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Baby Doll ('''Mary Louise Dahl''') is a fictional villain in the from '' What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? '' BIOGRAPHY Baby Doll suffers from a fictional disease called systemic hypoplasia. Somewhat like Dwarfism , systemic hypoplasia causes its victims to cease aging at a certain point in childhood. Dahl stopped aging at approximately the age of six. As a result, she has the mental and emotional capacity of an adult, but the body of a child. At one point, Dahl was a successful actress on a family Sitcom , ''That's Our Baby'', but her fading stardom as well as the fact that no one takes her seriously as an adult drives her criminally insane. Baby Doll first appears in an episode that ran towards the end of the first run of ''Batman: The Animated Series'' in an episode called "Baby Doll." In it, Batman and Robin are investigating the kidnapping of several actors, all of whom once starred on the sitcom ''That's Our Baby''. She played a toddler whose catchline was "I didn't mean to." Initially, Mary Dahl is viewed as a possible target, but Batman soon learns that the woman may be more villainous than she looks. After quitting her sitcom, Dahl tried legitimate acting, but critics shunned her. Twenty years later, Dahl — adopting her former show persona, Baby Doll — returns to Kidnap her former co-stars and return them to the abandoned set where ''That's Our Baby'' was filmed. Batman frees the actors from Baby Doll and chases her to a carnival. There, they enter a House Of Mirrors where Baby is confronted with a distorted reflection of herself that, in her mind, resembles what she would look like if she had a normal body. Interestingly enough, she makes this observation to herself in the voice of an adult woman, in contrast to the childish, high pitched voice she had in the Baby Doll persona. Instead of attacking Batman, Baby Doll shoots the mirror. After ''Batman: The Animated Series'' completed its run, a new and slightly re-vamped show called ''. In the end, Baby Doll betrays Croc when she realizes he doesn't love her. Baby Doll's capable villainous nature is shown when she ,working as a receptionist, vents out on a drunk man in a hotel for asking her to do something "funny or cute" despite his wife's attempts to stop him, and she slams a book in his face. PERSONALITY Though small in stature, Baby Doll is quite dangerous. She carries a Doll that can shoot Bullets through its eye socket. Occasionally, Baby Doll can be quite vulnerable and reveal the inner turmoil that has driven her to a life of crime. Other times, however, she can act quite spoiled and childish and endanger the lives of others. Baby Doll has been said to be a possible cartoon version of Shirley Temple. TRIVIA For some unknown reason, Dahl's goons in the episode "Baby Doll" are Gilligan and the Skipper from '' Gilligan's Island ''. This is at no point explained in the episode. |
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