Catherine Hamilton-Kane

"Batman gave up on us. It's been three years, Gotham. The Bat's not coming back."

- Catherine to her fellow Gothamites on the three year anniversary of Batman's disappearance

Catherine Hamilton-Kane (née Hamilton) is a billionaire and philanthropist as well as one of the most powerful citizen of Gotham City, owner and CEO of Hamilton Dynamics and financer of Crows Security. She is the second wife of Jacob Kane, the mother of Mary Hamilton, and the step-mother of Kate Kane.

Early life
Catherine Hamilton was born in Gotham City and raised in an affluent family of great wealth and prestige. As an adult she inherited her family company, Hamilton Dynamics. At a young age Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Mary.

At some point in her life she met Jacob Kane and befriended him.

In January 2003, Jacob's wife Gabi and daughter Beth had a car accident falling from a bridge into the river below and Catherine, along with the whole city, searched for their bodies for months, until Gabi's was found. Then, seeing Jacob and his surviving daughter Kate becoming increasingly obsessed and devasted by the research of Beth, Catherine decided to gave them closure by paying the coroner to fake the DNA test over some skull fragments of a deer found by some of her men somewhere close to Miller Farm in order to made them match Beth's DNA, prompting the authorities, and Jacob, to assume she was dead as well.

Over the following years, her relationship with Jacob intensified and eventually, over a decade prior to 2018, they married.

Rise of Batwoman
In 2018, Catherine attended the switching off of the Bat-Signal with her family. While at the event, she was witness to Alice and her Wonderland gang terrorizing the citizen and kidnapping Sophie Moore. The following night, after Kate Kane had returned home to Gotham, Catherine helped organize a welcome home party for her. She warmly greeted Kate, before urging Mary to join her in taking a photo with a councilwoman because according to her, if they show everyone they feel safe, then their clients in turn feel safe as well. The night after, Catherine attended the city's Movie in the Park event alongside her husband, witnessing a new Bat vigilante. The next morning, Catherine read about the ordeal in the Gotham City Gazette.

The following day, during breakfast, Catherine spoke at the phone with a business acquaintance, remarking that she didn't like another company's response to their AR, and decided to pull out from their association and spark interest in Dubai. Then, after Mary commented Sophie being married to a man asking out loud what was her actual sexual orientation was, Catherine politely told her to simply drop it. Then Kate revealed to Jacob her suspicious that Alice was actually Beth, shocking everyone, expecially Catherine. Then, after Kate contacted Sophie to gave her Alice's butterfly knife she previously stole her to have it DNA tested, they got attacked by a group of thugs dressed as member of Wonderland gang, that manage to stole it back, however the leader of said thugs is later revealed to be working for Catherine and gave her the butterfly Kife receiving the order to destroy it.

Abilities

 * High-level intellect/Great business acumen/Expert tactician/Leader: Catherine is an intelligent and cunning businesswoman, being able to ran Hamilton Dynamics and helping financing Crows Security. Her direction made Hamilton Dynamics into one of the most important defense company of the United States. Catherine is very charismatic and a skilled leader, being Jacob Kane's right-hand woman in the business of the Crows.
 * Expert of deception/Manipulator: Catherine maintained her image of a philanthropist and businesswoman whilst doing illegal business and corrupting some public figures, she managed to deceive Jacob, GCPD and the entire city making them believe that Beth Kane was dead.
 * Network: As a businesswoman, member of the social elite, and Crows, Catherine has many contacts with significant figures. She also paid some thugs to do illegal business for her.

Trivia

 * It should be noted that Catherine shares her first name with her step-daughter, whose full first name is Katherine, but is spelt with a 'C' rather than a 'K'.

Behind the scenes

 * In the DC comics, Catherine Hamilton-Kane is the heiress to the Hamilton arms fortune, the second wife of Jacob Kane and the step-mother of Kate Kane.