THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING
|
This article needs to be updated. There is plenty of content, but there is some missing. Please help Shipping Wiki by adding content to it. Once all content has been updated, this template can be removed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Batcousins is the family ship between Bruce Wayne and Kate Kane from the DC Comics fandom.
Canon[]
This section is in need of major improvement. Please help improve this article by editing it.
Bruce and Kate are cousins who are part of Gotham's prominent families, the Waynes and the Kanes. On separate occasions when the two were at a young age, they both suffered traumatic events that involved members of their families dying. While Bruce's pain motivates him to become Gotham's protector, so no other child would go through what he had, Kate's pain got her to sign up for the military until she was forced out of it. With her life spiraling, coping with her life by drinking and doing drugs, she finds herself being saved by Batman. Inspiring Kate to channel her pain in the same way Bruce did, not knowing Batman was her cousin Bruce, and she created Batwoman. Bruce discovered who Batwoman was through his detective stills and because of the methods she used when Batwoman first started out, didn't approve of Kate's choice. The two were eventually able to work things out and welcomed Batwoman to the Batfamily. Bruce even revealing to Kate that he is Batman.
Fanon[]
This section is in need of major improvement. Please help improve this article by editing it.
Kate being Bruce's cousin does have the Batcousins be compared with the Supercousins. Although Kate herself is not compared to Supergirl, outside from them both being cousins to the starting member of their family. Though Kate and Bruce's relationship is not explored as other familial relationships. Both within the Batfamily and in the larger DC fandom as a whole. This is due to Kate being a character not used as often as other Batfamily memebers, as well as Kate having less time as a Batfamily member. Due to her not being added to comics till 2005, as well as having a limited amount of page time with the Batfamily till the New 52. This is also where she and Bruce canonically became cousins, which is when more people started exploring their relationship within fics and art.
The lack of exploration isn't helped by Kate's lack of appearances in adaptive Batfamily media. And the few times she does appear, it's normally for either a short period of time, or not exploring her relationship with Bruce. Leaving fans with little to work with for fan works. Fans that do explore their relationship, often do it as more of a wider Kate as part of the Batfamily concept rather than just her and Bruce. With her often joining the kids in messing with him.
On AO3, there are currently 65+ gen fics.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Kate & Bruce tag on AO3
Trivia[]
- Young Justice and the DC animated film universe, are two of the media adaptions that the two have appeared in.
- In the Arrowverse of the Batwoman series, Kate discovers Bruce's secret after he disappeared and decided to continue his mission as Batwoman. At the end of an episode Kate would talk to Bruce in her head, from wanting to have advice from him whenever she finds herself struggling.
- In Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Knight, when going to Wayne Tower and listening to the voicemails in Bruce Wayne's Office, one of the messages will be from Kate reminding him to attend her engagement party and the importance of keeping up appearances.
Variations[]
- Batfamily refers to the ship between the two and the rest of their Gotham city allies
