Alice then attempts to stab Batwoman but, she makes a lucky escape, leaving Batwoman fumbling through the woods while intoxicated and hallucinating from the poison.Īlice takes this time to return to her followers within in a Religion of Crime motif Church. This enrages Batwoman and the two struggle again this time however Alice gets the drop on the vigilante by producing a poisoned razor blade from her mouth and slashing her across the face with it. She however avoids answering any questions by only communicating through speaking verses taken from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

To allow Alice to answer questions she is spray with a solution to subside the effects of the Pepper spray. Alice is subdued quickly with the strategic use of a pepper spray pellet and then grabbed and taken to a rooftop for interrogation.

However, no direct evidence exists to support this theory.ĭuring Detective Comics #854-857, while Batwoman is investigating the new leader of the Religion of Crime, she discovers almost everything about the new leader, except for who the mysteriously appointed heir is.īatwoman comes face to face with Alice for the first time just before her grand debut to the members of the cult. Since Beth became one of the leaders of the Religion of Crime, the possibility exists that the cult was behind the kidnapping and murder of Beth and her family members. It would later be revealed that the body belonged to an unidentified girl. During their kidnapping her mother was killed and the body of a child was found when Kate Kane was rescued and thought to be Beth. In Detective Comics #858, twenty years before the events of Batwoman Elegy, at the age of 12, Beth Kane, her mother and twin sister Kate were abducted by unknown assailants.

Little is known about the origin of Alice or the transformation of Beth Kane into the psychotic figure of Alice, the high Madame of the Religion of Crime. Beth was always the most polite and easy going and Kate the most rebellious of the two. The body of a girl mistaken to be Beth Kane.Įlizabeth Kane came to the world for Jacob and Gabi Kane, Beth is the older twin by two minutes, the twins were each other's best friends and didn't care about the frequent changes from city to city, as long as they were always together, the two girls usually play superheroes, with the older of the two Beth, always playing 'Gotham Girl' and Kate the youngest, her faithful helper.

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