Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

"*I'm Batgirl, I know everybody.*"
―Barbara Gordon[src]
**Barbara Gordon** is the daughter of Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon and an associate of Batman who operates as the vigilante known as **Batgirl**.

Batgirl has been the founder of the Birds of Prey and a member of the Batman Vigilante Family. One event in which she was fighting Lady Shiva lead to her permanent disability, in which she passed down the **Batgirl** moniker to Stephanie Brown.

## Biography

### Early life

Barbara Gordon is born in Ohio before relocating to Gotham due to her father acting as the chief of the GCPD.

#### Paralyzed

Lady Shiva manages to break Barbara spine, rendering her unable to walk.

## Abilities

Barbara had a multitude of physical abilities prior to her spinal injury.

* **Genius-level intellect**: She has studied rigorously during her school days.
	+ **Investigation**: Trained by Batman himself, Barbara is one of the superhero community's greatest detectives.
	+ **Computer hacking**: As Oracle, Barbara is an expert computer hacker. With her computer hacking skills she is able to breach the highest security systems.
* **Leadership**:
* **Tactical analysis**:
* **Expert martial artist**: Barbara is a trained martial artist. She has learned jujitsu,
* **Acrobats**: Barbara is flexible and can perform dangerous stunts with little struggle.
* **Driving**:
* **Indomitable will**:
* **Sewing**: Barbara designed and created her own first Batgirl suit.

## Equipment

* **Batsuit**: Barbara is equipped with her own Batsuit, first one being homemade, and the second one create by Batman for her.
* **Computer**: As Oracle, she owns her own

### Weapons

* **Utility belt**: Just like Batman, she also dons a utility belt to store her equipment.
* **Batarangs**: She keeps numwrous batarangs in her utility belt.
* **Grappling hook**: She has a grappling hook to latch onto building.

### Transportation

* **Batcycle**: Batgirl has her own specially modified Batcycle.

## Relationships

* Barbara E. Gordon - mother

Allies* Birds of Prey
	+ Dinah Lance/Black Canary - trainer
	+ Helena Bertinelli/Huntress
	+ Stephanie Brown/Spoiler/Batgirl II
	+ Cassandra Cain/Orphan/Black Bat
	+ Mari McCabe/Vixen
* Batman Vigilante Family
	+ Bruce Wayne/Batman - trainer
	+ Dick Grayson/Nightwing - ex-boyfriend
	+ Jason Todd/Robin/Red Hood
	+ Tim Drake/Robin/Red Robin
	+ Damian Wayne/Robin
* Gotham City Police Department
* Titans
	+ Koriand'r/Starfire
	+ Raven
	+ Victor Stone/Cyborg
	+ Garfield Logan/Beast Boy
* Insurgency
	+ Roy Harper/Red Arrow
	+ Virgil Hawkins/Static
* Justice Society of America
	+ Michael Holt/Mister Terrific
	+ Power Girl
	+ Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl
	+ Black Adam
* Superman - former enemy
* Kara Zor-El
* Mera
	+ Penguin
	+ Cluemaster
* Court of Owls
	+ Talon
* GRID
* Lady Shiva
* David Cain
* Riddler
* Scarecrow
* Mister Freeze
* Anarky
* Darkseid's Elite
	+ Darkseid
	+ Parademons
* Trigon
* Anti-Monitor

## Trivia

* In the comics, Joker was the one who paralyzed Barbara by shooting her spinal cord, but since the Joker is dead, it was changed to Lady Shiva being the one to do it by slamming her into a wall.

## External links

* Barbara Gordon (New Earth) on DC Database
* Batgirl on DC Extended Universe Wiki
* Barbara Gordon on Wikipedia