Saturday 29 July 2017

Page Monroe - The New Batman Adventures Season One (1998)

A famous name around Gotham City, Page Monroe was the model and spokeswoman for numerous Gotham based companies, with a portfolio that lasted for ten years. Over that time she was forced by her agent and bosses to diet, starve herself and undergo cosmetic surgery, in order to reach and preserve what they saw to be
perfection.

Upon hitting 30 years old, Page Monroe was deemed as being too old to use, with all of her previous employers publicly dropping her in order to attract the younger demographic. On the third of April, Donna Day fired her in favour of a youth orientated campaign. Later on the 7th of August, Barkley James removed her from the position of Gotham City Motors to find a new car model and promoter.

In one last attempt to get her work, Irv Kleinman got her a part in a sitcom on G.W.B, however the show was axed by the executive Fredrick Fournier on the 27th of October, with them deciding that it was not appealing to young people.

These conditions and job losses may have exacerbated her body dysmorphia, leading to her only being able to see herself as flawed and imperfect. She went into hiding, with rumours circulating that she had suffered from an accident during a cosmetic procedure.

Blaming the three of them for ruining her life, she created the persona of the Calendar Girl for herself, hiring three male models that she had used to work with to act as muscle to her crimes. She set up her base in the debilitated nightclub Faces, which she partly owned. Monroe designed and manufactured numerous holiday based themed gimmick weaponry and costumes to use in her scheme, eventually returning to the public eye several years later as her criminal alias. However she still kept her old modelling pictures, using them to fuel her hatred for the three officials.


"Mean Seasons"

Dropping her guard down for a moment in the back office of Faces, Page sat quietly without her mask, contemplating her past and the next move. However she was interrupted by one of her henchmen, who told her that they were ready to go when she was ready. She quickly hid her face before he could see,  reprimanding him for entering without knocking and throwing one her makeshift bombs into the air above his head. She angrily added that "no one {was} allowed to see {her} face."


Upon being defeated and bound by Batman, Page was left for the G.C.P.D to make an official arrest. After a police officer read Monroe her rights, Harvey Bullock angrily remarked that these did not permit her to wear her mask, removing it from her face.

Terrified that people were able to see her face, Page tried to hide it behind her hair, pleading with them not to look at her.

Witnessing this from afar, Batgirl was taken aback by how beautiful Page was, however Batman sadly replied that due to her dysmorhia, all she could see now was "her flaws".


Appearances: 

  1. "Mean Seassons"
Voiced By:
  • Sela Ward


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