Cassandra Cain (Post-Crisis)

## Summary

**Cassandra Cain** is the fourth **Batgirl**. Born with the assassins David Cain and Lady Shiva as her parents, she was trained to become the perfect warrior. Cassandra would eventually turn her Batgirl costume over to Stephanie Brown, and become a member of Batman Incorporated as **Black Bat**.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier: 8-C**

**Name:** Cassandra Cain-Wayne, Batgirl, Kasumi, Black Bat, The One Who Is All

**Origin:** DC Comics

**Gender:** Female

**Age:** 17-18

**Classification:** Human, Vigilante, Martial Artist

#### **Abilities:**

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Enhanced Senses (Picked out the smell of a corpse over gasoline and above the nearby river. Used her sense of smell to accurately determine Camorouge’s location, despite her being invisible), Master Martial Artist (Was the first person in history to defeat Lady Shiva, and is superior to the likes of Batman, Deathstroke, Tim Drake and Black Canary in hand-to-hand combat. Her fighting abilities are stated to be unsurpassed, and she became recognized as the greatest martial artist in the world), Weapon Mastery (As a child, she mastered nearly all forms of armed combat and was trained to master every known weapon), Stealth Mastery (Evaded Renee Montoya and other detectives. Escaped Catwoman’s sight and got behind her without being noticed), Acrobatics (Frequently performs flips and acrobatic maneuvers), Analytical Prediction (According to Batman, she already knows what her opponents had just started to think about doing. Reads her opponent’s intentions), Body Control (Can stop her own heart), Accelerated Development (Training; Abilities, Learned stick fighting in five minutes and regained her body-reading ability after training with Shiva for seemingly a single night), Technique Mimicry (Copied Shadow Thief’s secret koga-ryu techniques just by watching and fighting him), Acupuncture (Knows moves meant to disable people and she can stop heartbeats. Is one of the only three people in the world that know the Falling Leaf nerve pinch), Paralysis Inducement (Paralyzed Oracle’s upper body), Sleep Manipulation (Put a metahuman to sleep), Explosion Manipulation (Via explosives), Fire Manipulation (Via lighter), Fragrance Manipulation (Via smelling salts), Intangibility (Via Shadow Thief’s Dimensiometer, which allows the user to turn into a living shadow), Resistance to Extreme Cold (Her Batgirl suit insulates and protects her from suffering lethal hypothermia while encased in ice)

**Attack Potency:** **Building level** (Fought on par with Ravager and Deathstroke. Fought and defeated Lady Shiva)

**Speed:** At least **Supersonic+** with **FTL** Combat speed (Kept up with Ravager, Deathstroke and Lady Shiva)

**Striking Strength:** **Building Class**

**Durability:** **Building level**

**Stamina:** Superhuman (As a child, she played two-for-flinching with bullets and could ignore bullet wounds. Survived being shot with several high-caliber bullets that could tear through walls like paper, shrugged off being rammed by a police car and breaking more ribs while already injured and could briefly continue fighting after being stabbed in the heart. Watched a projection of Batman for a day or two without eating or sleeping and could still fight the League of Assasins after going through multiple days without eating or sleeping. Smashed a bunch of mannequins as a daily routine, and was implied to have been doing so for ten hours straight)

**Range:** Standard melee range, extended melee range with swords, several meters with batarangs and explosives

**Standard Equipment:** Utility belt, batarangs, a grappling hook, a camera inside of her cowl, a communicator, tracking devices, explosives, bolas, a lighter, smelling salts and pellets that burn when they come in contact with the eyes

**Optional Equipment**: As Kasumi, she has access to an assortment of bladed weapons, as well as Shadow Thief’s Dimensiometer. As Black Bat, she has claws on her gloves

**Intelligence:** Extraordinary Genius. Cassandra is one of the greatest, if not *the* greatest martial artist in the world, and her skills are hailed above many of the greatest fighters in the DC universe. As a child, she was trained to master all forms of armed and unarmed combat, and even before being trained by Batman, her skills were on par with the likes of Nightwing and Robin. She was able to defeat Lady Shiva, something Batman had never been able to do, which caused her to become revered in the martial arts community as “The One Who Is All”. Batman has claimed that nobody is as skilled of a fighter as Cassandra, and he directly stated that Deathstroke couldn’t beat her in hand-to-hand combat, something that Slade himself implied. Many members of the Batfamily have been shown to be inferior to Cassandra, including Barbara Gordon, Stephanie Brown and Tim Drake, and she has been directly stated to be superior to Batman.

**Weaknesses:** Her ability to read body language is less effective against opponents like the Joker or Deathstroke, as the former’s body language comes out as gibberish and the latter’s is too much for her to follow. She used to be illiterate and limited in speech due to her childhood, but she has since overcome this.