Title Character
Batman (Bruce Wayne)
Allies
The Bat-Family (Batgirl | Batwoman | Jason Todd | Robin) | Extended Bat-Family & Other Supporting Cast (Azrael | Huntress)
Villains
Bane | Catwoman (Selina Kyle) | Clayface | Harley Quinn (Harleen Quinzel) | The Joker | Lady Shiva | League of Assassins (Ra's Al Ghul | Talia Al Ghul) | Mr. Freeze | The Penguin | Poison Ivy | The Riddler | The Scarecrow | Two Face | A-F | G-L | M-R | S-Z
Spin-Offs
Batgirl (2000) | Batman Incorporated | Dark Nights: Metal (The Batman Who Laughs) | I Am Batman | Nightwing (Dick Grayson) | The Outsiders | Red Hood and the Outlaws | Robin (1993) (Tim Drake) | Robin (2021) (Damian Wayne)
Batgirl and the Bat-Family
Raised by an assassin to be the perfect killer, Cassandra's first mission went sour when she witnessed death for the first time, causing her to flee and swear never to kill again. Having been taken in by the previous Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, she first donned the cowl in Batman: No Man's Land before her own series begins.
See the Batgirl character page for more information.
The former Batgirl, Barbara has become the superhero hacker and informant Oracle. Throughout the series, she acts as a mentor and parental figure for Cassandra, advocating for a more normal and stable life for her instead of letting her be Batgirl full time. She leaves the series after a falling-out between the two women shortly before War Games, but returns shortly before the book's conclusion to make amends.
See the Batgirl character page for more information.
A transplant from Robin's series, Stephanie is a sort of sidekick for Cassandra for a good part of the book, especially during the latter half of the Puckett run. While not nearly as proficient in combat as Cassandra, and rather reckless, she provides a good deal of emotional support for Cass, and some comic relief in an otherwise very dark book. She apparently dies in War Games, which drives much of Cass's development afterwards, but was later revealed to be alive. When Cassandra became Black Bat, Stephanie became the new Batgirl.
See the Batgirl character page for more information.
Batgirl: Oh. Yeah.
Robin: It’s just…my childhood’s so normal. I mean, Batman and Nightwing had some rough stuff to deal with growing up, but…but, you–you were raised to be that guy down there, and you turned yourself into one of us. That’s…pretty intimidating. But I shouldn’t let it affect the way I treat you…and I apologize. Friends?
Batgirl: Friends.
Initially a reluctant ally to Batgirl, Robin becomes one of her closest allies as the series progresses, and they develop a quasi-sibling bond. Though he's Spoiler's boyfriend, they only appear together during one story arc in the book, and otherwise interact with Cassandra separately.
See his own page for more information.
Allies
Cassandra's best friend in Blüdhaven, Brenda is a cynical young woman who owns a struggling cafe which she inherited from her father (along with his considerable debt).
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: She's killed along with most of Blüdhaven in Infinite Crisis.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She may be a bit standoffish in general, but she's nothing but kind to Cassandra, even when she assumes she's a prostitute.
A metahuman extremist from the fictional nation of Tarakstan, the Black Wind forms an uneasy alliance with Batgirl and Batman in order to fight Doctor Death, who is selling weapons to the regime he is fighting.
- Anti-Hero: He is fighting to protect his people, but is willing to rob and kill to do it.
- Blow You Away: His main power is the ability to control wind.
- Flying Brick: In addition to his wind powers, he has this power set.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Dies siphoning all of Doctor Death's gas away from his allies.
- Not Me This Time: Batman and Batgirl track him down assuming he's Doctor Death's employer, only to learn that the real person who hired him was the very regime he is fighting.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He may be trying to help his people, but he does some rather nasty things to accomplish that goal.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: He's generally seen as a terrorist, but he sees himself as a hero, and though his methods can be extreme, the people he's fighting are immeasurably worse.
- Mundane Utility: Aruna uses her shapeshifting and martial arts abilities to make a living as a stunt double.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Capable of changing into other people, although she can't alter her mass.
Villains
Cassandra's biological father, an assassin once considered among the deadliest in the world. Though by the time of the comic he's more of a depressed, alcoholic washout, he still manages to cause a lot of problems for his daughter.
The deadliest assassin in the world. Shiva is unpredictable, and while she tries (and even succeeds) to kill Cass on several occasions, she also acts as a sort of Sink or Swim Mentor to her. She is revealed in the penultimate arc of the book to be Cassandra's biological mother.
See her self-titled page for more information.
A re-imagining of Batman's oldest super villain, this time as a merchant of Weapons of Mass Destruction. He is the main antagonist of the Dylan Horrocks run on the comic.
See here for more on him and the other iterations of his character.
A CIA agent who runs afoul of Cassandra when an agent he sent to kill her defects. Masters is an Arc Villain for issues 13-14 who reappears in issue 17.
- Hate Sink: He's a generally despicable person who cares more about his golf games than the fact that he's about to have a man murdered. Though he only appears in three issues, his awfulness makes him one of the most memorable antagonists of the entire run.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: He escapes during his initial arc, but in Issue 17 Bruce finds him after he goes rogue from the CIA, and sends Cass to bring him to justice
- Knight Templar: He claims that all the people he had Johnson kill were for the greater good, though he dismissively tells him that he "doesn't have the time" to explain what purpose their deaths had.
- Smug Snake: He's utterly convinced that he's important and formidable. Both times he meets Cassandra end in a Curb-Stomp Battle in her favor.
- Threat Backfire: He threatens to find and target Cassandra's friends and family. Given that at this point her only friends are Azrael, Robin, Nightwing, Oracle, and the goddamn Batman, she finds this absolutely hilarious.
