
However Montoya ends up settling into her new Bat-verse digs, the wait won't be too long for our first look.
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Total wish-making here, but Montoya working off the grid to fight crime (if the series takes her there) would call up at least a thematic affinity with another of her iterations in past DC comics: that of The Question, the secret mantle she inherited from Vic Sage after the events of DC’s mid-2000s comics miniseries event 52.
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In later comics versions of the character (as well as in the Gotham TV series), Montoya is still on duty, teamed with Crispus Allen and working under commissioner Gordon to uncover elements of Gotham’s steamy criminal underworld - elements that end up having some pretty steamy connections with her own personal life.ĭeadline’s report teases that Montoya is heading up Gotham’s “freaks division,” though we’re not sure whether that’s a task that places her on the GCPD or working vigilante-style outside of it. I guess #Reneemontoya and I have some unfinished business❤️ So very excited to join this new group of talented artists, writers & crew who are doing their thing over here! They have welcomed me wholeheartedly! Grateful, humbled, hype AF… #batwoman #fullcircle - Victoria Cartagena July 20, 2021įirst appearing in the comics as a tough LGBTQ character in DC”s Batman #475 (1992) ahead of entering regular rotation in Batman: The Animated Series, Renee Montoya is a former GCPD cop who grows disgruntled and quits the force over its culture of prejudice and corruption. But Cartagena sounds grounded and ready to roll in her new-but-familiar role, tweeting her excitement at getting to continue her DC journey in a whole new way: That might create a little momentary déjà vu for fans of both series when Cartagena makes her first Batwoman bow this fall. But as the report points out (and anyone who’s followed both series can guess), Batwoman’s Renee Montoya exists in a separate CW-centric Bat-verse from her former Fox counterpart, because the two series’ versions of Gotham City and its denizens aren’t connected. The catch? It’s the same character she played at Fox, all right - except, y’ know, that it’s kinda not.įormer Gotham regular Victoria Cartagena is boarding Season 3 of Batwoman as ex-Gotham City police detective Renee Montoya, via Deadline - a role that she (and perhaps Rosie Perez, who also portrayed the character in Birds of Prey) is probably more qualified than anyone on Earth to play. Cartagena is repped by Sweet 180 and Gersh.Holy twisted identities, Batman! A veteran of Fox’s Gotham has just answered The CW’s Bat-signal to play her old familiar character in the upcoming season of Batwoman.

She also recurred on the first season of NBC’s Manifest.

Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ series Servant. Batwoman is produced by Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros Television.Ĭartagena’s other recent credits include a series regular role on Fox’s Almost Family, and recurring on M.

In addition to Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, Meagan Tandy, Nicole Kang and Camrus Johnson also star original cast member Dougray Scott recently left the series. It also was revealed that Ryan’s biological mother, who was believed to have died in childbirth, is actually alive. In the June 27 Season 2 finale, Ryan Wilder (Javicia Leslie) has fully taken up the mantle of Batwoman with Kate Kane leaving Gotham in a search for her long-missing cousin Bruce Wayne (aka Batman). I guess #Reneemontoya and I have some unfinished business❤️ So very excited to join this new group of talented artists, writers & crew who are doing their thing over here! They have welcomed me wholeheartedly! Grateful, humbled, hype AF… #batwoman #fullcircle Cartagena previously played Renee Montoya on Fox’s Gotham, though the universes are not connected.
