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APE IN A CAPE: Something To Think About…
Dear Oracle-fans, New 52 haters, etc…
I understand your frustration against Barbara…
I think it’s because she’s the only one to have been rebooted like this in the Bat-Family. Gotham sort of operates like a mini-verse within the larger DC universe, if that makes any sense, so being the only one there to be “downgraded” stands out more.
I would add that it also just doesn’t make any sense to me that she would go back to being Batgirl after establishing her own identity as Oracle. It’s like if Nightwing
had gone back to being Robin. Even if it’s only been a few years in this universe, it’s been decades for the fans and we still think of her as having been Oracle for a lot longer. Also, it sucks that that that Steph project fell through.
People keep saying that but it just really isn’t true. Huge chunks of Nightwing, Red Hood, and even Batman history are not in continuity yet and probably won’t be.
Batgirl’s push back made a much bigger visual difference, but we are still talking about a Batman with a much lesser JLA history, and hundreds of stories that haven’t happened, a different Joker with much less history, a new Mr. Freeze, essentially, some villains have yet to make their first appearance, Nightwing’s history is changed, they’re almost all younger…I don’t know what batbooks you guys are reading but that’s all right there on the page, you know?
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