Ellen Yin

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Ellen Yin is a GCPD detective for Gotham City Police Department. Initially working with Ethan Bennett to capture the Batman, she eventually allied with the Dark Knight after Bennett's transformation into Clayface. Yin was created specifically for the animated series The Batman, though it has been speculated that she was an adaptation of Ellen Yindel.

Ellen Yin is a police detective with the Gotham City Police Department, formerly head of her department in Metropolis PD. She transferred to Gotham PD looking for a challenge (it is implied that she left Metropolis due to Superman's presence there). Yin is a career cop at the top of her game, simple and by the book. She is as physically adept as any male cop she knows, and has proven to be skilled in hand to hand combat. She was initially assigned as a partner to Detective Ethan Bennett.

Yin quickly grows fond of her partner after being tasked with unmasking the Batman. Having shown to be an effective detective, she gains the approval of Chief Angel Rojas. She had a difficult relationship with the Batman initially, and not warming to his alter ego Bruce Wayne so easily either. Ellen doesn't have it out personally for The Batman. As a vigilante, he's breaking the law, and as Bruce Wayne she only sees a spoiled billionaire playboy, despising his seemingly silver-spoon arrogance. She also thinks Catwoman is similar to Batman due to the fact that both wear costumes. She tried to take down Joker, Penguin, and Mr. Freeze, but Batman always beat her to the punch.

When her partner and friend Ethan Bennett is transformed into Clayface, due to Joker's putty, Yin loses one of her best friends in the city. She is able to talk him out of killing Batman, but he slips away, leaving Yin with the choice to unmask an unconsious Batman or not. In the end she decides against it, realising the need for the Batman in Gotham. Before she and Batman parted ways after fighting Clayface, Batman handed her a Batwave commlink, telling her to call him whenever she needed. Keeping the commlink, Yin later calls Batman her new "partner" during a coffee shop meeting with Ethan's best friend, Bruce Wayne.