The CW’s Batwoman is bringing a well-recognized DC character into its third season, and she or he’ll be performed by a well-recognized face, too. Victoria Cartagena, who performed former Gotham City cop Renee Montoya on Fox’s Gotham, is now becoming a member of the Batwoman forged as… Renee Montoya.

Before you begin screaming “crossover!”, know that Deadline, which broke the information of Cartagena’s casting, particularly notes that “the universes are not connected.” So don’t count on to see Ben McKenzie’s Jim Gordon popping up to hang around with Javicia Leslie’s Ryan Wilder. It’s definitely uncommon for an actor to play the identical character twice on unrelated (aside from supply materials) sequence, however Cartagena framed it properly in her excited tweet after the information was launched:

Season two of Batwoman wrapped final month—with Ryan Wilder lastly assuming the Batwoman identification after Kate Kane (Wallis Day, who changed Ruby Rose with a convoluted plot necessitated by Rose’s departure from the sequence) left city, presumably for good—which suggests Cartagena will make her debut as a sequence common in season three. And she’s not the one Gotham alum emigrate to Batwoman; Alex Morf, who performed a gang chief named Sykes on the Fox present, which ended its run in 2019, was launched on Batwoman’s second season because the villainous Victor Zsasz.

Deadline describes this tackle Montoya (who additionally appeared on the large display screen in Birds of Prey, performed there by Rosie Perez) as “a former GCPD officer who left the force when she could no longer stomach the corruption inside the department. She now runs the ‘freaks division,’ which hasn’t seen a lot of action… until now. Righteous and pragmatic, and LGBTQ+, she’s a woman with a very personal (and mysterious) mission to help clean the streets of Gotham in the right way, by whatever means necessary.”

Season three of Batwoman arrives in October on the CW. What do you consider Cartagena’s casting, and the truth that she’s performed Montoya elsewhere earlier than?

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