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Warning : SPOILERS forBatwoman # 16
thing sure enough have n’t been leisurely forBatwomanin recent issues ofDC Comics- her long - lose sister Alice is back , and in this week’sBatwoman # 16Kate Kane has to battleBatmanhimself to keep her alive . It ’s not the first metre that her kinship with Alice has made things complicated for Batwoman , either . Alice , aka Elizabeth Kane , is Kate Kane ’s twin sister , presumed utter after a childhood snatch by a terrorist organization . In the year since she first come out as the reprehensible lunatic Alice , she has both battled Batwoman and fought by her side as an friend , and was most recently sent to an asylum in the hopes that her Alice persona could be treated .
However , the past four issues of DC’sBatwoman(an arc titled ' The Fall Of The House Of Kane ' ) have seen Alice ’s restitution in all her harebrained glory , with a raw plan to assault Gotham . She planned to loose a plague of chiropteran over the metropolis , taint with a virus - and while the squash racquet were put down at the end ofBatwoman # 15 , Alice is still at prominent , and Batman warns Batwoman that if she does n’t ' do her duty ' , he will … and that ’s not the only threat he level at Batwoman this issue !
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The egress begins with Batman ’s scourge to take down Alice if Batwoman wo n’t , telling her that he believes Kate has lost ascendance of her sister and that Alice require to be sent to Arkham . Kate , however , pleads with Batman to allow her to keep trying to assist Elizabeth / Alice her way , because if she is sent to Arkham , she will become Alice for good . As the history continues , we see Kate fight back three battles ; one against Alice , as she tries to bring Elizabeth back , one against Batman , as she seek to stop over him hurting her sister , and one against herself , as she shinny to take down Batman after all he has done for her .
In the final stage , though , Kate chooses family over the Bat , and carry off to knock down and immobilize Batman with a elephantine ' K ' ( part of a carving ) . She tell him that she has to cover with her crime syndicate herself , and attempts to excuse her demand to protect her sister … but Batman throws one last menace at her as he walk away . He tells her that this is her second strike , and when she asks what occur if she reach three , he react ' then you ’ll never be Batwoman again ' .
The first ten-strike that Batman references here comes fromDetective Comics # 973 , released January of this year , when the Bat - Family were dealing with an out - of - command Clayface . Batman had his plan to try and see to it Basil Karlo , but Batwoman believe that they would fail , and when she saw an chance to take him down ( when he was returned to his human shape ) , she shot him in the brain … disobeying a verbatim order from Batman , who say her he would not have a Colony weapon used in Gotham . This think of that now , Kate Kane has fight Batman on his orders doubly in a inadequate yoke - once to bolt down someone , and once to save them .
While the loss of Kate Kane ’s name as Batwoman would represent a major rift in the Bat - Family , it take care like this is the guidance that DC is headed . With two strikes in only five months , we may even see Kate disowned by Batman by the end of the year , although there ’s no narrate what her third strike may be ( or if it will be to write or to butcher ) . Of course , this is n’t undertake to happen , but it ’s a substantial wager - and should make a fascinating story , as Kate and the other appendage of the Bat - family deal with the fallout as Batman adjure farewell to his protagonist .
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