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5. Kate Kane (Batwoman)

Kate Kane is rad as hell.

I mean, first of all, look at that costume! The costume is so artful and pretty and simple.

Kate was the daughter of two military intelligence agents, but she lost her mother to tragedy at a young age. She went to West Point and enlisted in the Marines, but was dishonorably discharged for being gay, which seems super unfair. She dated Gotham City Police Department detective Renee Montoya for a time, but when that fell apart, Kate took inspiration from Batman and decided to become a vigilante. After undergoing years of training, she returned to Gotham, only to find that it was in the middle of The Missing Year, during which Batman was absent from Gotham City.

She became The Batwoman, and kicked some Intergang ass alongside Renee Montoya, with whom she re-entered a relationship. Renee would eventually take up the identity of The Question, and the two would fight crime together. Aww, love at its purest.