38 Facts About Kate Kane

Kate Kane is a wealthy heiress who becomes inspired by the superhero Batman and chooses, like him, to put her wealth and resources toward a campaign to fight crime as a masked vigilante in her home of Gotham City as Batwoman.

Kate Kane since had several runs in her own eponymous Batwoman monthly comic book and has had stints in the lead role in Detective Comics, the flagship Batman comic book for which DC Comics is named.

Unlike the Silver Age Kathy Kate Kane, who was romantically attracted to Batman, the new version of Kate Kane is a lesbian, as well as Bruce Wayne's maternal cousin.

Kate Kane is presented with porcelain white skin, several tattoos, and a clothing style defined as punk-psychobilly-goth in her civilian persona.

The younger Kate has a stepmother named Catherine Kane, making Catherine the aunt of Bette.

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Jacob and Kate Kane move back to the States and settle in the Washington metropolitan area, where Jacob receives significant promotions and Kate Kane completes middle school and high school, seemingly at private institutions.

Kate Kane attends the United States Military Academy, where she receives excellent grades, performs well in physical fitness and sports, earns prestigious awards, and achieves the rank of Brigade Executive Officer in her senior year; she maintains a secret romantic relationship with her roommate, Sophie Moore.

Kate Kane is eventually pulled over for speeding by a young Renee Montoya, who was just a traffic cop at this point.

Kate Kane is then shown fixated by the Bat-Signal as Batman departs the scene.

Kate Kane is revealed to have been intimately involved with former Gotham City police detective Renee Montoya and is heiress to one of the wealthiest families in Gotham, owning that which the Wayne family does not.

Kate Kane celebrates Hanukkah with Renee, and the two kiss shortly before Christmas.

Montoya arrives too late to stop the ritual, finding Kate Kane bound and gagged to an altar as prophet Bruno Mannheim plunges a knife through her heart.

Kate Kane alludes to a past traumatic incident which she claims still haunts her.

Kate Kane is shown stalking the heroes from the rooftops after they encounter Clayface.

The heroes request that Kate Kane bring the body up to them, but she declines, telling them that she is much too busy due to a rash of criminal uprisings going on in Gotham.

Firestorm is then sent to retrieve the corpse from Kate Kane and bring it to the team, who discover that Dolores was forced into fighting using a mind-control device.

Later, Kate Kane appears as part of Batman and Robin: Blackest Knight.

Kate Kane is sealed within a coffin and taken underground to the last remaining Lazarus Pit for the ritual to begin.

Furthermore, since Kate Kane did technically die, the cultists consider their goal completed.

Kate Kane realizes that she recognizes the assassin, and asks her father to run a facial-recognition scan.

The comic implies that Kate Kane has a romantic past with Violet Paige, the protagonist, which Kate is "still mad" about.

Kate Kane is displaced from her Gotham residence during the storylines "The Fall and the Fallen" and "City of Bane" in the main Batman series, being out of the city on a mission when Bane takes it over.

Kate Kane takes up temporary residence in an apartment in Atlanta.

Similar to her cousin Bruce, Kate Kane uses her status as a rich socialite to disguise her vigilante activities; however, unlike Bruce, whose playboy persona is usually depicted as a facade, Kate Kane enjoys her public lifestyle, a trait which Bruce himself admires.

Naturally confident and flirtatious, Kate Kane adapted such characteristics for intel-gathering purposes as a vigilante.

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Kate lives in a penthouse atop the R H Kane building that contains her crimefighting headquarters, and holds an office job of some sort.

Kate Kane is an occasional gig musician at various bars around Gotham, performing as a guitarist.

Greg Rucka mentions Kate Kane as being shaped by her parents, who demonstrated "the best of what [military] culture can offer", including personal responsibility, integrity, service, and dimunitization of personal gratification.

In particular, Kate Kane takes after her father Jacob, as she specifically emulated his levelheaded demeanor in the wake their family tragedy to counteract her grief and inherent hotheadedness.

In James Tynion IV's short story "The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass", this emulation of Jacob is expanded upon as including feelings of gender variance that Kate Kane experienced as a child even before the kidnappings; though Kate Kane is cisgender, from a young age she was more interested in masculine pastimes like her father was, something she found confusing and troubling at the time in light of her much more feminine sister.

Rucka notes that Kate Kane considers her vigilantism no different than military service and likens her adoption of the Batsymbol to fighting under a flag; following an ideal instead of an individual.

Unlike most members of the Batfamily, Kate Kane has no ethical qualms about using lethal force if necessary, but dislikes euthanasia.

In high school, Kate Kane was a Senior Elite-level gymnast, and later graduated at the top of her class.

Additionally, the story mentions Kate Kane is an expert-level marksman on the M4 Carbine and M92 pistol and "maxed her PT requirements", indicating she earned the maximum score on the Army Physical Fitness Test and the Indoor Obstacle Course Test.

Kate Kane learned a much wider variety of martial arts during this time, including karate, Krav Maga, Muay Thai, taekwondo, and Wing Chun; she has mentioned knowing a total of at least 14 styles.

Kate Kane underwent resistance training for torture and incapacitating agents like tear gas.

Kate Kane's cowl was improved during this time, giving it thermal imaging, anti-flashbang, and anti-hypnosis capabilities.

Kate Kane has a "space armor" variant of her suit that is suitable for use on the Moon.