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Warning - Spoilers for Batgirls # 6 before !
When it amount to braveness , Batgirland the rest of Gotham ’s heroes have it in spades , often fighting against the very bad humanity has to offer . However , Batgirl has become so enured to fear over the years that it ’s not just admirable , it ’s heroic . And if theGreen LanternCorps exist up to its entry criteria , Barbara Gordon should be the next to abide the ring .
Batgirl ’s power to overwhelm fear is the key constituent here , as the main making used by the Green Lantern Corps in plunk military recruit is “ the power to overcome expectant fear . ” This is quite genuine , even to the degree that the power rings expend this accurate idiom when they present themselves to new candidates . Given thatScarecrow ’s fear toxinforces someone to face their very bad incubus , the fact that Barbara could be give away to any sexually transmitted disease and be wholly unmoved would indicate that she meets all the touchstone and then some .
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InBatgirls # 6by Becky Cloonan , Michael W. Conrad , Jorge Corona , and Sarah Stern , Barbara Gordon has been enchant by a newly redesigned villain – Spellbinder , an creative person with a penchant for mind control . When he attempt to subdue Barbara with his special strain of fright toxin , however , nothing happens . or else ofrevealing her greatest awe , Barbara effortlessly take him down , rejoin “ I ’ve faced so much worse than any imagination from your toxic gas will ever be … and as for awe , I thrive on defeat it . ”
This is n’t the first prison term the Bat - family has shown their compatibility with the rings of the Emotional Spectrum , either . Batman has already require a Green Lantern ringinGreen Lantern Vol . # 9by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver , where he conjured up image of his parent . There ’s even precedency for Barbara to wear the annulus as well : in Stephanie Brown ’s vision fromBatgirl # 24by Bryan Q. Miller and Pere Perez , we see what a Green Lantern Barbara Gordon might look like , with her using an energy - concept mechsuit to push .
Given all of this evidence , it ’s surprising that there have n’t been more stories ofBat - Family members becoming Lanterns . With Barbara Gordon having demonstrated the willpower to overcome reverence time and metre again , it ’s about time that she be give a opportunity to essay the band herself . Now that she ’s at the point where even fear toxin is unable to affect her , it ’s clear thatBatgirlhas more than try out she ’s quick to be aGreen Lantern .
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Batgirls # 6is now available from DC Comics .
