The developer of Gotham Knights has revised the backstory for Batgirl after fans criticized the game for using harmful disability tropes. In the comics, Batgirl is shot in the spine by Joker and is then largely seen in a wheelchair. Depending on the version of the character, she becomes Oracle, Batman’s eyes and ears while he’s in the field. She is able to use her technical wiz to be a major asset to Batman without getting into combat. Batgirl’s biography in Gotham Knights indicates she was critically injured in some sort of fight, though it’s unclear with who. The biography noted she was able to return to active duty as Batgirl after training, something some fans took issue with as it’s not as easy as doing some training to recover from a critical injury that places someone into a wheelchair. This has been seen as a harmful trope throughout media and it seems Warner Bros. is aware of this.
