Copperhead

Copperhead is an expert escape artist and an assassin with a skill in contortionism and judo, who was apparently a gang member from a Central American drug cartel who worked as a contract killer. She appeared to have advanced combat techniques and possessed many reptilian features, such as her forked tongue, slit pupils, and venomous talons. She is also known to balk at wearing footwear and non-restrictive clothing. Before she appeared in Gotham, Copperhead was already famous throughout most of South America for her skills as a highly mobile escape artist with an extremely flexible physiology, after having successfully broken out of fourteen different prisons. She also had tattoos that suggested a connection to a Central American gang. GCPD analysis determined her center of operations to be in Guatemala. By the time she took the hit on Batman, Copperhead had two outstanding warrants in murder of the first degree, one outstanding warrant in theft, other assaults motivated by simple reasons, and one charge of burglary more specifically, unlawful entry without force. Her methods included asphyxiation, fracture of the cervical vertebrae, and death through the application of exotic poisons. On at least three occasions, suspects alleged to be Copperhead entered custody, only to escape via inexplicable means. The officer assigned to her case was Renee Montoya. Copperhead arrived in Gotham City. At this time, she had two counts of murder in the first degree and one count of theft. After this, she ended up captured and placed in interrogation. Copperhead managed to escape her overconfident interrogator, by breaking his neck with her legs while he tried to call for help before she received an envelope that detailed a bounty on the vigilante known as Batman. At some point during her contracted status, Copperhead had managed to deduce that her "employer" had actually been impersonated by the Joker. After tracking Batman to the Steel Mill, Copperhead stalked her prey as he made his way through the establishment, killing one of the Joker's Henchmen along the way. This perhaps was a way to let Batman know what was in store for him, to try unnerving him. Upon finding and interrogating a captured Roman Sionis, Batman was attacked and poisoned by Copperhead. The vigilante soon found a sample of her venom, scanned it, and had Alfred synthesize an antidote. While heading to ground level to receive the antidote from the Batwing, Batman had hallucinations of Alfred, the Bank Manager of Gotham Merchant's Bank, and Commissioner Loeb. Arriving at ground level, Batman got into a lengthy fight with Copperhead and, after receiving and using the antidote, easily defeated the assassin. Attempting to coerce the vigilante into letting her go, Copperhead offered to provide information on the Joker's next meeting. However, Batman, using the electric signal emitting from the Electrocutioner's Shock Gloves, found no use in the criminal and left her in a shipping crate for the GCPD but she escape and stop doing the hit on Batman. Copperhead was a ruthless killer and capable tactician. While Copperhead was capable of rapidly choking or crushing the neck of her target, she chose to poison Batman and attack while he was delirious, instead of engaging in direct combat. Copperhead was confident perhaps too confident in her own abilities as even when Batman was cured, she still believed that she could take him even without the poison. Despite this, Copperhead had a surprisingly keen intellect, as she was able to seemingly deduce the truth behind the Joker's trickery, as well as successfully break out of fourteen different prisons presumably on her own. She also appeared to know when to give up and was willing to give Batman valuable information in exchange for him letting her go. Although its very likely that this was probably a ruse. Copperhead was also shown to have a very sadistic side as she stated several times that she would like to tear Batman's corpse apart, and seemed to enjoy watching him trying to move around with her poison flowing through his veins. And even laughed cruelly whenever it seemed like he was about to stumble. This could be considered a weakness, as she often took too much time watching her victims pain and despair instead of dealing a finishing blow. Copperhead appeared to be very foul-mouthed when angered as she was heard cursing Batman numerous times in Spanish. Despite learning that the Joker was posing as Black Mask, Copperhead still tried to complete her contract, despite being lied to by her employer, which indicated a sense of professionalism and practiced apathy, as long as her employer followed through with his end of the contract. Copperhead is a contortionist, and can bend and flex her body beyond the normal human range of motion. She has short whitish-blonde hair, and yellowish reptilian eyes. She wears black eyeliner, which slightly obscures her features and throws her unusual eyes into sharp contrast. She has many tattoos across her upper body and arms, and wears close-fitting snake-skin clothing, as befitting her moniker. Copperhead is 24 years old.