Editing Batgirl (section)

===History===
Bio: Barbara Gordon is the daughter of James Gordon, Chief of Gotham City Police. Her first career choice was to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a forensic detective. However, despite her great intelligence, her father wanted to protect her from the dangers of the profession. He insisted she went to university and find a nice, safe, profession, like working in a library. However, Barbara has secretly engaged in detective work anyway. She uses her intelligence and insight to work on cases confounding the police, and help solve crimes – often undertaking fieldwork on her own time to follow up leads. She has helped and befriended a number of detectives from GCPD.

When she discovered the identity of her hero, Batman, she broke into Wayne Manor to confront the caped crusader and ask her to train him. There she met Dick Grayson, and so began a long and complex relationship.

Batman refused to take on Barbara – knowing that she was the Police Commissioner’s daughter, and also believing that she just wanted to “play” superhero with no idea of the real horrors of the calling. But with Grayson’s illicit help, as well as support from Alfred, she was equipped and trained. Barbara has practiced martial arts since childhood and is a formidable fighter and gifted acrobat in her own right.

She has now struck out on her own, operating as a lone crime-fighter also carrying the famous Bat insignia. Though this annoys Batman, when their paths do occasionally cross, he will help her.

Barbara is aware that her alter-ego technically makes her a vigilante and if she is ever discovered it would ruin her father’s career, but she also sees the exceptional kind of criminal emerging in the world today needs an exceptional kind of response.

When Batman went missing from the Justice League along with the other senior members, Barbara heeded the call to form a new group – both to maintain global stability, and also perhaps to find out what happened to their seniors. She travelled to Washington under the pretense of an FBI Academy scholarship at Quantico. Her father was not happy that his daughter was still intent on studying forensics, but again there is a complex relationship here. If he knows of her alternate identity, he chooses not to acknowledge it, and a forensics course in Washington is a less-terrible reality for him to accept...