Batwoman
Warning : The following contain SPOILERS forBatwoman ’s season 1 close .
With the role of Kate Kane due to be reforge forBatwomanseason 2 , many are enquire how the show will address the modification in role player , especiallyafter Crisis on Infinite Earthschanged the Arrowverse . The possibilities are almost limitless , given the in advance science and magic present tense within the setting of the Arrowverse , thoughBatwomanis the most naturalistic and grounded serial publication adjust among The CW ’s superhero appearance .
Actress Ruby Rose stunned the reality with her recent announcement that she was leavingBatwomanafter a single season , just two Clarence Shepard Day Jr. after Batwoman ’s first season finale air out . There was no question that the show would go on without Rose and thatBatwoman would be reforge , however , as the show had already been renewed for a second season and is The CW ’s highest rank show afterThe flare . Still , the question rest ; how wouldBatwomanaddress its title fictional character changing within the context of the Arrowverse itself ?
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unluckily , the issue of the 2019 - 2020 Arrowverse crossoverCrisis On Infinite Earthseliminated what would have been the promiscuous answer to the problem ; replace Earth - Prime ’s Kate Kane with a doppelganger from another Earth , who shared her name and education but not her face . It had been antecedently established that the same person might look drastically dissimilar on alternate ground , withCrisis on Infinite Earthsfeaturing three versions of Superman who looked nothing likewise . lamentably , it was show on bothBatwomanandThe Flashthat when the multiverse reform after theCrisis it became unacceptable for doppelgangers to surviveon the newly forge Earth - Prime and everyone who had a Gemini from a defunct reality expire a painful death when the new multiverse proved to be too small for both of them .
An elegant , if horrendous resolution presents itself in the face ofBatwomanseason 1 ’s finale . The terminal scene of " O , Mouse ! " bring out that Alice had used her science as a plastic surgeon to giveTommy " Hush " Elliot the typeface of Bruce Wayne . Given that Kate Kane has read she does n’t recognize Alice as her sister anymore , it would be the height of dramatic irony ( and a meet bit of absurd literalism ) if Alice decide to translate her twin sister unrecognisable by giving her an totally new face and making her a stranger to her friend and Gotham City at large . The confusion could fuel the drama of several episodes , in particular if Kate were unmasked as Batwoman just after have her face changed , leave behind Jacob Cane and his Crows hunting for a adult female he could readily describe yet not realize was his own daughter .
Another opening lie in the one shoes where a doppelganger of Kate Kane might yet be ; the alternate Earth one version of Brainiac-5 trapped in a stasis bottleful beforeCrisis on Infinite Earths . The existence of this world was discover inSupergirl , time of year 5 , episode 10 , " The Bottle Episode . " All the writers ofBatwomanandSupergirlwould need to do is contrive a rationality for Earth - Prime ’s Kate Kane to vanish and for the Batwoman of the bottled Earth to be released , though this still would leave the problem of justifying the change in appearance to Kate ’s friends and family on Earth - Prime .
If nothing else , Batwoman can just be recast with another actorand the show can go on without acknowledging the change . Other television shows have done this in the past , with perhaps the most famous examples being the two Darrins onBewitchedand the two versions of Becky Conner onRoseanne . There is also a case in point for Batman changing histrion without explanation in the films and the actor play Catwoman changing three times across three season on the originalBatmanshow , so there ’s no reason whyBatwomancan’t change actressesjust as easily .
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