ESFJ – The Provider, The Caretaker, The Harmonizer
(aka: Mary Dahl)
Baby Doll’s another original creation of The Animated Series, and she really shouldn’t work. She feels like a Tiny Toons character dropped into a dark and gritty psychological crime drama. By the time she’s breaking down in bitter tears to Batman at the end of her first episode, though, it’s clear that she’s just as twisted and fascinating as the most classic members of the Rogues’ Gallery.
Dominant Function: (Fe) Extraverted Feeling, “The Garden Fountain”
To say that Baby Doll needs attention would be an understatement. She’s happiest when she’s the star, and knows how to play to her audience for maximum laughs and applause. When a new young kid is added to the cast of her hit TV show, she deliberately upstages him to bring the focus back to her.
Years later, when her fame has faded, she seems to have no purpose in life. She needs the gratification of her adoring fans. She kidnaps her old TV family and brings them back together to try to feel the love again. When they won’t play along, she grows infuriated.
In a sick way, Baby Doll seems to think that she’s doing something kind and wonderful for her hostage family, and feels hurt that they don’t appreciate her efforts.
Baby Doll develops an unlikely infatuation with Killer Croc, a huge hulking mutant that she recognizes as a fellow outcast. They both have physical deformities that exclude them from normal society, and while the Ti-dom Croc is mostly okay with that, Baby Doll needs emotional connection. She tracks Killer Croc down and ropes him into a relationship, creating a whole home and family life for them in the sewers. She plans capers for them to have fun together, committing robberies as a new “Bonnie & Clyde.”
Being the Extravert Judger of the two, Baby Doll is mostly the one in charge of the relationship, and Croc plays along as long as it’s profitable. She manipulates him as best she can to keep him with her, but when he resists, she grows more controlling and bullying with him. When she discovers him cheating on her, she finally decides that if she can’t have him, no one can, and plots a caper that will end in their deaths.
Strangely enough, Baby Doll finally receives the empathy she needs from the stoic Batman, who understands her feelings of isolation and gives her time to cry it out.
Auxiliary Function: (Si) Introverted Sensing, “The Study”
Baby Doll is stuck in a child’s body, but she’s actually a grown woman. Much like the Penguin, she has high Fe aspirations, but her odd physicality and old Si habits make it virtually impossible for her to achieve them. She acted like a child to get famous, and years after her best days, she wants to go back to the times when she was a child. She recreates the set of her old TV show in great detail, and gathers her old “family” members back around the dinner table, just the way it used to be.
When she shacks up with Killer Croc, Baby Doll creates a cozy home for them in the sewers. At least, it’s as cozy as one can get down there. She wants him to feel comfortable and at home with her, but being an ISTP, he must go roaming on his own.
Tertiary Function: (Ne) Extraverted Intuition, “The Hiking Trails”
Baby Doll’s imaginative and playful, just like a child. Her pranks go from cute to dangerous though, when she uses her creativity to nab the attention she craves. She dreams of an unrealistic, happily-ever-after life, “like on TV,” for herself and the objects of her affection.
She can see herself as the full-grown woman she was supposed to be, and feels deep pain knowing that others can’t see past her physical body to the adult she really is.
Inferior Function: (Ti) Introverted Thinking, “The Laboratory”
Baby Doll’s actually quite brilliant, and is clearly the brains of the pair when she and Croc team up for a crime spree. She gets critical and mean when others don’t respond to her affections. She’s successfully cold and calculating when required to be, especially when plotting the death of the man she believes she’s in love with.
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