Bellerophon 3, 13 13 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. Boris Mocialov Boris Mocialov 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. From Wikia : As the years went on, however, Barbara found her role as Batgirl less and less fulfilling, and she eventually more or less retired.
This happened in "Batman: The Killing Joke " Also, more details are on Wikipedia : Following the editorial retirement of her Batgirl persona in Barbara Kesel's Batgirl Special 1, Alan Moore's graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke depicts the Joker shooting her through the spinal cord in her civilian identity, resulting in paraplegia.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. As an answer to the question posed in the title: The character made her first comic book appearance as Oracle in Suicide Squad 23 , anonymously offering her services to the government's Task Force X. Jadasc Jadasc 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.
Sign up using Facebook. By the New 52 continuity, however, Barbara is back on her feet and fighting crime as Batgirl once more. This led to some concerns that DC was turning away from one of its most famous disabled characters. This led to confirmation that the events of The Killing Joke , including Barbara's paralysis and time working as Batman's hacker Oracle , are in fact canon in the New 52 continuity. After working as Oracle for a time, Barbara was able to undergo a form of physical therapy which eventually allowed her to walk once again with the help of a technological implant.
The justification for her return to crimefighting in terms of storytelling was simple: she was the most famous iteration of Batgirl.
While this has been faced with the aforementioned criticism, Barbara's paralysis was also faced with scrutiny to begin with.
The decision to turn one of the most renowned female superheroes into a paraplegic was regarded at the time by some comic fans as misogynistic, although many came to appreciate one of the few prominent disabled characters in popular culture, and will now regret her disappearance. As one fan, Lance, put it on a comment in a comic blog : "What has me upset is how unnecessary it was to remove Oracle from the DC Universe.
Unless Oracle is still present, it says that people with disabilities aren't cool enough. The writer of the new series, Gail Simone, said she was aware of the controversy likely to surround the revival of Batgirl's mobility but that the downside would be more than balanced out.
With this relaunch, she is still very much Barbara but she can reclaim part of her history and legacy with modern stories. This article is more than 10 years old. After her unsuccessful partnership with Power Girl, Oracle later joins forces with the superheroine Black Canary. They form the nucleus of the Birds of Prey organization. While Oracle serves as the basic head of operations, Black Canary becomes her full-time employee and field agent. During the cross-over event War Games, Black Mask commandeers Oracle's computers and satellites and engages in a fight to the death with Batman.
In order to prevent Batman from killing his adversary, Oracle initiates the Clock Tower's self-destruct sequence, provoking Batman to rescue her rather than continue the battle.
This results in the destruction of Gordon's home and headquarters in the clock tower. Subsequently, Oracle decides to move on, and leaves Gotham City altogether. She cuts her ties with Batman, and after a temporary world trip with her team, relocates to Metropolis. Although Oracle overpowers Brainiac and expels him from her body, the advanced virus delivered by him remains despite his absence.
The virus steadily causes cybernetic attachments to sprout all over her body. Oracle develops cyberpathic powers that allow her to psychically interact with computer information systems.
Although she loses these abilities after the virus is rendered dormant following an operation by Doctor Mid-Nite, she discovers she can move her toes. However, this proves to be short-lived; Gordon remains paralyzed. During the company wide cross-over Infinite Crisis , Oracle teams with the Martian Manhunter in Metropolis to coordinate a counterstrike to the Secret Society's global jailbreak.
When DC continuity jumps forward one year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Oracle and her team continue to work in Metropolis. Oracle works with Batman, although not on a regular basis as before. Oracle continues to lead the Birds of Prey, and expands the ranks of the operation. In Birds of Prey 99, Black Canary leaves the team and The Huntress becomes the team's de facto field leader, while Big Barda has been brought in as the group's heavy-hitter alongside a larger, rotating roster; Oracle also makes an attempt to reforge her alliance with Power Girl, however, when Oracle invites her to rejoin the team, she replies that she'll do so "when Hell freezes over.
Eventually, Spy Smasher is forced to admit her defeat and returns control of the Birds of Prey organization to Oracle. At the conclusion of the arc, Oracle also adopts Misfit into the Birds of Prey. In Countdown , Oracle dispatches the Question and Batwoman to capture Trickster and Piper following their role in the murder of the Flash. She struggles to keep the identities of the world's heroes from being stolen and coordinates the response to a global crisis engineered by the Calculator, a villainous hacker and information broker.
In issue 5 of the comic book series The All-New Booster Gold , the title hero is given the mission of traveling back in time in order to prevent "a tragedy that he discovers never should've happened — the Joker shooting and paralyzing Barbara Gordon, Batgirl.
In the Final Crisis storyline, Darkseid , who has finally gained control of the Anti-Life Equation attempts to put the mind-control equation on the Internet. Both Oracle and Mister Terrific make desperate attempts to stop Darkseid, even attempting to shut down the entire Internet. Unfortunately, they both fail and those affected ended up mindless slaves of Darkseid.
Freed from Darkseid's control after the restoration of the Multi-verse, she attempts to shut down the criminal Unternet set up by her opposite number, the Calculator, as a Darkseid-free replacement for the regular Internet and still used by tech-savvy criminals. Even though Oracle foils him, she starts doubting her abilities and fears she's losing her edge and brilliance, which results in her disbanding the Birds of Prey team to do some soul-searching.
The Calculator's plans finally come to their fruition, and Kuttler, hoping to save her dying daughter Wendy takes on the Babbage alias and begins prowling the digital world of Alta Viva, a virtual world game, for fragments of the Anti-Life Equation unleashed by Darkseid.
Barbara, now living in a dilapidated apartment in Gotham, becomes aware of Kuttler's activities when Cheesefiend, one of her informants, is brutally killed, with the Anti-Life Equation itself, after coming in contact with Babbage. Hoping to stop the Calculator and prevent him from piecing together the fragments of the Anti-Life Equation in his possession, Oracle travels to Hong Kong, hoping to steal them back by the means of an advanced supercomputer programmed to track the chunk of data left behind by Babbage.
However the Calculator discovers her attempts, swearing vengeance upon her. She manages to defeat Calculator, curing the Anti-Life Equation's fragments. Working with Leslie Thompkins, Barbara has begun to mentor the Calculator's daughter, Wendy, who was crippled following an attack at Titans Tower, which took the life of her brother Marvin. Recently it came to Barbara's attention thanks to Dick Grayson that Cassandra Cain has once again stepped down from the role of Batgirl, and has been replaced by Stephanie Brown.
Still seeing Stephanie as an impulsive young girl, Barbara tries to talk her out of being Batgirl. When a new recreational drug known as "Thrill" is hitting the streets of Gotham, Barbara and Stephanie work together to stop the drug trade which they discover to be run by Scarecrow and Black Mask.
After Dick discovers that Barbara has approved of Stephanie as Batgirl, he and Barbara had an intense argument over Barbara's decision which eventually made him leave to resume his patrol in the city. After they've finally meet there was a miscommunication between the two: as Barbara thought the detective was discriminating her because of her disability but it is really because Gage senses Barbara wants to be with someone else Dick Grayson.
His instincts prove to be somewhat true, as Dick and Barbara begin working together on a kidnapping case, and despite some early attitude, begin to flirt playfully like they used to. Barbara and Commissioner Gordon are both present. After sending Green Lantern's intel to every superhero community across the planet of the Black Lanterns, the Gordon's find themselves being attacked by the original Dark Knight's deceased rogue gallery members, whom are all reanimated by the Black Lantern Corps.
Barbara and her father are forced to fight for their lives as they witness the Black Lanterns are massacring everyone on sight at Gotham Central. During the crisis, Barbara falls under the control of Deadman , channeling Barbara's athletic capability and apparently using his own super-natural ability to allow her to stand on her own two legs, to save Commissioner Gordon from the reanimated King Snake and the Trigger Twins.
While Grayson and Drake battle the Black Lanterns, Robin takes the Gordon's to their underground base where Alfred Pennyworth tends her and her father's wounds. Barbara is later approached by Huntress and Renee Montoya the new Question for help in tracking down a mysterious criminal who ordered a hit on them through Philo Zeiss.
After the events of Flashpoint, Barbara Gordon has recovered from her injuries by the hands of Joker, and has returned to the streets as Batgirl. One of her nights back in action as Batgirl has her stopping a trio of crooks attempting to murder a couple. The fight almost turns sour when one of the crooks launches himself and her out the window.
Thankfully, the couple rescued the two before they could fall though Barbara had to correct them as they accidentally called her Batwoman. The next morning, despite James Gordon's parental protests, Barbara moves away from home, moving in with another girl with a more independent streak. However, the settling in had to wait - there was an attack at a hospital where the criminal she had stopped earlier was staying at.
Arriving at the scene, she found herself confronting a murderer known as The Mirror, whose modus operandi was to kill people who survived major accidents. Barbara attempted to stop him from taking the man's life, but she found herself paralyzed when he aimed his gun at her gut, allowing him to launch the man out the window.
The police officer there opted to brand her a murderer for not being able to stop him. When Dinah formed a new team of Birds, Barbara initially declined membership, though agreed to be a part-time member as of issue 6.
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