'Barbara has been through multiple surgeries followed by a lot of physical therapy and pain management. 'As with many of our characters and plot elements, the circumstances around Barbara's injuries differ in some important ways from how it's been portrayed in the comics,' he stated. Gotham Knights creative director Patrick Redding has since revealed the team has 'worked with the awesome folks at AbleGamers to learn about different types of spinal injuries and the potential for someone to regain mobility.' Redding said the team had now changed some of its wording in her description in response to the feedback. for this description, saying it was a misused trope to have a character 'overcome' their disability through heroic training and gritty determination. previously stated Barbara was in a wheelchair following a 'face-off' just to hedge its bets.

Gremlins Director Joe Dante Explains Why He’s No Fan Of Baby Yoda. In Gotham Knights, players can explore the open-world action of Gotham and patrol the dark streets of the city’s five distinct boroughs using a variety of traversal abilities and heroic combat moves, as well as the iconic Batcycle. All Poll Reveals Which Gotham Knights Characters Fans Are Excited to Main. While she may not have the exact same backstory in Gotham Knights, Warner Bros. Gameplay has now been shown for each playable character in Gotham Knights’ Bat Family. Her paralysis was intended to be permanent and she became Oracle until the editorial decision was made in 2011 to give her the ability to walk again so that she could be Batgirl again.

In the 1988 original comic The Killing Joke, Barbara Gordon was shot in the spine by Joker, leading to her using a wheelchair. Eurogamer reported that during a Discord Q&A, fans asked about Batgirl's development in Gotham Knights after backlash to her character's biography on the game's website, which described her as training to 'recover from her wounds' so that she could 'return to active duty as Batgirl'.

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