When Barbara Lee Gordon was born about 1927, her father, Samuel, was 23, and her mother, Margaret, was 21. Moth directs the group to kidnap Wayne's business acquaintance instead, who also happens to be a billionaire. A joint production of Warner Bros. and Noodle Soup Productions, the series stars Batgirl protecting Gotham City from the criminal activities of Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Barbara's Batgirl suit in the film is completely different than the one from the comics as it lacks gold accents and had a Robin-style domino mask. Barbara Gordon, this time working in the District Attorney's office instead of being a librarian, made several appearances in both her civilian persona and as her alter ego in the 1977 Saturday morning animated series The New Adventures of Batman. However, she is a fangirl and her ambitious nature makes her destined to be Batman's future sidekick. Barbara Gordon appears in Batman Beyond. #YesSpoilers! Eventually, Batman and Robin locate her, and the three of them manage to destroy Mr. Batgirl makes a silent cameo appearance in the movie. Tim killed the Joker who was buried under Arkham Asylum and covered up the events with her father's aid a year before Tim's recovery from his trauma and Bruce forbade Tim from being Robin again as Tim soon left after this. In the episode "Homefront", she is portrayed as a student at the Gotham Academy alongside Dick Grayson and Artemis Crock. During her initial introduction, she demands to be called “Batwoman” until Commissioner Gordon calls her by the Batgirl name. Does she get an ostomy? But Wayne suffered partial amnesia during that time which made Bruce lose the memory as the Dark Knight Detective which threw Barbara off. Meanwhile, Gordon is locked in the library's office by Killer Moth's henchmen, however, it is revealed there is a secret chamber within the office where she changes into Batgirl. She is a student at Super Hero High, is an extremely intelligent genius. Originally created in 1967, the fictional comic book character Barbara Gordon has been adapted into various other forms of media. In the series, she is a student at Metropolis High. Batman himself, despite never asking to have a partner, becomes fond of working with her - though would not admit it. Todd being paralysed from the waist down by a super villain and placed into a wheelchair also reflects Gordon's own disability within the comic books and mirrors how she too was shot within The Killing Joke storyline. Give me a Batgirl who is exhausted all the time, because her body doesn’t feel like her own and she has zero time to shoulder or ameliorate all the guilt Bruce and Jim are carrying around. Barbara asks Batman to appear at a public rally to support Gordon but the Dark Knight declines, citing more important things to do in investigating who framed Gordon. In Batman: The Animated Series, Barbara Gordon is introduced in the two-part episode "Heart of Steel",[24] where she assists Batman in saving her father James Gordon from the evil A.I. I also imagine that if J ever did something to a child, Barbara would be more determined than ever to send him back to Arkham. Freeze: SubZero, Barbara Gordon appears a central character and her age is revealed to be 20. In 1940, she was 13 years old and lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her father, mother, and brother. Barbara: Barbara Lee Gordon. She then becomes Batgirl and fighting against Mr. J would be a common thing for her. & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, near the plot's climax Daphne Blake dons an old Batgirl costume which - with the mask and hood up - makes her strongly resemble Batgirl from the Batman: The Brave and the Bold animated series as well as Batgirl's appearance from her debut in Detective Comics #359 and in the Silver Age comics. I just want to see the batcave and a hint at my batfamily. Her Batgirl costume is purple with gold accents to reflect the costume from the '60s TV series.[13]. DC Database is a FANDOM Movies Community. In the 70 minute pilot episode, Alfred Pennyworth narrates the events which have led to the formation of the Birds of Prey. Batman gives her the password to the Cortex ("Oracle") so she can hack it and take it down. Barbara's role and portrayal in the film (which differs heavily from most other portrayals) has been heavily criticized as "cheap, misogynistic writing". (and accompanied by an appropriately modified Batman logo). Whedon was to begin production on the film in 2018,[5] but stepped down in February 2018. "I Am Bane"(March 21, 2019) Jim: What should I call her. [2] The film will feature the Barbara Gordon incarnation of the character, with The New 52 comics by Gail Simone serving as "a starting point" for the film. Due to this, many iconic scenarios related to Gordon have been used within the series without her character being involved; Grayson's complicated on/off romantic history with Granger, created specifically for the show, is reminiscent of his and Gordon's, suggesting that Granger's character to an extent is filling the role that the writers planned for Gordon. Barbara Gordon, renamed Barbara Lee Gordon, appears in the fifth and final season of Gotham, portrayed by Jeté Laurence. Laeta Kalogridis planned several series highlights for the second season, including Dick Grayson's reintroduction (prompting a Barbara/Helena argument), as well as Koriand'r possibly appearing. Her Batgirl costume was changed to a black body suit with yellow gloves, boots, bat-symbol and utility belt to match her original comic book design seen in Detective Comics #359. The episode "Over the Edge" also implies this as Nightwing "can't believe it ended like this for us or Barbara". animated series, voiced by Tara Strong once again. [7] The studio is actively looking for a female director. Despite being against Mr. After she and Batman saved Gotham from Maxie Zeus's siege in the episode "Thunder", the Dark Knight gave her some spare gadgets and accepted her as a partner as she was in the loop, marking the only time Batgirl is Batman's first sidekick instead of Robin, which was different from the comics due to having Robin's character in another DC animated television series. In addition to that, Barbara associates with her close friend Pamela Isley, a fellow student with a juvenile-detention record - something James does not like. In the film, she is seen fighting against Apokolips' forces alongside Batwoman before getting gruesomely dismembered by the Paradooms, Darkseid's newest henchman force. Also what happened to Ivy? Barbara Gordon has appeared in Bruce Timm's DC animated universe, with Batgirl voiced by Melissa Gilbert in Batman: The Animated Series,[23] by Mary Kay Bergman in the animated movie Batman & Mr. "[16], Yvonne Craig once again appeared as Batgirl in a 1972 television commercial supporting women's rights (specifically, equal pay).[17]. Barbara's final appearance is in the episode "Batgirl Returns" in which she is seen having a flirting relationship with her classmate Dick Grayson at Gotham State University. After the black-out, she continues to assist Katana and Batman, taking the codename of Oracle. Imagined a scenario of teenagers Barbara Lee’s Uncle Penguin and Uncle Ed helping her with her prom outfit, #i was really surprised lol but that was cool, #i'm not even a barbara fan but her character development was really interesting, #its in these moments where i cry over how great the gotham batfam is, #the relationships are rocky but the connections are there fam. [15] The Penguin kidnaps Commissioner Gordon's daughter Barbara, binds her to a chair and gags her, and hides her in the next-door apartment which is being redecorated. Additionally, the fourth wall-breaking series finale "Mitefall!" At one point, in the episode "A Dark Knight to Remember", she has figured out that Batman is secretly Bruce Wayne as the billionaire is physically fit and can afford to purchase equipment that Batman would require. [31] In Young Justice: Outsiders, Barbara is now the wheelchair bound Oracle, and is in a relationship with Dick Grayson.[32]. When media articles the next day ask the question "Who is Batgirl? Also, the colors of the costume from the show are later adopted in the Bronze Age comics from the 1970s through the early 1980s. On one occasion, she was prepared to arrest Terry when she apparently witnessed the second Batman murder the criminal bomber Mad Stan despite the fact that Terry's arrest would compromise her and Bruce's secret. Although not restricted to the animated continuity, the main characters were adapted from The New Batman Adventures. Barbara Lee Gordon is the daughter of James Gordon and Barbara Kean.