Favorite Female Batman character?

[TheBatGotHim]

I tried to include all characters that were not just ordinary love interests. Was gonna add more like The New Ventriloquist, but only gave me 10 options. :)

Mine has to be Catwoman. I just love her character. I love her sassy attituide and how she plays with Batman sometimes. She's my favorite love interest for Bruce as well. I love that sometimes shes good and sometimes shes bad. Makes her unpredictable.

After her, I really like Barbara as Oracle. I think shes a much more interesting character as Batgirl compared to Cassandra. I think shes a stronger character as Oracle though.

Harley Quinn also is fun to read about, so she'd be my third.

Least favorite is Poison Ivy. I just hate the whole plant thing. :rolleyes:

[Generic Eric]

My vote is for Lesly Thompson. She brings the hotness... Um. I mean to say that she is a well rounded supporting character.

[joe27]

Catwoman is my favorite, especially the protector of the East End version of the character. Selina is just a really cool person, and I love how classy and kick ass she was with Ed Brubaker writing.

I like Shiva too, although I don't know a ton about her. I'm interested everytime she shows up though.

The rest I kind of dislike or don't care about.

Poison Ivy is one of my least favorites too. I've always found her sleazy and annoying.

[Lester C.]

Perhaps it's because she has so few apprences but I really like Silver St. Cloud.

[robbieglenn]

My vote is for Lesly Thompson. She brings the hotness... Um. I mean to say that she is a well rounded supporting character.

I did NOT think of her, hot damn.....anyway, I voted for Babs, though I prefer her as Oracle than Batgirl :eek:

[Kage Kisaragi]

I'm a toss up between Cassandra and Harley.

[scary harpy]

This is not an easy choice.

I love all the Gotham Girls for diffent reasons.

Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are my favorite villainesses. Catwoman is my favorite anti-heroine and Batgirl (Babs) is my favorite heroine.

[carabas]

Babs rules supreme. Or at least she does as Oracle. Following shortly, Cassandra Cain and Lady Shiva. Can't choose between those.

Least favourite: Beechen-Girl.

[Chiroptera]

Catwoman gets my vote; though I was tempted to vote for Poison Ivy she's defintiely my runner-up for favorite female bat character.
I'm not as enthralled with Catwoman as I once was, but I still love her more than any other Bat character.
In Ivy I see potential to be an extremely dangerous and intimidating villain, if she could just get some really good writers to use her. She had a great story, last year I think, it Dini's run, which showed a darkside I never would have imagined in the character.

[Lew Moxon]

Well, I am mainly familar with Harley and Catwoman. I've read one story with Silver St. Cloud, and I liked her, but, she isn't really a fully realized charector.

I tend to prefer reading about Harley, I've never really liked Catwoman, and to me, Harley if she's written right is very interesting, she is one of the freaks, in a way Selina Kyle: despite her costume, can never truly be. And I enjoy reading about the freaks..

[Chiroptera]

Well, I am mainly familar with Harley and Catwoman. I've read one story with Silver St. Cloud, and I liked her, but, she isn't really a fully realized charector.

I tend to prefer reading about Harley, I've never really liked Catwoman, and to me, Harley if she's written right is very interesting, she is one of the freaks, in a way Selina Kyle: despite her costume, can never truly be. And I enjoy reading about the freaks..

It's interesting, what you point out about Selina is exactly part of why I love her. She's a sane person in a rogue's gallery full of whackos. :tongue:

[We R. Venom]

Harley is the greastest. I can never get enough of her.

[Aziz Abbasi]

Harley Quinn is too amusing to put less than no #1

Always liked Barbara

Ever since Batman Returns I loved Catwoman/ Selina Kyle

[chipsnopotatoes]

catwoman! go selina...

[Lew Moxon]

Now this isn't to say there has never been a Catwoman story I liked :I loved her first appearance. And I loved a comic called "The autobiography of Bruce Wayne" an earth two story in which she brings Bruce back to reality, and he ends up marrying Ms. Kyle.

But I prefer the crazier rouges.

[kalika]

Gotta be Selina for me! I just read the TPB for Hush and loooooooved her chemistry with Bruce. The way he asked her, "don't go" after that first kiss really got to me.

Love how she plays with him, but refuses to swoon (at least, anywhere that he will see). Looking forward to seeing how Heart of Hush plays out, since I am missing any action they had between Hush and now!

[HellFrost]

Hmm... Difficult.

Pamela and Selina are tied for number one.

Pamela, to me has unlimited potential in what they could do with her. If they chose to redeem her, she'd be an incredible asset to the JLA and the entire world. She would struggle with the fact that she's taken so many lives and solve world hunger. If they chose to increase her role as a villainess, maybe she could start taking charge more and start gaining more respect in the villain community. She is theoretically one of the most powerful beings on the entire earth because she can control all aspects of it in a way. From the air we breath to the food we eat.

Selina... well what else is there to say other than the fact that I have always been in love with her. She's the perfect anit-hero and the only woman for Bruce.

And Harley is definitely my other favorite. Ever since I watched the cartoon, she's always entertained me to no end. She's absolutely bonker, funny, and a hell of a lot smarter than she gets credit for.

[Mia]

I voted for Talia, but I should have voted for Selina.

I like Talia she's smart and shrewd and classy. Unfortunetly she's now being portrayed as a bitchy ex-wife...but still I have a soft spot for a woman who knows what she wants and has the skills to go after it.

[theNighteye]

I love Barbara Gordon!!

http://www.imrambling.com

[nepenthes]

Um, no way I can only picked one.

Ivy, Harlequin, Huntress and Catwoman are among my favorite bat characters in general male or female, so picked all four :redface:


Lew Moxon have you read Sisters Keeper? Catwoman is a little more damaged in there.

[Lew Moxon]

Um, no way I can only picked one.

Ivy, Harlequin, Huntress and Catwoman are among my favorite bat characters in general male or female, so picked all four :redface:


Lew Moxon have you read Sisters Keeper? Catwoman is a little more damaged in there.

The one where she killed Black Mask?

Well, I've read bits of it, I liked it.

I guess I haven't read that many catwoman stories. I can think of two really good ones. (See, I don't hat her, I just am disinterested in her.) that come to mind immediatly "The Cat" and "The autobiography of Bruce Wayne" but my exposure to her is much more limited than it is to say, The Joker. So that kinda clouds my thinking.

[urduja]

I love Catwoman....

She's my favorite Female Batman character...

I love the way she meows.... :biggrin:

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[Global Honored]

Tough Question....Renee anyone???

Really, it's a toss up for me between long time fave Babs and my new kick for everything Harley. So many great, strong females in Bat lore. What? No love for Miller's All Star Canary? Wankers!

[nepenthes]

The one where she killed Black Mask?



nup. it's this one.
http://www.amazon.com/Catwoman-Sisters-Keeper-Cindy-Newell/dp/0930289978
http://www.geocities.com/nos4a2no9/Batman/yearone/sisterskeeper.html


apart from Brubakers volume and Selinas Big Score this is one of the best Catwoman portrayals I know. even if it's got some major flaws it just feels right in alot of places

[theNighteye]

Barbara Gordon!

http://www.imrambling.com

[thor25]

And I loved a comic called "The autobiography of Bruce Wayne" an earth two story in which she brings Bruce back to reality, and he ends up marrying Ms. Kyle.


http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll13/odinthor/?action=view&current=Brave_and_the_Bold197_01fc.jpg
he, to me thats the definitive Bat and the Cat history, and one of the best Batman Comics ever....

forget Hush that thing was Millon of times better (of course with the Jim Lee art that comic would have been perfect).

[Dark Master]

Mine is an animated one, Andrea Beaumont / Phantasm.

[Ben Reilly#6]

Mine is an animated one, Andrea Beaumont / Phantasm.

You, sir, have impeccable taste. =D

On the comics side of things, I've always had an incredibly large soft-spot for Selina. I really became a fan of the character after seeing her in TAS, during her book's run in the 90s, her appearances in The Long Halloween/Dark Victory, and of course When In Rome.
Although these days (say, ever since 2002) it seems as if DC has been doing everything in their power to turn me off of the character, she still has a spot in my personal heirarchy of costumed comic book anti-heroine (or would she be an anti-villainess? Hard to tell these days).

Then there's Batgirl II, good ol' Cassandra. She's other one I became a fan of due to being exposed to her at an early age, not to mention having the pleasure of picking up the first comic she appeared in (man, has it really been nine years already?).
I just think she's a great character. I know some people saw her as a mary sue, but I always thought she was a perfectly balanced character, maybe even overly burdened than most others out there. And certainly a better example of a role model than her predecessor (not that I'm not a fan of Barbara either).
Though, same as before, it seems DC's out to ruin her character as well. I'm sensing a pattern here, hmm...

And of course, Helena. I'm really surprised how quickly she became my main favorite of the Bat-related women. I can barely describe just how awesome I think she is. Not to keen on her bit-part in Birds of Prey, though. And although I had a few discrepancies with the recent Year One mini, it really did leave me wanting more Huntress-related goodness.
Here's hoping she gets a little more solo time.

Honorary mentions go to Babs (a former favorite due to TAS) and Ivy, who I would've mentioned had I not felt picking more than three characters was a little selfish. ^_^;;