We already knewRuby Rose make up one’s mind to exitthe CW ’s Batwoman series after itsdebut season . That was surprising enough . Now there ’s word that the web might not just recast the function ofBatwoman , it ’s possibly decide to do away with the lineament of Kate Kane entirely . In a universe of sentence change of location , doppelgängers , and literal look - swap , to this news I say , “ Huh ? ”
A new report fromTV Linestates , “ the CW series will create a stigma new character to don Batwoman ’s ness in Season 2 in the backwash of Ruby Rose ’s sudden departure . ” While the meshwork has n’t given an official statement , the Hollywood Reporteralso confirms the move .
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Nicole Kang as Mary Hamilton and Ruby Rose as Kate Kane, aka Batwoman no longer.Photo: Bettina Strauss (The CW)
The report comes after a swan breakdownbegan to surfaceonline that showed Warner Bros. , DC Entertainment , Berlanti Productions , and the CW searching for the role of “ Ryan Wilder ” for time of year two . She ’s name as “ female , mid - late 20 , any ethnicity , ” and then the call plainly add together : “ Ryan Wilder is about to become Batwoman . ”
It ’s an odd conviction considering the news infract of Ruby Rose ’s departure from the serial , and web said they were look to recast the lead use . But if you bet closer at the initial statement , it was never explicitly stated that Kate Kane herself would be recast . The joint program line read : “ The studio apartment and meshwork are firm committed to Batwoman ’s 2nd season and prospicient - term time to come , and we — along with the show ’s gifted originative team — calculate onward to sharing its unexampled way , let in the casting of a new lead actress and member of the LGBTQ community , in the coming months . ”
When the young first weaken , myself and our residentBat - handler Alex Cranzdiscussed the numerous hypothesis on how Batwoman could move forward . First and foremost , on Legends of Tomorrow , the team isconstantly rewriting history — whether from metre travel mischievousness , magic , or … weaving . Then of form , you have the ripple impression from theCrisis on Infinite Earthscrossover , which left us with all sorts of wacky results including a rendering Kate Kane ’s sister Beth from another world being stuck in the young “ select universe ” ( she finally become flat , because what would a member of the Batfamily be without a little more calamity in their lives ? ) . Then , in Batwoman itself , we ’ve already firmly establishedKate ’s regular sister , Beth , a.k.a . Red Alice ( played by Rachel Skarsten ) can literally give anyone a young face ! She can even do it with limited supplying in a infernal dirty sewer ! Last but not least … comics ! Anything is possible . Just pulling in a new theatrical role exclusively to take on the Batwoman mantelpiece almost seems a piffling tame in equivalence .

Kate Kane telling the truth.Image: J.H. Williams III (DC Comics)
That land us back to the case description of this potential new Batwoman confidential information . “ She ’s sympathetic , messy , a little goofy and wild . She ’s also nothing like Kate Kane , the woman who wear out the batsuit before her . With no one in her life to keep her on track , Ryan expend age as a drug - runner , dodging the GCPD and masking her pain with unfit habits , ” it say . “ Today , reformed and solemn , Ryan lives in her van with her plant . A lady friend who would steal milk for an alley cat and could also defeat you with her marginal workforce , Ryan is the most unsafe eccentric of fighter : extremely skilled and wildly undisciplined . An out tribade . Athletic . Raw . Passionate . Fallible . And very much not your stereotyped All - American Hero of Alexandria . ” Wildly different except , oh yeah , she ’s still a lesbian ! That ’s gracious .
We ca n’t take the verbal description at 100 percent grimace time value — a lot of the time Hollywood obfuscates these things so as to not reveal too much of what they ’re planning , so even the name “ Ryan Wilder ” might be a stand in for something else , be it a eccentric from comics continuity we get laid or a new creation entirely . But if they are truly doing away with the Kate character it feels like a bizarre move . rooter could much easier add up to terminus with a simple replacement actress , than having to go through a convoluted story of why a random lesbian has take up the cowl so before long after Kate did . Not to cite Batwoman ’s Bruce Wayne has been“missing ” for years … now Kate Kane will mysteriously go miss too ? And some stranger with seemingly no connection to the Waynes / Kanes will take up the Bat - mantle ? It seems like a lot of explaining to do when there ’s a much easy option .
Kate is more than just a lesbian . She ’s fairly alone in DC Comics ’ mythos considering her sexual identity , military screen background , and Judaic heritage — all of which make her who she is . While the latter has n’t really beendelved into muchin the serial publication , now is a great chance to drift someone both LGBTQ and Jewish , and continue the great fictional character work and relationships already establish in season one .

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