Quote Originally Posted by Godlike13 View Post
Most the Batgirls are similar enough that a number of storyline ideas could conceivably be interchanged between one to another. The same is true for the Robins. Burnside was important because it was being done with the iconic Batgirl. It was the same with Grayson at the time.
I find that an disingenous argument to make.

Of course you can take a plot seed and move it around between characters. But that ignores that each character—if they are well-written and well-developed—will react to and interact with the story in very different ways. And not every story fits into each and every phase of a character's life in the same way.

If we take Burnside as an example, it'd have worked for Steph, and possibly even Cass, because the setting wanted a character with limited "real-world" experience but still some "cape" experience. It could have worked for Babs, but that would have required setting it before TKJ, and possibly also reworking her entire background.