Kate Spencer

## Background

### 1986 - 1991: Kate Pratt

In a legal sense, Kate Spencer Pratt is the daughter Al Pratt & Sandra Knight, two of Ivy University's best physics professors. She is also the granddaughter of North Carolina senator Henry Knight on her mother's side.

At the age of five, a man showed up at the Knight-Pratt residence demanding to see Kate. She was commanded to go upstairs by her pregnant mother while she handled the situation. Kate could hear them shouting & some movements before the man made his way to her room. The rest of the details are exactly as clear as Kate subconsciously blocked the memory. The only thing that is clear is that her father came home to find her mother crying & the man holding a knife to Kate's throat. In the next instant, the man was on the ground with the knife in his chest. How exactly Sandra got the knife from him & stabbed him is unclear but the police felt the story was one of self-defense & made no charges against anyone in the family.

Though her parents didn't tell her at the time, Kate was eventually told that the man that came to the house was her biological father Arnold Munro. He was a former "associate" of her parents & he had a long (and inconsistent) relationship with her mother. After years of back & forth, Sandra finally ended the relationship before finding out she was pregnant. They both agreed that he would have nothing to do with their child so Sandra packed up her things & moved to Ivy Town to start a new life. She reacquainted herself with Al & the two began dating, leading to Al claiming Kate as his own daughter. Kate was shocked, to say the least, but not upset by the revelation as she understood why they did it.

### 1991 - 2011: Kate Spencer

Despite this "hiccup" in her early childhood, Kate went on to have relatively normal childhood. The family moved to her mtoehr's hometown of Opal City after the birth of Kate's second brother Thomas. She did good in school, was involved in extracurricular activities & spent a lot of her free time with her extended family.

Following in her grandfather's footsteps, Kate chose the path of politics & law. She was easily accepted into the renowned Ivy University's law program. After graduation & marriage to her college sweetheart Peter Robinson, she decided to take her talents to New Jersey, wanting to go somewhere that was more of a challenge than the quiet & peaceful Ivy Town. She quickly made her mark in their District Attorney's office.

### 2011 - Present: Manhunter

As a federal prosecutor, Kate grew increasingly tired of seeing guilty criminals evade punishment. She was conducting a case against Viper, a known assassin on trial for multiple murders. On a technicality, Viper not only avoids a death sentence but escapes from custody after killing two guards. Not willing to let another criminal evade the justice system, Kate decided she would take down the assassin herself. Arming herself with what she could find, she secretly travelled to Santa Prisca to find her.

When she finally got the drop on Viper, the two engaged in combat. Though she had the opportunity to kill her, she incapacitated her instead & snapped on an inhibitor collar to prevent her from doing anymore damage.

Confiding in her parents, they helped her build, maintain & upgrade her armor, weapons, & gadgets to arm her crusade against criminals who escaped punishment by the law. Unfortunately, her crusade led to her husband filing for divorce.

These days, Kate spends her day in the courtroom & her nights searching for criminals to capture. In addition to legal proceedings & fighting crime, her life includes awkward relationships with her son Ramsey & novelist ex-husband, whom she shares joint custody of Ramsey with. Though her secret life as Manhunter cuts into her career & sometimes her family life, her co-counsel Damon Matthews is always there to cover for her.

## Romantic Relationships

* Peter Robinson: Boyfriend (2007 - 2011): Husband (2011 - 2013)
* Dick Grayson: Fling (2013)

## Powers & Abilities

* **Law:** Kate is well-versed not only in American law but law across the world & some of the galaxy. She graduated top of her class at Ivy University, leading to her being heavily recruited by various District Attorney offices & law firms. As the ADA, she has an impressive success rate.
* **Martial Arts**
* **Stick Fighting**
* **Exo-Mantle**: Kate's parents created an exo-mantle, which allows Kate certain abilities.
	+ ***Flight***: Kate is able to achieve high speeds during flight, all the while protected from wind friction by personal force fields.
	+ ***Force Field***: The mantle gives her protective shielding which can withstand the rigors of harsh combat & space travel.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength***: The exo-mantle sustainability improved Kate's natural strength.
	+ ***Enhanced Agility***: The exo-mantle considerably improved her agility while in use.[2]
	+ ***Enhanced Reflexes***: Her reactions were greatly amplified a wearers reactions when adorned.
	+ ***Enhanced Speed***: Kate's speed was augmented to incredible but undisclosed levels.
	+ ***Twin Masers***: The exo-mantle came equipped with twin maser units capable of firing energy bolts from the wearer's hands.
* **Clawed Gauntlets**: Kate came into possession of the gauntlets used by Azrael as Batman and decided to use them herself.
* **Power Baton**: Kate uses a power staff designed by her parents. Though it usually functions as bo staff, it can pop a blade out at the end, fire several high-tensile cord to use as a swingline, contains a retractable spike that acts like a javelin, create a magnetic pulse & emit a high-frequency, piercing soundwave. The staff can also be separated into two ends, allowing the baton to function as nunchaku.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

#### General

* She has worked alongside the DEO due to her friendship with Cameron.
* After her divorce from Peter, she began going by Kate Spencer on public documents.
* Though she has never showed overt powers like her family members, she has occasionally survived & recovered from things that would normally be deadly, suggesting Kate may benefit from an enhanced constitution even she remains unaware of.
* She also had an offer to join the District Attorney's office in Star City.

#### Relationships

* Her goddaughter Violet is the daughter of her ex-husband Peter & his new wife Julie.
* She is best friends with Jennifer Knight & good friends with Cameron Chase.
* Though Rex Tyler & Ted Knight are her mother's cousins, she called them Uncle Rex & Uncle Ted.

## Notes

* Her birthday is a nod to her first comic appearance, *Manhunter*Vol 3 #1(October, 2004).
* *Earth-44 Explanation: The Knight family dynamic is different on Earth-44. Sandra Knight was previously dating Arnold Munro & found out she was pregnant with their child. He wanted no parts of it & they decided to break up. She began dating Al Pratt, who is listed as the father of her daughter, Kate Spencer. Together, they later had Grant & Thomas Pratt.*