Batman: The Animated Series
monition ! Spoilers ahead for Two - Face # 3!DC Comics has just brought a authoritative Dark Knight foe back and canonized one of the most tragical episodes ofBatman : The Animated Series . Several original villains from the beloved cartoon have come to the DC Universe , and now the same can be said for one of the series ' most binge - yank episode .
InTwo - Face # 3by Christian Ward and Fábio Veras , Harvey Dent is taskedwith locating the Ventriloquist ’s dummy , Scarface . After doing some digging , Two - Face determines that the dummy is currently with the minuscule - sentence criminal , Baby Doll . Dent ’s employee , Lake Cantwell , is n’t conversant with Baby Doll , and Two - Face give her the summation .
LikeBatman : The Animated Series ' , Mary Louise Dahl was a former actor with a condition that halted her ageing . Doll afterward nobble the actors who play her tv set family line to get her show back , gettingDahl imprisoned and , as speculated by Two - Face , turning her into an actual felon .
Baby Doll and Her Heartbreaking Origin are DC Comics Canon
Few Batman Foes Have a Background as Sad as Baby Doll’s
Baby Doll first look in a self - entitle episodeofBatman : The Animated Series’second time of year . Mary Louise Dahl was once the ace of a democratic tv show " hump That Baby " ( playing a child part despite being in her twenty ) . Unfortunately , the show ’s rating dwindled and was ultimately canceled , and Mary Louise ’s life history was effectively over . Taking the name ' Baby Doll ' , Dahl turned to a life story of criminal offense , not only kidnap the actors who played her family on TV , but later working with Killer Croc , sense him to be a kindred soul ( though their partnership was flimsy at well ) .
Baby Doll is n’t the first villain to amount to the DC Universe fromBatman : The Animated Series . Roxy Rocket , Condiment King , and , of course , Harley Quinn , all first come out in the animated cartoon . But while all of these reference had alter degrees of pathos to them , Baby Doll was undeniably dealt one of the worst helping hand . Dahl wanted nothing more than be taken seriously as an doer and understandably snap when her show was canceled , and it became impossible for her to work . It’sa rough backstory that ’s just as lamentable now that it ’s been made official DC Comics canon .
Baby Doll Still Has One of the Saddest Origins of Any Batman Villain
It’s Not a Competition, But Baby Doll Had It Rough
Batman fan everywhere have their own take on whichBatman : The Animated Seriesepisode is the show ’s most tragical ( and confessedly , " Heart of Ice " is a strong competition ) . But " Baby Doll " was a sad level about a woman doing anything she could to keep the one thing that gave her joy in her life . It was a powerful tale back when it was in the animated cartoon , and it ’s just as powerful now that it ’s Baby Doll ’s backstory in the DC Universe . There are spate of scoundrel in the DC Universe with messed - up past times , but thisBatman : The Animated Series’villain just brought one of the most heart - wrench origins with her .
Two - Face # 3is available now from DC Comics .
