Stephanie Brown (DC)

Spoiler in Batman Eternal v1 #24.

Stephanie Brown is a female comic superhero that features in DC Comics.

Biography

Origin

Spoiler in Robin v4 #4.

Batgirl

Batgirl Stephanie Brown in Batgirl v3 #15.

The New 52

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of history was created with a different series of events.

Stephanie ultimately decided that the life of Batman ultimately brought tragedy to both his allies and Gotham with her attempting to force him to retire. When he refused, she left the team and decided that until he did then she would be opposing him. (Detective Comics v1 #947)

Notes

• Stephanie Brown was created by Chuck Dixon and Tom Lyle where she made her first appearance in Detective Comics v1 #647 (August, 1992).
• The character later appeared as Spoiler in Detective Comics v1 #648 (September, 1992).
• She for a time appeared as Robin in Robin v1 #126 (July, 2004).
• Stephanie later returned as Batgirl in Batgirl v2 #1 (August, 2009).
• She returned in the post-Flashpoint universe in the Batman: Eternal v1 storyline where she became Spoiler again.
• On Comic Book Legends, writer Bill Willingham stated that, "“I knew coming into the Robin series that Spoiler was doomed to die. And I wouldn’t have done that, but that was already locked in even before I came on Robin, so I had no point at which to say you shouldn’t do this. But, I did I have this hair-brained idea that, well, if she was going to die — she was such a frustrated character…I mean, everything she wanted out of life she pretty much didn’t get. So, can we give her one little reward before she dies and let her become Robin for awhile. There was a nice spike in sales during that time and I wish her death hadn’t been so as locked in because when it started going really well, what I would have liked to have said was ‘let’s follow this for awhile.’ That was not available as an option and you can’t really do it twice…now let’s have a character that we don’t plan on killing do a female version of Robin taking the reins. You do that same stunt over and over again. We had that momentum once, we lost it."

In other media

Television

• In Young Justice: Invasion, Stephanie Brown made her first animated debut in the episode "Before the Dawn" where she was voiced by actor Mae Whitman. She was civilian that was among several that had been abducted by the Mantamen who were led by Tigress on behalf of the Reach but was later rescued from the alien ship by the Team.

Appearances

• Detective Comics v1:
• Robin:
• Batgirl:
• Batman Eternal v1:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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