List of Batwoman characters
Batwoman is an American superhero television series developed by Caroline Dries based on the DC Comics character Batwoman, a costumed crime-fighter created by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid, and Keith Giffen. It is set in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with the other television series of the universe.
The following is a list of characters who have appeared in the television series. Many are named after DC Comics characters.
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Kate Kane / Batwoman
Kate Kane is an out lesbian and the cousin of Bruce Wayne who, armed with a fierce passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind, dedicates herself to defending Gotham in Batman's absence as Batwoman.In season two, the airplane that Kate is coming in from National City crashes. While an ex-con named Ryan Wilder finds the Batsuit, Kate's body is nowhere to be found which affects everyone that knows her in a different way. In a newspaper article talking about Kate's disappearance, Safiyah Sohail sent a message to Alice quoting "Consider us even". When Alice was brought to Coryana, Safiyah denied any knowledge of blowing up Kate's airplane and has proof that she is still alive in the form of Kate's necklace. Upon obtaining Kate's salvaged cellphone, Jacob has the tech guys work to unlock it. By the time Sophie returns, Jacob finds a portrait that has Safiyah's name defacing it and the fact that the portrait was made by Jack Napier. It is then discovered that Kate is still alive and in the sewers where she has a bandaged face. This is because the False Face Society ambushed her on her plane where her face received burns when trying to abduct her and her larynx was damaged enough to alter her voice. Making her loved ones believe she is dead, Black Mask has Enigma work on Kate as Enigma takes her necklace. Enigma makes Kate think she is Roman Sionis' daughter Circe while placing a mask on her burnt face. "Circe" confronts Batwoman and Alice at a boat following Ocean and Angelique's escape and overpowers them, though Batwoman leaves Alice for "Circe". She brings Alice to Black Mask who decides not to kill her. He then orders "Circe" to take Alice downstairs to be tortured. Alice manages to save herself only by offering to craft a new face for "Circe" while noting that she was there when Circe was killed during the Arkham breakout. However, this causes her to realize that "Circe" has the same eyes as her sister as the real Circe had brown eyes.
After telling Jacob about Kate's current state, he and Alice break into the Sionis residence and take "Circe" to the abandoned Crow's headquarters where they confirm she is Kate Kane. Upon obtaining "Circe" and getting DNA printing, Jacob and Alice use some items to cause Kate to remember some things prior to Tatiana and some False Face Society members attacking. Ryan finds her and brings her to Wayne Tower. Mary had to sedate her when Kate experiences a mental battle between her younger self and "Circe". Upon pulling off a trick with Sophie, "Circe" confronts Black Mask where she stabs him in the hand wanting to know why she has Kate's memories. "Circe" fools Luke, Sophie, and Mary by having them think that Kate is in control so that she can access the other parts of the Batcave. After a fight with Ryan, "Circe" makes off with the villain items and gives them to Black Mask while "Circe" rips apart the Batwoman suit. During a showdown at a bridge, Ryan and Alice use the vapors of the Snakebite on "Circe" where she and Alice fall into the river. The vapors and being resuscitated by Ryan purge the "Circe" persona from Kate. After giving Ryan her blessing to continue as Batwoman, Kate leaves Gotham City stating to Sophie that she is going to visit her father and Supergirl before going on a quest to find Bruce.
Ryan Wilder / Batwoman
Ryan Wilder is Kate Kane's successor as Batwoman, who was nicknamed "Batwoman 2.0" by Vesper Fairchild. She is a highly skilled yet undisciplined fighter who spent 18 months in prison after two Crows operatives caught her with the drugs that Angelique Martin had in her possession. While her parole officer Susan Stevens expects her to maintain the conditions of her parole, Ryan was living out of her van with her plant and becomes the new Batwoman after finding the Batsuit in the wreckage of an airplane that Kate was coming in from National City. One of her plans to use the Batsuit is to go after Alice who had connections with the squatters that killed her adoptive mom Cora Lewis and the building's landlord. In a scuffle with Tommy Elliot, Ryan gets shot with the Kryptonite meant for Kate. This gives her a wound that is getting worse over time as noted by Mary. Despite Alice burning the Desert Rose crops, it turned out that Julia managed to find a Desert Rose to use on Ryan where it turns out to be Ryan's plant that just bloomed. After being cured and the news about Kate's "death" being confirmed, Ryan starts to work on getting Angelique out of the False Face Society leading to an encounter with Black Mask. Ryan later had a final duel with "Circe" with Alice's help which led to Ryan using the vapors from the Snakebite to purge the "Circe" persona from Kate and even resuscitating her after Alice pulled Kate from the river. Thanks to Susan, the parole board releases Ryan from parole as Ryan receives Kate's blessing to continue as Batwoman. Then Ryan pitches to Luke and Mary to open a community center over Mary's clinic to make it official.In season three, Ryan is blackmailed by former GCPD detective Renee Montoya to find the missing Batman villain items that fell into the river, while also learning that her birth mother is successful businesswoman Jada Jet, who initially rejects her in favor of her son, Marquis, though Marquis shows an interest in working with Ryan to bring the family closer. As Ryan recovers Batman's trophies, she later discovers that Marquis is suffering from psychopathic tendencies due to brain damage inflicted on him by the Joker as a child with his joy buzzer, shown when he brutally beats and kills an assassin sent to murder Jada. Jada later confides to Ryan that Marquis killed his own father as a joke, which she covered up, and actually had Ryan given away to protect her from Marquis, only learning later that the midwife she had paid to cover it up actually abandoned Ryan beside a shop and kept the two million dollars meant to fund her education for himself. Ryan later finds out that the joy buzzer is the only thing that can restore Marquis's sanity, and that Montoya is actually holding it in her possession in exchange for Ryan freeing Poison Ivy from underneath Gotham, where Batman had previously buried her to stop her from exterminating Gotham's population. As Marquis takes over Wayne Enterprises, Ryan reluctantly helps free Ivy and acquires the joy buzzer, attracting the attention of Alice, who wants to use it to restore her own sanity as well. Ryan manages to defeat Ivy and strip her of her powers with help from Mary and Montoya when she decides to continue her plans to destroy Gotham, and the mayor orders both Montoya and Ivy to leave Gotham forever. As Marquis loses more of his sanity, he eventually plans to unleash bombs of Joker's toxic gas all over Gotham, but he is foiled when Ryan defeats him and uses the joy buzzer on him with help from Alice, who decides to leave Gotham to seek rehabilitation elsewhere. Ryan later starts a relationship with Sophie Moore and mends her relationships with both Jada and Marquis, unaware that the chemicals released from the Joker gas canisters during the blimp crash have created and unleashed a radioactive creature.
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Beth Kane / Alice
Elizabeth "Beth" Kane / Alice is Kate's presumed-dead twin sister and the leader of the Wonderland Gang whose personality goes from maniacal to charming and back again as she sets out to erode Gotham's sense of security.Beth Kane was presumed dead after a car accident, but her body was never recovered. What really happened is that she was rescued from drowning and subsequently being held captive by August Cartwright who wants her to be a companion for his disfigured son Jonathan "Mouse" Cartwright. In addition, Jacob Kane's wife Catherine Hamilton-Kane used DNA analysts and the skull fragments of a deer to make Jacob think that Beth is dead. At a later date, she even received bad treatment from August's mother Mabel who she referred to as the Queen of Hearts. After discovering her mother's decapacitated head in August's freezer Beth would later kill Mabel for taking her mother's earrings, snapping over the years of abuse, imprisonment, and mental torture, starting a house fire leading to her escape and August's disappearance shortly afterwards. At some point after escaping from August, Beth hid on a boat where she was found during a raid by Safiyah Sohail who trained her. Due to Beth falling for Ocean who wanted to make more use of the Desert Rose, Safiyah had their memories of each other suppressed by Enigma. When Beth returned to Gotham and took a sample of the Desert Rose with her, she incurred the wrath of Safiyah.
In season two, Alice starts to check up on Tommy at Wayne Manor while angered about Kate's apparent death in the plane crash. When Jacob visits Wayne Manor due to Tommy as Bruce mentioned that Alice was sighted there, Alice rants about Jacob having to remarry and admits to Jacob that Kate is Batwoman advising him to compare the two facts about them. While walking in the sewers, a newspaper talking about Kate's disappearance lands near Alice with a message from Safiyah Sohail stating, "Consider us even". Alice states to Mouse's corpse that there is a war coming to Gotham City and that Batwoman won't be around to stop it. Tying a rat to Mouse's corpse, Alice attracts a lot of bats to feed off it which causes them to carry a poison when attacking a Batwoman rally. When Sophie finds where Alice is hiding, both of them are taken captive by Tatiana. When brought to Coryana where Alice confronts her, Safiyah denies any knowledge of blowing up the airplane that Kate was in while also having proof that she's still alive by showing her necklace. Before returning Alice to Gotham, Safiyah wants her to do an unspecified assignment. This was to target Ocean. When they reunite, Alice and Ocean start to experience suppressed memories of their time on Coryana. After fighting off the assassins sent by Safiyah, Alice and Ocean drive off. When Alice brings a white tube from the back seat to her, Ocean asks if she has ever heard of Jack Napier. Alice uses a look-alike of Ocean to fool Tatiana that she killed him. Due to Ryan exposing the truth, Safiyah had the real Ocean brought to her and ordered Alice to use the knife on him. Alice reluctantly does so. When she found that Safiyah lied to her, Alice is removed from Safiyah's lair where she kills the men assigned to that job and later burns the Desert Rose crops. After a talk with a hallucination of a younger Kate, Alice plans to find a way to forget her and tries to with help from Enigma until Ocean crashes it. Enigma gets away by saying "Mockingbird Anew" which restores their memories. When Ocean gets abducted by the False Face Society, Alice works with Batwoman to rescue him and Angelique after torturing one of the members. Once that was done, Alice and Batwoman are attacked by a brainwash Kate Kane who believes she is Circe Sionis. Both of them are overpowered as Batwoman leaves Alice for her. "Circe" brings Alice to Black Mask who notes her history of leading the now-defunct Wonderland Gang and decides not to kill. He instead instructs "Circe" to take Alice down to the basement. "Circe" tortured Alice about the information revolving around who the new Batwoman is. She told Alice she would reveal it if Black Mask was present. When that was done, Alice does reveal to Black Mask her knowledge that he is Roman Sionis and that she knew Circe before she was killed in the Arkham breakout. Alice offered to make "Circe" a new face which Black Mask complied to. When Black Mask when to get a cosmetic, Alice tried the face on "Circe" where she notes that the real Circe had brown eyes and this "Circe" had blue eyes. When the face was on "Circe", Alice finds out that "Circe" is actually Kate. After Black Mask dismissed Alice while advising her to keep quiet about what happened here or else, Alice went back to Enigma's office and suspended her from the ceiling in order to get answers on how to break Kate's brainwashing. Enigma told her to get something that belonged to Kate. When Alice gets the keys to Kate's motorcycle, Enigma told her that it requires a password to fully undo the brainwashing as Enigma's neck is snapped by Ocean much to Alice's dismay where Ocean states that Kate will only put Alice back in Arkham Asylum. After Ocean disposed of Enigma's body, Alice confronts Jacob in his car stating that she found Kate alive. They managed to cause some of Kate's memories to return before being attacked by Tatiana and some False Face Society members. When in Safiyah's clutches, Alice sees the news detailing Jacob's arrest and the confirmation that Beth Kane is Alice. Batwoman was able to secure Alice's release by giving her plant to Safiyah. However, Alice later finds Ocean dead after killing Tatiana outside her hideout. Following a visit from Mary, Alice has Ocean's body cremated and dumped into the ocean as Safiyah appears to pay some respect to Ocean's death. After Safiyah mentions how Black Mask will have procured Poison Ivy's plant through Circe and how she will grant Alice a sanctuary on Coryana, Alice stabs Safiyah with the same knife used on Ocean stating that she will remove it when she regains what she lost. During a showdown with Black Mask where he mentioned that he's a good villain, Alice states that Joker is worse than him, uses one of Joker's acid flower spray on his face, and slams the mask on Roman's face. Then she catches up to Ryan where she helps to use the Snakebite vapor on "Circe" prior to Alice falling into the river with her. She gets Kate out of the river and helps Ryan resuscitate her before being taken away by the approaching police officers. When visited by Ryan in Arkham Asylum, Alice rants about Black Mask being her noisy neighbor and reveals to Ryan that her biological mother is still alive. In the ultimate series finale she leaves Gotham to rediscover herself as Beth after gaining an sisterly relationship with Mary during Season 3.
- Skarsten also portrayed an alternate version of Beth who was displaced from her native Earth during "Crisis on Infinite Earths" and appeared on Earth-Prime. This version was saved by Kate and did not get lost during the car accident. She is later sniped by August Cartwright, mistaking her for Alice.