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Kathleen "Kathy" Duquesne was the daughter of gangster Carlton Duquesne, and one of three women who took the guise of Batwoman.

History

Kathy pretends to be a girl with too much time and money on her hands. She does not have a good relationship with her father, though he orders his hired bodyguards to protect her at all times.

Kathy blames her father for the death of her mother, who died when an attempt on Carlton Duquesne's life was made. Carlton's wife was killed instead. Kathy's mother was supposedly a gifted artist, a skill Kathy inherited from her. Kathy was also revealed to have many skills in sports as over the years, Kathy competed in many sporting competitions such as tennis matches, marathons etc. However, Kathy was more interested in art and took this skill, enrolling in art classes, where she met Sonia Alcana. Along with Alcana and Dr. Roxanne Ballantine, Kathy devised a scheme to enact revenge on her father, Rupert Thorne and the Penguin, the latter two receiving grudges from Alcana and Dr. Ballantine. Each of the three women brought different assets to the plan. Kathy financed the plan while Roxy provided technical knowledge while Sonia helped to train the women in hand-to-hand combat. The three would take turns becoming Batwoman, taking down Thorne, Penguin and Duquesne's weapon smuggling racket one step at a time.

Meet Kathy Duquesne — Kathy returns home after a day of shopping.

Batwoman had made her first appearance when she had hijack a truck which was supposingly transporting cars, when actually it was transporting the first shipment of weapons that Penguin and Throne were selling to Kazina. She was able to stop them, but her ruthless ways made her an enemy of Batman. A day later, Kathy had just returned from shopping with her father's bodyguards and had returned home to hear her father trying to figure out who had revealed their operations with transporting the weapons. Carlton angrily asked Kathy where she was, Kathy however reassured her that she brought his bodyguards with as they were carrying her newly bought items. Once they left, Kathy informed her father of her day and tried to ask for his own day in return. However, he avoided her question and told her to tell him whenever she would be going out again. Kathy understood and asked who was her father just speaking to, however he only said that it was nothing for her to worry about. Getting no further answers, Kathy left.

Kathy as Batwoman teams up with Batman and Robin.

That night, Kathy as Batwoman, had sneaked into Penguin's factory where she set a bomb to go off in the underground secret base where the weapons were being created. However, she had been spotted and was hiding away from Penguin's goons until they had surrounded her. She was captured until Batman and Robin had arrived and helped fight them off. During the chaos, she had alerted Batman to the bomb she had planted, but at that same time it already went off causing the entire factory to be destroyed. She along with Batman, Robin and Penguins goons had escaped safely. She then met up with Batman and Robin where she revealed to them about the factories true agenda, while also revealing that she had merely began.

She started to leave, but Batman had stopped to ask for her true identity and motive for this event, but only told him to figure it out himself and escaped. Batman followed Kathy back to her home and immediately suspected her of being Batwoman. The next morning, Kathy had gone shopping with her fathers bodyguards protecting her, however unaware to Kathy, Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth had followed her, trying to prove that she is in fact Batwoman. However, finding no evidence, Bruce followed her into a shopping mall, hoping to better prove his theory. Kathy was trying on clothes and when her bodyguards weren't looking, she met Bruce and got him to help her escape from them.

Bruce comforts Kathy over the death of her mother.

Kathy and Bruce got to her car and escape with Alfred following behind them, however he soon lost track of them once Kathy realized that he was following them. Later, Kathy took Bruce to her favourite spot, where she and her mother use to come out to paint. Kathy and Bruce got to know each other better with Kathy even revealing to him her mother's tragic death and that she wished that she came from a respectable family. She had almost fell off the cliff, but was saved by Bruce. Saddened, Kathy had a moment of grief with Bruce comforting her and at that moment she and Bruce had developed feelings for each other. However, the moment was interrupted when her bodyguards had arrived. Kathy gave Bruce keys to her car, gave him a quick kiss goodbye and left.

Later, Kathy had overheard her father upset from the news that Penguin and Rupert Throne had decided to replace him as muscle for their operation. Wanting to get away from it all, Kathy had sneaked away from home and met up with Bruce again at Rocky Ballantine's apartment, where she had invited Bruce on a date and got to "meet" Rocky. Later that night, Kathy and Bruce went to the Iceberg Lounge, where many men there had flirted with Kathy. Bruce had then discovered that Kathy personally knew the Penguin. Once he left, Bruce then confronted Kathy over the game she had been playing, pointing out that it seems that she wants to get her father arrested. Upset with Bruce, she had left for the ladies room.

Bruce and Kathy almost kiss — Bruce and Kathy almost share a kiss.

Soon the Iceberg Lounge was attacked when Batwoman had arrived seeking to discover who Penguin had replaced Carlton with. Bruce then suited up and helped Batwoman, she soon escaped and right after she did, Batman noticed Kathy in the crowd and was shocked to discover he was wrong about her being Batwoman. After the incident, Bruce escorted Kathy home, Kathy then began to apologize and admitted to Bruce that he was right about her. However, Bruce instead admitted that he was wrong and apologized, while also admitting that he had a wonderful time with her. Bruce and Kathy were about to share their first kiss until they were interrupted by one of the bodyguards who had altered Kathy that her father wanted to see her. Kathy said goodbye to Bruce, leaving him with a smile on his face.

The Batwomen — Kathy and the secret Batwoman team.

Later at their secret hideout, Kathy had met up with Rocky and Sonia, where both girls had expressed to Sonia their worries over Batman exposing the truth of their operation. However, Sonia had reassured their girls and informed them that Penguin and Throne's smuggling operation was going down that very night. Kathy was Batwoman for the mission, both Sonia and Rocky informed of their plan: she was to place a charge aboard their luxury cruise liner, taking the weapons and, more importantly, everyone on board with them. Kathy was about ready to go, until she spotted the newspaper that had a photograph of Bruce. Kathy had a slight moment of doubt but shook it off and left for the mission.

Kathy as Batwoman used her Bat-glider and was able to sneak onto the ship and was about to set the bomb, until she was caught by Bane who had easily overpowered her and thrown her unconscious. Later, Bane had informed Penguin, Throne and Carlton of Batwoman's capture and called them to witness her unmasking. Once they had arrived, Bane revealed her true identity much to their shock. Penguin and Throne had then started to turn on Carlton believing he must of told her of their plans, Bane had then furthered explain of her use of the bomb.

Kathy and the truth — Kathy reveals her true feelings to her father.

Carlton had then confronted Kathy over how she could do this to him. Kathy started to explain her motives, revealing it was easy over the man he was and also revealed of how she blamed him for her mother's death, how he kept her a prisoner of their own home and even revealed how he spread misery everywhere he went or touched. Furious, Carlton was about to attacked Kathy, but stopped himself and pointed out that none of this made sense. Penguin agreed with him and mentioned how Kathy was at his club the night that Batwoman attacked, realizing she wasn't alone on this scheme and threatened her to reveal her partners with poison gas. Carlton had stopped him, but was suddenly attacked by Bane and Penguin again ask Kathy to reveal her partners otherwise her father's life would be lost.

However, before Kathy could explain, Batman had appeared and rescued Kathy from their clutches, while at the same time, she had stolen the bomb. Bruce and Kathy arrived at the engine room where she had set the bomb to charge and told Batman that one way or another this had to end. Kathy and Batman were about to escape until that had found her father in chains, hanging over a swimming pool with Bane holding him at the top. While Batman dealt with Bane, Kathy had dived into the pool to rescue her father, but during the chaos, the bomb had went off. Separating Kathy from both Batman and her father.

During the explosion, Kathy had fallen unconscious but she woke to find herself hanging onto dear life with her cape caught near a broken pole, that was starting to ripe apart. Carlton had found Kathy, he got his hands on a life preserver and threw it down to Kathy, where he began to pull her to safety. Kathy and her father had soon found a life boat, they both escaped from the now burnt-to-a-crisp cruise liner. While escaping in the life boat, Kathy and her father also witnessed, Sonia, Rocky and Batman escaping from the nearly sunken down cruise ship.

Bruce and Kathy Together — Kathy and Bruce reunite.

Sometime later, Kathy and Rocky met up, where Kathy revealed that she and her father are now on better terms with each other as they now begin to talk and even revealed how he plans to testify against Penguin and Throne. Kathy asked Rocky how Bruce was doing as she hasn't heard from him since the newspapers had revealed the true story behind the mystery of Batwoman. Kathy then started to leave as Kevin and Rocky happily reunited. However, she soon spotted Bruce waiting for her, while also returning her car from earlier. Kathy was surprised to see him again and asked what he was doing here, Bruce revealed that while things were peaceful, he admitted that it made him realized how much truly missed spending time with Kathy. She was touched, but informed Bruce that she has now changed and plans to life a live full of respect, but with an explosion now and again as she and Bruce drove off into Gotham.

Background information

Kathy's name is similar sounding to the original Batwoman's, Kathy Kane, as it's pronounced "Du-kane". According to storywriter Alan Burnett, this is due to the fact that DC Comics requested they not use "Kathy Kane" as the film's Batwoman has a slight villainous side. Burnett admitted he like the idea, as it would help keep people from guessing the solution of the mystery by adding a red herring clue.

Appearance

Feature film

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman

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 == History ==
-Kathy pretends to be a girl with too much time and money on her hands. She does not have a good relationship with her father, though he orders his hired bodyguards protect her at all times.
+Kathy pretends to be a girl with too much time and money on her hands. She does not have a good relationship with her father, though he orders his hired bodyguards to protect her at all times.
 Kathy blames her father for the death of her mother, who died when an attempt on Carlton Duquesne's life was made. Carlton's wife was killed instead. Kathy's mother was supposedly a gifted artist, a skill Kathy inherited from her. Kathy was also revealed to have many skills in sports as over the years, Kathy competed in many sporting competitions such as tennis matches, marathons etc. However, Kathy was more interested in art and took this skill, enrolling in art classes, where she met [[Sonia Alcana]]. Along with Alcana and [[Rocky Ballantine|Dr. Roxanne Ballantine]], Kathy devised a scheme to enact revenge on her father, [[Rupert Thorne]] and the [[Penguin]], the latter two receiving grudges from Alcana and Dr. Ballantine. Each of the three women brought different assets to the plan. Kathy financed the plan while Roxy provided technical knowledge while Sonia helped to train the women in hand-to-hand combat. The three would take turns becoming [[Batwoman]], taking down Thorne, Penguin and Duquesne's weapon smuggling racket one step at a time.