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WARNING ! The following clause turn back SPOILERS forBatgirl # 23 .
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The last issue of Hope Larson ’s critically acclaimedBatgirlcomic run showcases exactly what makes Barbara Gordon something peculiar among DC Comics ' hero : her ability to not only overcome challenges , butembracethem .
The previous issue ofBatgirlopened with Barbara save a dinge wife from her supervillain ex - hubby , before detailing Barbara ’s adventures inquire an underground fight gang ( and reconnecting with an old boyfriend ) . The issue terminate with Barbara realizing that everything she had experienced following the fight with the supervillain was an illusion , and that she had fallen prey to a ray gun that stimulate anyone who was zapped with it to jump imagining their ideal life story .
While several days had passed in Barbara ’s head , a bare few seconds had passed in realness , as the villain keep on menace his family while Batgirl lay prostrate and helpless .
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This form of menace has famously incapacitate other heroes in the yesteryear . Batmanfaced a similar hole thanks to The Mad Hatter in theBatman : The Animated Seriesepisode " Perchance To Dream . “Supermanhad to oppose his way out of a dream of a Krypton that never explode in the classic Alan Moore amusing " For The Man Who Has Everything " . What separates " Strange Loop " from these early stories is exactly why Barbara is able to free herself .
After trying to reflect her way out of the trick and coping with a series of distractions meant to take up her deeply into the world of the mind prison , Barbara hits upon the key to her escape . Reasoning that the trick is draw on her memories to make something that seems literal , Barbara undertake to break the persistence of the world around her by acting out of fictitious character in a agency that her creative thinker could not accept . To that end , she tracks down her old fellow Kai , and reveals her secret indistinguishability as Batgirl . She exact she wants to give up everything to live a simple life with him , and flirts in a much more aggressive manner than the quiet , thoughtful draw a bead on bibliothec Barbara Gordon would ever dream of doing .
What Barbara realizes about herself - and explains to the super - villain as she starts fighting him again - is that the ray gun did n’t mould on her because she does n’t want a utter , peaceable , prosperous existence . Barbara says that she need to be take exception and to embrace changes to her turn . This is why her perfect world was precisely like the aliveness she was living already , only with thing being far too easygoing .
This is what determine Barbara Gordon as unique among DC Comics ' hero . Many superheroes sweep over hard knocks but few of them embrace the challenges that alive throws at them with the same vigor and enthusiasm as Batgirl . While Barbara Gordon may not be struggling to subdue her palsy as Oracle anymore , she still has the same heroic spirit that not only allows her to defeat adversity , but to thrive while under fervency . It ’s an aspect of Barbara Gordon ’s character that Hope Larson catch perfectly and one that will hopefully carry on to be profiled asBatgirl ’s dangerous undertaking continue .
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Batgirl # 23is usable now fromDC Comics .
