Batwoman begins…
The CW, home of the Arrowverse (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow) has announced that Batwoman will receive her own series.
Earlier in the year it was revealed that Batwoman would make her debut on autumn’s four-way Arrowverse crossover.
Seasoned Arrowverse producer Greg Berlanti will oversee the series, with The Vampire Diaries Caroline Dries attached to write. Sarah Schechter and Geoff Johns will executive produce.
The CW released a short video that teases the arrival of Batwoman to the Arrowverse. Check it out below (it starts at about 1:33):
Of all the members of the Bat Family to bring to the small screen, Batwoman is one of the most interesting. Unlike the various Robins, Nightwing and Batgirl; Batwoman wasn’t trained by the Dark Knight or taken in as a child by his alter ego, Bruce Wayne.Instead, she started her crime fighting career as an outsider who saw the Bat Signal as a call to arms.
If you’ve never heard of Batwoman before, it may come as a surprise to learn that there have been two.
The original Batwoman debuted in the 1950s, as a love-interest for Batman to combat allegations of the caped crusader’s homosexuality. Stories saw Batwoman and Batman team-up to take on various, alongside their sidekicks Robin and Bat-Girl (not to be confused with Batgirl).
Kate Kane, the modern Batwoman will be the focus of the CWs series. Since her debut in 2006, Kate has become a fan-favourite character and DC Comics highest profile Jewish LGBT+ superhero.
Like the majority of mainstream superheroes, Batwoman was struck by tragedy early in her life. On her 12th birthday, Kate Kane, her twin sister, and mother were kidnapped and taken hostage. Though rescued by her father, Colonel Jacob Kane, Kate was the only survivor.
Years later, she joined the US Military Academy and excelled in every field. Her time there was only cut short by an expulsion, on the grounds that Kate was in a same-sex relationship with another cadet. For a while afterwards, Kate ambled through life without a purpose: enrolling in and dropping out of college, and going from relationship-to-relationship. An encounter with a mugger, and the Bat Signal inspired her to walk a different path.
A trip around the world training with the best hand-to-hand combatants on-call, and Kate was ready to be Batwoman. Her father took on a support role to help her take on: the Religion of Crime, Alice (who claimed to be Kate’s long thought dead twin sister), and various supernatural threats.
Batwoman will allow new kinds of stories to be told, as the first LGBT+ superhero to lead her own series.
Only time will tell if any other bats join her in the belfry.
The series is scheduled to debut in 2019.
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