Maggie Sawyer
Occupation	Captain of Metropolis Police Department
Played By	Jill Teed
Status	Alive
Last Seen	Detective, 2012

Captain Maggie Sawyer is an officer for the Metropolis Police Department.

Contents 1 Personality 2 Season Two 3 Season Three 4 Season Five 5 Season Seven 6 Season Eleven 7 In the Comics 8 Quotes 9 Links

PersonalityEdit

Maggie's tough, no-nonsense attitude to her work has made her many enemies in the criminal underworld that is Metropolis and has been assigned to work on many high profile cases including the murder of Lionel Luthor and suspect Jack Jennings. She also takes no prisoners regardless of motives like when she arrested Clark Kent and Chloe Sullivan for being in a strip club while being underage.

Season TwoEdit

When Martha Kent and Lionel Luthor were being held hostage in LuthorCorp Tower, Maggie Sawyer tried to help the situation, and met Clark and Jonathan Kent for this first time.

Season ThreeEdit

She led the response to the bank robbery perpetrated by a bullet-proof bank robber who disappeared into thin air.

Season FiveEdit

She responded to Chloe Sullivan and Lois Lane after they witnessed a hit-and-run; she led the response to the strip club at which Clark, Chloe, and Lois were working undercover.

Season SevenEdit

She asked Lex Luthor to identify his father after his death.

Season ElevenEdit

A thug wearing a LexCorp teleporter vest takes a schoolbus with children hostage which is suspended in the air by a crane. Across town, the Metropolis Special Crimes Unit headed by Dan Turpin along with Maggie Sawyer, is dealing with a hostage situation. There's a school bus suspended high above the streets by a crane and some thugs wearing high tech teleportation vests are holding young children hostage. One child decides to get Super heroic, opens up his shirt to reveal a Superman logo underneath, and thinks he can zap one of the bad guys with heat vision. Instead of getting his head blown off, the boy is saved by real heat vision melting the gun, and the real Superman ripping through the roof and hefting the bad guy into the sky. The rest of the thugs teleport away then reappear and open fire on the police. Superman saves the kids. Ready to go to LexCorp.

After he take care of the bomb, Superman round up the teleportation thieves who apologize to the children for kidnapping them, hitching their school bus up on a crane, and then trying to blow them up with a bomb. As Superman politely soars off with one of the teleportation vests, Dan and Maggie meets Bruce Wayne and Barbara Gordon visiting Metropolis who got to see Superman in action first hand. Barbara is more impressed than Bruce is, or more impressed than Bruce is letting on.

In the ComicsEdit

The character of Maggie Sawyer appears in both Batman and Superman comics. She was introduced in 1987 as a captain in the Special Crimes Unit (SCU). She originally comes from Star City. She was married and had a daughter but divorced when she discovered she is a lesbian and entered a relationship with Toby Rains of the Metropolis Star. She has a close working relationship with Dan Turpin, the second-in-command of the SCU. She was promoted to Inspector following the death-of-Superman storyline. Later, she was transferred from the Metropolis Police Department to the Gotham City Police Department to lead the Major Crimes Unit (MCU)

Maggie was introduced in Superman (2nd series) in April 1987, as Captain Sawyer of the Metropolis Special Crimes Unit, a special branch of the Metropolis police force that handles superpowered menaces when Superman is unavailable. Maggie mostly replaced Inspector Henderson from the previous comics as Superman's main police contact. She was added to the Superman canon following the Crisis on Infinite Earths and the miniseries that rebooted the comics, The Man of Steel. She tries to prove the police force is more efficient than a vigilante in fighting crime, and so becomes is a constant thorn in Superman's side during the early days of his career, even trying to apprehend him occasionally. Eventually, after being injured and saved by Superman during a terrorist plot, her attitude towards him warmed up.

Maggie appeared at a charity ball attended by Katherine "Kate" Kane. While the two are dancing, Maggie mentions that she and Toby are no longer together and asks Kate for her phone number. Sawyer also appears as a supporting character in the new Batwoman series. She has begun dating Kate Kane, whose secret activities as Batwoman complicate their relationship. Kane reveals her identity as Batwoman by proposing to her in costume.

QuotesEdit

Kryptonsite: Can you talk about the DC Comics character who appears in "Insurgence" (Maggie Sawyer) and if she differs at all from her comic book counterpart?

Jeph Loeb (writer, Insurgence): Maggie's appearance is more like what I get to do as "Consulting Producer." As we were breaking the story (where the writers all get together to build the outline) we knew we needed a strong female Metropolis Police Lieutenant and I suggested we call her "Maggie Sawyer" as a shout out to the fans. Ken Biller, who co-wrote the episode with me (he wrote "Lineage" with Al and Miles) agreed and we made her Maggie. It's a small role, but who knows -- given her eventual place in the mythos anything can happen. It's a smile.

Source: Kryptonsite interview [1]

LinksEdit

• Maggie Sawyer on Wikipedia
• Maggie Sawyer on DC database
• Maggie Sawyer on Wikia DC Animated Universe
• Maggie Sawyer on BatmanWikia