#I also heard she became a super baddass as the Oracle

[hard-times-paramore]

Tw for mentions of rape.

I'm having Thoughts on The Killing Joke,,, I didn't read the comic but I saw the movie, if it's too different forgive me. But anyway, I was thinking about that movie and so far I haven't seen a lot of people talking about Barbara in it.

I mean, they sure talk about the tragedies that happened to her, always with an opinion of whether or not it was an extremely gross and sexist plot point to have added to the story, but do they talk about her? Because I actually think she was super well-written in that movie, bro.

She fucking called Batman out on his shit and left his ass, both as batgirl and as a relationship, because he couldn't deal with or be open about his own feelings and ghosted her after they had sex. She left on her own account, because she could see both her relationship with Batman and with crime-fighting weren't being healthy for her.

And like, that was before the Joker brutalized her. And even after, even though she couldn't walk anymore, it didn't make her helpless. She adapted to her new life. Kept exercizing, going places, doing sports, kept her friendships, and became a superhero again, just with a different way of doing the job.

Like, she's fucking amazing and it's a tragedy all that people saw of her in that story was "the joker raped and crippled her". The Joker only appeared after the first half of the movie, because it focused on Barbara having her own character arc and development. I'm a new Batman fan, I haven't seen a lot of content yet, not a lot about her either, but that was my introduction to Barbara Gordon and I thought she was amazing. I thought she was a cooler character than Batman in that movie.

It kinda annoys me that I didn't see people talk about her as a character in The Killing Joke, just as a tragedy. She was more than that, guys.

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