Kabuki Twins
The Kabuki Twins are a duo that feature in Batman.
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History
The Kabuki Twins were a pair of masked martial artists who served as assassins for clients. At some point, they came into the service of the Penguin when he was in a sojourn to the Orient. They then came to accompany him as he returned to Gotham City where he began to operate as a crime lord.
After Batman found one of them collecting stolen jewellery from a bird, though, it was made clear that they were no ordinary girls. The two of them used their expert fighting skills to beat up the Batman and almost run him over. After they kidnapped Alfred Pennyworth when they caught him trespassing on the Penguin's manor, Batman came to save Alfred and locked the twins in a cage. They ended up catching the Penguin, but when they checked back on the Kabuki Twins, they had escaped.
Later on, they joined the Penguin when he broke into Wayne Manor, intending to steal everything. At the time, a documentary was being filmed on the life of Bruce Wayne with Cobblepot deciding to take everyone hostage.
Catwoman finds herself entering a partnership with Penguin, when both discover they are after the same thing - a pair of valuable Egyptian relics. When Batman attempts to stop their scheme, Penguin double-crosses Catwoman, and binds her to their common foe. Forced to work together, Batman and Catwoman discover the relics, when combined, can form a beam of light into a powerful weapon. Discovering Penguin intends to do just that with Gotham's abandoned lighthouse, the pair must stop him before he can hold the city for ransom with the weapon.
As a way to settle a dispute over who will claim Gotham, Joker, Penguin and Riddler have a contest to see who can capture Batman and discover his true identity. While Batman prepares to stop all three, his ally in the police force is compromised when Rojas discovers that Yin has been helping him. Soon she and Batman find themselves trying to stay ahead of the police while apprehending the three criminals, though help may be on hand in the form of Police Commissioner James Gordon, who believes that only Batman can stop Joker, Penguin and Riddler from bringing mayhem on Gotham's streets. As a result of their heroics, Yin is reinstated to the GCPD, and Batman's charges are dropped, as the police accept his work.
Overview
In appearance, the Twins wore red costumes with blades attached to their hands and had kabuki-styled masks that prevented anyone from seeing their real features. The pair were completely silent with them never speaking but they proved to be skilled martial artists and assassins.
The Kabuki Twins were both highly skilled martial arts combatants, who employed extended steel razor blades at the tips of their fingers. Very little is known about the Kabuki Twins other than that they came into the Penguin's employ during a sojourn in the Orient. They are quite the assassins and will go to great lengths to attack anything they see as a threat.
Notes
- The Kabuki Twins were created by Steven Melching were they were original creations of The Batman animated television series.
Alternate Versions
- In The Batman Strikes!, the Kabuki Twins appeared in the spinoff comic that was tied to the animated television series. It was revealed in an issue that their actual names were Gale and Peri.
In other media
Television
Films
- In The Lego Batman Movie, the Kabuki Twins made a cameo appearance in the setting of the 2017 animated film.
Video games
- In Batman: The Cobblepot Caper, the Kabuki Twins appeared in the online video game where they featured in level 3 in the setting. They take over Gotham Steelworks, and after defeating their henchmen and escaping their traps set up throughout the factory, there is a one-on-two boss fight against the girls an a moving truck.
Appearances
- The Batman: "Call of the Cobblepots"
