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| “ | Curiouser and curiouser. | „ |
| ~ Alice's catchphrase, referencing Alice in Wonderland. |
| “ | You have our father's eyes. | „ |
| ~ Alice to Kate Kane, also her most famous quote. |
| “ | Where's Kate? Is Kate okay? Is Kate happy? Is she sleeping enough? Has she done her homework? Seen a doctor? Had enough to eat? Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate I am so sick of Kate! | „ |
| ~ Alice showing her jealousy and hatred for Kate Kane/Batwoman. |
Elizabeth "Beth" Kane, also known as Alice, is the main antagonist of the 2019-2022 TV Series Batwoman.
Beth is also the daughter of Jacob Kane and the late Gabi Kane, the twin sister/former archenemy of Kate Kane/Batwoman, the cousin of Bruce Wayne/Batman and the best friend/"adoptive sister" of the late Jonathan Cartwright.
Beth is the former leader of the Wonderland Gang; who was determined to destroy Gotham's sense of security. She is also a former associate of Safiyah Sohail and the current archenemy of Ryan Wilder/Batwoman.
She is portrayed by Rachel Skarsten.
Biography[]
Beth was presumed dead in a car crash that killed her mother Gabi Kane. Beth was found by a man and his deformed son named Jonathan Cartwright (nicknamed Mouse). Jonathan’s father kept Beth hostage against her will, but eventually, she found a way to contact her father, Jacob. Jacob and Beth’s twin Kate arrived at the house, but Jonathan’s father had threatened to kill them, so Beth stayed silent when Kate called out for her. Jonathan was kind and wanted to be friends with Beth.
Years later, Beth resurfaced as the mysterious Alice and formed the Wonderland Gang. She formed a relationship with the crows agent, Chuck Dodgson, and he became her right-hand man and second-in-command. Alice kidnapped Sophie Moore and tried to force her father to choose between her or the city. She was stopped by Kate; who had taken up the mantle of Batwoman.
Alice later meet with Kate and toyed with her on whether or not she was Beth. Alice was apprehended but managed to escape and revealed she knew Kate was Batwoman. To get Dodgson back, who had been captured by Kate, Alice made a deal with her that she would not kill for twenty-four hours. Alice brown that promise after breaking into Jacob’s apartment and killing a crows agent that caught her. She then called Jacob while playing a song on a cello to taunt him. Alice saved Kate from Tommy Elliot.
Alice showed up where she was was supposedly buried with her mother, and blackmailed her stepmother Catherine Hamilton-Kane, demanding access to a powerful weapon that her company had developed. She gave her twenty-four hours or else she would tell Jacob how she faked Beth’s death. Catherine sent guys after Alice, but she captured then and chopped one of their fingers off to send Catherine a message that she wasn’t playing games.
Alice managed to find Dodgson and recur him. She then crafted skin off the rear ends of corpses and became known as the skin pirate. Kate tracked Alice down and captured her. She cuffed her and demanded to know what happened to her. She called their father, knowing he would trace the call as a way to force Alice’s hand. Alice convinces Kate to take her to a roadside diner as she recounted her tale to her. Kate, as drugged by the waiter, who was Mouse and Alice, took her to Mouse’s old house as she finished the rest of the story.
Jacob and Sophie tracked Alice down and wanted to know where Kate was. Alice snapped and went on a tirade about how he was always worried about Kate and threatened to stab herself through the arm. Jacob yelled at Alice to drop the knife and called her Beth. Jacob approached Alice and touched her face before she stabbed him through the chest and threatened to shoot him. Kate showed up with Mouse and threatened to shoot Mouse, but Alice said she doesn’t have it in her. When Sophie showed up and she did, Alice requested they let her, and Mouse go.
Personality[]
Before the accident, Beth was a happy and well-adjusted sweet young girl, though she had a problem with sharing. She and Kate were close and had their birthstones around their neck.
After the accident, Beth was emotionally abused by the man who found her and the man's mother who treated Beth like a servant. She was made to live in fear and this fear and abuses likely twisted her mind into becoming a cold-blooded and violent killer that could easily be confused for a sociopath.
As Alice, Beth is cold and ruthless. She has no problem killing others and been made jokes about killing them as well as joked about corpses. She is sadistic and delighted in causing other pains. She harbors some deep resentment towards her father for failing and giving up looking for her and sometimes, her emotional breakthrough. She also has a jaded view of other perspectives, she thought that after Catherine died and her father framed Kate would be happy after all the suffering that they unintentionally put the twins through, but while Kate was angry at both of them for what they did she didn't want anything bad to happen to them.
But later on in the show it is shown that despite all Beth's flaws, she really does love her family, in a deranged kind of way. While she did wanted revenge on Jacob, she was also willing to let her comfort her after her effects of fear gas, she was willing to search for Kate when she went missing and bonded with Mary after she became the new Poison Ivy. She also had a kind friendship with Mouse, albeit in a somewhat co-dependent way as he was the only friend she was allowed to have and vice-versa.
Beth is shown to have a clear fear of people leaving her, most notably when she was under the effects of the fear gas, when Kate and Jacob left her at Arkham Asylum and when she poisoned Mouse for making her choose between him and her vendetta. Her trauma most likely caused her to develop abandonment issues after being held hostage and alone in a cell her whole life, she also stated that didn't want Kate to give up on her despite her successful previous attempts to make Kate see that she is irredeemable, Alice at one point fantasized about having a normal life with her and is implied that she missed her when Kate went missing, suggesting that she might be grateful that Kate still cares about her, even when Alice drove her away.
All of this violence, murder, and chaos that she leaves in her wake might be her psyche's twisted way of a cry for help, and wanting to reconnect and reunite with her family again.
In season 3, Alice starts losing what is left of her sanity. She begins hallucinating heavily and can't tell the difference between random things and what she thinks they are. By the end, she decides to get professional help; abandoning her identity as Alice to reclaim Beth Kane.
Victims[]
- Catherine Hamilton Kane
- Mabel Cartwright
- Jonathan Cartwright
- Numerous GCPD officers
- Numerous Crows agents
- Tatiana
- Unnamed elderly couple
- John Carr
- Anthony Kim
Indirectly[]
- August Cartwright (caused)
- Ocean (caused)
- Evelyn Rhyme (caused)
- Circe Sionis (caused)
- Cora Lewis (caused)
Quotes[]
| “ | "Hello", said Alice. Shall we believe the crows will protect us?. "(laughs)" Well, i believe in six impossible things before breakfast!. Do you feel safe behind these gates?!. "(laughs)" Because one of you won't make it out alive!. The crows can't save you!. Batman couldn't save you and neither will they!. | „ |
| ~ Alice taunts the citizens of Gotham. |
| “ | You are going to be very annoying, aren't you?!. | „ |
| ~ Alice to Kate Kane. |
| “ | Where is my damn knife?!. | „ |
| ~ Alice demanding to know where her knife is. |
| “ | Fine!. No killing!. But only for my darling Dodgson's sake. Not for Beth!. Beth has gone down down the rabbit hole and she's never coming back. Much like Gotham's beloved Dark Knight!. | „ |
| ~ Alice to Kate |
| “ | All that time my boyfriend, father, sister spent trying to break through to me good side--tsk, tsk, tsk,--silly them. It's so much more fun on my bad side. | „ |
| ~ Alice to Ryan Wilder |
Trivia[]
- In the DC comics, Beth Kane is presumed dead in a terrorist attack. The tv series connects her presumed death to both her cousin and his archenemy the Joker. Batman fails to save her and her mother while the Joker was driving the bus that crashed.
- In the DC comics, Alice is based on Red Alice from the Batwoman comics. In the DC comics, she wears white face paint making her resemble the Joker. She is also the leader of the Religion of Crime; instead of the Wonderland Gang.
- Alice's character arc bears a similarity to Gotham's Barbara Kean:
- They were both held prisoner by a madman (August Cartwright for Alice, Jason Skolimski for Barbara) and subjected to emotional/psychological abuse turning them into mentally unstable villains.
- They both killed someone during their captivity (though Alice kills Mabel Cartwright whereas Barbara murders her own parents) and go on to terrorize the citizens of Gotham (Alice as leader of the Wonderland Gand and Barbara as a member of the Maniax).
- They are both pitted against protagonists whom they have an intimate connection with (Alice being Kate Kane's long lost twin sister, Barbara as Jim Gordon's ex-fiancée) and attempt to make them give into their darkest impulses by committing murder (a feat that Alice manages to achieve).
- Both Alice and Barbara are labeled as sociopaths by those closest to them, although over the course of their respective arcs they start to exhibit signs of sympathy and compassion and even become friends with women who they previously tried to kill (Mary Hamilton and Leslie "Lee" Thompkins, respectively)
- Eventually, both of them found redemption towards the end of their respective shows and reformed, although Alice is still technically considered a criminal.
- Alice is Batwoman's "Joker"; something that her father realized. But with Season 3, she becomes the "Harley Quinn" to her step-sister, Mary aka Poison Ivy 2.0.
- Also, similar to Harley, Alice is a blonde anti-villainess who behaves in a childish psychotic manner, while acting as both a thorn and occasional ally to the Bat Family.
- Additionally, Alice's antagonistic relationship with Black Mask in season 2 and partnership with Reneé Montoya in season 3 parallels Harley's counterpart in the DC Extended Universe film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).
