"Fixing" Oracle
So, there've been recent discussions going on in comics fandom over whether or not DC should let Booster Gold go back in time and retcon the events of The Killing Joke so that Barbara Gordon never gets shot and paralyzed. I haven't been participating at all since I don't really have much of an interest in most comics, Western or Eastern, but this, unsurprisingly, piqued my curiosity. Most of the debate that I've seen has centered around whether or not what happened to her fits the trope of "Women in Refrigerators", whether said trope is overinvoked, whether or not 'fixing' the events and letting her continue to be Batgirl is worth sacrificing her character development and role as Oracle (not to mention simultaneously retconning about a million other character's storylines), whether your "classic" version of a character should be called the "original" even if they had a predecessor or not, etc...
And in the middle of it, someone points out: Also, I think changing it would detract from DC's one prominent disabled character whose disability doesn't have anything to do with their "powers".
So, here's some actual data on that:
( Disability in Comics, according to Wikipedia )
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