Annie

**Annie** is the secret illegitimate child of Clayface and apprentice to Batgirl

## Hisotry

Annie was the secret child of Basil Karlo when he was a young actor and left her and his lover to peruse his dream. For years Annie asked her mother who her father was but she never gave a response but rather told her that her father had to do some business. One day she stole her mother's credit card and used a DNA website (paying $150) to find her father and after a couple of days she got the results and discovered her father to be Basil Karlo, the famous actor and lives in Northside of Gotham and decide to go see him. Unfortunely when her mother discovered the bill from the website and grounded her. Wanting to meet him, Annie ran away from home and headed to northside of Gotham to find her father. Later she arrived in Gotham when she sees Batman and Batgirl (Who was visiting her grandmother on the weekend) as they faced against Clayface. During the battle Clayface sees Annie and held her hostage and warn the bats to stay away or else the girls suffocate in his clay hands as he prevent her from breathing. Not wanting to chance it Batman and Batgirl let him go as he escape, leaving Annie behind as she was coughing.

Later at the GCPD, Batman and Batgirl, The Commissioner Gordon discovered that Annie is from other southside of Gotham and called her mother, which she was angry and sad about how her daughter was almost killed by Clayface and decide to have her and Annie left Gotham and headed to Metropolis but Annie refuse as she still wanted to meet her father but her mother told her it's for the best. A few days later Annie and her mother moved to Metropolis, where it was revealed that they now live next door to the Gordons. As Annie and her mother meet up with Jim and his daughter Barbara, Jim convinced Babs to take Annie through the city to get a better look. After the Tour Babs took Annie to Sweet Justice to try out their dessert. As Annie enjoy the dessert Babs notice a crime in progress on the news and told her she needs to go to the restroom. As Annie is watching tv she notice Batgirl on the news taking on the sister villains Sugar and Spice. Later as Babs return she asked Annie if anything happened while she was in the restroom and Annie became suspicion about Babs and Batgirl.

Later on her first night as Annie prepared to go to bed, she notice a shadow figure outside the Gordon's home, which makes Annie more suspicion and decide to get a closer look. An hour later as Batgirl return home to her room unnoticed, Annie appears and discover the truth; that Batgirl is Barbara Gordon. Babs tries to come up with a lie saying that she went to a "dress like your favorite hero" costume party but Annie now knows the truth but rather then snitch on her she asked Babs to teach her how to be a crime fighter, revealing that since she discovered that Gotham is crime-ridden, she wants to be a hero in order stop crimes and find her father. Babs at first was skeptic about it but then realize that one day when she becomes a real hero she'll have an sidekick of her own and agreed to teach her the ways of a hero (plus this would help her with her chance to be picked at Batman's sidekick.)

## Trivia

* Francessa Smith reprise her role as Annie from the 1997's "The New Batman Adventures" episode "Growing Pains"
	+ In the original episode Annie was a clay creation of Clayface who forgot who she was until she was absorb back into him to save Robin. However in this version Annie is the actually illegitimate daughter of Clayface (before he was clayface) and didn't have any of his powers.