The CW has begun promoting Batwoman ahead of its debut this fall with a new video on the Batwoman Twitter account.
For a short teaser, it tells us a lot about the character. After handing some money to a young woman begging on the street, a cop informs Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) that she shouldn’t do that as it only encourages them. She smirks, turns around, and hands the woman a watch.
From that alone, we learn that Kate cares more for others, and she also clearly has an issue with authority. What a surprise, we know.
It’s her time now. See Ruby Rose as #Batwoman, Sundays this fall on The CW! https://t.co/b8HYHSxBVj
— Batwoman (@CWBatwoman) June 12, 2019
While her appearance in the Elseworlds crossover gave us a taste of what her character will be like, we can’t wait to learn more.
Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) never planned to be Gotham’s new vigilante. Three years after Batman mysteriously disappeared, Gotham is a city in despair. Without the Caped Crusader, the Gotham City Police Department was overrun and outgunned by criminal gangs. Enter Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) and his military-grade Crows Private Security, which now protects the city with omnipresent firepower and militia. Years before, Jacob’s first wife and daughter were killed in the crossfire of Gotham crime. He sent his only surviving daughter, Kate Kane, away from Gotham for her safety.
After a dishonorable discharge from military school and years of brutal survival training, Kate returns home when the Alice in Wonderland gang targets her father and his security firm, by kidnapping his best Crow officer Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy). Although remarried to wealthy socialite Catherine Hamilton-Kane (Elizabeth Anweis), who bankrolls the Crows, Jacob is still struggling with the family he lost, while keeping Kate –– the daughter he still has –– at a distance. But Kate is a woman who’s done asking for permission. In order to help her family and her city, she’ll have to become the one thing her father loathes –– a dark knight vigilante.
With the help of her compassionate stepsister, Mary (Nicole Kang), and the crafty Luke Fox (Camrus Johnson), the son of Wayne Enterprises’ tech guru Lucius Fox, Kate Kane continues the legacy of her missing cousin, Bruce Wayne, as Batwoman. Still holding a flame for her ex-girlfriend, Sophie, Kate uses everything in her power to combat the dark machinations of the psychotic Alice (Rachel Skarsten), who’s always somewhere slipping between sane and insane. Armed with a passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind, Kate soars through the shadowed streets of Gotham as Batwoman. But don’t call her a hero yet. In a city desperate for a savior, she must first overcome her own demons before embracing the call to be Gotham’s symbol of hope.
Batwoman is scheduled to join The CW’s Sunday night lineup this fall and will air at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central.
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