Batwoman: The Many Arms of Death
Batwoman currently has her own show on The CW. Ruby Rose plays the crime fighter, who’s also cousins to Bruce Wayne.
Using the character in the DC Movie-verse ticks a couple of boxes: it extends the Bat-Family, introduces an LGBT Heroine and expands her presence to the general audience.
As she’s a member of the Bat-Family, the name alone will bring in the audience. Therefore, it’s not a risk for DC Movies to use her. Also, she brings a fresh take to the Batman mythos.
In The Many Arms of Death, Kate Kane confronts her past while dealing with a drug ring in the present.
The storyline comes from the minds of James T Tynion IV and Marguerite Bennett. In the story, Kate is put into the crosshairs of a former lover. It deepens the mystery behind her while answering several questions.
Putting the arc onscreen can take the audience on Kate’s coming out journey. When Kate’s past is her being thrown out of the army for not pretending to be straight, it’d provide an emotional arc.
It also showcases the idea of standing up for who you are and being comfortable with it.
While the original arc doesn’t feature this character, they can bring in someone from Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. Renee Montoya is LGBT and has a relationship with Kate Kane in the source material.
Of course, there would be an age gap between Kate and Renee but that brings a different dynamic.
Seeing a young Kate Kane who dated, or crushed, on an older Renee Montoya creates a dynamic usually reserved for a male/female relationship. Normally it’s a young woman pining over an older man in Hollywood stories.
Therefore, using Kate and Renee turns it on its head but also forms a bond where age knows no bounds.
The Batwoman movie can also set-up Renee becoming her alter-ego, The Question. Doing this provides DC Movies with a series of spin-offs and team-up movies for the future.
