Barbara Gordon

## Bio

Barbara Gordon decided to become a vigilante as a teenager, and she adopted the name Batgirl. She is part of the batfamily, but not quite as close with Batman as the Robins, while they are basically his kids, she is more of a niece (or a close daughter-in-law). Although she is a better fighter than most humans, she ranks rather low on combat ability compared to other batfamily members. However, she ranks very high in terms of intelligence (top 3 for sure) and is very skilled with computers and other technology.

## History

### The Bomb

On one of Dick's first nights out as Batman, Batgirl joins him, and they arrive at a park due to there being a bomb there. Barbara offers a lot of assistance in defusing the bomb, but Dick views it as a lack of confidence in his abilities and asks that she search the park for clues as to who the bomber is. Dick called Damian in to help, and thus Batgirl and Robin each took on half of the park. Damian uses camera footage to track the bomber to a bathroom, they find him inside, dead. The corpse explodes, luckily Barbara realizes it is going to explode a moment before so neither of them is injured.

### Meeting Max and Dent

A second meeting ensues between Shreck and Two-Face, this time at a warehouse Two-Face invested in many years ago. Meanwhile, after receiving a tip from the underground, Batgirl decides to investigate and attempts to intervene. Two-Face didn’t recognize Batgirl as an affiliate for Batman, believing that she was wannabe heroine who idolizes him. Batgirl attempts to convince the Two-Face that she scared Batman away and insists that she could be an asset to business. Two-Face sees past Batgirl’s antics, and continues to become increasingly angry with the woman. After flipping his coin once again, it lands on his good side which reverts him back to a calmer state. He then explains to Batgirl that Batman is a false idol, backing his statement with the fact that he caused the “death of Harvey Dent” and that he is one of the main reasons why the natural order to Gotham’s justice system is corrupted. After a passionate speech, Two-Face apologizes to both Batgirl and Shreck and agrees to reschedule the meeting some other time.

### New Job

Wanting to find out more about Max Shreck, Barbara gets a job as his new assistant.

### Ball Gone Wrong

At the St. Paddy's Day Ball, Barbara is in attendance, as is her new boss and her father who has recently returned to Gotham. Barbara is trying to enjoy herself despite that awkward combination when Two-Face crashes the party. Barbara changes into Batgirl to confront him, but she does not realize that she is too drunk for that, and makes a fool of herself. After Dick forcefully takes her out of the spotlight, she has an encounter with a mysterious man. This man is rather odd, and unfortunately for Barbara, he makes it clear he knows who she is, but claims he will not tell. Hours later Barbara returns to the cave, Damian immediately lays into her, furious about her actions, she fights back, and then Dick speaks up. With emotions running high she brings up the joke he made about firing her, saying he wanted her gone, he says it was a joke then, but that this time he means it when he says she is fired. She reminds him that he is just keeping the suit warm as she leaves the cave, heartbroken.

### Max "Fires" Barbara

Barbara investigates Max and discovers shady dealings. She then leaves and is followed by some of Benny's men, ultimately confronted by him in an alley. He tells her about the bounty on the batfam, and asks her to change into Batgirl, she informs him she cannot do so since she was fired from that job. Later she is still upset about being fired and wants to prove to everyone, including herself, that she can still help. So, she confronts Max about what she found, he all but laughs in her face. But she pushes it, angering him, all the time unaware of how unbalanced he is. He fires her, then decides to fire at her, as in he shoots her in the abdomen. She is able to disarm him before he can finish her off. She crawls away and calls 911 but passes out. Damian shows up, patches her up a bit, and leaves her to take down Max. Tim then shows up to take her to the cave, he works to patch her up, and Damian joins to help. Dick is there when she wakes but does not stay long. She has a nice heart to heart with Damian, and then Bruce arrives. Bruce scolds her, but says despite her huge mistake, she did not deserver to get fired.

### Meeting Jiro

About a month after getting shot, Barbara runs into Jiro and convinces him to get lunch with her. She soon realized the man is Yakuza and that this lunch was not the best call.

## Becoming Oracle

After a long torturous night, Barbara Joan Gordon had her spine severed. Leaving her paralyzed and bed bound. She decided to make the most of this time by adding to her Oracle program. After finding a new purpose she decided to take on the alias "Oracle" after the Oracle of Delphi. She then established her comm link and video feed system, making her way to recovery Barbara is almost there. Barbara continues getting stronger every day despite the trials in her way.