Batman Returns: Selina Kyle (Michelle Pfeiffer)

I think Selina Kyle is the first Gotham character to have true "super powers" in the film franchise isn't she?
The Joker is just twisted and the Penguin is merely physically deformed. Batman never has any powers either (one of the reasons he is such a cool comic book hero in my opinion).
Later on in the series I don't recall the Riddler having any powers of note either, I'm not sure about Two-Face.

Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze obviously do, but that is in the fourth installment.
I'm not sure I class Batman Begins as part of the series, it feels like the start of a completely new one to me. What do you think?

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I think Selina Kyle is the first Gotham character to have true "super powers" in the film franchise isn't she?

Debatably. Remember, she gets shot in limbs, but counts those as "deaths." The incidents she "dies" from (falling into kitty litter, through a glass house) she probably would have survived anyway. I do reckon this counts as a death, mind - she falls from at least seven stories.

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I'm not sure I class Batman Begins as part of the series, it feels like the start of a completely new one to me. What do you think?

That's because it is. It's a re-boot. Why do you think Two-Face and The Joker are in next one?

BTW, are you going to use my Shreck write-up I sent in today (just to be helpful)?

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2007 11:42PM by Matt.

I wasn't necessarily speaking about her nine lives when I referred to super powers. More her enhanced agility and fighting prowess. She was just a normal secretary before her resurrection as Catwoman, but then turned into an olympic grade gymnast, expert whip fighter and martial artist etc.

That's a good point. Or it could just be something completely random, like the rest of the film...

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