Batwoman

## Background

Born to military parents, Katherine "Kate" Kane spent her youth travelling the world with her twin sister Elizabeth. When her parents moved to Belgium to work as military intelligence officers with NATO, she, her sister, and her mother were kidnapped by terrorists, and her mother and sister were executed. The event traumatized young Kate, and would help to send her down a path of self-destruction. Kate joined West Point, thinking that it would please her father, and while there, she excelled in all areas, eventually earning the rank of Brigade Executive Officer, as well as completing both Air Assault School and the U.S. Army Airborne School. At school, she was also outed as a lesbian by an anonymous accusation, which she confirmed as true, and was honorably discharged under Don't Ask Don't Tell.

After being stopped by Batman before she could severely injure an attempted mugger, she decided to change her path in life and become a vigilante. For almost a year, she conducted intelligence gathering and field work before her father discovered. Initially angry, he soon changed his stance and began secretly supporting her on her path as Batwoman.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Peak Human Condition:** As a result of her extremely rigorous training, Kate is now at the upper end of natural human abilities.
	+ **Peak Human Durability:** Kate has shrugged off wounds from bladed weapons on numerous occasions, and even survived being stabbed in the heart; she willingly went off of painkillers after a week and was back at home in a month. She has taken full-force blows to the face from Bane and Killer Croc with only superficial damage.
	+ **Peak Human Speed:** According to Batman, Kate has a reaction time of 50 milliseconds, which is 6-8 times faster than a human eye can blink.
	+ **Peak Human Strength:** Kate is strong enough to shatter stone statues with a single punch, stagger both Bane and Killer Croc, throw and kick larger opponents multiple feet, punch apart military-grade helmets, and throw enemies through concrete-block walls.
* **Enhanced Senses:** Kate's head wound was stitched shut with gold thread, giving her a limited ability to detect strong electromagnetic fields (a similar concept to fillings picking up radio waves).
* **Genius Level Intellect:** Kate is highly intelligent, reaching the top of her high school class and ranking between the 95th and 99th percentile of her class while attending West Point. Further components of this include training or experience in:
	+ **Gadgetry:** Kate is adept in the art of tinkering with things both mechanical and electronic.
	+ **Investigation:** During her Batwoman training, Kate received education from the FBI. She was also able to deduce Batman's identity based on a handful of clues.
	+ **Leadership:** Kate was one of the two leaders of the Gotham Knights.
	+ **Medicine:** Kate has been shown able to identify wounds and how old they are and describe them anatomically, administer stimulants, and perform minor surgery on herself.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Kate knows at least a bit of French, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Pashto.
	+ **Tactical Analysis:** While working with the DEO, Kate enacted an ambush against Batman that successfully resulted in his capture. She can identify certain martial arts forms by watching them (including finding flaws), and has studied the ancient Chinese text *Thirty-Six Stratagems*.
	+ **Tracking:** She was able to read footprints in snow at a crime scene well enough to know that only GCPD officers had been there.
* **Gymnastics:** She is quite skilled in gymnastics (having trained in the sport since she was very young), and made it to Senior Elite level during high school, meaning she was qualified for international competition.
* **Indomitable Will:** Kate has been able to fight off psychic attacks and various drug trips  solely through force of will.
* **Martial Arts:** Kate received basic hand-to-hand combat training at West Point, then further, more intensive training in various martial arts during her travels around the world. Batman describes the way she fights as "fluid," "efficient," and "precise", and she is capable of using both orthodox and southpaw stances. Even before becoming Batwoman, Kate was skilled enough in unarmed combat to remain effective in a fight after being out-of-practice for a couple years, and, one on occasion, while blackout drunk. Kate has trained in at least 14 different styles, including:
	+ **Modern Army Combatives:** A requirement for West Point cadets, MAC is a hybrid of various forms, such as:
		- **Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu**
		- **Judo**
		- **Eskrima**
		- **Wrestling**
	+ **Boxing:** Kate learned how to box from Jacob when she was a teenager. Later, she took boxing at West Point, though this was not a requirement for female cadets during her time there. There is strong evidence and a heavy implication that she was a member of the West Point women's boxing club and boxed competitively, including winning a championship match against Sophie Moore sometime before their senior year.
	+ **Karate:** Given the general viciousness of Kate's fights, she was most likely trained in the Kyokushin style.
	+ **Krav Maga**
	+ **Muay Thai**
	+ **Ninjitsu:** Though not a style in and of itself, Kate has demonstrated many of the component skills of ninjitsu, such as unarmed combat, throwing, stealth, horse riding, tactical analysis, geographical knowledge, espionage, disguise, swords, chain weapons, and use of firearms and explosives.
	+ **Stick Fighting**
	+ **Tae Kwon Do**
	+ **Wing Chun**
* **Meditation:** She used a word-association form of meditation to figure out how to thwart La Llorona.
* **Military Protocol:** A one-time soldier raised by career soldiers, Kate is quite familiar with military policy, protocol and most aspects of life in the Army.
* **Music:** Kate is a guitarist who occasionally performs in bars.
* **Stealth:** Kate once infiltrated an airborne military airship without raising alarm, and managed to make it to the bridge and subdue at least three soldiers before she revealed herself. She has also successfully ambushed Batman.
* **Surveillance:** The final mission of her training required her to figure out guard patrol routes and avoid security cameras.
* **Survival:** As part of her training, Kate crossed the Sahara with no supplies, and had to procure her own food and water along the way. She also backpacked through the Amazon rainforest.

## Equipment

* **Batsuit:** Flexible armor with all sorts of features, equipped with a utility belt that holds her small gadgets. The boots are used for tight gripping along rails, beams, walls, etc. The bloves mounted with certain gadgets. It's completely bulletproof. And the cape can stun opponents & deflect bullets.
	+ **Cowl:** Covers her secret identity (obviously), but it also comes with infrared-red capability, contains a flash-bang protection, and is equipped with shielding from hypnosis.

* **Utility Belt**
* **Batarangs:** A foldable version shaped like two hinged claws, known as "thorns".
	+ **Gauntlet Batarangs:** Has batarangs she can launch from her gauntlets.

* **Cryo-Baton:** Batwoman's battle staff.
* **Taser Gloves:** Given to her by the DEO, they are upgraded version of shock gloves, originally belonging to the Electrocutioner. She can also channel her suit's power to blast a beam of electricity.
* **Python Coil:** A lasso-type razor-sharp cable weapon that constricts and cuts or stings into a victim the more they struggle.
* **Fear Toxin Spray:** Somehow got access to fear toxin and can spray it in a canister.[1]
* **Pellet Pistol:** Fires at a limited range of 60 ft, but "silent as a spider walking on its web". Can hold ten rounds at a time, cartridge charged with 20 shots per cartridge.
* **Grapnel Gun:** As well as batarangs, has her own variant of a grappling hook for mobility advantages.
* **Freeze Spray:** Can turn things frozen solid with just a spray.**[2]**
* **Flashbang Grenades:** Uses flashbang grenades to blind enemies.
* **Smoke Bombs:** Used to blind enemies and get away.
* **Mini-Explosives:**
	+ **Mini-Bombs:** Carries mini-bombs that explodes on contact.
	+ **Mini-Flash Bombs:** Contains flash bombs in tiny canisters.

* **Hypodermics:** Filled with a DEO designed cocktail of industrial strength elephant tranquilizer and Scarecrow's Fear Toxin.
* **Crossbow:** Wields a crossbow for other long-ranged options.
	+ **Self-Propelled Throwing Darts:** Darts that she can throw that can knock people out on contact.

* **Tear Gas:** Canister that contains gas that makes you shed tears... Wtf?
* **Detcord:** Normal cord used for wrapping around objects.
* **Thermal Camera**
* **Flamethrower Gloves:** Gloves that emit flames.
* **Rocket Launcher**
* **Electro Shock Coil:** Another cable that wraps around wearer and shocks them with electricity.
* **Gas Mask:** Mask that repels all gases & substances.
* **Portable Rebreather:** Rebreather that restores ones breath.
* **Tracking Device:** Device launched in the form of a miniature batarang.
* **Listening Device:** Device that can tune into other audios around the area.
* **Silk Hankerchief:** Considering how much bloody lips & noses she gets, carries around a silk hankerchief.
* **Motorcycle:** Her standard vehicle to get around Gotham City.
* **Transformable Glider:** Glider made from surveillance drones.
* **Flying Submarine:** Submarine which she straight up stole from Black Manta... Lmfao

## Feats

### Strength

* Has incredible lifting strength, as she can bench-press 165 lbs (50 and 10 lb plates and a 45-lb bar).
	+ For a woman of Kate's size, this puts her just shy of elite-level bench press territory, but this was also about 18 months after she was stabbed in the heart.
* Punches apart military helmets.
* Throws a man six feet with one arm while sitting.
	+ Then proceeds to hit another with a volleyball pole, and smacks *another* with his bag of loot so hard that a bunch of jewels get stuck in his face.
* Keeps a man braced against a wall with one foot.
* Grapple-swings while carrying a woman in one arm.
	+ After landing, throws her about ten or so feet, also one-handed.
* Punctures a fuselage with her gauntlet and holds a woman by the wrist.
* Punches a shapeshifter so hard he changes back into a human.
* Has shown of being capable of breaking a jaw and some ribs.
* Throws a gang member over her head into a Dumpster while kicking another's face into the dirt.
* Throws Hook 7-8 feet into a wall, and rips his hook out with one hand.
* Swims straight upward while carrying someone.
* Punches out a minotaur.
* Shatters Medusa with one punch after petrifying her.
* Cracks Mr. Freeze's helmet with a punch.
	+ Later breaks his gun clean in half with a single smash.
* Flips a large table in anger.
* Is capable of staggering Killer Croc.
	+ Though Croc was weakened by gunfire beforehand.
* Staggers Bane with a rock to the face, then dropkicks him into a tree.
* Pulls a concrete wall down on Batman with her grappling gun.
* Knocks Batman out with two blows from a piece of wood.
	+ Off-panel, she later gets Batman back to her base all on her own without apparently using a vehicle.
		- And this was after they were both weakened from fighting underwater.
* Throws Batarangs hard enough to get stuck in a Kevlar vest and stagger the wearer.
* Slices off the arms of a giant spider creature with Batarangs, and KOs it with a kick to the face.
* A second occasion, knocks out Batman yet again with a single punch.
* Leaps onto a thug while hauling a woman around by her tied wrists.
* Gets pinned by an enemy and kicks him off straight upward so hard that he hits the ceiling.
	+ This ceiling looks to be at least twelve feet high.
* Neck-lifts a woman.
* Rips an antenna off a spacecraft one-handed and impales Morgan Le Fey with it.
* Hauls Clayface, Ragman, and Alice to shore, all with one hand.
* Punches through a baked Clayface after returning from space.
	+ Clayface was also weakened at the time.
* Smashes a magical stone with her foot.
* Overhead tosses Batman roughly 12 feet after noticing him in the shadows.
* Sends a man flying with a kick.
* Breaks a stalagmite off its base and uses it like a club.
* Kicks a large set of double doors clear off their hinges while carrying a man.

### Speed

* Dodges an ice blast from Mr. Freeze in the air.
* A thug runs at her while aiming a gun, but she still  hits him before he can fire.
* Throws a bowl of food at Batman, grabs a gun, and shoots him before the bowl hits the floor.
* Dodges a stab while drugged.
* Backflips to dodge a swing from a baseball bat and kicks Batman in the face, all in one move.
* Has 0.05 reaction time, according to Batman.
	+ Hot damn.
* Runs fast enough to prevent other agents from getting a clear shot.
* Redirects a gun pointed at her.
* Jumps in front of bullets after they're fired.
* Dodges a sword swing from Falchion.
* Dodges a bullet, vaults a couch and kicks the shooter.
* Blitzes two DEO agents who have guns trained on her.
* Dodges and redirects an attack.
* Narrowly avoids being eviscerated.

### Durability

* Her suit alone can no-sell bullets.
* Practically no-sells a kick to the face while drugged.
* Only gets a bloody lip after a punch from a cyborg.
* Gets her head smashed into a door, only gets a small cut lip.
* Gets hit off-panel by a mutated Killer Croc, again just gets a cut lip.
	+ Croc in this form is stronger than usual.
* Takes a palm-strike to the jaw from Falchion, stands soon after.
	+ Falchion has "fists like sledgehammers".
* Punched and slammed into the side of a car by Killer Croc hard enough to crack the windshield, only gets winded.
* Tanks a swipe to the face from Croc, ends up with a minor bloody nose at worst.
	+ Croc claims he broke her jaw and fractured her ribs, but she's still able to talk perfectly and there's no confirmation of these injuries anywhere else in the series.
* Tanks a backhand from Mr. Freeze that slams her into a wall.
* Fine after getting hit by shards of ice from an explosion, including one glancing off her cowl.
	+ The same explosion sent a large ice spike through Mr. Freeze's leg.
* Sucker-punched by Bane, only gets a cut cheek and a bit dazed.
* Lands hard on her back after falling from a zipline, is standing moments later.
* Is okay after a full bookcase falls on her.
* No apparent injury after being tackled through a window by Etrigan and landing on a building across the street.
* Gets in a fight where she still stays engaged after getting tackled down a waterfall, swung into a rock pillar by her wig, and sucker-punched twice across the jaw.
* Survives multiple explosions.
* Stabbed in the heart with a huge knife, survives and throws the knife at her attacker, possibly killing him.
* Up and walking despite being drugged and crashing through tree branches.
* No major reaction to getting punched out of a speeding van onto the windshield of a car, despite injuries.
* Winded from a gut-punch from Hook.
* Minor reaction to getting a large cut from Falchion's sword, which has apparently killed Amazons.
* Keeps fighting Batman despite being dazed from his punches and after taking kicks to the face and torso.
* Hits a satellite dish while falling, slams into the side of the building while slowing her fall, and lands in a pile of trash bags.

### Skills

* Tracked down Batman for five nights straight when just becoming Batwoman.
* Rescued a dozen kids from an island where they were taken hostage.
* Reprograms a rocket cycle to catch Batman while he is falling.
* Fights an amped Nightwing and steers him into a lancet containing a cure.
* Defeats a cyborg with Hawkfire.
* Takes down Batgirl in a single blow.
* Qualified for the championship  at the All-State gymnast in her high school.
* Has tanked beatings from the likes of Killer Croc, Mr. Freeze, & Bane.
* Prepped a site as a trap for Batman in under thirty hours; ended up catching Batman off-guard.
* Solved the mystery regarding the Weeping Woman.
* Tracked down Falchion, and fought off his armor of monsters.
* Destroyed a base that held an antenna that was mind-controlling the worlds children.
* Helped Batman lead a boot camp for young heroes and trained Orphan, Spoiler, & Red Robim.
* After Final Crisis, became a member of the Female Furies.
* Joined the Network after Batmans apparent death that would help keep Gotham in order.
* Investigated the 13 chapters of the Crime Syndicate in Gotham.
* Fought Scorpiana, an old foe of El Guacho.

## Weaknesses

* **Cocky**
* **Snarky**
* **Humanity:** Still human, and enough damage can put her down.
* **Low Drug Tolerance:** Kate is susceptible to attacks using incapacitating agents like drugs or toxins, especially those of a hallucinogenic nature. Despite weathering many such attacks during her crimefighting career, she seems to have built up no resistance to them, even in general.
* **Cardiac Weakness:** During the year after the Infinite Crisis, Kane was stabbed in the heart by Bruno Mannheim. Since then, despite therapy and a healthy recovery, scarring remains and she is not as good as she might otherwise be.