WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the story "The Long Con" from Batman: Urban Legends #1 by Matthew Rosenberg, Ryan Benjamin, Antonio Fabela & Saida Temofonte, on sale now

The WildCATs were the premiere superhero team of Jim Lee's Wildstorm Universe, with their book being one of the blockbuster founding titles of Image Comics. When DC bought WildStorm Productions, the WildC.A.T.s and the rest of the WildStorm characters became part of the larger DC multiverse, and they've been an active part of the regular DC Universe since the New 52 era.

Since then, the universe and characters have fluctuated between being their own separate universe and being entwined with the DC Universe proper. While Grifter has already been sneaking around Batman's other titles, Batman Urban Legends #1  suggests that a certain Kherubim warrior, Zealot, could join him in the very near future.

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The issue ends with Nora Fries washing up in a body of water in Gotham, apparently dead. Batman and Nightwing comment on this, with the former noting that she had supposedly ran into the mercenary known as the Grifter. Members of the Gotham City police department mention that at the scene of the crime, a woman with a sword was seen.

Earlier in the issue, Grifter mentioned a woman he was potentially seeing, and the mercenary mentioned that it sometimes feel like she's from another planet. Grifter also adds that she moved to Gotham around the same time he did. While the woman in question is never explicitly shown, all of those signs point to her being Zealot, one of Grifter's iconic WildC.A.T.s teammates.

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Like many of the WildC.A..T.s, she was in many ways an amalgamation of existing characters. In her case, she combined elements of Wonder Woman with visual elements of Elektra and Psylocke. She was once the Majestrix of the Coda, an all-female warrior class of Kheran aliens who inspired the legend of the Amazons in ancient Greece when their race arrived on Earth. Centuries later, she would join the WildC.A.T.s, a team put together by fellow Kheran Emp. Much as the woman in question in this comic was described, Zealot was particularly fond of swords, with two typically jutting across her back before being pulled out in the heat of battle.

Despite her no nonsense attitude, she would many times be portrayed as having an on-again/off-again relationship with her cynical and sarcastic teammate Cole Cash, a.k.a. the Grifter. The two would briefly fall in love, and Zealot would actually find Cole worthy of being trained in the ways of the Coda, despite his being a man. Beforehand, Cole had been exposed to an experimental substance called Gen Factor, which gave him debilitating psychic powers. These unwieldy abilities were even more detrimental to Cole's mental well-being, but Zealot's training was able to help him remove the powers and stabilize himself.

Together, Zealot and Grifter fought off the alien scourge of the Daemonites, working alongside each other later down the road as WildCATs. Though their relationship ended, they remained fiercely loyal to each other for as long as the original series was published. This close relationship, namely Zealot's training of Cole, was also retained in the WildStorm revival, The Wild Storm, which rebooted the universe.

For the moment, it's still not entirely clear how much of the Wildstorm Universe and its characters will be reintegrated into the post-Infinite Frontier stories, especially since their use during the New 52 was so poorly received. However, Midnight and Apollo both appeared alongside Grifter in the Future State era, and several more WildStorm characters were introduced through a flashback in this issue.

While it's not clear how much of her traditional history with Grifter or as an alien Amazon warrior might still be intact, Zealot seems primed to enter the DC Universe proper, and she almost certainly wouldn't be the last WildStorm character to make that jump.

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