” and pestering the life out of her to come home for the Christmas holidays. From the sight of Selina’s overwhelmingly pink apartment, which is filled with paraphernalia of her childhood, Selina was likely closer to her father than her mother (indeed, her one escape from her interminable lifestyle appears to be the man that she believes she is dating, who ditches her right on Christmas).
We find it amusing to imagine who Selina’s mother is. Perhaps she lives in the kind of multi-coloured suburbia that was a focus of Edward Scissorhands or the fishing town of Collinsport from Dark Shadows? Either way, she is the stereotypical nagging mother, who perhaps envies her daughter for what she imagines is the high life in glitzy, glamorous Gotham City.
If only she knew…