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{{quote|''"It's a '''good''' hit. I feel the blood filling my mouth. Somewhere along the line, someone taught her to '''throw''' a '''punch.'''"''|Renee Montoya, ''[[
Proves that being a [[Badass]] [[Animal-Themed Superbeing|Bat-themed]] [[Anti-Hero]] is not just a man's job.
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At the time DC was publishing stories set in two main [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]]: Earth-One (with Silver Age characters) or Earth-Two (Golden Age characters and their heirs). Figuring that the familiar Batwoman was an Earth-One character, DC creators were still able to introduce an Earth-Two version. They did. This version of Batwoman/Kathy Kane first appeared in ''Brave and the Bold'' #182 (January, 1982). Besides a cameo appearance in #197 (April, 1983), this version was never reused. The [[Crisis on Infinite Earths]] was the finale of Earth-Two and most characters associated with it.
[[Post-Crisis]] continuity denied that Kathy Kane had ever been Batwoman. Apart from an [[In Name Only]] inclusion in ''[[Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman]]'' and a few other cameos over the years, Batwoman was largely absent for several decades and only returned to the comics themselves in ''[[
As with Batman himself, her portrayal has varied over the years, reaching varying points on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] depending on the time of her writing (the campy [[Silver Age]] vs. the darker [[Modern Age]]) and the medium of the story (The [[DCAU|DCAU film]], though pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable, remained [[Animation Age Ghetto|restricted in what it could show]]). How much of the history of her original appearance will carry over into her new continuity is being slowly revealed, with some information already contradicting her original history, while other points seem to match.
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* [[Back for the Dead]] / [[Stuffed in The Fridge]]: The original Batwoman, after years of barely appearing, was brought back for a story in which she was murdered by the League of Assassins to a) further motivate Batman to oppose that group, and b) give [[Suicide Squad|Bronze Tiger]] something to [[The Atoner|atone]] for (He did not kill Batwoman himself, but kept Batman busy long enough for the other assassins to succeed).
* [[The Chick]]: The original Batwoman, who used weapons based on women's cosmetics, often relied on "feminine intuition" instead of deductive reasoning and frequently turned into a [[
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: She was frequently captured by bad guys back in the '50s.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: [[Batman]], obviously.
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Kate decided to become a vigilante crimefighter as an outlet and expression of her depression, listlessness and refusal to accept the decision of society to refuse her help.
* [[Art Shift]]: JH Williams III and Amy Reeder collaborated on ''Batwoman #0'', with Williams doing the Batwoman scenes and Reeder doing the Kate scenes in divided page spreads until they finally come together at the end. In the series proper they are going to switch off art duties for different arcs.
* [[Author Appeal]]: [[Greg Rucka]], the author who wrote her [[Post-Crisis]] reintroduction in ''[[
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Batwoman costume originally had high heels, which are impossible to run and fight in, and Kate herself had long hair, which Batman [[Lampshade Hanging|points out]] is ''very'' easy to grab in a fight.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The comic writers and artists have explained that, when redesigning the Batwoman costume for her appearance in ''Detective Comics'', they made a deliberate decision to have her appear more practical and realistic than she did when she first appeared in ''52''. Chief among their changes was the removal of high heels on her costume, pointing out the utter impossibility of leaping across rooftops in heels. They also dramatically cut her hair and replaced it with a wig, since even Batman [[Lampshade Hanging|points out]] that any [[Mook]] could grab her hair in a fight.
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* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Kate, her twin sister and her mother were kidnapped and held hostage when kate was ten years old. When her father managed to rescue her, she left her cell and saw their bullet-ridden corpses.
* [[Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life]]: A large section of her ''Detective Comics'' run covers the years after she was expelled from West Point, where the running theme (And commentary from friends and family) is that she is listless and undriven, and that she does not know what to ''do'' with her life.
* [[Destination Defenestration]]: In her re-introduction in ''[[
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: [[Batman]], obviously. The ''Cutter'' arc of ''Detective Comics'' placed heavy emphasis on their parallels, with alternating pages (and sometimes even alternating ''panels'') that followed both characters as they each trailed a different villain, going through the same motions, victories, and setbacks.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: When Kate was just getting involved in crimefighting, before she first donned the Batwoman costume, she was eavesdroping on several criminals in a bar as they were discssing their upcoming operation. During the conversation one of the men questions the other, Jackson, on if he was paying attention or not. Jackson explains that he was "admiring the view" and is seen openly staring at Kate, then turns to the other man and dares him to say he was not having the exact same thoughts.
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* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Kate Kane and Maggie Sawyer had some light flirting at a fundraiser during the ''Detective Comics'' run; as Batwoman she approached Captain Sawyer to feel out [[The Commissioner Gordon|a professional relationship]]. In issue #1 of the ongoing, Kate arrives at Maggie's office to ask her on a date, which is seen in issue #2. In issue #4 {{spoiler|they sleep together}}.
* [[Religion of Evil]]: Like Renee Montoya, it looks like her main antagonists belong to the Religion of Crime.
* [[Retcon]]: Kate Kane's conversation with Renee Montoya during her introduction in ''[[
* [[The Reveal]]: Her intended reveal was an Unreveal that nobody planned on. [[Big Damn Heroes|She bursts to the rescue]] in what was ''supposed'' to be the first time anybody (either characters in the story or [[Real Life]] people reading the story) had ''ever'' seen her, except she had already been shown two issues prior. It was a miscommunication between the writers and the artists; she was supposed to be drawn in silhouette for that first appearance, leading the readers to believe it was Batman until her later appearance (And one of the characters ''does'' believe it to be Batman when she first arrives at her intended reveal), but the artist instead drew her in full detail.
* [[Revenge]]: When Kate's father [[Secret Keeper|discovers what she is doing]] and agrees to help her, he makes it very clear that she has to be doing this for the right reasons. If she is out for revenge then she has aleady lost, as nothing she does now will ''ever'' make up for what happened or bring anybody back. He emphasises that the plan has to be help, to save even ''one'' life, or he will shut it down.
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