Strengths: High IQ, tech savvy, resourceful, quick-thinking, cunning, altruistic, persistent, excitable, ambitious, makes friends easily, best at work when solo, in a partnership, and in a team.
Weaknesses: Obsessive, one-track mind, self-doubt and inferiority complex when in Batman's shadow, too trusting, impulsive, fickle and inconsistent when forming relationships, overly reliant on the men in her life, emotions and intelligence are sometimes incompatible when dealing with both her social and superhero lives, a Distaff Counterpart, a Woman in the Refrigerator in The Killing Joke.
Powers/Abilities: Martial arts, ballet, computer and hacking skills, eidetic memory, gadgetry, travelling, continuously exercising her mind and body.
Will: Moderate to strong (a strong will is required for her line of work, and for being trained by Batman).
Home/Place of Origin: Gotham City, New Jersey, currently resides in Burnside.
Occupation: Crime-fighting superhero - as Batgirl, or the worldwide superheroes' intelligence database and hacker Oracle, depending on the various DC storylines. Librarian, college student, detective, police chief, congresswoman, leader of the Birds of Prey.
Social Standing: Extrovert.
Ethnicity: Caucasian.
Sexuality: Heterosexual (one joke is made about her closeness with Supergirl in a Harley Quinn comic by Paul Dini, but a one-time joke it remains).
Other Trivia: Daughter of Gotham's police commissioner, James Gordon. Also known as the Dominoed Daredoll, and Bat-Beauty. The first Batgirl on DC's record is actually Betty Kane, Batwoman's niece, in the 1961 comic issue, "Bat-Girl!" BATMAN #139. Was created mainly as a love interest for either Batman or Robin, and in order to attract a female audience to the sixties Batman television show. Is left paralyzed via gunshot - and sexually assaulted (heavily implied) - by the Joker in the 1988 Alan Moore graphic novel The Killing Joke, to further the character arcs of Batman and Commissioner Gordon. Afterwards she is confined to a wheelchair for under twenty years during DC's run, where she assumes the role of Oracle, a genius working behind the computer screen, and giving information to any superhero who asks. In that time she was part of the very rare disability representation in comics. Is back to walking and fighting as Batgirl in DC's 2011 New 52 reboot, where she has PTSD, and where she is also given a younger brother, James Jnr. Moves to Burnside in her 2014 comics run to fight crime and complete her college thesis. Is friends with many DC characters, including her longtime partner in the Birds of Prey, Black Canary, and the other Batgirls Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown, who she takes under her wing as Oracle. Current civilian friends include the transgender woman Alysia Yeoh, and Frankie Charles of Burnside, a woman tech wizard of colour with muscular dystrophy.
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