"GORDON, BARBARA" ORACLE

Barbara Gordon

appearance

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Barbara is currently five foot and seven inches tall, she has shoulder-length, ginger hair and she weighs one hundred and twenty-six pounds (fifty-seven kilograms). She is always seen wearing glasses and she is always sat in her wheelchair because the Joker had shot her, making her paralyzed from the waist down to her feet.

She mostly wears a long-sleeved t-shirt and jeans. She always wears a brightly-coloured top, she mostly wears the colour yellow, but she is seen wearing light blue as well. She is known to wear quite "nerdy" things. But on special occasions she wears beautiful dresses, her favourite being her red, long dress.

Her old Batgirl costume was quite similar to Batman's, except her cape was to the waist in length and was yellow in colour. She had a yellow, bat logo on her chest and her mask allowed her hair to slip through the back, letting her hair flow in the wind when she stood on a gargoyle statue in the city. But she no longer looks like that anymore, thanks to the Joker shooting her and making her who she is today.

personality

history

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Barbara Gordon was born the daughter of Roger Gordon and his wife Thelma in Ohio. Even as a young girl, Barbara wanted nothing more than to be a super-hero. She would spend endless hours designing super-hero costumes and heroic identities for her to use.

When Barbara was 13, her mother and father were tragically killed in an car crash. Barbara adjusted as well as she could. After the accident, her uncle, James Gordon, adopted her. James Gordon and his wife (also named Barbara) lived hundreds of miles east in Gotham City, where James worked as the police Captain.

One evening, she snuck into her father's private home office to discover him engaged in a secret conversation with the Batman. Barbara had no idea that her adoptive father actually worked with the Batman.

The following morning, Barbara insisted that James enroll her in martial arts classes. He soon realized that the daughter of Gotham City's police captain could definitely benefit from some knowledge of self-defense. Barbara excelled in her training and earned her black belt within a short span of time.

A few weeks later, a costumed criminal named Killer Moth and his cronies raided a country club, grabbing Bruce Wayne as a hostage. Batman allowed Batgirl to rescue him so that he could sneak off to change into his 'work clothes'.

After fighting off the criminals, Batman shouted at Batgirl harshly for her foolish antics, and warned her against pursuing such a reckless lifestyle. Hearing such criticism from a man she idolized for so long was a shock for Barbara, but it did not deter her from her chosen path.

As the years went on, however, Barbara found her role as Batgirl less and less fulfilling, and she eventually was more or less retired. That's when the Joker showed up at her house, shooting and paralyzing her and her Uncle Jim was kidnapped. Batman rescued Jim Gordon, but 19-year-old Barbara Gordon's career as a crime fighter was over.

She then spent a month in a deep depression.

Recognizing she could no longer be the kind of superhero she had been, she instead devoted all her time to developing one of the world's most complex and powerful computer systems and set to work accumulating information, renaming herself "Oracle."

Powers/abilities

name: Computer Hacking.
description: Barbara is an expert computer hacker. With her computer hacking skills, she is able to breach the highest security systems. Her skills are rivaled by none.

name: Investigation.
description: Trained by Batman himself, Barbara is on a team of the world's greatest detectives.

name: Martial Arts.
description: Barbara is a trained martial artist. She was trained by Kung Fu master Richard Dragon who helped Barbara hone her martial prowess during a time when he too was using a wheelchair.

name: Genius Level Intellect.
description: Barbara is known for having a high intelligence - higher than an average Human.