CW's Batwoman series is set in a Gotham largely abandoned by superheroes until Kate Kane takes up her cousin's cause to protect the city. As a result, its citizens are used to living in dangerous times and with threats hanging over their everyday activities. That's even evident in flashbacks to the childhood of several characters.
The dangers the characters face on a regular basis may make some fans wonder what other universes of survival they could make it through. Though the characters of Batwoman are young adults during the events of the series, flashbacks and discussions to their time as teens allow the audience the determine whether or not they could have rallied in a situation like Katniss found herself in The Hunger Games.
Mouse is what Beth Kane calls the boy who essentially becomes her brother when she's held captive for her teen years. Mouse becomes completely devoted to Beth as she turns herself into Alice. He relies heavily on her to know just what path to take, and it's only for her that he becomes violent.
As a result, Mouse would only be able to survive in the Hunger Games if he had a more powerful ally to rely on. Even then, he would likely fall to that ally's betrayal, just as he ends up dead when Alice tries to free herself from her attachments.
Some fans might be surprised to think of first Batwoman Kate Bishop as someone who couldn't win the Hunger Games. However, Kate is incredibly impulsive and very intent on staying true to who she is. She wouldn't be able to fool the cameras or play up a character for the audience of the games.
Kate would likely start the games by trying to save those who weren't able to defend themselves. Though she's an accomplished fighter, she would probably end up overwhelmed by a group of fighters and fall early.
As the series reveals, Marquis is hit by the Joker's joy buzzer at a very young age, completely changing his personality into someone who enjoys inflicting pain on others. He becomes cruel and manipulative. As someone from a wealthy family with those attributes, Marquis would have fit right in with the "Careers" of the Hunger Games.
He would have found the arena fun, unlike everyone else competing, and would have relished the chance to show off his skills. But his overconfidence in his abilities would be his undoing.
While Sophie is an accomplished and skilled fighter as an adult, that's only after years of military training and being an employee in a security firm. She didn't start out that way.
In fact, the audience isn't given a ton of information about just who Sophie was a teenager, so it's harder to imagine just what she would have been like in the arena. What little the audience knows about Sophie's past would suggest that she would have tried to blend in and not make waves in the arena, which would allow her to survive for a while. It's only when she was left with the strongest competitors that she might not have been able to make it out alive.
Ocean spends a large chunk of his life on a secluded island learning how to fight to protect its secrets. If he was somehow chosen to participate in the Hunger Games, he would be a strong fighter.
But despite his fighting prowess, even Ocean is bested by others like Alice in the series. He would be fighting against others who had the same skills, and just being a strong fighter wouldn't be enough to keep him in the games. He isn't great at manipulating people, so he wouldn't be able to get the audience on his side, and he doesn't have the same charm as other characters to make quick alliances.
Julia isn't in the series long, but when she is, she proves herself an incredibly capable fighter, someone who is incredibly observant, and someone who makes for a brave Batwoman ally willing to do anything. Like Sophie, a lot of those skills are likely learned as an adult, but unlike Sophie, Julia grew up with a father who was Batman's right-hand.
She likely had some basic fight skills from a young age because she wasn't quite as sheltered from the superhero world as so many others in Batwoman. As someone who has pretended to be Batwoman more than once, Julia likely could have played a role for the audience, earning herself a little bit of help from sponsors. But that help wouldn't last forever, and neither would she.
Luke takes up boxing at some point, though the audience doesn't know if it's as a teen or an adult. What they do know about him is that he's one of the most intelligent characters in the series, and was smart even as a kid.
Luke's ideas provided the basis for his father's own suit design for Batwing. There's no computer system he can't figure out. That means Luke wouldn't be focused on the physicality of having to fight Hunger Games competitors, but in making the technology of the arena work for him. He would be the character who would figure out where cameras, forcefields, and traps were, and use them to his advantage, allowing him to make it near to the end, if not win the games completely.
By her own admission, Mary had to rely on Kate to protect her from bullies as a child. She wouldn't have been the strongest fighter in the arena. But like Luke, she is incredibly intelligent and resourceful. She might not have all of his technology know-how, but she's a fast learner.
Mary is the kind of person who would have known about the possibility of her being picked to end up in the arena and would have studied past winners, different techniques, and been realistic about her own chances of survival. As a social media star, Mary would also know how to appeal to an audience. She would be an unexpected fan favorite for the Capitol, and she would have a great chance at making it to the end, but her winning would depend on what opponent she was up against.
Unlike most of the Batwoman characters, Ryan Wilder didn't grow up connected to Batman or with a wealthy family to support her. She still has martial arts training and a survivor's instinct, though.
Ryan has learned to stand up for herself in extreme situations, adapted to using unknown technology in the Bat-suit, and even survived being kidnapped as a teenager. Like Katniss, she would be thrown into a tough situation with plenty of survival skills to help her get through it. Ryan wouldn't like the idea of having to kill to survive, much as it appalled Katniss, and she would be drastically changed by her experience, but she would win.
If any character is best equipped to survive the Hunger Games, it's Alice. As Beth Kane, she adapts to survive as a teenager when she's held captive. She learns to cook, sew, and pretend to be someone else — all things that could help her in a pinch in the arena.
Beth even kills to escape her captives, becoming Alice when she ends up on Coriana, training in all manner of fighting and weapons skills. She might be desperate for revenge when she first emerges in Gotham as Alice, but Alice is a planner who learns her enemies and uses her strengths to her advantage. She wouldn't hesitate to take out enemies or betray allies if it could help her survive.
