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Cain was deeply moved at having found his daughter, but she violently opposed his attempt to get at the Gordons and he had to break contact as Gordon's men started shooting.
He ran into Cassandra on his way out with the reels, but when he pleaded it was the only thing he had to remind him of her she numbly let him go.
Cassandra ran back to the Batman to demonstrate him she was no longer vulnerable, and he gave her back the Batgirl costume.
www.writeups.org /affiche_fiche.php?id=2308   (3961 words)

  
  Cassandra Cain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cassandra Cain, is a fictional character in the DC Universe, and was the most recent Batgirl.
Cain searched for the perfect mother for this child, finding her in the Wu-San sisters of Detroit, who practiced martial arts with each other nearly every moment of their childhood in a type of sister's language.
Cassandra fought this battle to save the life of Tigris, a mass murderer, and refused to use lethal force against her enemy even though it ultimately cost Cassandra her own life.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cassandra_Cain   (2464 words)

  
 Batgirl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1999, the martial arts prodigy Cassandra Cain became the new Batgirl, under the tutelage of Batman and Oracle.
She was the first star in an eponymous monthly series, which was cancelled in 2006 when Cain gave-up the title and moved away from the Batman Family.
Cassandra Cain, nicknamed "Cassie," was the last Batgirl (of partly Asian descent), having taken on the role with the approval of both Batman and Barbara Gordon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batgirl   (2058 words)

  
 Batgirl/Lady Shiva: Leaf Fall
Cassandra Cain, also known as Batgirl, sat in her room fingering the pearl bracelet she won from Lady Shiva.
She happened to stumble over the man, who said his name was David Cain, when he was trying to infiltrate the crime lord's villa; he would have killed her but she quickly convinced him not to, if she helped him accomplish the job.
Cassandra opened the envelope, and a delicate gold necklace with a stylized pendant surrounded by pearls matching the bracelet she'd won from Shiva the other day fell into her hands along with a letter...
www.angelfire.com /md2/firebird308/fanfics/dc/leaffall.html   (1769 words)

  
 Marvel Heroes Classic Roleplaying Game - Marvel RPG
Cassandra Cain, daughter to the assassin who taught Bruce Wayne hand to hand combat and who trained Cassandra to be a deadly assassin from a young age.
Cain taught her to use violence as her only means of communication, and she developed such keen fighting instincts that she was able to physically "read" her opponents body enabling her to anticipate the next attack.
Cassandra discovered may never be able to regain her apparent deadly arts and so Batman decided that Cassandra needed to train harder without her gift.
www.classicmarvel.com /cast/batgirl.htm   (1263 words)

  
 Cassandra Cain ~ Batgirl
When she was only an infant child, she was kidnapped by an assassin known as David Cain.
When Cassandra was eight, she helped Cain take out a mob boss by ripping out his throat with only two fingers.
During the time of the No Man's Land, the vigilante known as the Huntress (who was not in favor of Batman, because of her violent acts of "justice") donned the lagacy of Batgirl to earn Batman's respect and decided to stay in Gotham and help out.
www.geocities.com /batgirls_gotham/cassandra_cain.html   (620 words)

  
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Cain spared Sandra from death on the condition that she bear his child, and leave her for him to raise.
When she was 8 years old, Cain decided his experiment had progressed far enough for him to test Cassandra's abilities in the real world, and took her to kill a businessman.
At the time Cassandra had no idea what she was doing and believed it was only a game (an interpretation in keeping with her own reaction to what happened, and matching the interpretation of Alfred Pennyworth, an expert on children who saw a tape of events).
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showpost.php?p=10903075&postcount=590   (1306 words)

  
 Lady Shiva - Oracle Files
The child, Cassandra Cain, was to be Ra's Al Ghul's "One Who Is All," a girl whose only native tongue was an instinct for hand to hand combat and the ability to read people's intentions simply by observing their slightest muscle movements.
Shiva realized that Cassandra was not a pawn of Batman, but that she made her own mind up to be a preserver of life as she sacrificed it to save a former League of Assassins member Tigris from an attack by Mad Dog, her own predessesor and unsucessful experiment of David Cain.
Cassandra granted her mother's deathwish, but still unwilling to kill decided to suspend her precariously over the Lazarus pits before she left to renounce her role as Batgirl and find her own place in the world.
www.unstable.com /whoswho/ladyshiva.htm   (1601 words)

  
 Cassandra Cain ~ Batgirl
Although Cassandra was no longer allowed to wear the mantle of Batgirl anymore, that didn't stop her from patrolling the streets at night.
Cassandra got in the way, but didn't do much good without her abilities and ended up in the hospital.
Realizing how bad she was, Cassandra had Oracle e-mail Shiva to aks her to meet her the nxt night.
www.geocities.com /batgirls_gotham/cassandra_cain2.html   (417 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Batgirl A Knight Alone: Books: Kelley Puckett   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cassandra Cain, the young woman that inherited the Batgirl mantle from Barbara Gordon, rose from the cataclysmic upheaval of NO MAN'S LAND.
Batman counsels Cassandra, and Barbara Gordon counsels her, but only when Batgirl steps into the field of fire of the dangerous living legend, Shiva, does she begin to come to terms with what she is, what she was, and what she wants to be.
David Cain, the man who raised Cassandra, steps back into her life as well, bringing more pain and tragedy as he tries to recover tapes of Cassandra's aberrant childhood and the training he forced on her.
www.amazon.ca /Batgirl-Knight-Alone-Kelley-Puckett/dp/1563898527   (1752 words)

  
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Cassandra gasped as she saw who was sitting there.
Cassandra Cain marvelled at the warm feeling in her stomach.
Cassandra, damn her, was just as stubborn as Bruce and more protective of Tim than anyone.
www.dixeyland.com /superboy/fanfic/rea/toodeep11.html   (2052 words)

  
 Bats About The Girl
Cassandra Cain, the almost mute adopted daughter of David Cain, master assassin.
Cassandra Cain is wearing the suit designed by Helena Bertinelli, the Huntress, when she took on the mantle of the Bat during the early days of No Man’s Land.
Cassandra was found by Barbara Gordon, and enlisted as one of her helpers.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /fool/95854680040615,print.htm   (1668 words)

  
 Cassandra Cain, The Batgirl, a Batman fanfic - FanFiction.Net
Cassandra Cain almost couldn’t believe how such a simple question had put her in the life or death situation she currently found herself in, some hundreds of miles from home, without friends or allies and about to fight the world’s greatest martial artist, Lady Shiva, to the death for the second time.
Cassandra had a little trouble finding it, even though she knew where it was, or at least where it was supposed to be.
Cassandra’s ability to read body language had a way of telling her a lot and nothing at all at the same time, and this was one of those instances.
www.fanfiction.net /s/2542344/1/Cassandra_Cain_The_Batgirl   (9881 words)

  
 Cassandra Cain (New Earth) - DC Database
The daughter of David Cain and Sandra Wu-San (Lady Shiva), Cassandra Cain was conceived and trained from birth with the intention of creating the perfect bodyguard for Ra's al Ghul.
When she was 8 years old, Cain decided his experiment had progressed far enough for him to test Cassandra's abilities in the real world, and took her to a hit; the target being Faizul, a 'book man' in Macau.
Cassandra began training immediately; going after every talented fighter she came across in order to gain more skills she even (after hearing about his notoriousity within the Bat-clan freed the Joker then apprehended him again in order to gauge just how good he was.
en.dcdatabaseproject.com /Batgirl_(Cassandra_Cain)   (2693 words)

  
 Bat-Girl - Review - How golden a silence ?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Trained in the martial and military arts by Cain, she was the embodiment his dream of creating the perfect assassin, until the day that she took the life of a man with her bare hands whilst Cain recorded the entire incident for posterity.
Cassandra, for all her prowess in hand to hand combat, lacks a lot of the worldly sensibilities of Batman's other sidekicks and helpers.
Despite Cassandra's lack of a "traceable" identity, a holdover from her days with Cain, Batman is forced to insist that she goes into hiding, her identity as Cassandra permanently compromised.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/bat-girl/398486   (1550 words)

  
 Pretty, Fizzy Paradise: Musings: Cassandra Cain
Cassandra was fascinating though because where Bruce was a victim at 8 and his goal is driven by dark emotions and fear/rage.
Cassandra was a murderer at 8 and her goals were driven by hope and redemption.
She was essentially replacing Cain as a guide/father figure with Batman and sublimating herself to conform to his values/beliefs/practices even when they didn't match with hers.
kalinara.blogspot.com /2006/07/musings-cassandra-cain.html   (4613 words)

  
 BrownBetty's blog - Vox
There's been criticism of Cassandra Cain going around recently.  In Of Course She Is, Kalinara points out the many stereotypes that come together in Cassandra Cain, and in Batgirl's Creepy, Johanna takes exception to how Batgirl is portrayed in art.
Cassandra Cain as Batgirl also can be seen as the appropriation of the bat-legacy by and for women.  Although she's under Batman's supervision and paranoid direction, Cassandra considers herself the successor to Barbara, and the costume is not of Batman's design, but Helena Bertinelli's.
Cassandra's journey can be seen as one from uncritical acceptance of authority to asserting her own individuality.  In the beginning, Cassandra frustrates Barbara with her blind trust in Batman. ; In the end, while Cassandra is still Batgirl, it is because she shares goals, not because she follows a person.
brownbetty.vox.com   (529 words)

  
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Cassandra was forced to remind herself why she wanted Tim as a boyfriend.
As Cassandra and Robin vanished from sight, an alarming flood of memories flashed in his mind's eye.
Cassandra cradled his limp form, her tears running in salty rivulets down her cheek onto his face.
www.dixeyland.com /superboy/fanfic/rea/toodeep12.html   (3270 words)

  
 Batgirl (Kasumi)
Cain raised the orphan girl to become his apprentice — a master assassin, swordmaster and martial artist.
Cassandra was ready to abandon the Elite, but the spirit of Manitou Raven convinced the team to regroup.
Cassandra continues her work as Batgirl, but it remains to be seen whether she continues to work undercover with Vera.
www.mykey3000.com /cosmicteams/profiles/kasumi.htm   (581 words)

  
 Titans Tower: Batgirl
Cassandra Cain is reunited with her father in DETECTIVE #734 [1999].
Cain never taught the girl to speak, believing that violence was language enough for the life she would lead.
Cassandra settled in a somewhat normal life, but soon began to question the identity of her mother.
www.titanstower.com /source/whoswho/batgirl.html   (1707 words)

  
 Batgirl
The current Batgirl, the martial arts prodigy Cassandra Cain, first appeared in 1999 and is the trainee of Oracle.
When Huntress, all by herself, failed to protect Batman's territory from Two-Face and his gang of over 200 criminals (while Batman himself was unconscious and tied up), he held her responsible and stripped her of the mantle.
Cassandra Cain, nicknamed "Cass," is the current Batgirl (of Asian descent), having taken on the role with the approval of both Batman and Barbara Gordon.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Batgirl.php   (1750 words)

  
 Burning Knights: The Gotham Knights Resource   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was later revealed that she was an assassin, trained by a man revealed to a part of Bruce Wayne's past, a ruthless killer known as Cain.
The girl, who may or may not be Cain's biological daughter, left her father and his teachings and wound up in Gotham shortly before "No Man's Land".
Cain returned to Gotham with a contract to kill Commissioner Gordon - a contract that was not carried out thanks to the timely intervention of the girl.
bk.dark-is-light.org /heroes/batgirlIII.php   (462 words)

  
 Brian Cain — Darrell Cain : ZoomInfo Business People Information
Cain was born in Akron, Ohio in 1942.
Cain is an associate in the Austin office of Hughes & Luce, LLP.
The duo is Damon Cain, an award winning DJ since 1983, writer and vocalist who began his recording career in 1989 with the eventual...
www.zoominfo.com /people/level2page5713.aspx   (1610 words)

  
 Rambles: Batgirl: Death Wish   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In Death Wish, Cassandra Cain is still a fresh addition to the Bat Team, a long-overdue replacement for Barbara Gordon's Batgirl.
But Cassandra, trained as an assassin from a very young age, is riddled with guilt over her one and only murder, committed before she was probably old enough to take the training wheels off her bicycle.
Cassandra Cain has had a tough road convincing some Batgirl fans that she's a suitable successor to Barbara Gordon.
www.rambles.net /batgirl_dwish03.html   (283 words)

  
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She's a little full." "Is BEAUTIFUL!" "Cassandra, I had to cut two feet off to fit her in here." "Is BEAUTIFUL!" "We had to move the couch into the hall." "Is BEAUTIFUL!" "It's going to take eighteen strands of lights to cover her.
Cassandra blinked at the broken wrapping paper tube in her hand, also half wrapped around Tim's head.
www.the-family-archives.com /stories/avtacc.txt   (4803 words)

  
 Nexus Wiki: Cassandra Cain
The daughter of master assassin David Cain and martial arts master Lady Shiva, she was raised from birth to be the perfect assassin.
Cassandra is fluent in body language, often allowing her to anticipate an opponent's next moves as well as tell when someone is lying or feeling a certain way by simply looking at them.
Cassandra likes meeting new people, but is not quick to allow them into her personal life.
the-nexus.wikidot.com /silent-bat   (795 words)

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