Editing Batman Returns (section)

===Sexuality and misogyny===
''Batman Returns'' has overtly sexual elements. Critic Tom Breihan described Catwoman's vinyl catsuit as "pure [[BDSM]]", including the whip she wields as a weapon. The dialogue is replete with [[double entendre]]s, particularly by Penguin and Catwoman; in her fights with Batman, she sensuously licks his face.<ref name="DOGBatmanRetro"/><ref name="AVClub2022"/> Selina / Catwoman is marginalized by the central male characters, however; Shreck pushes her out of a window, the Penguin tries to kill her when she spurns his advances, and Batman attempts to capture her. She fashions a catsuit to regain order, sanity, and power, but it is gradually damaged over the course of the film and her sanity decays with it. Catwoman's final choice is to reject Batman's offer of a happy ending by 
abandoning her revenge against Shreck; to surrender herself to Batman's will would allow another man to control her.<ref name="DOGBatmanRetro"/>