Batgirl (2009 comic book): Difference between revisions

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{{quote|"It's only the end if you want it to be."}}

* [[Fun with Subtitles]]: Well, "Captions" instead of "Subtitles," but they give us such goodies as "Requisite Super-Collider Lab."

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: The one-shot crossover with ''Bruce Wayne: The Road Home'' reveals that apparently everything that has happened so far in this series, including Cassandra Cain's rejection of the Batgirl title and its passage to Stephanie, was all planned by Bruce Wayne in the event of his death, with Cassandra Cain briefed on the details long ago.

* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: The twenty-four Draculas [[Refugee From TV Land|running around campus]] sprung from a physics experiment that went in a direction other than planned.

* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: She and Damian Wayne (Robin) play "Bad Cop, ''Worse'' Cop."

* [[Insistent Terminology]]:

** Barbara originally refused to call Stephanie "Batgirl" for a variety of reasons, both personal and professional, and it was when she finally did that helped Stephanie accept that she had earned the name.

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: Wendy remembers the night that she and Stephanie first met (During a [[Crossover]] with ''[[Red Robin]]'') as the night with the ninjas. Stephanie herself simply describes them as "assassins."

* [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: The regular use of [[In Medias Res]] often means that the initial scenes of an issue can not be explained using information that readers currently possess, forcing them to wait for later panels (Or even ''issues'') to provide the proper context.

** Batgirl fighting the Queen of Fables with the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], which would potentially have had its own story arc in this series if it had not been cancelled.

** Batgirl, Robin and Oracle as [[Green Lantern|Blue, Red and Green Lanterns]] (Respectively) in what Miller described as "the [[Blackest Night]] tie in I never got to write."

** Stephanie Brown graduating Gotham University with honors, being attacked by the Royal Flush Gang during the graduation ceremony.

** The final two scenes were twenty years in the future, unconnected with the current storylines of the DCU. In the first, Stephanie is putting her son to bed with a wedding ring on her finger (Miller pointed out in the interview that a picture of "[[Cry for Justice|city-murdering Prometheus]]" was hung on her sons wall, implying that there had been some sort of reboot in the interceding years that turned him into hero) while the [[Bat Signal]] is seen outside her window. The second scene featured Stephanie as the crime-fighter "Knightwing," Agent of [[Checkmate]], with her own Batgirl partner. This partner is Nell, [[Ascended Fangirl|the young girl Stephanie had met throughout the series and who idolized Batgirl]].

{{quote|'''Batgirl:''' "Strictly for rapport purposes--what is a plucky heroine in need of banter supposed to call you?"}}

* [[Wizard Duel]]: When Stephanie unintentionally insults the bonnet-making-craftmanship of a witch in Limbo Town she is challenged to a standard duel, to be conducted per the guidelines set in Alchan's Book of the Damned, Third Edition, Twice Removed.

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: [[Witty Banter]] is a necessity in any life-or-death situation, and Stephanie always remembers to prompt somebody when it is their turn for a quip.

{{quote|'''Batgirl:''' "Little late but nice effort."}}

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