History Characters / Batwoman

* TeamMom: She “leads” Coryana’s warlords by resolving their disputes and negotiating between them in a maternal role.
* TheTragicRose: Her home is filled with roses, and the flashbacks with her feature a rose motif. The story of Kate’s lost year and its aftermath is tragedy according to nearly every character, and the loss of Safiyah was the catalyst for the decline of Coryana.

* MirrorMonster: She appears in mirrors upon being summoned, and when she’s mobile she is made of mirror. [[spoiler:Which makes her kind of easy to take down by shattering her.]]

See her entry on Characters/BatmanAndBatFamilyCharacters for mire information.

[[folder: Safiyah Sohail]]
The unofficial leader of Coryana when Kate first came to the island.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: She saved Kate’s life and nursed her back to health. They slowly fell for each other over several months, and they shared their first kiss after Safiyah saved Kate from drowning again.
* TeamMom: She “leads” Coryana’s warlords by resolving their disputes and negotiating between them in a maternal role.
* TheTragicRose: Her home is filled with roses, and the flashbacks with her feature a rose motif. The story of Kate’s lost year and its aftermath is tragedy according to nearly every character, and the loss of Safiyah was the catalyst for the decline of Coryana.
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[[folder: Felipe and Isabella Lopez]]
A young couple whose children were kidnapped by Medusa. They never stop trying to find and rescue their children, and both Maggie and Kate try to comfort and help them.
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* GoAndSinNoMore: Felipe encounters Maria, tells her that God forgives her, and that he does too for what she’s done to him and his family. Maria, who had been starting to resist Maro, went on to kill the sorcerer.
* HappilyMarried: Even during all of the trauma and stress of their children’s kidnapping, the couple is shown as nothing but respectful, loving, and supportive of each other.
* WhoWillTakeTheKids: Maggie uses this reasoning to talk them down from going to confront Medusa on their own.

[[folder:Pegasus]]
Falchion’s brother and son of Medusa, Wonder Woman and Kate sought him out for information on how to take down the organization. He gave it in exchange for a quick death.

* BlessedWithSuck: He’s immortal, but his healing factor runs on belief. Since belief in the Greek pantheon isn’t very high, he’s unable to die with extremely painful wounds.
* ImmortalityHurts: Falchion tortures him by giving him wounds that won’t heal for hundreds of years, knowing that he won’t die.
* MercyKill: He asks this of Wonder Woman, and she obliges, much to Kate’s shock and horror.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: not because they are necessarily supernatural, but because he is. He can live with them, but healing them will take lifetimes.

[[folder: Sophie Moore]]
Kate’s roommate and romantic interest at West Point. When Kate was outed, Sophie was not. They reunited by chance while Kate was engaged to Maggie. By this point, Sophie has been promoted to colonel, and is still not out as a lesbian.

Kate is a military brat, with her parents working in intelligence. When she was 12, she, her twin sister Beth, and their mother were attacked by terrorists, leaving Kate believing that she was the sole survivor. Kate aspired to be a leader and find a career in the army like her parents. She attended West Point Military Academy, but was expelled under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell when she refused to lie about her sexuality.
After her expulsion, Kate drifted for awhile, relying on alcohol and romance to help with her crippling depression. One fateful night, she took down some thugs right before Batman showed up. With the bat symbol as her inspiration, she began crimefighting on her own. When her father found out, he agreed to help her if she would go through with training he specifically designed to get her to quit. She made it through regardless and returned to crime fighting. Kate protected Gotham City in Batman’s absence, and after he got back.

* CombatPragmatist: She tends to shut down fights quickly and practically, with a minimum of showboating. While she has the same no kill rules as the rest of the Batfamily, she is much less reluctant to use guns.
* DaddysGirl: Her father is her role model and support system after her mother dies, and she admits in the interlude issue that she loved having him take care of her. This only makes their fallings-out more dramatic.
* DeadpanSnarker: Can give her cousin a run for his money.

* Cyborg: After Kate kicks her ass in ''Batwoman: Elegy'', she returns with a robotic arm to fix the one Kate snapped in half. After ''that'' one gets blown up, she has even more significant enhancements later.

[[folder:Evan Blake/'''Wolf Spider''']]
A part-time cat burglar who, as a civilian, is an old friend of Kate's.

* HatesMySecretIdentity: Inverted. He and Batwoman hate each other's costumed personas, but as civilians they're good friends and obviously don't know each other's secret.
* PyrrhicVillainy: He avoids being captured by Batwoman, but gets beaten up during his dealings with her and ultimately disposes of the gold stash he was after, declaring it cursed. Even if he had decided to keep it, Kate had put out an Intepol alert for it, making it impossible for him to sell and rendering his entire venture as Wolf Spider pointless.
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Batwoman quickly gets the upper hand on him in their first encounter, and he [[ISurrenderSuckers pretends to surrender]]. When Kate pauses, he tosses some drugged darts into her face and beats her up while she trips out.
* WouldHitAGirl: He ambushes Batwoman and Hawkfire, breaking the latter's ribs and dealing Batwoman one of the worst beatings she's ever received.

[[folder:Natalie Mitternacht/'''Nocturna''']]
A vampire black widow who begins to date Kate almost immediately after Kate breaks up with Maggie.

See ComicBook/{{TheQuestion}} and Characters/BatmanSupportingCast for more on Renee Montoya

See Characters/BatmanSupportingCast for Maggie’s tropes

* HatesMySecretIdentity: Inverted. He and Batwoman hate each other's costumed personas, but as civilians they're good friends and obviously don't know eaxh ither's secret.

* PeacefulInDeath: Her goal, and [[spoiler:implied to be her happy ending after Maro’s death.]]

[[folder:Natalie Mitternacht/'''Nocturna''']]
A vampire black widow who begins to date Kate almost immediately after Kate breaks up with Maggie.

* FlorenceNightengaleEffect: She saved Kate’s life and nursed her back to health. They slowly fell for each other over several months, and they shared their first kiss after Safiyah saved Kate from drowning again.
* Team Mom: She “leads” Coryana’s warlords by resolving their disputes and negotiating between them in a maternal role.

* FauxAffablyEvil: They're polite to their underlings and seem to be Wicked Cultured, but their intentions to "clean up" Coryana seem like an act instead of a true act of charity. And they really want Kate Kane dead.

* GhostlyGoals: Type B, with a focus on women

* EqualOpportunityEvil: The Many Arms of Death appears to follow this, which makes sense as they're a global organization. Knife is a Nigerian lesbian, and Fatima, the secretary to Elder and Younger, is Turkish. The group also includes agents who are (presumably, given their locations) Japanese Iranian, and American.

A global terrorist group that hides its activities under the guise of a legitimate arms-dealing company, the Kali Corporation. They operate out of the island nation of Coryana and seek to cause massive attacks in heavily international areas to maximize outrage and, therefore, demand for their products.

* The Many Arms invokes this trope against Kate, slowly tormenting her by eroding her mental and emotional well-being through "trials". As of issue #11, it seems to be working.

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* WouldHurtAChild: his entire plot revolves around killing, kidnapping, or otherwise hurting children.

! Other Villains

[[folder:Natalie Mitternacht/'''Nocturna''']]
A vampire black widow who begins to date Kate almost immediately after Kate breaks up with Maggie.

* ActionDressRip: After her stepdaughter tries to kill her, she performs one of these between panels to join a battle on the rooftops.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Has both male and female partners, but to what degree she actually is attracted to/in love with them and to what degree she’s just manipulating them is left ambiguous.
* BedTrick: Downplayed. Kate thinks that she is Maggie, allowing Natalia to get close enough to bite her.
* BlackWidow: Has been acquitted of the murders of multiple husbands, although the media, families, and she herself all know she’s a black widow. She’s not particularly subtle--she goes from sex, to marriage, to murder with one victim over the course of less than five issues.
** TilMurderDoUsPart
** InheritanceMurder
* CharmPerson: She casually uses her power to get a free newspaper. Her persuasive voice is explicitly confirmed by both herself and Beth to be unable to do anything against someone’s nature.
* TheCorrupter: To Kate, to the point where Kate begins threatening to punish vandals with death. [[spoiler:Although she didn’t get Kate to actually become a killer, and how many of the scenes of Kate becoming evil are real and how many are Nocturna’s narratives is [[UnreliableNarrator left unclear.]]]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: First appears in the background of Arkham Asylum in pre-Flashpoint Detective Comics.
* FemmeFatalons: Has very long, very sharp fingernails.
* AGlassOfChianti: Drinks red wine, including in one
* GoodColorsEvilColors: Wears black, dark green, dark purple, dark red...
* HemoErotic: There’s blood all over Kate, but not on Natalia, as they’re making out immediately post-bite.
* LesbianVampire: Bisexual vampire, technically
* MeaningfulName: “Mitternacht” is German for “Midnight”
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Her biting Kate did not turn her into a vampire.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: When Beth threatens her and doesn’t buy her good intentions, she pulls out a tragic backstory and won Kate even more to her side.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Wears green and purple to Kate’s reds and yellows
* ShabbyHeroesWellDressedVillains: When she goes out for dinner with Kate, Kate wears jeans and a t shirt (she argues that they’re expensive jeans and a vintage T-shirt) while Natalia wears her usual slinky formal wear.
--> '''Nocturna''': Opposites attract has never been more clear.
* TheSociopath: Selfish, manipulative, and sees other people as toys.
--> '''Nocturna''': Love you? I don't even ''like'' you. You were just so easy to snare. All your broken-hearted martyr-complex self-loathing... it was like a neon sign flashing ''"Over here!''" I couldn't resist.
* UnequalPairing: With Kate. She isolates Kate from other influences, acts possessive, and has at least some degree of mind control over her.

! Other Supporting Characters

[[folder:Renee Montoya]]
Officer Renee Montoya pulled Kate over for speeding when Kate was still self-destructive and alcoholic. During a fight, Kate urged Renee to stop lying to her coworkers and come out of the closet.
The relationship is solely in flashbacks, and most interactions between Montoya and Kate feature lots of reminiscing in their internal monologues.
See ComicBook/{{TheQuestion}} and Characters/BatmanSupportingCast for more on Renee Montoya
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[[folder:Maggie Sawyer]]
Kate’s long-term girlfriend and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen at-one-point fiancée]]. In-universe, they broke up because Kate made a deal with Maggie’s ex-husband so that Maggie wouldn’t have to waste time she could spend with her daughter fighting for custody. Out-of-universe, creative team of Williams and Blackman said that [=DC=] hadn’t let them write the marriage, causing them to leave the book.
See Characters/BatmanSupportingCast for Maggie’s tropes
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[[folder: Felipe and Isabella Lopez]]
A young couple whose children were kidnapped by Medusa. They never stop trying to find and rescue their children, and both Maggie and Kate try to comfort and help them.

* GoAndSinNoMore: Felipe encounters Maria, tells her that God forgives her, and that he does too for what she’s done to him and his family. Maria, who had been starting to resist Maro, went on to kill the sorcerer.
* HappilyMarried: Even during all of the trauma and stress of their children’s kidnapping, the couple is shown as nothing but respectful, loving, and supportive of each other.
* WhoWillTakeTheKids: Maggie uses this reasoning to talk them down from going to confront Medusa on their own.

[[folder:Pegasus]]
Falchion’s brother and son of Medusa, Wonder Woman and Kate sought him out for information on how to take down the organization. He gave it in exchange for a quick death.

* BlessedWithSuck: He’s immortal, but his healing factor runs on belief. Since belief in the Greek pantheon isn’t very high, he’s unable to die with extremely painful wounds.
* ImmortalityHurts: Falchion tortures him by giving him wounds that won’t heal for hundreds of years, knowing that he won’t die.
* MercyKill: He asks this of Wonder Woman, and she obliges, much to Kate’s shock and horror.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: not because they are necessarily supernatural, but because he is. He can live with them, but healing them will take lifetimes.

[[folder: Sophie Moore]]
Kate’s roommate and romantic interest at West Point. When Kate was outed, Sophie was not. They reunited by chance while Kate was engaged to Maggie. By this point, Sophie has been promoted to colonel, and is still not out as a lesbian.

* EvilHand/EvilWeapon: His hook is sentient, takes over his mind, and can talk.

* Speaks in Shout-Outs: Up until the very end of the Elegy arc, she spoke solely in quotes from {{Literature/Alice in Wonderland}}. Although she can speak in other ways, she still occasionally uses them
* Speech Bubbles: She gets specific ones: a different font from the rest of the cast, and black speech bubbles when she is Alice.

* YourMakeupIsRunning: After Kate attacks her with pepper gas, the heavy black eye makeup begins to run. It isn’t a sign of sadness so much as a further unsettling detail as she guns down her own minions while smiling.

-->'''Kate''': '''Step'''mother
* SecretKeeper: For Bette
* SecretSecretKeeper: she found [[spoiler:Bette’s costume, confirming her vigilante activities and beginning to suspect Kate and Jacob’s roles without Jacob or Bette realizing until she confronted them.]]

[[folder: Elizabeth “Beth” Kane/Alice]]
Kate’s identical twin sister, who was supposedly killed in a terrorist attack along with their mother. She resurfaced later as Alice, the new High Madame of the Religion of Crime, before seemingly falling to her death. Revived by the DEO to manipulate Kate, she was rescued by Bette and took on the name of Red Alice. She’s working to improve her relationship with her family.

* BlackEyesOfEvil: As La Llorona

* DeathEqualsRedemption: Discussed by Kate right before she dispels her. Maria tells Kate who took the children (although it isn’t very helpful, and she comes back shortly)

A child molester and flunkie of the Religion of Crime, Rush was “chosen” and taken over by the Ashoth, a mystical hook. He savagely attacked Bette Kane, but she later took him down with her flamethrowers and separated him from his hook. It was last seen assimilating a crab.

! Love Interests
[[folder: Sophie Moore]]
Kate’s roommate and romantic interest at West Point. When Kate was outed, Sophie was not. They reunited by chance while Kate was engaged to Maggie. By this point, Sophie has been promoted to colonel, and is still not out as a lesbian.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her heritage is never commented upon, but she’s clearly non-white and, unusually for comics, consistently depicted as such.
* BadassGay: She’s a lesbian, she’s in the army, and she made her way up to colonel by the Medusa storyline.
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[[folder:Renee Montoya]]
Officer Renee Montoya pulled Kate over for speeding when Kate was still self-destructive and alcoholic. During a fight, Kate urged Renee to stop lying to her coworkers and come out of the closet.
The relationship is solely in flashbacks, and most interactions between Montoya and Kate feature lots of reminiscing in their internal monologues.
See ComicBook/{{TheQuestion}} and Characters/BatmanSupportingCast for more on Renee Montoya
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[[folder:Maggie Sawyer]]
Kate’s long-term girlfriend and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen at-one-point fiancée]]. In-universe, they broke up because Kate made a deal with Maggie’s ex-husband so that Maggie wouldn’t have to waste time she could spend with her daughter fighting for custody. Out of universe, creative team Williams and Blackman said that DC hadn’t let them write the marriage, causing them to leave the book.
See Characters/BatmanSupportingCast for Maggie’s tropes
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[[folder:Natalie Mitternacht/'''Nocturna''']]
A vampire black widow who begins to date Kate almost immediately after Kate breaks up with Maggie.
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Kate is Bruce Wayne’s first cousin, and has an unofficial place in the Batfamily. She prefers to keep to her own cases, and has repeatedly turned down Bruce’s offers to join Batman Inc. or join him, for fear that he would take over. As of ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth, she has agreed to take a position leading and training a team of young vigilantes [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg (and Clayface)]].

* DaddysGirl: Her father is her role model and support system after her mother dies, and she admits in the interlude issue that she loved having him take care of her. This only makes their fallings out more dramatic.