Ma Parker (Shelley Winters)

"It isn't easy to foil the greatest mother of them all."

-Ma Parker

History
Not much is known about her except that she was a single mother living with her three sons and one daughter. She had a long criminal record for operating in other states but was never apprehended.

Though she has great devotion for her kids, she favourites her three sons over her daughter saying that girls shouldn't be in criminal activities.

She also has a fondness for knitting and likes to make joke puns.

She decides to operate in Gotham City, she first appears at the Gotham City Mother Of The Year Awards where she introduces her children: Pretty Boy, Machine Gunn, Mad Dog and Legs and steals all women's jewellery.

Batman and Robin track her down to her hideout at Cherry Blossom Road and give her sons a good thrashing but knowing Batman's weakness to take pity on elderly people, especially mothers Ma begs Batman to go easy on her and she'll go quietly.

When Batman takes her outside to the police, Ma drops a smoke bomb that was concealed in her hair. She and her family make their escape but Pretty Boy is arrested. Batman vows tht he won't rest untill Ma Parker is in Gotham State Penetentiary, Pretty Boy laughs and says neither will Ma.

Ma Parker and the rest of her family rob a theatre that was viewing: "The Woman in Red". After seeing the Dynamic Duo they hijack a truck to make their getaway. Before she hijacks it she tells the driver that she has a slight headache and that she wants to pick up a pill. The kids jump in the back but Machine Gunn gets left behind and is captured by the Dynamic Duo.

They then find her looting Gotham Chemists where they capture Mad Dog, but Ma escapes again.

Ma Parker then hides in an old folks' home under the alias of "Mrs Smith" and Legs is diguised as a nurse where they are both captured by the Dynamic Duo and taken to Gotham state Penetentiary.

But Ma Parker had planned all along to be captured so that she could set up a new crimnal headquarters at the penetentiary to commit their crimes after all who would go after ecsaped criminals that are already in prison. She holds Warden Crichton hostage and takes over the pen.

She makes an attempt to kill the Dynamic Duo by sending a trustee to plant a bomb in the batmobile that will explode when it reaches 60 mph. However they escape her trap and go back to check on Ma and her family.

When everything seems normal they home. Ma Parker holds a meeting with most of the prisoners in the pen and say that the more criminals Batman and Robin arrest the more talent they will have to form the Gotham Pen gang and the penetentiary will be their official hideout.

After taking an alternate route underground, Ma and her gang try to rob a armoured car filled with half a million dollars cash and blow it up.

Batman and Robin arrive on the scene and the gang make their escape, but Batman manages to tear of a sleev e of one of the criminals and after examining it suspects that Ma is behind this and after hearing by phone that Warden Crichton in trouble they go back to the penetentiary.

On arrival they are captured and taken to Ma Parker who straps them to two electric chairs are scheduled to fry them at midnight. She leaves Legs in charge to watch them but she is tricked into leaving after Batman tells her that Ma and the boys may be hiding something from her.

Batmman manages to contact Alfred telling him to tell the Gotham electricity board to shut off their power at precisely midnight.

By the time Ma returns and is about to pull the switch to set off the chairs, the whole power in the building shuts off, Batman and Robin break out of their chairs and fight Ma's boys and recapture Ma, placing her under arrest (This time for good).

Family and Known Associates
Ma had her family and few deadly criminals to help in her schemes:

Pretty Boy Parker: Ma's eldest son

Machine Gunn Parker: Ma's second son and the tallest in the family

Mad Dog Parker: Ma's youngest son

Legs Parker: The youngest and only daughter in Ma's family. Often mistreated and left out of certain things by Ma because she's a girl and Ma says that girls don't belong in criminal activities. When they were defeated by the Dynamic Duo, she was the first to go back to her prison cell.

Trustees: Ma Parker replaced the original ones wtih members from her new gang to help her run the penetentiary.

Catwoman: Former adversary of Batman who was released to join Ma's new Pen gang.

Tiger: Former prisoner of the penetentiary who became a member of Ma's new gang.

Weapons and Equipment
Ma used deadly equipment to help in her crimes:

Machine Gun: Most commonly used weapon of defense and to steal and hijacj in their robberies.

Smoke Bomb: A device concealed in Ma's hair that gives off a blinding smoke screen to make her getaway.

Grenade: Used by Tiger to blow up the armoured van.

Appearances
Season 2

The Greatest Mother Of Them All/Ma Parker