Batwoman
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| Batwoman | |
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| Real name: | Sonia Alcana Kathy Duquesne Rocky Ballantine |
| Species: | Human |
| Base: | Gotham City |
| Voiced by: | Kyra Sedgwick |
Batwoman was an enigmatic crime fighter that abruptly appeared in Gotham City, attacking the various criminal enterprises of the Penguin and Rupert Thorne. Batwoman displays an array of combat techniques, which at first would seem diverse for anyone using the Bat prefix. Her first on-screen appearance shows her attacking a shipment of weapons en route to Gotham by men employed by Penguin and Thorne. She attacks the truck, but disables its escorts before dealing with the truck drivers.
She holds her own, but a misfire of a beam weapon she was using to disable the escorts draws the attention of Batman and Robin patrolling the skies in the Batwing. In a final gesture she vaporizes the remaining weapons before taking off on her Bat glider. The loss of the shipment angers Penguin and Thorne pressing them to get their muscle, Carleton Duquesne to kill Batwoman. He puts the contract out on her.
Meanwhile at Wayne Enterprises, Dr. Roxanne Ballantine wows the corporate heads including Bruce Wayne with her metallurgical breakthrough. Batman meets up with Gordon, Bullock, and Bullock's new partner.
Her forensic familiarity with the damaged weapons certainly raises some questions, but Batman dismisses it for diligence for now on her. Sonia Alcana is just another dedicated cop working under Batman's longtime police ally Commissioner Gordon.
Bullock is tossing a set of keys from the impounded truck up and down before Batman snatches it out of his hand then tosses it back after saying he'll get back to them. Bullock doesn't catch what Batman got from the keys, but Sonia sees it too.
Batman and Robin check out Penguin's warehouse. Their stakeout is interrupted by noises from within the complex. The duo meet up again with Batwoman who is fighting with the warehouse goons. As the brawl continues, Batwoman announces that she had planted a bomb in the weapons plant below. The goons, Batman, Robin, and Batwoman proceed to flee the area. Batman and Robin go after her. Batwoman seems only concerned with permanently crippling the black market, not with the fact that she nearly blew everyone including herself up in the process. Batman attempts to take her into custody, but she fends him off then disappears into the night.
Batman reports that he thinks Kathleen Duquesne is Batwoman. The GCPD put an on-going surveillance unit on her, which includes Bullock and Alcana. Bruce Wayne finds a way to spend time with Kathy, and a mutual attraction develops despite the antics that come with her being the daughter of a gangster. They have a night on the town at the Iceberg Lounge, but Bruce's insinuations about her and her father's cronies doesn't go over well.
Batwoman breaks into Penguin's den at the Iceberg, but he is able to alert his security, marital arts trained waitresses. This time she seems unprepared for the encounter or maybe it is just a slip. She learns that Duquesne's failures have prompted Penguin and Thorne to hire a new player for the shipment's security, Bane.
The timing of Batwoman's latest getaway coincides with Kathy's return from the powder room, which trips up Batman as he had come here with Kathy thinking she was Batwoman. Likewise Sonia is outside, but Roxanne cannot be accounted for this time. The metal used to bind Penguin to the chair leads Batman to Roxanne who flat out denies herself as Batwoman, but she is not above suspicion anymore than Kathy was or is still.
Batwoman overhears the plans to sail the weapons to Kaznia under the cover of a cruise ship. She learns of all the works being put into place aboard the ship before falling back to the hideout.
Batman again meets with frustration as twice so far his Batwoman suspect has proven not likely at least until Alfred in one of his classic epiphanies alerts him to the possibility he had not seen or ignored so far. There is not a Batwoman , rather there are Batwomen. Robin initiates a cross database search on Duquesne and Ballatine, but there is no data correlation at least until Batman searches Kathy's studio. He finds sketches Kathy made particularly one of Sonia and Bullock.
He goes after Sonia to find out what she and the others are up to now. Kathy is already on the cruise ship planting the bomb, but captured by Bane. Batman confronts Sonia, she almost prepares to shoot him, except Roxanne's cell phone call interrupts the motion. Batman goes after the ship with Robin while Sonia and Roxanne suit up to join them. A pitched battle aboard the ship leave it crippled by a carbonite bomb planted by Kathy after Batman saves her from the fate intended by Bane, courtesy of Penguin and Thorne.
Penguin, Thorne, and Carleton Duquesne are arrested and sent to prison after. Carleton intends to testify against his former employers. He and Kathy are finally on speaking terms again or are at least trying to do so. Batman passes along evidence to clear Roxanne's boyfriend. Sonia releases the cost of her vigilantism, she can no longer be a cop despite bringing down a black market.
Sonia leaves Gotham. Kevin and Roxanne reunite outside the prison. Bruce 'returns' Kathy's car to her, and they drive off together.
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[edit] Individual biographies
[edit] Sonia Alcana
When the Alcana family’s business was burned to the ground by one of Rupert Thorne’s henchmen, she and her family lost everything. Thorne was never officially linked to that night nor prosecuted for it. She was saved from the fire by Batman that night nine years ago, she tells him that it had a hand in why she became a cop aside from the obviousness of the fire set by Thorne's men. She had the determination and the will part of the Batwoman persona, but even she had learned being a crime fighter had moral ambiguity.
[edit] Rocky Ballantine
Her fiancé, Kevin, was thrown in jail after being framed for a crime the Penguin committed. Rocky sought to take down the Penguin and force him to confess. Her "computer geek" persona was the perfect cover for her not being a candidate for being Batwoman — something that even fooled Batman till the very end.
[edit] Kathy Duquesne
She was motivated by her mother's death. Her father had been the target, but a misfire got her mother killed instead of her father. Kathy had never forgiven him for this. Kathy also resented his over protectiveness, not just as a father, but as a criminal fearing more for his own reputation, than his sole remaining family. In the aftermath of the Batwoman escapade, the two attempt a reconciliation.
[edit] Aftermath
Sonia was fired from the GCPD for her activities as Batwoman. Kevin, Rocky’s fiancé, was freed from jail, and Carlton Duquesne was sentenced to jail — where father and daughter now talk regularly.
