48 Facts About Cassandra Cain

Cassandra Cain is a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman.

Cassandra Cain was deprived of speech and human contact during her childhood as conditioning to become the world's greatest assassin.

Consequently, Cassandra grew up to become an expert martial artist and developed an incredible ability to interpret body language to the point of reading complex thoughts, while simultaneously developing very limited social skills and remaining mute and illiterate.

Cassandra Cain was the first Batgirl to star in her own ongoing Batgirl comic book series.

Cassandra Cain was replaced as Batgirl by Stephanie Brown in a 2009 storyline.

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Cassandra Cain returned in late 2010, where she was shown working as an anonymous agent of Batman in Hong Kong before adopting the new moniker of Black Bat.

In 2000, Cassandra Cain became the first Batgirl to be featured in an eponymous ongoing comic book series.

Cassandra Cain next appears on the roster of Titans East wearing the Batgirl costume.

Cassandra Cain remained in the role of a villain, under the command of Titans East's leader, Deathstroke.

In October 2007, DC announced that Cassandra Cain would be taking up the Batgirl identity as a member of the Outsiders in the upcoming Batman and the Outsiders ongoing series to be written by Chuck Dixon, which appears to, or is hoped to, begin resolving the controversy.

At C2E2 2011, it was confirmed that Cassandra Cain would be appearing as a main character in Scott Snyder and Kyle Higgins' mini-series Batman: Gates of Gotham.

Cassandra Cain found a potential mother when he saw Sandra Wu-San fighting her sister Carolyn in a martial arts tournament.

Cassandra Cain was not taught to read or write; instead, reading body language was her only language.

Cassandra Cain was able to read people's movements and predict what they were going to do.

Barbara says she prefers to live alone but since Cassandra Cain is never home and doesn't talk, it is just like living alone.

Cassandra Cain soon discovers that the assassin Lady Shiva can read people like she used to be able to and asks Shiva to reteach her.

Shiva then restarts her heart, realizing Cassandra Cain had a death wish, so that they can have a real fight.

Cassandra Cain then helps Batman control the violence of a gang war in Gotham City.

Cassandra Cain beats Rose by playing on her emotions to leave her open for a critical strike, giving Deathstroke no choice but to get her medical attention.

Cassandra Cain goes undercover for Batman, as Kasumi, in the Justice League Elite, working under Sister Superior to track and eliminate metahuman threats to the population.

When Cassandra Cain asked Shiva whether she was still killing, whether she would ever stop, Shiva says she was, and responds, "It's why I had you", so Cassandra Cain agrees to fight her to the death once more.

Cassandra Cain appears ready to place Shiva in the Lazarus Pit, but Shiva pleads with her not to do so.

Tim and Cassandra Cain engage in a fight which ends when the platform they are fighting on explodes.

Cassandra Cain uses swords that emit red sun energy which strips away Supergirl's powers.

However, as Cassandra Cain prepares to kill her, Supergirl mysteriously extrudes crystals from her body which injure Cassandra Cain.

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Cassandra Cain makes another appearance where she murders the businessman who was producing that drug, who Robin has previously unsuccessfully attempted to bring to justice.

Cassandra Cain is left behind while Batman, Robin, and Nightwing leave for their year-long trip and Harvey Dent is charged with protecting Gotham instead of her.

Cassandra Cain, believing that Batman brought her onto the team for just such a contingency, takes command of the group.

Cassandra Cain uses the Batcave's computer to locate them but is attacked by Nightwing, who claims she cannot be trusted.

When Cassandra Cain hears that the school's purpose was to "cripple the meta-hero community", she believes Oracle is about to be assassinated and rushes to her base of operations.

Cassandra Cain takes Tim up on his offer, and joined up with Bruce's new group, now wearing a heavily modified costume that uses her original outfit as a base.

Cassandra Cain now uses the name of Black Bat, and among other activities brings down a heroin-smuggling operation in Hong Kong.

Once the Architect is defeated and captured, Cassandra Cain decides to stay in Gotham rather than return to Hong Kong.

In what might be a variant timeline, Cassandra Cain is a member of Barbara Gordon's League of Batgirls, operating on the field under her leadership alongside fellow Batgirls Stephanie Brown and Tiffany Fox.

At the storyline's conclusion, Cassandra Cain adopts her father's identity of Orphan to continue protecting others.

Cassandra Cain tries to fight the team's battles alone and is known for sneaking into Stephanie Brown's and Harper Row's apartments in the middle of the night.

Cassandra Cain was a part of the latest Outsiders team, alongside Batman, Black Lightning, Katana, and Signal.

Cassandra Cain is an amazing hand-to-hand combatant and is highly skilled in several martial arts, including Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai, and Ninjutsu.

Cassandra Cain was very briefly trained in detective methods by Tim Drake during their time in Bludhaven.

Cassandra Cain's upbringing using body language as her exclusive mode of communication had the effect of enabling her to "read" minute changes in an opponent's expressions, breathing, muscles, joint position, and center of gravity which in turn allows her to see or "predict" an opponent's moves before they happen.

Cassandra Cain's mask covers all of her head with the exception of the eyes, which are darkened, and symbolic stitches surround the mouth of the mask.

Cassandra Cain wears a yellow-rimmed black logo rather than the yellow bat version of the logo worn by Barbara.

Cassandra Cain now wears a domino mask and exposes the rest of her face and head.

Cassandra Cain's cape is severely torn, looking ragged and almost smoke-like.

Cassandra Cain's hands are wrapped in bandages rather than her former scalloped bat-gloves.

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Cassandra Cain's pants are looser and baggier in the thighs to allow greater flexibility with her acrobatics, and she wears knee-high black boots.

Critical reception of Cassandra Cain's villainous turn in the "One Year Later" storyline was mixed.

Cassandra Cain is a friend of Barbara Gordon and Stephanie Brown.