Batgirl's biography in Gotham Knights is updated after the initial controversy
Gotham Knights recently found itself in hot waters with fans. Batgirl's official biography, which was earlier uploaded on the game's website, was criticized for being tone-deaf and promoting a harmful representation of disabled people.
WB Games Montreal quickly responded to the matter and adjusted the text. Batgirl, one of the four playable characters in the game, went through a traumatic "face-off" in the canon, which restricted her to a wheelchair.
The fictional hero has often been at the center of controversy because of the incident which left her paraplegic. In 2015, readers had reacted to a violent cover, done by Rafael Albuquerque, of a Batgirl comic issue.
Barbara Gordon, or Batgirl, is the daughter of Jim Gordon and is part of the Batman Family. Alan Moore's iconic 1988 Batman: The Killing Joke gave her a backstory where the Joker shoots and paralyzes her. This resulted in her becoming the Oracle - "a powerful information and communications expert".
In the earlier biography of the hero on the Gotha Knights website, WB Games Montreal continued:
This was met with severe backlash from fans of Gotham Knights. Terming it as terrible and an attempt to minimize the seriousness and severity of Barbara's paralysis as wounds, the wording was criticized for making it sound like the disability could be overcome simply through motivation and gritty training.
Fans pointed out that they brushed over the details and instead could have stated that she recovered with the help of advanced technologies that accelerated her healing or through other such courses.
In a recent Q&A on Gotham Knight's Discord, the creative director of the game, Patrick Redding, stated:
Redding explained that the circumstances surrounding Barbara's injuries would
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