They should make Barbara around Bruce's age again. It works better.
>>150967337She was never really around Bruce's age, not in the comics. When Barbara was introduced Batman was an ambiguously aged adult male and Robin was a high school junior. Two years later Robin was sent off to college and Batman got the penthouse era youthful makeover.The first time any ages were officially established was during the Batman Family era. Babs was a 25 year old congresswoman, Dick was her 18 year old intern, and Bruce was the older brother/father figure who wanted them to fuck already.
>>150967337You just want to show up saying such crap and expect people to accept it. It worked so well that the character was discarded.Just like the second Robin.
>>150967893Batgirl only lasted as through the 70s because they made her Robin's supporting character. When he went off to Titans she had nothing left to do.
>>150967811They didn't list a direct age but she was older than a boomer.
>>150967811Was she still explicitly DR. Barbara Gordon as a Senator, though?
>>150968519Possibly. That's from 1971. The Batman characters stayed the same age for literally the entire decade. At 25 she'd be a silent/boomer cusper.But also in that era they had the peaceniks call all the establishment superhero types old and square. Shelley isn't that young. At least, she's old enough to live by herself in a shitty walk-up.
>>150970100Hippies were the children of elites, same as it ever was. Parents paying for the pad.
>>150967337>>150967811If they kept the age gap then Barbara would've been in her 30s a while ago. I think Dick's been in his mid 20s for a long time now. At some point the editors got really possessive of Dick and wanting him to be with Barbara so they aged him up without doing that to her and then erased their age gap over the years. Otherwise she'd definitely would be fucking Bruce at some point in the comics. Timm would've loved that.
>>150967337Younger than Bruce, older than Dick
>>150967337She should be a loli
>>150970413They didn't age him up, they aged her down.
>>150972762It was both. Dick was getting older while everyone else stayed around the same age. That's what comics do for a lot of kid and teen characters. They just age them up until they catch up with the others. But then they started making Barbara younger so that she was getting closer to Dick's age and then in a flashback during Taylor's run they explicitly made Dick and Barbara the same age.
>>150967337Fuck off Bruce Timm.
>>150970413You've got it wrong.They de-aged Batgirl after COIE because they felt she was too old to be called a "girl". So they had her graduate high school at 15, breeze through undergrad and grad school, and use some fictional legislative exception to be a young congresswoman.Dick aged in the Titans completely unrelated to Batgirl. He turned 20 during COIE and was confirmed 21 during a Deathstroke crossover. He was at least 21, maybe 22, when they pulled him back into the Batman franchise.Then Zero Hour happened. They got rid of Barbara's time as a congresswoman.THEN Dixon put Dick and Babs together.
>>150967337How old is Bruce supposed to be?Like main continuity.
>>150973124Babs was de-aged twice in relation to Dick. Pre-crisis there was a 7 year gap. Babs was de-aged 5 years after COIE then 2 years after Infinite Crisis.>>150973534They never give an official age but most fans assume he's early 40s.
>>150973534It varies from decade to decade, writer to writer. Back when Batgirl was introduced, Bob Haney wrote him as a guy in his 40s, having helped Sgt Rock in his early 20s during WW2.
>>150973534Currently in his 40s. Pre-Crisis he was supposed to be Early 30s.
>>150967337she literally describes herself as a girl and one rebelling against her dad in this excerpt youre posting like its some kind of smoking gun. Fucking retard. 'GIRL' as in lesser than a woman. Not a peer with an adult.
>>150973939Like I said >>150973935
>>150973966OP shouldn't have used a cropped page. She' had a phD, an adult woman with a job.
>>150973966Powergirl still refers to herself as girl and she's anything but that. Goddamn, what a woman.
>>150973526>use some fictional legislative exception to be a young congresswomanDC really wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
>>150973998You know you can get a PhD at any age, right?https://apnews.com/article/teen-phd-doctorate-arizona-faabf1ca930f141f6a9690419d7a2b47
>>150967337Oh hi Bruce
>>150974144She was not a child prodigy see >>150968519 with a college student referring to her as an older woman. Plus she was also old enough to run for Congress, the special exception retcon came later. When they introduced her to post-crisis continuity her own narration had her calling Dick too young for her, preferring Batman.
What are your guys' ideal ages for the bat family? For me it's>Batrman - 38>Alfred - 63>Selina - 33>Dick - 24>Babs - 25>Jason - Dead but would be 20>Tim - 16>Damian - 12
>>150974299All 100
>>150967337A Babsgirl thread? Nice, definitely need a break from the latest Batgirl vs Oracle arguments on social media. Anything new going on with Babs?
>>150974994Nothing that isn't a continuation of what they've been doing for awhile now.
>>150974282When they introduced her to post-crisis continuity Batman called her a child and told her to go home. She ignored the boy 2 years her junior to lust over the man over a decade her senior.Women.
>>150975065That’s disappointing. Guess I’ll just hope they don’t cripple her again.
>>150975547As much as I'd love to see the internet slapfight that would result, I don't think that even DC is stupid enough to cripple her again.
>>150974994Isn't she getting a new solo book in 2026?
>>150975547Why would she get crippled from a random explosion, when she was able to shrug off shit like skyscrapers falling on her head?
>>150976553Honestly kind of surprising they didn’t straight-up use Oracle for the title. Hope that means she’ll get to suit up. Wonder who the creative team’s going to be?
>>150967811>Older women looked pretty good when I was your age, kidSilver Age Bruce was the hero this board needs
Does Barbara have a fat ass?
>>150976681Your rumored creative team....I don't know who those people are.
>>150974299Damian is currently 15 afair
>>150976902The fattest.
>>150974299Doesn’t Bruce recruit Dick when he’s 8? That means Bruce would have become Batman when he was about 21-20, assuming he recruits Dick after just a year as Batman. A 21 year old Batman doesn’t sit right with me, he should at least be 24-25 during Year One
Man. All of this silliness just to solve The Starfire Problem.
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>>150968519>>150974282i see people a lot of time using these panels as proof that Babs is an older woman but I'm pretty sure this story establishes that Babs is under the minimum age requirement of being a U.S. senator so under 30.
>>150976930Doesn’t seem to be him.
Shouldn’t be surprised since Birds of Prey was cancelled, but absolutely nothing for Babs in the most recent solicits.
>>150976580Plot>>150976681That makes too much sense. Just do random bullshit.
>>150979364She was a Representative, not a Senator. You only need to be 25 to be a Rep.
