History

Alice in Gotham City

Elizabeth Kane came to the world for Jacob and Gabi Kane about 2 minutes before their identical twin sister, Katherine. His parents were career soldiers in the US Army and belonged to a lineage of Gotham City's wealthiest families. Little is known about the origin of Alice or the transformation of Beth Kane into the psychotic figure of Alice, the high Madame of the Religion of Crime.

The Religion of Crime had gone without a supreme leader for nearly a year after Mannheim's death by Batwoman. This leaderless time came to an end with the election of Alice as the Dark Faith's new High Madame. The heads of Gotham City's thirteen covens were prepared to meet and welcome her to the city, which they believed was their holy city. However, Batwoman crashed Alice's welcoming party. She was cracking down hard on the Religion of Crime and came looking for answers as to why they wanted her dead so badly. She attacked Alice and separated her from her flock for some questioning, in which Alice gave her little more than quotes from Lewis Carroll's story. Alice took Batwoman by surprise with a razor blade hidden in her mouth, slicing Gotham's heroine on the cheek with a poisoned blade. Batwoman was able to escape with the help of a group of rebellious members of the Religion of Crime.

After Batwoman's interruption, Alice got on with consolidating her new position of leadership, and she did so by gunning down the assembled leaders of Gotham's thirteen covens.

Alice came to Gotham City with a plan for her holy city. She was going to consecrate the land with a deadly chemical weapon obtained from Fort Richards. To gain access to it, she abducted Colonel Kane. Her plan worked excellently, as she was able to breach the base, acquire the chemical weapon and take off with it in a plane. Much against the advice of her guards, she kept Colonel Kane alive, making this the second time she refused to kill him. On the plane, she moved in too close to him while speaking and he was able to recognize her as Beth. She denied that any such Beth existed.

Batwoman intercepted the plane with the help of the Religion of Crime's rebels and boarded in mid-flight. Alice's guards were defeated, and Colonel Kane was freed so that he could pilot the plane. Alice and Batwoman fought until both found themselves dangling outside of the plane Alice was in the most vulunerable position, being held onto by Batwoman. In a saner tone that she had previously spoken, Alice told Batwoman that she had their father's eyes before stabbing a dagger into her arm to force her to let go. Alice plunged from that great height into the Gotham River.

The Gotham City Police Department was unable to find any sign of Alice's body in the river, and Batwoman kept a sample of her blood to test whether Alice was actually her lost twin sister.

Other Media

Batman: Bad Blood

Alice as Beth Kane would make a cameo via photograph, and is supposedly dead in this version of Kate's origin oppose to being secretly still alive.

Batwoman (2019-2022)

Alice played by Rachel Skarsten (Same actress who played Black Canary in the original Birds of Prey show.) Alice would be the the main villain of the first season, having survived the Kane family car accident, but would be lost for decades being kept in the basement of the Cartwright's home, suffering from constant abuse but would form a friendship with the son of the family, Mouse AKA Jonathan Cartwright (Male version of Jane Doe.) She'd seek vengeance on her step-mom for covering up her disappearance, killing her, taking on the name of Alice to create havoc across Gotham. Starting the Wonderland gang, and would try to bring her sister to the dark side, but would ultimately fail when Kate locked her up in Arkham. She & Mouse would take over the prison, by making connections with Tommy Elliot (Hush) and Magpie, using them as a means to get out eventually. She came to close to killing Kate for revenge just as season one ended with her giving Hush Bruce Wayne's face and killing her brother figure as he wished to leave her.

Season two Alice's plan would fail with Kate "dying" in the plane crash, now is pitted against the new Batwoman (Ryan Wilder) having killed her mom back in the day, it would also be revealed she'd been hypnotized into her crazy state by Enigma. She would be given a new male character to bounce off of, this being Ocean, a love interest who'd be eventually killed. Alice would learn of her sister being alive, and at first would want to kill her again as revenge for last season, only to learn that she couldn't bring herself to do it, changing her mind to wanting to save her sister. By the season's end she'd help the Bat team take down Black Mask, and rescue Kate, just to be dragged away to Arkham again.

Season three, Alice would be brought onto the Bat team by Renee seeing her as useful to helping beat the new villain emerging in Gotham. Alice would manipulate Mary into becoming Poison Ivy, but would soon find herself seeing Mary as her real sister, a bond that would continue even after Mary went back to normal when Alice took the blame for Mary murdering a man. Alice would find herself no longer wanting to be Alice, going back to Beth to help Batwoman take down her brother, and save Gotham, the season would end with her going off the find herself again, and becoming who she once was.