Renee Montoya was not a bent cop. She was never a bent cop.
She was that other, perhaps more dangerous thing: a cop so straight that she cracked with the effort.
It started in No Man's Land, when she was sent by a man she idolized to work with the murderous Two-Face. When her dealings with that criminal ended up with her and her family being kidnapped and held captive for months - and all because Jim Gordon sent her to strike a deal with the devil. During that time she started to crack, and to realize that perhaps Dent had a point with his desire for revenge on the people who broke him.
She watched as Harvey Dent killed Commissioner James Gordon for the crime of sending her to Two-Face.
There was nothing she could do, of course; no one blamed her for that. Everyone knows you can't reason with Two-Face. Renee watched Dent kill her friend and her mentor, because he forced her to. She was the victim; no one blamed her, and she was offered support from the force.
But something broke inside.
Renee became hard, violent, and began to lose her faith in the law for doing what was right. When Two-Face outed her, framed her for murder, and broke her out of prison, she accepted her place as an outcast, but not before firmly rejecting his advances - she is, after all, a lesbian. In the ensuing fight, out of spite, acid was involved - if he couldn't have her, no one would.
Unlike Harvey Dent, Renee didn't lose half her face, she lost all of it.
She never returned to Delia, or her family, or the GCPD. Renee Montoya gave up her old life, with all it's complications and struggles, and she became the Faceless.
At first, the GCPD were reluctant to go after the Faceless, because she had a habit of going after people who most of them agreed deserved what was coming to them: When Jim Corrigan walked free for the murder of Crispus Allen, it was the Faceless who hunted him down and killed him.
She was the Bat's problem, but the Bat was missing; he left Gotham for a year, and a new contender rose to take his place - a woman. This woman had personal history with the Renee, who was now under the tutelage of the Religion of Crime. She would soon rise to be its head, and would be there during the Final Crisis, leading Cain himself back onto the Earth.
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She was that other, perhaps more dangerous thing: a cop so straight that she cracked with the effort.
It started in No Man's Land, when she was sent by a man she idolized to work with the murderous Two-Face. When her dealings with that criminal ended up with her and her family being kidnapped and held captive for months - and all because Jim Gordon sent her to strike a deal with the devil. During that time she started to crack, and to realize that perhaps Dent had a point with his desire for revenge on the people who broke him.
She watched as Harvey Dent killed Commissioner James Gordon for the crime of sending her to Two-Face.
There was nothing she could do, of course; no one blamed her for that. Everyone knows you can't reason with Two-Face. Renee watched Dent kill her friend and her mentor, because he forced her to. She was the victim; no one blamed her, and she was offered support from the force.
But something broke inside.
Renee became hard, violent, and began to lose her faith in the law for doing what was right. When Two-Face outed her, framed her for murder, and broke her out of prison, she accepted her place as an outcast, but not before firmly rejecting his advances - she is, after all, a lesbian. In the ensuing fight, out of spite, acid was involved - if he couldn't have her, no one would.
Unlike Harvey Dent, Renee didn't lose half her face, she lost all of it.
She never returned to Delia, or her family, or the GCPD. Renee Montoya gave up her old life, with all it's complications and struggles, and she became the Faceless.
At first, the GCPD were reluctant to go after the Faceless, because she had a habit of going after people who most of them agreed deserved what was coming to them: When Jim Corrigan walked free for the murder of Crispus Allen, it was the Faceless who hunted him down and killed him.
She was the Bat's problem, but the Bat was missing; he left Gotham for a year, and a new contender rose to take his place - a woman. This woman had personal history with the Renee, who was now under the tutelage of the Religion of Crime. She would soon rise to be its head, and would be there during the Final Crisis, leading Cain himself back onto the Earth.