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WARNING : This clause contains SPOILERS forBatgirl & The Birds Of Prey # 22
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to reward a fall champion , currentBatgirlBarbara Gordon has returned to her role as the white - hat hacker Oracle . This wo n’t slow her efforts at physically protecting the streets of the Burnside borough of Gotham City , however , or preclude her from accept to the line of business as one ofThe Birds of Prey .
Barbara Gordon first took the codename Oracle in the pages ofSuicide Squad , using her estimator attainment to back the squad remotely . This countenance Barbara to continue to fight crime , despite having been paralyzed by The Joker following the events ofThe Killing Joke . When the account of DC Comics was rewritten following theFlashpointevent in 2011 , Barbara had her mobility restored by an data-based operating theater and resumed her activities as Batgirl . HerNew 52series affirm that she had still been Oracle for a few years in the revised timeline , but was surprisingly sparse on the details .
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TheDC RebirthBatgirl and The Birds of Preyseries flesh out the backstory fairly , confirm that Black Canary and Oracle once had a partnership similar to the one they had enjoy in the originalBirds of Preycomics from the 1990s and 2000s . As the series opened , Barbara Gordon and Dinah Lance were on the out with one another , with Black Canary holding a grudge about Batgirl unintentionally burning down the dojo that was the only plate Dinah had bed after years living on the street .
The two heroine reluctantly joined force once more when they discovered that someone was using Barbara ’s Oracle identicalness to direct entropy to the Gotham City mob . This led to the two joining forces with The Huntress , whose mission to bring down the Five Families of the Gotham Mafia give her a different reasonableness for get the new Oracle .
The trail eventually led them to Gus - a well - mean cyber-terrorist and superheroine fanboy , who had taken up the Oracle name for himself and was using it to specify a cakehole for all of the prepare law-breaking families in Gotham . The three costumed crime - fighters elected to proceed work together , with Gus being allowed to continue as Oracle .
Full Circle- the terminal news report arc ofthis avatar ofBatgirl and The Birds of Prey- saw Gus give his life to protect his friends when an all - star team of The Birds of Prey ’s enemies started seeking out Oracle under the management of the hacker called The Calculator . Once the villains were kill , Barbara elected to honor Gus ' sacrifice by becoming Oracle once again . The exit concludes as the Birds of Prey strike that Gus had one final gift to give them - a museum of sort , made of various mementos of their past .
It ’s unclear what adventures lie ahead forBatgirland theBirds of Prey , but it ’s unlikely any of them will be vanishing into comic book limbo witha pair ofBirds of Prey - theme movies in the works . Batgirl also still has a solo comic of her own . The Huntress is currently doing a node spot inHellblazer . And it seems more than likely that Black Canary will continue to show up inGreen Arrowwhen Julie and Shawna Benson - author onBatgirl and the Birds of Prey- take over Oliver Queen ’s comic ledger in two months .
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Batgirl & The Birds Of Prey # 22is now uncommitted fromDC Comics .
