Barry Allen was no longer married to Iris West and had only been on one date with her which ended badly. Lois Lane was introduced as having a love interest and only seeing both Superman and Clark Kent as friends. That policy being, it’s simply not allowed with superheroes. Why were Kate and Maggie prevented from getting married in the first place? Apparently, because DC entered into a new policy regarding marriage in their titles since the “New 52” reboot in 2011. Please be aware of this warning if discussions of rape acts as a trigger for you. I’m going to go into the details and context of this and will be showing a screen grab. A year later, with a new creative team of Marc Andreyko and Jeremy Haun, we see Kate break up with Maggie in Batwoman #34 and then, in the same issue, she is hypnotized to have sex with a villain.
The last straw was being told that Batwoman aka Kate Kane would not (again, as previously agreed) be allowed to marry her fiancée, Captain Maggie Sawyer of the Gotham City Police Department.
In his blog, Williams said this decision was made after being told to change the direction of multiple stories at the last minute, each of which had been approved and planned out over a year beforehand with DC. In September 2013, the creative team of J.H.