He modified the mask, but overall, she looked a lot like Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl. Ironically, artist Alex Ross who designed her original costume basically dressed her in Barbara Gordon’s costume, substituting red for yellow and darkening the gray to black. That way, it wasn’t something that someone could undo easily.” So if we introduced her as Batgirl she would never be the ‘real’ Batgirl. “It was important for that character to land, and it was important for her to be Kate Kane, because there was already a Batgirl. (Barbara has since reclaimed the Batgirl name, after spending decades in a wheelchair as Oracle, one of only a few handicapped heroes.) DC had tried introducing new Batgirls to keep the rights to the name, after sidelining Barbara Gordon and while Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain had their devoted fans, they were never widely embraced. We wanted to establish her as a hero first, and then as we uncover who she is and what motivates her and what she’s about, then you got to hear about her background and personality.”ĭidio further pointed out the need to make her Bat woman and not another Bat girl. If you see how this character is introduced, we don’t introduce her sexuality until later in the story. The other thing we said was very important: She’s a hero first, gay second. I felt very strongly that the character had to either wear a Bat shield or an S shield in order to really matter and show that we strongly believe in this character and who she is. “It started out from a conversation I had with Paul Levitz about wanting to diversify the DC Universe and bring in a strong gay character. The twist was that this character was a lesbian. Like the original, this character’s name was Katherine Kane, but she went by Kate instead of Kathy. In 2006, a new take on Batwoman was introduced in the weekly comic book ’52’. This Batgirl was a hit and remained a major player in the comics for decades, but in the 1988 ‘ Killing Joke‘ graphic novel, Barbara Gordon was paralyzed after being shot by The Joker and her career as Batgirl ended (for quite a while anyway). In 1968, a new Batgirl, Barbara Gordon was created as a tie-in to the ‘Batman’ TV show. Neither Batwoman nor Bat-Girl were major characters and they eventually faded into obscurity. Like aunt, like niece, Betty was in love with Robin. Later, her niece Betty would accompany her as Bat-Girl. Her secret origin is that she was created as a love interest for Batman in order to dispel rumors that Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson were gay lovers, as suggested in Frederic Wertham’s takedown of the comic book industry ‘Seduction of the Innocent’. This character was secretly Katherine “Kathy” Kane, a wealthy socialite and former circus performer. In preparation, DC Comics’ co-publisher Dan Didio reflected on the character’s creation.īatwoman was originally introduced in 1956 and was created by Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff. Not only that, but the story will take place in Gotham City. Stephen Amell revealed that Batwoman would be coming to live action in this fall’s crossover event between ‘Arrow’, ‘The Flash’, ‘Supergirl’ and ‘Legends of Tomorrow’. Use zlib.h - interface of the 'zlib' general purpose compression library version 1.2.2, October 3rd, 2004 Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.At long last, a member of the Bat Family will appear on The CW’s Arrowverse. in the United States of America and elsewhere. Unreal (r) is a trademark or registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc. Use Unreal (r) Engine, (c) 1998-2019, Epic Games, Inc. (c) 2002-2004 Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. This product includes code licensed from NVIDIA. Uses LZHam Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Richard Geldreich, Jr. Use libXML2 Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Daniel Veillard. Kynogon and Kynapse are registered trademarks of Kynogon S.A. Use FMOD Ex Sound System and Firelight Technologies. Portions of DCUO: Include Autodesk(r) Scaleform(r) software, (c) 2012 Autodesk, Inc. WB GAMES LOGO, WB SHIELD: TM & © Warner Bros. All rights reserved.ĭC UNIVERSE, DC LOGO and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners. The ratings icon is a registered trademark of the Entertainment Software Association. Daybreak, Daybreak Games and the Daybreak logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Daybreak Game Company LLC. All other elements are trademarks of and © 2019 DC Comics. A Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) is required for Save Data Cloud backup.ĭC UNIVERSE ONLINE software © 2011-2019 Daybreak Game Company LLC.
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