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Originally Posted by SanoBaron

first off, all 3 of those panels could be summing up less than a second, which would not give Barbara enough time to react. and the only way to prove this was longer than less than a second would be to have a timer at the bottom, which this does not.


also, one wouldn't use the peephole if she thought it was someone she was expecting, and even if she did use the peephole, she probably couldn't tell who it was. that's a plotpoint in Persona 4 which explains why someone wouldn't check the door and instead open it right away.

there was nothing wrong with the original comic or having Barbara become crippled. if anything, i felt her becoming Oracle was way better than her becoming Batgirl. because becoming Oracle meant something greater in the long run.

Given the look of fear/shock on her face in the third panel, it's obvious that the scene lasted more than a second.

She wasn't expecting anyone when the Joker came knocking. And it's kinda hard not to figure out the guy standing outside of the door is the Joker, tourist costume or no.

The only reason Barbara became Oracle was because Kim Yale and John Ostrander found her crippling in The Killing Joke to be distasteful. And rather than let a character with such a rich history and significance fall into obscurity, they decided to bring her back as someone learning to live with disability. Her development into Oracle was crucial to the comic-book medium as a whole, but her crippling in The Killing Joke was, in the words of Alan Moore himself, "shallow and ill-conceived."

At the time of The Killing Joke's release, Barbara Gordon was a character with a 21-year history and an enormous fanbase. While her popularity had begun to decline, to have her story almost end as a mere plot device to further one story is completely disrespectful and a prime example of the "women in refrigerators" trope.