Renee Montoya
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| Renee Montoya | |
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| Species: | Human |
| Hair: | Black |
| Eyes: | Brown |
| Base: | Gotham City |
| Affiliations: | Gotham City Police Department |
| Voiced by: | Ingrid Oliu Liane Schrimer Adrienne Barbeau |
Renee Montoya was an officer, and later a lieutenant, of the Gotham City Police Department.
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[edit] History
One of her first assignments was a drug bust that ended up going disastrously wrong. She was originally supposed to meet Bullock, along with her partner, Officer Wilkes, at a warehouse and enter it together when a known druglord's men were inside. Instead, they arrived to find Bullock's car empty and the building on fire. As a pair of thugs burst from the building, Montoya told Wilkes to pursue them, and entered the warehouse alone. There, she confronted a squad of thugs by herself. One of the thugs disarmed her, and the rest attacked. Montoya stood her ground and actually fought them off for a while, but was close to being killed when Batman intervened and helped her defeat them. As she escaped the building, Batman was apparently knocked out or killed.
In the aftermath of the fiasco, Montoya, along with Wilkes and Bullock, were suspended from duty. However, Montoya continued to puzzle over a conversation between the thugs she had half-heard as she entered. While passing the docks in a commuter train, she realized they had been referring to a warehouse there. She entered the warehouse alone, and saw Batman being held prisoner. Even as he escaped his bonds, she took control of a crane and aided him. When the druglord, who was present in person, tried to flee, Montoya personally nabbed him by catching him in the crane's jaws. She and the others were reinstated, with her making sure to share the credit with Wilkes and Bullock.
She was eventually partnered with Bullock, and despite their differences, they came to respect each other and work well together.
Like Commissioner Gordon, and unlike Bullock, she had a strong respect for Batman, and was particularly hard hit when he was rumored to have been killed.
She was later promoted to lieutenant.
[edit] Background Information
Renee Montoya was originally created for the DCAU, but was adapted into the comics, and her comics debut, in Batman #475 (March 1992) actually came before the broadcast of her first animated appearance, in "Pretty Poison."
She is given a more extensive history in the comics. The daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Montoya is a fearless and intrepid police officer who works her way from uniformed cop to detective in the mostly male, mostly white G.C.P.D. She is partnered first with Bullock, then later with Detective Crispus Allen.
During the No Man's Land storyline, she becomes acquainted with Two-Face, who takes a fancy to her. Later, however, she realizes she is actually a lesbian, and Two-Face is angry enough to "out" her to the department, leading to her termination. After a bout with alcoholism, she is taken under the wing of Vic Sage, who trains her to succeed him as the new Question.
Montoya was first voiced by Ingrid Oliu for her first appearances in Batman: The Animated Series, then for the remainder of Batman and for The New Batman Adventures by Liane Schirmer, and in Gotham Girls by Adrienne Barbeau, who also voiced Catwoman.
[edit] See also
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Batman: The Animated Series
- "Pretty Poison"
- "P.O.V."
- "Joker's Favor" (Cameo)
- "Vendetta"
- "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne"
- "Cat Scratch Fever"
- "Harley and Ivy"
- "The Man Who Killed Batman"
- "Trial"
- "Make 'Em Laugh"
- "Catwalk"
- "A Bullet For Bullock"
- "Batgirl Returns"
[edit] The New Batman Adventures
[edit] Gotham Girls
- "Ms.-ing in Action" (Cameo)
- "Gotham in Pink"
- "Hear Me Roar"
- "A Cat in the Hand"
- "Jailhouse Wreck"
- "Honor Among Thieves"
- "No, I'm Batgirl!"
- "Cold Hands, Cold Heart"
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