Does Catwoman love Batman?
Yes. She loves Batman/Bruce Wayne.
From what it seems, there has been a mutual attraction from the
very beginning since Batman #1.
Catwoman is known as the femme fatale, but she was actually
depicted as having genuine romantic feelings for Batman.
She wasn't a lady that was just toying with Batman's emotions.
She wasn't into killing people.
Batman #1 - Batman let Catwoman get away. Well...Robin thought
so. Batman clumsily bumped into Robin when Robin was trying to
catch Catwoman from escaping off their boat. Batman was attracted
to her.
Batman #2 - Catwoman didn't want the Joker to poison Robin to
death.
Batman #3 - Catwoman kisses Batman and then pushes him to get
get away. Was it from a romantic attraction or was it to get away
from him?
Well...the issue ended with her driving, wishing that Batman was
driving and she was sitting beside him just as another boy and girl
out for a ride on a moonlit night and that it would be sort of
nice. This showed that Catwoman definitely had romantic feelings
for Batman.
Batman #10 - Catwoman kisses Batman for saving her life after a
bad guy was going to shoot her. After she kisses him, she got away.
Dick even said that Bruce wanted her to escape
Batman #15 - Catwoman is in love with Bruce Wayne and actually
wants to reform. Bruce Wayne takes advantage of that to try to get
Catwoman to reform. Catwoman sees Bruce with another woman, and she
gets suspicious. She pretends to be that same woman and talks to
Bruce, and she comes to conclusion that Bruce doesn't love her and
so returns to being her old self.
Batman #39 - Catwoman saved Batman from getting shot by a crook
when he was lying on the floor unconscious. Catwoman wonders why
she saved him and she thinks that she's confused.
Batman #47 - Catwoman kisses Batman when she's in a disguise in
connection to a caper.
Batman #62 - Catwoman saves Batman from the wall of a condemned
building which led to her knocked unconscious. This is where it's
revealed that she has amnesia. Catwoman helps as a police
operative.
Detective Comics #211 - Catwoman left a knife and silken cord in
Batman's utlility belt, knowing that Batman would use it save his
life. She had claimed that there was nothing in his utility belt.
She had recommended the bad guys give him back his costume and
utility. Batman knew that Catwoman actually helped him. Robin even
told Batman that she's always been soft on Batman.
Detective Comics #369 - The end of the issue shows Selina
reading the paper about the new Bat-Girl.
She says "She has her nerve trying to cut herself in on my man.
I've known Batman a lot longer than that Jill-come-lately. If he
belongs to anybody, he belongs to Catwoman." In her mind, Batman is
her boyfriend. She obviously is in love with Batman and is very
possessive of him.
Batman #197 - Selina/Catwoman puts on a green costume for the
first time. She competes with Batgirl for Batman's love by being a
crimefighter too, making Batgirl look bad. She wants Batman to
marry her and she even sets a trap for him and wants to get her to
marry him. Damn...........ummm....Catwoman didn't seem like a femme
fetale. She's more like fatal attraction (if I can't have
Batman....nobody can), but she's not into killing. It's that her
love for Batman makes her act irrationally and erratically. Batman
says that Catwoman loves her. Robin responded by saying that
everybody knew that except him.
Batgirl told Catwoman that she wasn't even romantically
interested in Batman. Catwoman was jealous and competed with
Batgirl for nothing.
Batman #256 - Bruce looks at picture of Catwoman/Selina in
Batcave, and he says "Whenever I meet a woman that I care for,
she's an enemy and that's my curse"
I get the idea that Bob Kane actually created Catwoman to be a
complicated love interest for Batman from the very beginning. It's
very obvious when you read the comic book issues. She even shows an
actual attraction to him by the 3rd issue. Batman showed an
attraction to her in the first comic.
There is some love-hate dynamic, but it's more love than hate.
It's more about the fine line between love and hate. Batman wants
to reform her.
It also shows that Selina/Catwoman was in love with both Batman
and Bruce Wayne.
Throughout the history of comic book, There is a love-hate
relationship with Batman. Catwoman is in love with Batman, but at
the same time she hates him (or to put it more accurately) or is
angry with him for getting in her way to foil her crimes. She never
showed any desire to hurt or kill him to the point that she even
saved his life from being killed by others numerous times. She also
showed a certain possessiveness towards him. She also was in love
with Bruce Wayne. She also has history of reforming but reverting.
There has always been an ambiguity about her, and it's strongly
connected to her feelings about Batman.
The truth is Selina/Catwoman always was in love with Batman
since the first Batman comics in 1940.
Bob Kane made her to be a complicated love interest of Batman in
that she was not only his enemy but also his would-be lover who
tempted him not just out of mind games but of actual romantic
feelings for him.
This didn't even change when she was brought back after years of
hiatus. Heck...even Batman acknowledged that Catwoman loved her by
1967, and it was stated that Robin and everybody else knew. It was
just that Batman was too blind to see because of his own conflicted
romantic feelings for Catwoman.
I actually thought that Catwoman didn't have romantic feelings
for Batman until the 1970s.
I thought that she originated as a femme fatale to manipulate
and tempt Batman without having any feelings for him. I was
wrong.
Now after going over the first Batman comics, Catwoman was
actually created to be a complex villain with her romantic feelings
for Batman and not into killing others.
The tv show and early cartoons weren't that close to the actual
Catwoman/Batman interaction. Well..the Julie Newmar Catwoman and
Adam West Batman did show some typical Batman-Catwoman
interaction.
Julie Newmar played Catwoman as more of a tease and temptress.
She didn't play a Catwoman that was actually in love with
Batman.
I didn't know that Catwoman had genuine feelings before the
1970's. From all the things that I read over the internet, there
are different views and perceptions about Catwoman/Selina and her
feelings about Batman/Bruce Wayne. Some write like Catwoman/Selina
is such a femme fetale that she is just playing mind games with
Batman. There is some that write that Catwoman is all about using
her sexuality for a weapon and tempting Batman without having any
feelings for Batman. There are some people that think that
Catwoman/Selina doesn't have feelings for Bruce and that she has
only has feelings for Batman.
The early Batman cartoons and television series didn't really
touch on the comic Batman-Catwoman interaction that much. However,
there was some typical Bat/Cat interaction between Adam West and
Julie Newmar in the series. It seemed to go away with Eartha Kitt
in the role.
BTAS showed a more accurate portrayal of Catwoman in regards to
her being in love with Batman. However, they never showed her to be
in love with Bruce Wayne. From the Batman Returns movie, I didn't
get the impression that Catwoman had a romantic attraction to
Batman. She seemed lethal to him when she stabbed him in the side.
At least, there was a romantic dynamic between Selina and
Bruce.
Rene
Steve
Judy
