Kate and Sophie were pretty hardcore even during their West Point days, with a short scene showing them sparring in full-contact boxing with no gloves, headgear, or mouthguards.
Colony!Kate cuts a no-nonsense and imposing figure.
Issue #1 starts with a scene of Kate fighting a monsterfied terrorist. She defeats him by riding a motorcycle along the walls of a tunnel, grabbing some decorative lanterns, and setting him on fire with them. Also, her actions result in zero civilian casualties.
Issue #2:
Knife makes a good first impression as a villain during her fight with Kate, managing to hold her own and even get the upper hand. She also gets points for her Batman Gambit that lured Kate to the island and the Desert Rose specifically.
Knife has Kate pinned to a wall. How does Kate escape? By shooting fire directly into Knife's face from flamethrowers built into her gloves.
Kate rips a chandelier from the ceiling of the Desert Rose while fighting Knife and uses it like a flail.
Kate's new glider in issue #3, which is formed from the Sequoia's surveillance drones.
Issue #4:
Kate and Knife's brawl through the caverns. They fall down not one but two cliffs, Kate withstands a hefty beatdown and uses a stalagmite as a club, and it ends with Knife escaping by grapple-hooking onto a helicopter while Kate sets the cave on fire by sparking a knife blade into a pool of oil in a last-ditch effort to stop her.
Kate and the warlords successfully stopping the detonation of the Coryanan weapons stockpile, which saves the island and, more importantly, thousands of lives.
In issue #6, the Bad Future versions of Kate and Renee get accosted by three Bat-cops and held at gunpoint. Kate deliberately drops her own weapon, and then she and Renee proceed to completely kick their asses, totally unarmed.
Issue #7:
A short montage shows that Kate quickly got out of the funk that Coryana put her in, and apprehended three operatives of The Many Arms of Death in as many weeks.
Almost immediately after getting shot down and banged up in the crash of her Batplane, Kate gets attacked by two gorilla-human Colony soldier hybrids, and manages to fight them both to a standstill... just before a sandstorm hits.
Issue #8:
Kate fighting her way out of being fear-toxin'd, which is visualized as her killing a gigantic bat by stabbing it in the brain with one if its own wing bones.
She later busts herself and Colony Prime out of their cells by overloading her taser gloves with stored energy in her suit, and essentially Kamehamehas her cell door with electricity. The blast not only breaks open the door, but shatters the plexiglass wall dividing the cells and tears the cell's toilet from the wall.
In issue #9, Scarecrow is attempting to break Kate by taunting her with all her failures, coupled with the horrific imagery of a new dose of fear toxin. Kate eventually shuts him down by declaring that she is stronger than all the negative things in her past, and that she rose beyond them. While she's saying this, she transforms into a kaiju-sized bat creature, ready to kick Scarecrow's ass in his own manufactured nightmare.
In issue #11, Kate gets jumped by several Dollotrons while searching for Julia, who has been kidnapped. Things aren't looking good, as she was hit in the head with a baseball bat, stomped, and about to get hit again. However, she rallies herself, neutralizes them (off-panel), and shows up to Professor Pyg's hideout, announcing herself by throwing an outboard motor into his chest. Especially awesome considering how deep she had to dig to do that, since she was still reeling from the second arc.
Kate and Knife fight again in #14, with Knife using a pair of Cool Swords, one of which she heats with airship exhaust until it glows. Kate grabs that blade and snaps it in half.
Kate solves a swarm of plague-infested bats set loose on Gotham by spooling up the engines of a jet into the hypersonic range to mimic echolocation, leading them Pied-Piper-style into the Sequoia, trapping them, and then detonating the entire ship.
Issue #17:
Kate's life and mental state is pretty much back to normal (and maybe even better) within three months after some of the worst mental anguish she's ever been through.
Kate and Renee team up to take out a robot attacking GCPD headquarters. Kate ends up both kicking it and throwing it clear through two separate concrete-block walls. She also shrugs off getting smacked with a cell door.
