In this revised continuity, James Gordon and Barbara Eileen are shown to be Batgirl's biological parents.They have Detective McKenna place Gretel in custody, and Barbara wonders if they weren't so different after all. Her next move is to have brainwashed police officers assassinate Bruce Wayne during a public speech, but Batgirl teams up with Batman to take her down. They discover that Gretel was an undercover reporter who gained mental powers after the Whittaker Mob shot her in the head. Barbara realizes that Bruce is faking mind control for the witnesses, and finds a way to shut Gretel down. Gretel forces a group of criminals called the Whittaker Mob to kill each other, then makes Bruce Wayne a homicidal maniac. Detective Mel McKenna is put in charge of hunting down Batgirl by Commissioner Gordon. īatgirl next has to deal with a mind-controlling super-villain named Gretel who appears to be mentally ill. During their fight she uses the mirrors to make him examine himself by projecting news clippings of his accident, then incapacitates him by breaking his face.
Leaving a message on his family's gravestone, she leads him to a house of mirrors at an abandoned carnival. Nightwing visits and shows concern from her loved ones that she might push herself back into the chair, but she insists she must do this alone and makes him leave. Mirror's next victim is caught in an explosion on the subway, which Batgirl tries but fails to stop. Believing that life is a burden, he seeks out those whose lives were saved and puts things right in his mind by murdering them. He escapes, and she chases him to a cemetery where she realizes that he's the survivor of a terrible fire that killed his family. In the hospital afterwards, one of her perpetrators is slaughtered by a super-villain calling himself The Mirror who then turns his guns on her. Her first case involves taking down a group of serial murderers called the Brisby Killers, who she easily dispatches. Having made a massive recovery, she is longer confined to a wheelchair and decides to move out of her father Commissioner Gordon's house. Barbara Gordon returns to her role as Batgirl, finally able to walk again after being crippled by the Joker.
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