SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for Batman #44 by Tom King, Mikel Janín, Joëlle Jones, June Chung, Jordie Bellaire and Clayton Cowles, on sale now.

The wedding between Batman and Catwoman is one of the biggest events in superhero comics this year, but it could already be doomed before it starts.

This week’s installment of Batman sees Catwoman doing her own brand of dress shopping while reliving past encounters between herself and Batman throughout the years. Of course, Selina's "shopping" habit raises a few questions that she and Bruce will need to confront head on before they say their vows, lest their marriage be doomed from the outset. Can Catwoman give up her penchant for crime? And if she can’t, can Batman find a way to be okay with that?

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Dress Shopping

The present day sequences in Batman #44 see Selina sneak out of Wayne Manor for a bit of late-night wedding dress shopping, but for Catwoman, this involves breaking into a high-end designer’s boutique via the sewer, spending the night trying on different dresses and raiding the store's mini-fridge. Ultimately, she settles on a stunning dress that’s perfect for her -- a $28,000 black and white dress that only Selina Kyle could pull off -- and she sneaks back home before Bruce wakes up.

It’s a cute story, but it also reveals a lot about Selina and her compulsions. She’s a wealthy person in her own right, and she’s getting married to one of the richest people in the DC Universe. She could easily afford a $28,000 dress if that’s the one she's got her heart set on, and there’s no reason for her to break into the boutique at 4am and steal it. The only reason she does that is because she can’t not do that. Catwoman is a thief at heart, and that’s unlikely to change after she’s walked down the aisle and said her vows.

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Bride or Burglar?

Bruce Wayne donned his costume to fight crime and prevent what happened to his parents from ever happening again, but Selina Kyle donned her costume to take what she felt was owed to her. This is a fundamental dichotomy between the two soon-to-be newlyweds, and could be what ultimately tears them apart. In one of the issue's flashbacks, Bruce points out to Selina, “Unless you forget your life as Catwoman, there is no future for… you,” but it seems like he was stopping himself from saying, “there is no future for… us”. The reason Batman and Catwoman have never worked out as a couple is that neither of them can stop being who they are and ultimately that will put them at odds, and there’s nothing to suggest anything has changed since their last attempt.

Tom King’s tenure on Batman has seen Bruce trying to find a way out of the vigilante life and into a more stable and happy existence as Bruce Wayne. It’s no mistake that Bruce is fast asleep at 2:54am when Selina sneaks out; that’s usually prime patrolling hours. His run-ins with Gotham and Gotham Girl, Bane and most importantly his own father (during “The Button”) have led to Bruce looking for a way to be happy, something he's realized he hasn’t been for a long time.

With the wedding of Batman and Catwoman, Tom King and his collaborators have the chance to ask, can these two people give up their most intrinsic compulsions and flaws to be happy together, or are they doomed to push each other away every time?

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