"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
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I liked Barbara when she studied with Bane, then mentored a bunch of little Batgirls in that Annual.
She needs to be given a new codename because the batGIRL title on someone who's supposed to be Babs is kind of ridiculous.
But what? She can't do what Marvel's Sue Richards and Mayday Parker did and switch the Girl to Woman, because Batwoman is taken. I know Marvel has quite a few double mantles right now, but aren't Green Lantern (which is justified as they're a Corps) and Flash the only dupes in the DC lineup? Well, not counting the Justice League of China from New Super-Man or any alternate dimension counterparts.
It's only fair. Batwoman existed for over a decade before Batgirl came along. Batwoman aka Kathy Kane was introduced in Detective Comics #233 (1956). Only to be killed off in Detective Comics #485 (1979)
Batgirl aka Barbara Gordon didn't come along until Detective Comics #359 (1967). And there was even a Bat-Girl before her, Betty Kane, Kathy's niece. First appearing in Batman #139 (1961)
Being the Batwoman is something but I don't think Babs should inherit it or anything because Kate is very established atm. I say her let her have own moniker for on the field, like her own equivalent of Nightwing. Maybe keep the bat in there some where because she's very connected to the word and it lets her keep the iconography that she's been associated with.
Isn't Babs reverting back to Batgirl one of the New 52 changes? Spoiler was Batgirl immediately before Flashpoint. Though I do see that they have kept her previously being disabled in continuity. If I'm not mistaken, time got rolled back to after The Killing Joke, but before Cass became Batgirl? Meaning in current continuity she'd never had a successor.
And didn't a new Oracle get introduced recently?
Not really. The whole point of Catman was that he felt if a woman could be a great thief disguised as a cat, a man would disguised as a cat would be an even greater thief. Because of course men are superior
in everything. Just ask the Superman fans when it comes to Supergirl and who is more powerful. But I digress. Without Catwoman there wouldn't be a Catman. Likewise Batwoman stole Batman's shtick,
though I'm not really sure why in her case. Hero worship? Without Batman no Batwoman or Batgirl.