Five role model moms pop up in DC Comics.
Every man’s special mistress is his mother.
Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor uttered this phrase in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and even though it came from the mouth of a villain, we can’t deny that there is some logic in his words as we’ve shown before. time. However, the reverse is also true, so below, we’re going to take a look at five DC character moms who were key in helping their kids get to where they are today.
Sheila Haywood
We begin our review of the bad mothers with Jason Todd’s mother, who first appeared in the adventure published in Batman #426 (1988).
No one can doubt that a woman who can align herself with the Joker to hide her own crime deserves to occupy the first place in this list.
Ursa
Like other comic book characters, such as the case of Harley Quinn, which we talked about at the time, this Kryptonian debuted in the audiovisual world, especially in the Superman movie (1978), although she also fell in the pages of the comics, the first in the adventure Power Trip, part III of the fourth, assigned number 3 by the JSA (2005) was published, with a script by Geoff Johns and illustrations by Amanda Connor, although only as a fantasy in this particular case.
How can a woman who just wants to have a baby and raise it mercilessly to use it as a tool to escape the Phantom Zone not be on the list of worst mothers? Fortunately, the boy, originally known as Lor-Zod, was raised on Earth by Clark and Lois, under the name Christopher Kent.
Ursa was played by Sarah Douglas in the aforementioned Superman and the sequel Superman II (1980).
Silvia Kovacs
Rorschach’s civilian identity, Walter Kovach’s mother, first appeared in the adventure The Abyss Gazes Also, published in Watchmen #6 (1987) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
Rorschach may seem like someone who is not completely in his right mind, but when you consider it, it comes from a woman who deserves to be on the list of the worst mothers in DC because of how badly she has treated him since. It was a little, without even knowing who she is, we can understand it a little better.
Lori Watt played Sylvia Kovacs in Watchmen (2009).
Talia al-Ghul
Ra’s al Ghul’s daughter first saw the light of day in a comic strip published by Dennis O’Neill and Bob Brown in Detective Comics #411 (1971).
How can a woman who strongly trains her son to kill his father not be on the list of worst mothers? Of course, we’re talking about Damian Wayne, who, as all Batman fans should know, has been cast as the new Robin alongside Batman. That upset his mother so much that she created a clone of Damian himself to kill the original.
Talia al Ghul played by Marion Cotillard in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). by Joey King, in the same film, as Flash; By Millie Wilkinson in the ninth season of the series Legends of Tomorrow (2016 – 2022) titled Abandoned and by Lexa Doig in the series Arrow (2012 – 2020) in the series’ character from her fifth season, although in fact the former performance is an adult version.
Selina Kyle / Catwoman
We conclude our review of DC’s Despicable Me with the publisher’s most famous feline thief, who first appeared in Batman #1 (1940) in the adventures of The Cat, by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
Although Selina Kyle initially decided to stop being Catwoman after giving birth to her daughter Helena, she changed her mind and gave her up for adoption to return to her life of crime, which is why she appears on the list. Worst DC moms.
Selina Kyle was played in the Batman series (1966 – 1968) by Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether and Ersa Keith, although the first of the aforementioned actors gave her her first appearance in Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt (2003) and the second in the film Batman (1966 ) has a title. Michelle Pfeiffer did it in Batman Returns (1992); Anne Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Camren Bicondova and Lili Simmons in the Gotham series (2014 – 2019) and Zoe Kravitz in Batman (2022).