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Earth-46: The Batfamily

In Earth-46, the Batfam is as follows (arranged by age, below the cut):

Alfred Pennyworth: Alfred has been the faithful servant of the Wayne Family for decades. However, ever since the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne, Alfred has become much more, stepping into the role of a surrogate father for Bruce. As such, he has been supporting Bruce’s mission as Batman from the very beginning. Alfred is the only member of the Batfamily that Bruce is comfortable with using firearms, and is most definitely the “grandfather” of the group.

Leslie Thompkins: Leslie was a friend of Thomas Wayne’s, and helped raise Bruce with Alfred after Thomas and Martha were murdered. As a pacifist, Leslie isn’t too keen on Bruce’s activities as Batman, but nonetheless helps out wherever she can, especially with her free clinic on Park Row.

Batman (Bruce Wayne): Bruce was eight years old when his parents were shot to death in a random mugging on their way out of a screening of The Mark of Zorro. Since then, Bruce has dedicated his life to fighting crime in an effort to do everything he could to make sure that no child would have to go through what he went through. Over the course of the last seventeen years, Bruce has operated as the vigilante Batman and has come a long way from his beginnings as an antisocial loner, having built up a large support network of fellow heroes, both within the city of Gotham in the form of the group jokingly referred to as the Batfamily, as well as the hero community at large. He has recently returned to Gotham after spending the better part of last year on a trek around the world with his sons Dick and Damian and daughter Cassandra, and has begun proceedings to adopt his fifth child, a young girl rescued from the government project known as Cadmus.

Batwoman (Kate Kane): Kate Kane was traumatized after being caught up in a terrorist attack in which she, her mother and her twin sister were kidnapped. Only Kate survived, and she spent the next few years in something of a daze, before enlisting in the Marines at age nineteen in an attempt to please her father. However, her time with the Marines only lasted three of her contracted five years, as she was dishonourably discharged under the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy when her commander caught wind that Kate and fellow Marine Sophie Moore were in a relationship. Bruce’s maternal cousin, he and Kate have a close relationship (helped by the fact that Kate doing her best to comfort Bruce at Thomas and Martha’s funeral is canon in Earth-46). She’s only recently become Batwoman, but she and Bruce know each other’s identities.

Catwoman (Selina Kyle): A cat burglar who stole from the corrupt wealth of Gotham City, Selina is also a “reverse-archaeologist” (credit to @unpretty), stealing artefacts from museums and private collections and returning them to where they belong (she considers the massive heist she spearheaded to steal the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum to be her crowning achievement). Over the years, she has moved away from stealing (for pure profit, anyway; she still plots out heists to return stolen relics) and has begun to focus more on protecting the East End of Gotham. Along with Robin and Spoiler, Catwoman protected Gotham during Batman’s year-long absence. She has also begun a relationship with the Caped Crusader, and has taken in a young girl named Holly Robinson.

Oracle (Barbara Gordon): Barbara lost her parents in a car accident when she was thirteen and was taken in and adopted by her uncle, James Gordon. Becoming the first Batgirl, Barbara spent almost five years as a vigilante, before retiring to focus on college. When she was 20, Barbara was permanently paralyzed after her cousin and adopted brother, James Gordon Jr, shot her (credit for this change goes to @littlemissonewhoisall). Rather than let it defeat her, though, Barbara was able to finish college with honors and has since re-established herself within the hero community under the name “Oracle”, established a massive world-wide communications and espionage network, as well as forming the superhero team The Birds of Prey. Recently, she and Dick Grayson have gotten engaged.

Nightwing (Dick Grayson): Dick grew up a circus kid, part of the Haly’s Circus family act “The Flying Graysons”. However, on June 27, 2002, crime boss Tony Zucco had Dick’s parents killed. Dick was taken in as a foster child by Bruce Wayne and, after discovering that Bruce was the crimefighter Batman, became the first person to wear the mantle of Robin. Since then, Dick has grown into his own hero, taking the name Nightwing, moving to the city of Blüdhaven and forming the superhero team The Teen Titans (now known as The Titans), and has also become the second person, after Superman, that the entire superhero community trusts. He was also more recently officially adopted by Bruce (as Bruce felt for a long time that it would be disrespectful to Dick’s parents). He has a child with fellow Titan Starfire, conceived before their relationship dissolved, and is now engaged to Barbara Gordon. Recently, Dick has returned to Blüdhaven, having joined Bruce on his year-long journey.

Red Hood (Jason Todd): The second Robin, having taken over the role when Dick Grayson became Nightwing. His time in the role was very short, however, as just over a year after becoming Robin, Jason was killed by The Joker while on a search for Jason’s biological mother. Talia al Ghūl resurrected Jason on October 31 the next year, the boy coming back with his anger even stronger than it had been before he was killed. Jason left the League of Assassins and spent the next three-and-a-half years moving from place to place before finally confronting Bruce as the Red Hood, furious that not only had he remained unavenged, but that he had also been replaced. Jason currently remains estranged from the Batfamily, and has taken on an equally damaged protégée in the young girl Sasha Volkova, who goes by the vigilante name “Scarlet”.

Batgirl (Cassandra Cain-Wayne): Cassandra is a very unique young woman. Having been raised by her father, David Cain, with violence as her only language, Cassandra developed the ability to innately understand a person purely from body language. This was done in an effort to create the perfect assassin, but backfired as, when Cassandra first killed someone, she understood exactly what death was like, her ability showing her exactly how the man felt as he died. Cassandra escaped, living homeless for years until arriving in Gotham. There, she was taken in by both Barbara Gordon and Bruce Wayne, and became the second Batgirl, before being adopted by Bruce. Recently, Cassandra has returned to Gotham, having travelled with Bruce on his year-long journey.

Robin (Tim Drake): A young boy who managed to deduce the identities of Batman and Nightwing. After the death of Jason Todd, Tim saw that Batman was becoming more and more violent and so the boy approached Dick Grayson to ask him to become Robin again so as to help Bruce. While Dick did not, Tim became the third Robin and was the first person to wear the mantle who fully established that the title was not just “Batman’s sidekick”, but a hero in their own right. He helped to form the team Young Justice, and more recently, spent the better part of a year helping to protect Gotham City in Batman’s stead while the Caped Crusader was on his world trek.

Spoiler (Stephanie Brown): The daughter of Arthur Brown, the former criminal known as Cluemaster. When Arthur was released from Arkham cured of his obsession with leaving clues but still engaging in criminal activity, Stephanie became Spoiler to counteract this, leaving clues at his crimes in order to help stop him. This turned into her becoming a fully-fledged vigilante, one who was initially discouraged from vigilantism due to her inexperience, but after facing a threat that an incapacitated Batgirl could not, Stephanie gained the respect of the Batfamily and was welcomed into the fold with open arms, where she has become best friends with Batgirl and has started a romantic relationship with Robin. Recently, she helped Robin and Catwoman protect Gotham in Batman’s stead during the Dark Knight’s year-long journey. She has also recently discovered that her father seems to genuinely want to reform, and is unsure how to react to it, having elected to avoid him until she can figure it out.

Flamebird (Bette Kane): Bette is Kate Kane’s other cousin, who has only recently found out about Kate’s activities as Batwoman. Bette has joined the ranks of Gotham’s vigilantes as Flamebird, and is eager to help out in any way she can.

Holly Robinson: A young girl that Selina has taken in, Holly has lived on the streets for three years, having run away from her abusive family at age ten. She is the leader of a group of street kids known as the Alleytown Gang.

Ace (Alycia Wayne): Ace was born in the small Ohio town of Stones Throw. After the girl’s raw psychic power was unleashed, the town turned violent, massacring everyone apart from the child. The government project known as Cadmus took the girl and raised her in one of their facilities, hoping to harness her abilities for government use. Out of the numerous metahumans that Cadmus had captive, the girl (known to them as Patient A-011) was the strongest. However, last year, the supervillain known only as The Joker broke into the facility holding her and a handful of others, taking the girl and four other patients and using them in his latest scheme. Now under the name “Ace” and part of the “Royal Flush Gang”, the girl was manipulated by The Joker into a plot to broadcast and use her abilities to drive anyone watching the coverage of his plot insane. Batman was able to stop this, though Ace was taken back to Cadmus, in spite of the Dark Knight’s protests. Two months later, the Caped Crusader led a mission where he, along with a small group of heroes, broke into the Cadmus facility holding Ace and rescued her. Since then, Bruce has begun adoption proceedings in order to protect Ace (now legally named Alycia Wayne) from Cadmus.

Robin (Damian Wayne): The biological child of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghūl. Raised within the League of Assassins, Damian was left in the care of his father on the boy’s ninth birthday when his mother realized that she would be unable to protect him from Rā's al Ghūl’s plans for him. Initially taking the name “Redbird”, Damian slowly undid the brainwashing he had been subjected to his whole life and, after a year and a half (as well as a close call with Rā's trying to use Damian to restore his ability to use the Lazarus Pits), was able to completely break free of the hold that the League of Assassins had on him. After this, he took up the “Robin” moniker, which he now shares with Tim Drake (not that he’s particularly pleased about that; some things never change). He has become good friends with Dick Grayson’s daughter, Mar’i, and recently, Damian has returned to Gotham, having joined Bruce on his year-long journey.

Nightstar (Mar’i Grayson): The daughter of Dick Grayson and Princess Koriand’r. Though her parents are not together, they remain very good friends and are both 100% committed to raising their daughter together, even if they aren’t a couple. Mar’i is very good friends with all of the other children in the hero community, and has taken it upon herself to show Damian Wayne and most recently, Alycia Wayne what it’s like to be a kid.

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10 Characters We Want to See in a Wonder Woman Sequel

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10 Characters We Want to See in a Wonder Woman Sequel

We’ve assembled a list of ten Wonder Woman characters we want to see in the sequel On June 2nd, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman got her first solo film! Until last year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Wonder Woman had never even appeared on the big screen. That’s unfortunate, because Wonder Woman’s comic book history is intertwined with Greek mythology and over seven decades of superhero stories. While the word on Wonder Woman’s first movie has been overwhelmingly positive, that story only scratches the surface of what future Wonder Woman movies could be. Diana/Wonder Woman has her own lineup of supporting characters and deadly villains who could and should play an important role in her cinematic future. ComingSoon.net has put together a list of 10 potential Wonder Woman sequel characters we want to see on the big screen. Feel free to share your picks in the comment section below! Circe

Aside from the God of War himself, the sorceress known as Circe has been one of Wonder Woman’s primary adversaries for decades. It’s a pretty safe assumption that Wonder Woman 2 will happen at some point, and Circe is the natural choice to be the next big bad. Since Diana is thousands of years old in this incarnation, her history with Circe can stretch back far longer than it did in the comics. The important thing to remember is that Circe is literally the same character who appeared in Homer’s The Odyssey, and she does have a habit of turning men into animals and making grand plans to destroy everything that Wonder Woman values. Circe is also immensely powerful, and more than a match for the Amazon heroine. She’s definitely worthy of making a major impact on the DC Extended Universe. Donna Troy

The Wonder Woman film may have made a mistake by passing up a chance to introduce Donna Troy, the original Wonder Girl. To be honest, Donna’s comic book origins were a mistake from the start, her ever-shifting backstory is headache inducing. The short version is this: she’s Diana’s younger sister. Even when she was retroactively declared to be a magical clone/double, Donna and Diana feel the bonds of sisterhood. Diana has even been Donna’s mentor and best friend among the Amazons, while treating her as an equal. Prior to the New 52 reboot, the close bond between Diana and Donna was one of the best things about both characters. That connection deserves to be explored on the big screen. Cheetah

Cheetah is unique among Wonder Woman’s villains in that she’s both a lethal foe and a close friend of Diana’s. The Golden Age Cheetah, Priscilla Rich, wasn’t quite as interesting as Barbara Ann Minerva, the Cheetah of DC’s Post-Crisis era. As re-envisioned by George Perez, Minerva was essentially Lara Croft before Lara Croft, and she was cursed with the power of the Cheetah during an archeology expedition that left her physically transformed. The most recent retcon of Wonder Woman and Cheetah has strengthened the bonds of friendship between them, at least for Cheetah’s human half. But as Cheetah, Minerva is still a lethal threat and one of Diana’s most formidable enemies. Wonder Girl

Over twenty years ago, comic book icon John Byrne had a run on the Wonder Woman series that left one lasting legacy behind: the modern day Wonder Girl, Cassandra “Cassie” Sandsmark. While most of Cassie’s character development came in the subsequent Young Justice and Teen Titans series, the inevitable Wonder Woman sequel could introduce Cassie as Diana’s apprentice… a warrior in training who just happens to be a huge geek about the legacy of her mentor. While Cassie was the daughter of Zeus in her original continuity, the changes of DC’s New 52 reboot made her into Diana’s niece; which only further strengthened their family ties. Helena Sandsmark

Of course, Cassie can’t be in a Wonder Woman movie without her mother, Helena Sandsmark as well. Helena was another addition from the Byrne era, and refreshingly, one of Dinana’s few friends who didn’t have a hidden agenda. Like Barbara Minerva, Helena is also an archaeologist who has aligned with Diana and inadvertently become an important part of her life. Helena and Cassie’s connection to Diana really depends on which backstory is chosen for the big screen. If Cassie is the daughter of Zeus, then Helena isn’t directly related to Diana. But if Cassie’s father is Lennox Sandsmark (Diana’s half-brother) from the New 52 continuity, then Cassie and Diana are related, and Helena would inevitably be more important to both of them. The First Born

The First Born is one of the more recent creations for Wonder Woman’s rogue’s gallery. As part of the New 52 reboot, Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang introduced the First Born as literally the first born child of Zeus and Hera, whom Zeus attempted to destroy as an infant. You see, there was a prophecy that the First Born would assume the throne of Olympus and destroy the rest of his family. And much like the ancient stories, all attempts to stop that prophecy made it become more and more inevitable. As Wonder Woman’s half-brother, the First Born is actually far more powerful than she is, and a legitimate challenge for Diana. His ambition to destroy the Gods could also give the sequel an epic scope. Nemesis

One of the big problems with setting the first Wonder Woman movie during World War I is that it seems like it will leave Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) in the distant past. That would create a big hole in Diana’s life, and that could lead to the big screen introduction of Nemesis, a secret agent and master of disguise. Thomas Tresser was actually one of the more heroic members of the Suicide Squad before Gale Simone used his alter ego as Diana’s primary love interest and ally during her run on Wonder Woman. Nemesis is not a God and no man could ever truly be Diana’s equal. But he is one of Wonder Woman’s few supporting characters who can handle the more insane aspects of her superhero career. He’s also a hero in his own right, which would make him a strong addition to the sequel. Giganta

In the Wonder Woman comics, Giganta has appeared in some pretty stupid stories. For example, in her original origin, Giganta was an ape who was mutated into a very strong woman! More recent revamps have made Giganta into Doris Zeul, a brilliant scientist who can control her size and grow to incredible heights. Just the visual alone of Wonder Woman fighting a giant woman in a modern setting would be fun to use in a sequel. Giganta may not be enough of a threat to be a film’s solo villain, but she can definitely be a secondary adversary for Diana. Queen of Fables

Imagine if every evil queen in every fairy tale was a single, all-powerful woman. That’s the Queen of Fables, “the living embodiment of all evil in folklore.” She was originally created by Mark Waid and Bryan Hitch for their JLA run as a threat to the entire Justice League. But considering Wonder Woman’s resemblance to Snow White, it’s not a surprise that the Queen has focused on destroying her. Within the comics, the Queen was so evil that the only way for Snow White to defeat her was to use a magical book to transform the Queen’s life into fiction. One of the side effects of the Queen’s return are the emergence of other dark creatures from fairy tales. It might be a stretch to see the Queen of Fables on the big screen, but she can definitely give Wonder Woman a battle to remember. Medusa

Given Wonder Woman’s ties to Greek mythology, it was inevitable that one of her greatest foes would be Medusa herself. Any future Wonder Woman sequel wouldn’t have to deal with the heavy lifting of creating Medusa’s backstory. Medusa’s ability to turn anyone who looks at her into stone is iconic, but far from the only thing she can do. In terms of ferocity, Medusa doesn’t have many peers as a warrior, and even Wonder Woman would be hard pressed to defeat her. In one particularly memorable battle, Wonder Woman actually blinded herself with the venom from Medusa’s headsnakes to avoid being turned to stone herself. That’s the kind of sacrifice a battle with Medusa would require, and she’s probably on the shortlist of villains for Diana to face in the future.

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