Gail Simone [On Barbara Gordon as Oracle]

Oh so that’s explains why she was kidnapped, thrown from her chair and gripped on the side of a dam, clinging on for her dear life (In a story that you, Simone, wrote!). And why she was attacked in her own home (a “ lofty tower”) by assassins sent by R’as al Ghul, which she defeated single handedly from the confines of her chair. Because she was removed from action and danger.

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And that time she was thrown out of her clock tower and climbed back into it. And that time she left it to lead a team to save Dinah. And that time it was blown up.

I could go on, but you know what? Barbara doesn’t have to face physical threats to be in danger anyway.

“She risks physical danger. And your heart is endangered for sending her there.” - Ted Kord, Birds of Prey 2

As for not being in the action? That’s a pretty narrow definition of action, Simone. Barbara may not be out on the field, but she needs to react and direct in real time, and those are life and death decisions.

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