Barbara was brought back as Batgirl for the New 52 - replacing Stephanie Brown
Cassandra Cain had been screwed out of being Batgirl several years earlier
When questioned about the change in characterization...
Henry Lewis
Cameron Peterson
Cassandra got screwed in the One Year Later story in 2006
Daniel Bailey
>Batman 66 began in 2013 long after all of this
We're talking about the actual Adam West show.
>The 1997 movie wasn't Barbara Gordon
They changed her last name, it was still a white girl named Barbara.
>So that leaves you with only Batman TAS
One of the most critically acclaimed cartoons of all time and constant rerun on 90s CN.
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>come on DC just couldn't stop fucking him the 1990s totally different situation
No, it's really not. He was dead, he was done, and a fanboy who couldn't let go brought him back to temporary sales success and complete brand regression.
>nigga pls
Say that to yourself: normal people don't care if you call Batman Bruce, Dick or Damien. They just like Batman as a concept. The refusal to let Bruce move on is 100% petulant fanboys.
Ryan Thomas
Steph was a compromise since they couldn't risk undoing years of stories. When they got a chance at a linewide reboot, they threw the blonde in the trash.
Thomas Bell
well she was in tiny titans for like a scene?
Thomas Torres
>He was dead, he was done, and a fanboy who couldn't let go brought him back to temporary sales success and complete brand regression.
>Say that to yourself: normal people don't care if you call Batman Bruce, Dick or Damien. They just like Batman as a concept. The refusal to let Bruce move on is 100% petulant fanboys.
the comics are not about characters growing and changing and moving on, that's not a superhero comic
This is just being an edgelord
Well yeah she'd been Spoiler for years
I never understood her appeal or becoming Batgirl anyway
William Davis
and then later she became robin and then lost that too
WHO MAKES THESE DECISIONS
Jaxon Brooks
>the comics are not about characters growing and changing and moving on, that's not a superhero comic
>This is just being an edgelord
Hi, I want you to meet Amazing Spider-Man from 1963 to 1989.
Bringing back a character like Hal from a story like the one he went through and cleaning the slate is nothing but a bad call. All you get out of it, at best, is name-recognition nostalgia. It's okay to leave Kent Nelson in the grave. It's alright to let Norman Osborne stay dead. There's nothing wrong with letting Barry hang up the boots. Dredging the past up after it's laid to rest only serves to strangle future writers and limit your brand's future. They're symbols, not people, you can let the person behind the mask go if their story is over.
Carter Stewart
Backwards, it was Spoiler > Robin > Batgirl.
Robin was a random push, Batgirl was appeasement + "Fuck Cass."
Aaron Ramirez
Just to clear up the timeline, Steph was Spoiler, then Robin, then died, then came back as Spoiler, then became Batgirl, then went back to Spoiler.