Kate Kane

* Batwoman
* Kate Kane

Damien Kane, Bruce Wayne, Bette Kane, Grant Wilson, Joseph Wilson, Frances Kane (Paternal Cousins)

### Affiliation

Bat Family (Member)
Birds of Prey (Member)
Justice League (Member)

## Biographical Information

### Residence

Kane Apartment
56 Kane Avenue Floor 19 & 20
R.H. Kane Building
Gotham Heights
Midtown, Gotham, NJ

## Background

### 1980 - 1993: Kate Kane

Kate Kane was born to the prominent Colonel Jacob Kane & Captain Gabrielle Kane. Her parents were both career military & worked extensively with military intelligence services. As her parents were promoted, Kate & her twin sister Beth followed them from a wide variety of towns & bases, though her father was often away from home. Because of this, neither of the girls mostly only saw their extended family during holidays.

Eventually, the Kanes moved from Fort Bragg, North Carolina to Brussels, Belgium, where they worked on a NATO assignment. Things were fine for the first couple of weeks until the family was torn apart by a terrorist attack where they & the other families resided. Kate, her sister & mother were all kidnapped by heavily armed men. But only Kate would be rescued, after witnesses the executions of her mother & sister. He tried to prevent her from seeing the worst of it, but she was already traumatized.

### 1993 - 2005: Kate Kane

Jacob did his best to be a supportive father, he moved Kate back to his hometown of Gotham & put her in therapy. She managed to deal with her grief by emulating his cool-headedness & focusing on school, where she excelled. Kate was eventually accepted into West Point as a cadet, where she earned prestigious awards like the RECONDO badge & the Superintendent's Award for Excellence.

She also roomed with Cadet Captain Sophie Moore, who she developed a romantic relationship with. Shortly after the Ring Weekend of Kate's final year at the academy, she & Sophie were anonymously accused of homosexual conduct & her commanding officer inquired about it. Though given the chance to stay at the Academy & accept a demotion, Kate instead came out as a lesbian to prevent a further investigation & protect Sophie. She was then expelled under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

Feeling lost, she began medicating her depression with alcohol & promiscuity. She decided to travel the world in an attempt to 'find herself' & establish a life outside of the military. While visiting Coryana, she struck a romance with a local woman named Safiyah Sohail. Things quickly turned sour when Safiyah's lover attempted to kill her & Safiyah killed an innocent man for no apparent reason.

Kate quickly returned to Gotham, where her father married philanthropist & heiress of Hamilton Dynamics, Catherine Hamilton. She went back to her partying ways & continued her wild lifestyle. One night after a party, she was pulled over by officer Renee Montoya, who also happened to former girlfriend in high school. Instead of being fined for drunk driving, the two rekindled their romance. They soon broke up when Renee couldn't get on board with Kate's party lifestyle & felt that she had no direction in her life.

### 2005 - Present: Batwoman

Kate soon found her purpose when she was confronted by a mugger in an alleyway after a night of drowning her sorrows. She fought the man off but was stopped by the infamous Batman before she could inflict any serious injury. Seeing him in person made Kate realize that she felt alive when she was fighting crime & that she could be a vigilante.

For the next several months, she conducted intelligence gathering from her father's business. Using stolen military equipment from the black market, she began fighting crime on her own before her father discovered what she was doing. He then organized an intense training program to hone her skills & provided her with weaponry to use on her crusade thus creating Batwoman.

Batwoman made her mark in Gotham by a series of kidnappings & drownings around the coast of Gotham. When she briefly met with Batman to discuss her findings, Kate demonstrated greater knowledge than him & was even able to correct (yes, correct) Batman on his findings. Impressed, Batman conceded the case to her & put her on the short life of potentials for Batman Inc. Unbeknownst to Kate, the case was also being investigated by GCPD Detective Maggie Sawyer. After eavesdropping on one of Maggie's meetings, Kate learned of the location of the latest crime scene. Upon arriving, she was met by Batman, who officially offered her a position in the Bat family & revealed he was none other than her cousin, Bruce Wayne. While she was investigating the case, she also formed an attractive to Detective Sawyer & even began a relationship with her in her civilian identity.

During The Cataclysm, Kate patrolled the streets with her cousin Bette while also keeping her double life a secret from Maggie. She had everything in order until Bette decided to step her game up & go after some criminals herself. She would've probably be fine if they were regular criminals but instead, they were assassins from the Shadows. Bette ended up badly beaten & gutted by the League assassin known as Hook. When Kate arrived for damage control, her emotions got the best of her & she ended up stabbed herself. Though she didn't end up in a coma like Bette, she had to hang up the cape for some time & gave the mantle to her ex/occassional fling Julia Pennyworth for the rest of Gotham's No Man Land. Her injury also forced her to reveal her identity at Batwoman to Maggie at the end of the Cataclysm, who did not take the news as Kate thought she would. She felt betrayed by Kate for lying to her for over a year & ended the relationship, though promised to keep her secret. The public story was that Kate was unable to escape Gotham & was attacked by some criminals who were looking to score big at her penthouse.

With a serious injury & a broken heart, things didn't look too well for Kate until she was visited in the hospital by none other than her other ex Renee. The two became friends again, something they both were in need of at the time. Kate helped Renee through her break-up with Daria & got her clean after she began drinking her body weight in liquor. Appreciating all she did for her, the two began dating after Renee received her six month sober chip. Kate also returned to the Batwoman mantle around this time as well.

Things continued to get better for Kate as she & Renee were eventually allowed to legally get married. The two even got married on the same day New Jersey legalized same-sex marriage. With same-sex marriahe now legal, Kate decided to take a stand & open a gay bar named "The Hold Up." As of recently, things are going well for Kate as she & Renee continue to work together as a married couple in their civilian identities & protecting their city under their masks.

## Romantic Relationships

* Sophie Moore: Girlfriend (1999 - 2002)
* Safiyah Sohail: Lover (2003)
* Julia Pennyworth: Dated (2005 - 2006); On/Off Lover (2006 - 2010)
* Maggie Sawyer: Girlfriend (2007 - 2009)
* Renee Montoya: Dated (1998), (2004); Girlfriend (2010 - 2013); Wife (2013 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Peak Human Condition:** As a vigilante & one of the top cadets of West Point Academy Academy, Kate is in the best physical condition, strong enough to throw her enemies into the air & quickly master opponents much larger than her with relative ease. She has shown little to no difficulty in lifting & throwing around full-grown men. She was strong enough to punch through the ice from underwater & break a metal staff over her knee. She is fast enough to exit a room unnoticed, not dissimilar to her cousin. Kate also has a high level of stamina, as she can hold her breath for two minutes, but it gets "shaky" after two minutes pass. Her father gave her permission to join the Hawks which she turned down, putting her on par with former Navy SEALs & Green Berets.
	+ ***Acrobatics*:** Since becoming Batwoman, Kate has developed free-running skills and can fall from a height of several feet without hurting herself. Her abilities allow her to dodge and attack with fluidity from different directions without losing balance, as seen during her duel with the Executioner. She has also shown to be capable of reaching the tops of skyscrapers throughout Gotham. When Kate returned home, she was able to easily climb up to a window of the Wayne Enterprises building. She demonstrated the ability to perform multiple variations of flips during her training in the Batcave.
	+ ***Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts*:** Kate is a highly skilled combatant. Before becoming Batwoman, Kate easily defeated several henchmen & even made use of her environment to fight them off, i.e. weaponizing a fire extinguisher, frying pan & a door. Her fighting style so far is comprised of Boxing, Tai Chi, Kung Fu, Kickboxing, Karate, Taekwondo, Krav Maga, Sambo, Judo, Hapkido, Muay Thai & she has also displayed skill in grappling her opponents in a fight.
	+ ***Pain Tolerance*:** Kate also has a high tolerance for pain as she didn't display any signs of discomfort when she received stitches on her shoulder.
	+ ***Stealth*:** Kate is extremely secretive, being able to approach other people without being sensed. She also quickly evaded her father's line of sight before he discovered she was Batwoman.
* **High Level Intellect:** Kate is highly intelligent, reaching the top of her high school class & ranking between the 95th & 99th percentile of her class while attending West Point.
	+ ***Escapology*:** She was able to escape from a pair of handcuffs using a paperclip as well as using a nail to escape from a pair of handcuffs.
	+ ***Intimidation*:** As Batwoman, Kate has an intimidating appearance, capable of instilling fear in her enemies. This was seen when a criminal cried out of fear when he saw Batwoman.
	+ ***Investigation*:** She is a very perceptive individual, as she was able to quickly determine that Supergirl is Kara Kent. She is also observant of small details & was able to notice a pattern in serial killer's methods of killing.
	+ ***Medicine*:** Kate has been shown able to identify wounds & how old they are & describe them anatomically to administer stimulants.
	+ ***Military Protocol***
	+ ***Multilingualism*:** Kate can speak fluent English, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish & little bit of French.
	+ ***Occultism*:** She is otherwise familiar with a wide variety of occult, esoteric & mystical texts.
	+ ***Seduction*:** While skilled in seduction, she only uses as a method of distraction.
	+ ***Wealth*:** Kate is a member of the Kane family, one of Gotham's oldest & wealthiest families. She has access to whatever she wants & is set to inherit the Kane Estate as the daughter of Roderick Kane's oldest living son.
* **Weaponry:** In addition to more standard weapons, Kate also regularly makes use of improvised weapons like rocks, bottles, fire extinguishers, etc.
	+ ***Firearms*:** Kate has a much more lenient attitude toward guns than Bruce does, and has been trained in their use. She can even wield unfamiliar firearms with great accuracy.
	+ ***Knife Throwing*:** Kate is proven to have great accuracy when she threw her batarang at an escaped inmate at Arkham Asylum & caught it when it returned to her after subduing the inmate.
	+ ***Marksmanship*:** She dominated the sharpshooting competition & earned a medal for her skills at West Point for hitting her target dead-on every single time. She was the only one out of 200 members to do this. She later precisely shot a van's tire from 50 meters to rescue a civilian.
	+ ***Stick Fighting*:** She is proven to be a highly skilled stick-fighter as she was able to take down multiple adversaries with a bo-staff & later did the same with two batons.

### Weaknesses

* **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.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Strength:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Speed:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Occult:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Weapons:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Range:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Strategy:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Combat:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **TOTAL:** 172 - Threat Level 4

## Trivia

* Kate & Renee got married on October 21, 2013, the same day that NJ legalized same sex marriage.
* Though Kate is interested in woman, she has pretended to be into men & seduced them for a mission.
* She has a tattoo of the Green Beret sleeve insignia on her right upper arm & a tattoo of the Nautical Star on her upper back.
* Both of Kate's main love interests learned she was Batwoman during the Cataclysm. Her ex Maggie (who was her girlfriend at the time) found out after Kate confessed due to being injured by the Hook. Her wife Renee found out as she was the first officer to show after she was stabbed by the Hook & helped her (and Bette) escape.

## Notes

* JH Williams III, the artist & co-writer of one of the Batwoman comic series, stated her birthday is March 21.