Violent Page, who's better known as Mother Panic isn't quite like Gotham City's other caped crusaders. She was first created by Gerard Way, Tommy Lee Edwards, and Jody Houser for DC’s Young Animal imprint, which highlights more experimental takes on characters in the DC Universe.
While Mother Panic might patrol the same streets as Batman, she stands out from all of Gotham's heroes because of her relative disconnect from the rest of Batman's world. While that was present in her initial series, that idea was only underscored in a subsequent alternate future comic that pushed her into a timeline of her own.
Violet Paige’s story begins with her killing her father, long before her transformation into Mother Painic. After overhearing him make a deal to sell one of her family members, she shoots him with a hunting rifle and claims it as an accident. Her brother didn’t believe her story and arranged for her to be sent to an experimental boarding school in Gotham called Gather House. Under the rule of the head nun, Mother Patrick, the students of Gather House were grotesquely experimented on.
During her time there, Violet had her muscles fortified with cybernetic implants and trained vigorously in different fighting styles. These enhancements gave her superhuman strength and turned her into an extraordinary fighter. This treatment broke Violet mentally, and she exacted revenge on Gather House by killing Mother Patrick and burning down the school with the other children inside. Violet spent her time after becoming a controversial socialite and enlisting the help of a former Gather House surgeon, Doctor Varma. Violet adopted the alter-ego, Mother Panic, as an homage to the tyrannical person that hurt her and to reclaim back her life by avenging her pain.
Most of this origin story is outlined in the 12-issue series entitled Mother Panic, but Violet Paige is featured in another series that imagines a future Gotham without Batman. In Mother Panic: Gotham A.D., the story takes a jump forward 10 years into an alternate universe created after the end of Milk Wars, a crossover event that saw the heroes of Young Animal encounter DC's more famous characters. In this Gotham, Batman has gone missing and the town has been overrun by evil. Violet’s mother is also missing and many of the vigilantes and villains from the Gotham she knows are wildly different.
Mother Panic set out to explore Gotham in a way that mainstream DC Comics readers had not seen before and with Mother Panic: Gotham A.D., it offered a new, original take on a Batman-free Gotham City where vigilantes were outlawed. Although that series ended after 6 issues, the idea of vigilantes being banned in Gotham City is a pillar of the upcoming DC Future State era, and Mother Panic's world still likely exists in some distant corner of the DC Multiverse.
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