Calendar Girl
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Calendar Girl (Paige Monroe) is a fictional villain created for The New Batman Adventures by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm abase on the classic Batman enemy, the Calendar Man. She was voiced by Sela Ward.
Based on a male comic book character, Calendar Girl, is the last female villain created for the series that contribute to increase their amount in a predominantly male rogues gallery.
Calendar Girl, like her male comic book counterpart, commits crimes during particular holidays themed after them, but unlike Calendar Man, her crimes, which represent a bigger threat, are meant to destroy the industry she used to work for, motivated by deep insane resentment towards it. The switch is typical for the DC animated universe for two reasons: firstly, needing to find a compelling dramatic reason for a villain to sport a "calendar" theme, and secondly, because producer Bruce Timm has admitted on multiple occasions that he likes drawing pretty girls.
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[edit] Appearances
[edit] DC animated universe biography
Paige Monroe actually is a calendar girl before her crime career starts, as she used to work for the fashion industry as a succesful model. After a disfiguring cosmetic surgery she underwent to stay beautiful, she decides to seek revenge on the people she blames for her fall from stardom.
In Mean Seasons, her only appearance, with her face covered by a mask, under the identity of Calendar Girl, she and her gang of male models kidnapp various fashion designers and television moguls in daring, seasonally-themed crimes. Eventually, Batman determines her identity and stops her during one of her hits.
In the final scenes of the episode, Calendar Girl is unmasked, to her apparent humiliation, revealing to everybody's surprise that she is still an impressively gorgeous woman and that the disfigurement is in fact all in her insane mind. As Batman pointed out to Batgirl, the flaws were all Monroe ccan see anymore.
[edit] Design
She wears a creepy, Michael Myers mask with all her body but her long hair covered in clothes.
[edit] Trivia
- Sela Ward, who provided the voice of Calendar Girl, also developed and produced a 2000 documentary titled The Changing Face of Beauty. This documentary focused on the American obsession with youth in women - which coincidentally fits with Calendar Girl's character.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The World's Finest, a site with a complete guide to the DC animated universe. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
- DCAUResource.com, a very well documented site when it comes to DC fictional biographies.
- The Animated Batman, an Unofficial Guide, a site with a complete guide to Bruce Timm's Batman. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
