The Batman: Is [SPOILER] Really Catwoman's Girlfriend?
Warning: this article contains SPOILERS for The Batman.
The Batman raises many questions over its three-hour runtime, but one of the most intriguing is whether the woman that Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz) repeatedly calls "baby" is really her girlfriend. If nothing else, Catwoman clearly cares a great deal about her, but there's no straightforward explanation as to why that is. The woman in question is Annika Koslov (Hana Hrzic), whose name is sometimes spelled «Anika» and is given little backstory and screen time in the film.
The film introduces Annika through a picture presented to Batman (Robert Pattinson) of her leaving Gotham's Iceberg Lounge with Mayor Don Mitchell (Rupert Penry-Jones) shortly before his death at the hands of Paul Dano's sinister Riddler. Before Selina Kyle gets into her Catwoman garb after a shift as a waitress at the Iceberg Lounge, she's found home caressing a crying Annika. She's implied to be the woman on the other end of a distressing phone call Kyle was engaged in on her way home. Later, Selina Kyle's father in The Batman, revealed to be Carmine Falcone (John Turturro, The Big Lebowski, Severance), strangles Annika to death for learning from Mayor Mitchell that Falcone is secretly running operations in Gotham — he is the "rata alada" referred to by the Riddler. Finding Annika and helping her get back to her native Estonia is Selina Kyle's primary motivation throughout the film, with Batman benefiting from her motivation by using her to get information in the Iceberg Lounge.
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