Renee Montoya

Renee Montoya
Renee Montoya in Gotham Central #24 (October 2004) Art by Michael Lark.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Batman #475 (March 1992)
Created by	Sean Catherine Derek Laren Bright Mitch Brian
In-story information
Alter ego	Renee Maria Montoya
Team affiliations	Global Peace Agency Batman Incorporated Gotham City Police Department
Notable aliases	Question
Abilities	Skilled martial artist, detective, and marksman with gun-like device capable of instant vaporization.

Renee Maria Montoya is a fictional comic book character published by DC Comics. The character was initially created for Batman: The Animated Series, and was preemptively introduced into mainstream comics before the airing of her animated debut in 1992.

The character has developed significantly over the years. Renee Montoya is initially a detective from the Gotham City Police Department, assigned to the Major Crimes Unit who comes into frequent contact with the masked vigilante, Batman. Over the course of her comic book history, Renee is outed as a lesbian, and later resigns from the police force, disgusted by its corruption. After being trained by the first man to bear the name, Montoya has operated as the Question out of a lighthouse she shares with Aristotle Rodor on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

She was officially re-introduced in the New 52 in Issue 41 of Detective Comics following the Convergence event as Harvey Bullock's new partner with her role as the Question having been officially retconned.

Renee Montoya is Latina and was created for Batman: The Animated Series, in which she is voiced by Ingrid Oliu and then by Liane Schirmer as a uniformed officer partnered with Harvey Bullock. In the follow-up The New Batman Adventures, Montoya has been promoted from police officer to detective. Montoya was also a recurring character in the third season of the web cartoon Gotham Girls, in which she is voiced by Adrienne Barbeau. The show's official "bible" described Montoya as the widow of a fellow police officer who was killed in the line of duty, as well as an active volunteer at her Roman Catholic Church, but this information was never mentioned on the series itself. Now, using her detective knowledge, she fights crime as "The Question". The comic series Gotham Central describes Montoya as the daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic.