Baby-Doll
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| Real name: | Mary Dahl |
| Species: | Human |
| Hair: | Blond |
| Eyes: | Blue |
| Base: | Gotham City |
| Rogue of: | Batman |
| Weaponry: | doll-like gun |
| Voiced by: | Alison LaPlaca, Laraine Newman |
- You may also be looking for the episode "Baby-Doll".
Baby-Doll was an ex-actress turned supervillainess.
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Mary Dahl was an actress and star of TV programme Love That Baby, a famed TV sitcom made at Gotham Studios. Throughout her life she suffered from systemic hypoplasia, a rare disease which stunted her physical growth at age 5. While she did not appear to age physically, her mind was that of a fully grown adult. In the last season of the series, Dahl complained she wasn't getting enough exposure and abruptly quit. After leaving the show, she studied drama and trained to become a dramatic actress. Her first and only job as a dramatic actress was a rendition of MacBeth which was panned by the critics. Sometime after this, she attempted to revive Love That Baby and the studios turned her down. For 10 years, Dahl lived as a recluse.
Upon her 30th birthday, Dahl's mind snapped and plotted her revenge. She dubbed herself Baby-Doll and, with the help of her hired henchmen and her right hand woman Miriam, she kidnapped the former cast members in a convoluted attempt to restore her family. When Batman and Robin intervened, Baby-Doll sent her henchmen to go after them. Robin switched places with the last cast member, Spunky Spencer and carried a homing transmitter. After attempting to kill Batman, Baby-Doll escaped to a nearby amusement park. During the pursuit, she ended up in the house of mirrors and saw herself in a mirror, revealing her adult self and showing her how selfish she was. Batman tried to calm her down before she was sent to Arkham Asylum.
Years later, Baby-Doll served her time at Arkham and got work as a hotel manager. While watching a news segment on Killer Croc's latest court appearance, Doll became attracted to Croc, as she believed both of them were kindred spirits, misunderstood and shunned by society. While being transferred from Arkham to State Prison, Croc was freed by Doll who staged numerous thefts near water to play up the strategic advantage to Croc.
Meanwhile, Croc planned to leave Gotham City with all the stolen gains and without Doll, who found this out and planned one last heist at Mid-River Island. She secretly planned to sabotage the Island's nuclear power plant and level Gotham and its inhabitants, including Croc and herself. However, Batman and Batgirl intervened to halt the countdown and subdued Croc before he could kill Baby-Doll. She was later sent back to Arkham.
