Nope. Because Batman is one of the big name characters, and he tends to remain the same.
DC/Warner Brothers have a lot of money riding on the fact that Batman is pretty much the same guy from year to year and decade to decade.
Batgirl, on the other hand, is a half-baked Batman knock-off.

Just to see how he would do it.

why?....in two years she'll have been oracle for as long as she was batgirl...i think it might be time for the "one true batgirl" crowd to move on...no one calls for dick to go back to being robin (aside from danlarkin above)...what's the difference?

"Was it insulting to real people who use wheelchairs when globe-trotting, wheelchair user Bruce Wayne had his mobility restored and became Batman again?"

Yes. It absolutely was. I've said on numerous occasions that both Batman and Iron Man's debilitating spinal injuries were extremely poor editorial decisions, and the subsequent reversals of those were in very poor taste. You might disagree with the position, but at least I'm consistent.

Was it insulting to real people who use wheelchairs when globe-trotting, wheelchair user Bruce Wayne had his mobility restored and became Batman again?

No, it's not realistic for Babs to regain her mobility, but she exists in an unrealistic world where male characters recover similar and worse injuries all the time. DC looks terribly sexist for leaving her in the chair

Not only is Oracle much more interesting that Batgirl ever was as a character, she fills a niche in the universe that isn't filled by... oh, I dunno, a couple dozen other nonpowered crimefighters in the DCU (some of whom are even women wearing bat symbols).

That's where I disagree with the people saying the Barbara Batgirl was "just another action heroine" ... BUT, if she became Batgirl again now, she'd have to lose all the innocence, since she HAS seen so much of the dark side of life by now. That's why I'd advocate bringing in the Batgirl of the altenate Earth that's permanently stuck in the Silver Age (you know there is one) or something.

Or give her a Green Lantern ring, like in that one Elseworlds where all the men died. That would be cool.

Bite. Your. Tongue. Kelly Puckett/Damion Scott's stint on the Batgirl comic is probably one of my favorite runs of all time. Cassandra is definitely the cooler Batgirl. Although I'll agree that Babs as Batgirl is more marketable.

Yeah, if I could reboot everything, absolutely. Robin is a cooler character than Nightwing. Babs as Batgirl is a lot cooler than stupid ninja bondage Batgirl, and a tad cooler than Oracle too (though I enjoy Oracle as a character).

But since a full-on reboot isn't going to happen, it's preferable to keep things as they are, I guess.

1. If they insist on using her as Batgirl in the form of cartoons, toys, comics, etc. then she should absolutely regain the ability to walk. A consistent form of the published mainstream character is, I strongly believe, essential.

2. If they want Cassandra to be Batgirl then stand by her and merchandize her. It'll take a while but until John Q. Public can start indentifying Batgirl as Cassandra I think they actually hurt her by making her compete with the classic version.

I like to believe we can have it both ways but the pragmatic side of me says no way.

The one being asked is, "Should Barbara Gordon regain her mobility?" My answer is, "Yes, at the same time everyone else does." Real-world technologies dealing with nerve damage and spinal injuries are moving at an unbelievably rapid pace, and it's entirely possible that within a decade, the idea of a character who's wheelchair-bound for life will be as dated in fiction as a typewriter or a rotary phone. If people in the real world are recovering from similar injuries, Babs should too. She shouldn't be confined to the wheelchair simply as a plot kludge. But I don't want to see a "miracle cure" fixing her spine when so many people in the real world still don't have that option.

The one everyone's answering is, "Should she stay Oracle?" That's a complex one for me. On the one hand, Oracle is a unique and interesting take on superheroics, and the Birds of Prey set-up makes for a great storytelling engine because of it. There aren't many superheroes that co-ordinate their activities with a "central command" figure, and it would be a shame to lose that.

On the other hand, Oracle's been used as a crutch for so many lazy writers that I'd love to see that particular trick go away. Nobody in the DCU is ever surprised by a supervillain any more, and nobody ever does legwork. They all just call Oracle up on their perfect-reception built-into-the-costume cell-phone, and Oracle tells them everything they need to know off-panel so the writer doesn't have to bother with all that pesky "exposition" that all the fans probably already know anyway. (And if they don't already know everything about every supervillain in the DCU, what are they doing reading our comics?)

So I'm divided. Oracle is a good character, but her existence in the DCU is problematic. And frankly, after reading 'Showcase Presents Batgirl', I have a much bigger fondness for that incarnation of the character than I once did. An athletic female superhero? Dime a dozen. An athletic female superhero who's also a Congresswoman? Now that's cool.

(Obviously, a talented author could probably tell a good story about Barbara Gordon becoming Batgirl again, but I think the result of that would be a less promising toy than Oracle for subsequent writers to play with.)

Pity its not very good though. Where Moore got the "let's start laughing inanely at a bad gag" thing at the end from, instead of the more logical "now i'm going to punch you in the face until it turns to mush" approach I'll never know. I mean, what are we supposed to expect happened after those final few panels?

"haha..oh, hahaha. you crack me up."

"yeah. pity about the chick i crippled though."

(wipes tears from eyes)

"......oh yeah, forgot about that. Well....the gag was still funny though."

It's like one of those endings to an 80s cartoon where everyone is standing around laughing, except even less realistic.

Maybe DC is treating Alan Moore as one of its sacred cows, but, why not? The Killing Joke was a popular story, adn if there's one thing comics need more of, is respect for stories that manage to change the status quo.

Have a good day.
John Cage