Beth Kane

"Where's Kate? Is Kate okay? Is Kate happy? Is she sleeping enough? Has she done her homework? Seen a doctor? Had enough to eat? Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate I am so sick of Kate!"

- Beth to Jacob Kane

Elizabeth Marie "Beth" Kane (born January 1990), known under the criminal alias Alice, is the leader of the Wonderland gang who are hellbent on taking over Gotham and undermining its sense of security. She is also the daughter of Jacob Kane and the late Gabi Kane, the twin sister of Kate Kane, the cousin of Bruce Wayne and the close friend/sister figure of Jonathan Cartwright. She was named the Skin Pirate by the news in late 2018.

Early life
Beth was born in January 1990 to Jacob and Gabi Kane, along with her twin sister, Kate, as children, Beth and Kate often played inside the abandoned Burnside Orphanage. Once, they visited Wayne Enterprises, and when Kate convinced Beth to sneak into Bruce's office, Kate noticed a woman's necklace in a square pyramid-shaped glass container. She was about to touch it, when Beth stopped and convinced her to leave the office immediately.

In January 2003, while riding in a car with her sister and their mother on the way home from their Bat Mitzvah, a bus hijacked by the Joker slammed into the back of the family's car, causing them to veer off of a bridge, Batman intervened, but was only able to save Kate, with the car falling off. While their mother died, Beth (unbeknownst to her sister) survived the fall. After the car hit the water, Gabi's head was launched through the windshield and as water began to fill the car, Beth did her best to remain calm. Somehow, she managed to make it out of the car alive.

Meeting Johnny
After escaping the sinking car and washing up on shore, Beth was taken by Jonathan Cartwright and his father whilst they were out fishing. They took her back to their home and when she woke up she was immediately terrified, only wanting to see her father again. The father tried to calm her down and explained that he wanted Beth to become friends with his son. She constantly screamed at him to allow her to go home, but he only left to get her a sandwich. She then asked the boy why he covered his face only to learn that he is afraid of scaring people, and she explained that he didn't scare her.

Later, while Beth and Johnny were watching television, a news report of her disappearance came on and she asked the father why he hadn't called the police, however, he never answered but instead grabbed her and threw her into the basement and locked the door. She noticed a sink and when she looked into it, she saw a severed face floating in the war and fell backward, disgusted. When the father came down to take the face out, she asked what he was doing with it and he only said that it was an experiment. He then told her that the only reason she was here was to become friends with his son and that this was her new home. After he left, Beth desperately called out to her father, wanting him to come and save her. Beth later managed to get a screw out of a loose board on the wall and used it to pick the lock on the door, making her way to the kitchen and calling her father. When he picked up, she asked him for help but was cut off by the father grabbing the phone and ripping it off the cord. He warned her that if anyone came for her, he would kill them and threw her back into her cell. Beth's father and sister later showed up at the house, demanding to know where Beth was. Kate even entered the basement and knocked on Beth's cell, however, Beth remembered that the father would kill anyone who came for her and was forced to stay quiet as she silently cried to Kate that she loved her as Kate walked away. The father also managed to make Jacob believe that it was Johnny pulling a prank and the two eventually left.

Beth then remained alone in her cell, crying until the door was approached by Johnny who wanted to be her friend and slid the book, Alice in Wonderland, underneath her door in order to keep her company.

Reuniting with Kate
By 2018, Beth had taken up the alias of "Alice" and formed a gang. The gang ambushed an event to turn off Batman's spotlight and kidnapped Sophie Moore, having set up a base at Burnside Orphanage. Kate came after them after deducing their whereabouts from surveillance footage. She was ultimately knocked out and strung up, after which Alice talked to her, explaining how she'd kidnapped Sophie as she was Jacob's favorite daughter, despite them not even being related. She promptly knocked Kate back out, sending her to a makeshift clinic run by Mary Hamilton to get rid of her. Planning to ambush the city's movie in the park event, Alice made use of the gang's mole inside Crows Security, Agent Chuck Dodgson.

They took Sophie to a building manned by Dodgson, forcing her to stand on a plank overlooking the park to use her as a hostage against Jacob Kane. Her gang was suddenly attacked by an unknown bat vigilante. Beth tried to make Sophie fall but was attacked, and during the scuffle she nearly strangled the vigilante with a rope. However, the bat vigilante managed to break free in time to save a falling Sophie after which Beth fled the scene. Later, Beth admired a photo of her and Kate together and sought to rule over Gotham alongside her. Beth sat at the table in her old childhood home, which now belonged to an older man and woman, and hosted a tea party, giving the members of the Wonderland Gang a pep talk. Once they disbanded, Dodgson entered and explained that he couldn't find Beth's butterfly knife that she had left during her fight with Batwoman. When told her mission was getting personal, Beth became angry and exclaimed to Dodgson that it was personal as her father had given up on finding her and she wanted to make him suffer. She then angrily bashed on the table and screamed for her knife. She also eventually murdered the old couple by slitting their throats and left their bodies in the house for The Crows to find. One the of the members of the Wonderland Gang later returned with a message from Kate Kane, "waffles", which Beth knew immediately meant that she wanted to meet up with her. The two then met up in an old park and Beth teased Kate, not directly telling her if she was in fact Beth. However, Kate directly asked what had happened during the crash and Beth explained the events as they had happened and after their conversation, Beth offered up a blood sample in order prove to their father it was actually her before several Crows turned up and pointed their guns at her, including Jacob. Kate stood in front of Beth to protect her and ordered them all to stand down, eventually convincing Jacob that he shouldn't kill Alice incase it was Beth. He finally complied and ordered Beth to be taken to Arkham.

After she was loaded into the back off the Crows transfer truck, Beth informed Kate that she had sent Dodgson to kill her step-sister, Mary, as she didn't like to share her sister with someone else, prompting Kate to quickly leave. On the way to Arkham, the transfer truck was bombed by Hamilton Dynamics in an attempt on Beth's life by Catherine Hamilton-Kane. After the truck had fallen off the bridge and was completely underwater, Batwoman entered through a hole in the side and placed a rebreather onto Beth's face, allowing her to breathe and waking her up. She realised Batwoman's identity as Kate and caressed her face until the Crows began shooting in the water, sending off another explosion and launching the two in opposite directions. Later, in her lair, Beth wrote Kate a small note reading, "You have our father's eyes." and also included a dead bat in the box, letting Kate know that Beth knew her secret.

Personality
"'Hello,' said Alice. Shall we believe the Crows will protect us? Well, I believe six impossible things before breakfast."

- Beth Kane

Prior to her disappearance, Beth was a kind-hearted and loving girl. However, the accident that killed her mother seems to have a profound effect on her psyche, twisting it to the point of insanity. It is currently unclear what occurred to Beth over her 15-year disappearance, but it did eventually resulted in the creation of her Alice persona and a gang of criminals that follow her orders. She seems to concentrate all of her hatred onto her father, Jacob Kane, for what she perceives to be his willingness to abandon her. As such it's not so much that she wants to see Gotham and the Crows burn just for the sake of destroying something, but rather that she knows her father cares about the city and thus wants to hurt him by attacking Gotham. The same can be said for her kidnapping of Sophie Moore as she thinks Sophie as a surrogate daughter for Jacob and that he cares for her, that it hurts him to see Sophie in danger.

The only positive trait she displays is her love of her sister Kate. Demonstrated by her need to get Kate on her side and her willingness to show up to an old waffle stand they frequented as children. And she took no retaliation against Kate once she discovered her identity as Batwoman, despite Kate foiling her earlier scheme involving Sophie and bombing Gotham, in fact actually relishing in it as she believes that Kate will be submerged in darkness. But even her love for Kate is twisted as she had incredible jealousy and hatred towards Mary for taking her place as Kate's sister.

Beth, or Alice in this case, displays an obsession with Lewis Carol's Alice in Wonderland by constantly quoting the book and it's related media and by dressing up in Victorian clothing reminiscent of the era. Beth is proven to be manipulative, charming and highly dramatic, while seemingly chaotic and unstable, she is revealed to be highly intelligent, calculating and methodical. She has no qualms in killing individuals as she killed officers and wanted to kill Sophie Moore to make a statement to the citizens of Gotham City.

Abilities
"You know how dangerous she is."

- Sophie Moore to Kate Kane


 * Master tactician/Manipulator/Leader: Beth is able to attack highly secured places and bypass security measures with ease and swiftly adjusting to changing situations. Beth also effectively leads the Wonderland gang.
 * Expert hand-to-hand combatant: Beth is proven to be a fearsome hand-to-hand combatant, as she was able to match and nearly best Kate Kane (under the persona of Batwoman) in hand-to-hand combat. She was also able to use her surroundings and a variety of improvised weaponry with great effect.
 * Expert knife-wielder/thrower: Beth is an expert at knives, using them in close range fight against Batwoman and killing two cops with throwing knives.
 * High tolerance for pain: Beth has a high tolerance for pain; as she cut her palm with one of her knives to provide Kate with a DNA sample, without displaying any discomfort.
 * Intimidation: Beth has proven to be feared by the citizens of Gotham City.
 * Skilled musician: Beth was taught how to play Bach's "Cello Suite No. 1, Prelude" by her father, Jacob Kane.

Equipment

 * Balisong knife: Beth uses a regular butterfly knife as a substitute after her butterfly knife was taken from her.
 * Wooden Paddle: Beth uses this wooden paddle to knock people unconscious and even used it to break the Bat-Signal.

Former equipment
"Where is my damn knife?!"

- Beth on her knife's disappearance


 * Butterfly knife: Beth wielded a butterfly knife that also had the garnet from one of her childhood necklaces embroidered on it. It was later taken by Batwoman during their fight.
 * Throwing knives: Beth threw these throwing knives to kill two police officers.

Trivia

 * Beth plays the cello where she would play "Bach's Cello Suite No. 1, Prelude" with her dad.

Behind the scenes

 * In the DC Comics, Elizabeth Kane was the twin sister of Katherine "Kate" Kane, also known as the super-hero Batwoman. She was a super-villain who was a member of the Religion of Crime under the alias Alice, a name taken from the novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. She later adopted the name Red Alice in the Prime Earth continuity.
 * Beth currently serves as the main antagonist of Season 1 of Batwoman.