Renee Montoya

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Renee Montoya
Renee Montoya. Art by Michael Lark.
Publisher DC Comics First appearance Batman: The Animated Series Created by Paul Dini
Characteristics Alter ego Renee Montoya Affiliations The Question, Gotham City Police Department: Major Crimes Unit Abilities None, but equip with gun-like device capable of instant vaporization.

Renee Montoya is a fictional character in DC Comics. She is a retired police detective from the Gotham City Police Department, assigned to the Major Crimes Unit.

Contents 1 Character history 1.1 Gotham Central 1.2 52 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Character history

Renee Montoya was created for Batman: The Animated Series, in which she is voiced by Ingrid Oliu and then by Liane Schirmer as a uniformed officer partnered with Harvey Bullock. In the follow-up The New Batman Adventures, Montoya has been promoted from police officer to detective. Montoya was also a recurring character in the third season of the web cartoon Gotham Girls, in which she is voiced by Adrienne Barbeau. Like Harley Quinn, Renee Montoya is one of the animated series characters assimilated into the comics universe, although she first appears in Batman #475 (May 1992), which was printed months before the animated series began broadcasting in September 1992.[1]

Montoya is a recurring character in the Batman-related comics after Batman #475. After she is promoted to homicide detective by Commissioner James Gordon, Montoya is partnered with Harvey Bullock, whith whom she becomes close friends.^{[issue # needed]} After Bullock is promoted to Lieutenant, Crispus Allen becomes Renee's new partner.^{[issue # needed]}

When Gotham City is destroyed by an earthquake in the "No Man's Land crossover,^{[issue # needed]} Renee forms a friendship with the criminal Two-Face. She is able to enlist Two-Face's kinder Harvey Dent persona in helping with aid and relief efforts, and the mentally unstable man falls in love with her.^{[issue # needed]}

[edit] Gotham Central

Montoya is one of the main characters of Gotham Central a comic book series about the Gotham City police department. Believing that the only way to have Montoya is to take everything away from her, Two-Face outs her as a lesbian to the public and frames her for murder. He then kidnaps her, making it look like Renee has escaped. Two-Face becomes more unstable and the two fight for control of his gun until Batman arrives to save them. Renee is cleared of all charges and Two-Face returns to Arkham, but Renee's personal life becomes chaotic, especially with her family: While her younger brother knew about her sexuality, her religious parents didn't, and they disown her.

In the 2004 "War Games" crossover, Montoya and Crispus Allen are ambushed by the Black Spider, and Allen shoots the villain.^{[issue # needed]} A corrupt crime scene investigator named Jim Corrigan steals and sells the bullet on the Internet, but the bullet is needed to prove that Allen's killing was self-defense. In her pursuit of the bullet, Montoya beats the name of the buyer out of Corrigan.^{[issue # needed]} Although Allen is cleared, Montoya becomes obsessed with exposing Corrigan. Allen tries to persuade Montoya to let the issue go, but Montoya refuses, so Allen investigates Corrigan independently, hoping that if Corrigan is brought to justice, Montoya will stop her downward spiral.^{[issue # needed]} During his investigation, one of Allen's informants is murdered shortly before Allen himself is shot and killed by Corrigan.^{[issue # needed]} Montoya takes it upon herself to bring Corrigan to justice. Tracking him down, Montoya beats Corrigan's girlfriend unconscious and draws a gun on Corrigan. He begs for his life, and Montoya finds she can't pull the trigger. Montoya quits the GCPD the next day, disgusted and broken.^{[issue # needed]}

[edit] 52

In 52, Montoya, now an alcoholic ex-cop, spends her days in bars and her nights obsessing about the loss of her job and girlfriend. The Question, believing that Intergang is preparing for an invasion of Gotham, hires Montoya to surveil a warehouse in Gotham City, where they uncover futuristic weapons. Montoya and the Question fly to Kahndaq, where Montoya prevents a girl from exploding a bomb at Black Adam's wedding by shooting and killing her. In thanks, Adam bestows the two with the highest honor Kahndaq can give to those not born in the nation. When Montoya fails to appear, Adam finds her guilt-stricken and drunk, in bed with a woman. Montoya and the Question track down Intergang, which is forcing children to become operatives. The Question takes Renee to Nanda Parbat to train with Richard Dragon. There, Montoya discovers that the Question is dying of cancer and that the Question wants her to replace him. The two discover a prophecy written in Intergang's Crime Bible about the death of Batwoman, Montoya's former lover Kate Kane. They return to Gotham and join Batwoman's fight against Intergang, preventing her death. As the Question lies in hospice care at Kate's, Renee begins to adopt some of his traits, such as meditation.

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