She would survive but the loss of her legs meant her career as Batgirl was over, transitioning into the role of technical advisor know as the Oracle. Shot and paralyzed in front of her father, Commissioner James Gordon, the Joker proceeded to strip her naked in order to take pictures of her broken body as part of his plan to drive her father insane. Barbara Gordon's life changed when she opened the door to see a grinning Joker and a loaded gun in 1988's Batman: The Killing Joke. The two appear to be locked in an endless cycle of battle which many suggest will only end when either one is dead. Although he is not the only costumed psychopath that Batman has regularly faced during his crime-fighting career, the Joker appears to have a special place in Batman's Rogues gallery where it's been suggested that the grinning lunatic exists as an agent of chaos to the order that Batman represents in Gotham.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |