Why Gotham Knights' Batgirl Choice is So Controversial
Gotham Knights is Warner Bros. latest DC Comics-inspired video game, set in a world where Batman is dead and vigilantes Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin are left to defend the city. After revealing the game would only be available for next-gen consoles and releasing canon-diverging website biographies, Warner Bros. has been facing backlash from the community.
The open-world action-RPG is being praised for its released gameplay footage, but for others there are negatives that outweigh the positives. There are plenty of topics to debate, including elaborate Batman Beyond-themed uniforms, Red Hood’s ability to leap through the air via mystic energy, and Nightwing’s Fortnite-esque Flying Trapeze glider. Perhaps the most controversial of them all is the developer’s decision to use post-paralysis Barbara Gordan as its iteration of Batgirl.
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Barbara Gordan’s website biography reads, “Few people can match Barbara Gordan in terms of raw willpower and determination. Barbara has always been a person of action. In her mind, backing down is never an option… After a face-off that put Barbara in a wheelchair, she became Oracle, a powerful information and communications expert. But her father’s death spurred her to train and recover from her wounds, so she could return to active duty as Batgirl.”
As many comic readers may recall, in the graphic novel and animated film The Killing Joke, Barbara was shot through the spine by Joker. In other versions, such as in the animated show Young Justice, she sacrifices herself to save Cassandra Wu-San and becomes paralyzed from the waist down. Throughout comics and media, Barbara’s paralysis and eventual evolution into
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