Barbara Gordon

Barbara Gordon is the Gotham City vigilante known as Batgirl and elite computer hacker known as Oracle. She is the daughter of Commissioner James Gordon and Barbara Eileen Gordon and the older sister of James Gordon, Jr. Barbara Eileen Gordon left her family when her daughter was young. Batman debuted. This inspired young Barbara to become Batgirl. Soon, she began working with Batman and his teen partner Robin.[4] She attended Burnside College, where she briefly dated Charles Dante. After a period of time as Batgirl, Barbara retreated from her role. Shortly after, she was shot in the spine by the Joker. While in physical therapy following her injury, she met Francine Charles; they befriended one another after Barbara taught Francine some katas that aided with her therapeutic exercizes. Looking for other ways to fight, Barbara became a hacker and information broker, donned the Oracle identity and founded the Birds of Prey. She suffers from chronic pain as a side effect of her injury caused by the Joker shooting her in the spine and is in a wheelchair a majority of the time. She is still ambulatory but chooses to stay in the chair unless walking upright is necessary. She is also head of her own green energy company. She is an extraordinarily gifted hacker. Barbara has red, straight hair, wears blue light glasses and usually has her hair pulled back when working as oracle. From 1989 to 2011, Barbara operated as the data broker Oracle, using her skills in Information Technology to help both the Batman Family and other superheroes. Under the identity, she was a member and leader of the superhero team Birds of Prey.Recognizing she could no longer be the kind of superhero she had been, she instead devoted all her time to developing one of the world's most complex and powerful computer systems and set to work accumulating information, renaming herself "Oracle."

Blessed with a photographic memory, Barbara reads dozens of the world's top newspapers and magazines daily. She's also constantly gathering information from other, less public sources, such as the CIA's mainframe, not to mention the data networks of the FBI, NSA and Interpol (all without their knowledge or consent).

Oracle has proven an absolutely invaluable resource to the Batman and his allies, as well as countless other superheroes, few of whom know anything about the person behind the name. Oracle has formed an alliance with fellow heroes Black Canary and The Huntress to aid those in need. Together, they are the Birds of Prey, combining their unique abilities and skills in the war against crime and terror.

Both Yale and Ostrander would oversee the development of Barbara Gordon's new persona as Oracle for the next several years. The character made her first comic book appearance as Oracle in Suicide Squad #23, anonymously offering her services to the government's Task Force X. In the following two years, Oracle, under pen of Ostrander and Yale, made guest appearances in various DC titles until her identity was revealed to be Barbara Gordon in Suicide Squad #38 (1990) and she officially becomes a member of the Squad in issue #48 following an invitation from fictional government agent Amanda Waller. In 1992, Dennis O’Neil gave Barbara Gordon’s Oracle a starring role in Batman: Sword of Azrael #1, where she became Batman’s sole source of information. This newly forged partnership established Oracle’s status as Batman's intellectual equal.