Kyle Abbot

Kyle Abbot
A photograph of Kyle Abbot as seen in 52 Week 11 Joe Bennett, artist
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Detective Comics #743 (April 2000)
Created by	Greg Rucka
In-story information
Alter ego	Kyle Abbot
Team affiliations	Intergang League of Assassins
Abilities	Immortality, shapeshifting into a wolf form, lycanthropy, superhuman strength and stamina.

Kyle Abbot is a fictional villain in DC Comics.

Kyle Abbot first appeared in Detective Comics #743 and was created by Greg Rucka.

Formerly an agent for the late Ra's al Ghul, Kyle is the bodyguard of Whisper A'Daire, empowered by his mistress with the same serum that gave her immortality and shapeshifting abilities. In Kyle's case, the serum turned him into an ageless werewolf, second in command of a small army of similarly empowered henchmen.

Able to inflict fatal wounds with ease, Kyle is a useful partner for Whisper. After having disfigured and half-blinded him with acid spit for having displeased her, Whisper searched him out again. Kyle returned to work alongside Whisper, and was again injected with the serum to restore his youth but not his eye. Whisper tends to lash out at Kyle for any perceived failures, but the two remain partners. His loyalty and eagerness to follow every order issued by his mistress, even the most gruesome, is total and absolute.

Kyle resurfaces in 52 week 11, with his role as bodyguard formalized, due to Whisper being known as a manager for HSC International Banking, a company connected with Intergang. He took Whisper's side in the HSC Headquarters when the Question and Renee Montoya confronted them. Whisper fled, leaving to Kyle and a small group of shapeshifters the task of killing the pair. Kyle also left, shortly before the arrival of Batwoman, leaving the battle to the other henchmen. Some weeks later, when the Question and Renee fled to Kahndaq searching for clues about Intergang, Kyle was able to track them, and frame the pair for the slaughter in an Intergang facility, disappearing again.

After returning to Gotham, he expresses increasing concerns about Bruno Mannheim increasing in madness, only to gain the enmity of his former contractors. Splitting again with Whisper, he helps Renee Montoya find Batwoman, who has been kidnapped and offered as a sacrifice so Intergang can fulfill a prophecy from the Crime Bible. Abbot goes on to help Nightwing disable devices intended to drown Gotham City in fire.