Batgirl

## Barbara Gordon

* Barbara Gordon
* Batgirl

**Barbara "Babs" Gordon**, also known as **Batgirl**, is one of the main characters of the series *DC Super Hero Girls*. She assembles the series' superhero team in the first episode, *Sweet Justice*, after moving to Metropolis from Gotham with her father Mr Gordon.

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By Lauren Faust, published on Deviantart on 2012

By Lauren Faust, published on Deviantart on 2012

## Depiction

### Crimefighting

   Babs first appears in the first episode of the series, *Sweet Justice*. She tells her father who's driving her to her new school that she's sad to leave Gotham just as she was about to find her team. At school, she uses deduction skills to identify four other superheroes, and with Diana and herself they assemble the team "Super Hero Girls". When Babs tosses about a slew of gadgets and rattles on about Batman, Diana tells Babs that she lacks focus.

### Gadgets

Babs is prominently featured in the shorts *The Late Batsby*, *Super Sleeper*, *Bat Catcher*, *Hamster Con Queso*, *Bat and Switch*, *Faulty Powers*, and *Pack Bat*. Most of them feature her gadgets prominently, with the exception of *Hamster Con Queso* which focuses more on her dedication to her workplace, the Burrito Bucket.

### Burritos

Babs is featured prominently in the episode *Burrito Bucket*. Like the short *Hamster Con Queso*, one of its main aspects is Bab's dedication to her workplace, the Burrito Bucket. The episode also deals with her poor focus skills and her tendency to talk enthusiastically and lengthily.

Babs's love for burritos was also touched upon in the *DC Nation* shorts *Super Best Friends Forever* and later featured in *DC Super Hero Girls* in episodes such as *Sweet Justice* and *Burrito Bucket*

### Dedication to her workplace

Both in the short *Hamster Con Queso* and in the episode *Burrito Bucket*, Babs shows extreme dedication to her workplace, the Burrito Bucket restaurant, and she does her job gleefully despite her manager Shane O'Shaughnessy treating her poorly, scowling at her, yelling at her, admonishing her, and threatening to fire her. Babs, on the other hand, is very cheerful and respectful to Shane and heedful to Shane's instructions. At the start of the episode, she tells Shane that she's been a fan of Burrito Bucket since she was five years old. Despite her job getting in the way of her attempt to foil a bank robbery in the episode *Burrito Bucket*, Babs continues to follow Shane's instructions precisely. Later Shane tasks Babs with making 100 burrito buckets, and when Babs only delivers 99, he gleefully fires her. Shane dryly and irritably agrees to hire her back after she foils a robbery at the Burrito Bucket, much to Babs's delight.

### Physics

Babs tells Mr Wilson in the episode *Dinner for Five* that she likes physics and gym class best. She devises a method of time travel in the episode *Back in a Flash*. When she faces the decision of having to undo the changes she made in time, Barry tells her that she's his best friend and whatever choice she'll make, he'll support her.

## Mr Gordon

Commissioner Jim Gordon is Babs's father. He is introduced in the first episode, *Sweet Justice*, driving her to her new school Metropolis High School, and driving her back from a night out with her new friends, the Super Hero Girls. Mr Gordon briefly is featured in the short The Late Batsby, where Babs waits for him to fall asleep before sneaking out of the house to assist her friends in a fight against Mr Freeze.

Babs's relationship with her father is explored in the episode *From Bat to Worse*. He tells Babs in a flashback that "Gotham City is no place for a family" and he'll get her out of Gotham some day. Mr Gordon and Babs's father-daughter relationship is is held in high regard by Mr Wilson in the episode *Dinner for Five*.

Batgirl, in her crime-fighting costume, refers to her father as "Commissioner Gordon" in the episode *From Bat to Worse*. The license plate on his car in that episode and in *Sweet Justice* reads COMMISH. Babs first mentions her father Jim's first name in the episode *The Fresh Princess of Ren Faire*.

## Robin

Babs voices her dislike for Batman's partner Robin in several episodes. She complains about him in *Sweet Justice*, *From Bat to Worse*, and *GothamCon*. As Robin, he is spiteful and dismissive toward her. Despite this, he is very courteous and compassionate as his secret identity, Dick Grayson, in the episode *Tween Titans*. As Dick, he writes a paper about the "plight of those poor tsunami victims" and addresses his babysitters politely and respectfully. Babs, who watches him on the TV show *Make It Wayne*, tells Karen that she only watches the show because of him, and that he's "super sweet".

## Batman

Babs voices her admiration of Batman in the episodes *Sweet Justice*, *From Bat to Worse*, *GothamCon*, and others. Babs's room and Batgirl's section of the home base feature Batman posters, Batman toys, and other fan merchandise. Babs first tries to meet Batman in a flashback in the episode *From Bat to Worse*, but he leaves right when she catches a glimpse of him, and Robin meets her instead. Later, in the episode's current day, she apprehends Poison Ivy, but Ivy escapes before Babs has a chance to meet Batman. Babs hopes to see Batman in the GothamCon convention in the episode *GothamCon*, but again Robin shows up instead of Batman.

Babs first meets Batman in an episode that was previewed in the DC Fandome Kids 2020 event. Batman arrives in a museum where Batgirl has apprehended Riddler, but Riddler disappears off-screen while Batgirl and Robin argue over the who caught riddler. Batman mutters something and leaves through the museum's skylight, then Robin explains to Babs that Batman said the Riddler escaped.