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At some point the choices that writers, artists, and editorial make become the character. I have Gail Simone mocking me (http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1172528.html?thread=34584624#t34584624) for arguing over the years that someone with Barbara's intelligence and technological base should be like other characters from anime, TV, and DC Comics who use cybernetics to overcome physical handicaps. I've been arguing this since 2004, and since then I've seen Barbara throwaway an alien nanite cure (Brainac) and seen the Calculator master an alien nanite cure (Kilg%re). I've seen Oracle go from this person (http://profnano.org/andy/misc/img/jlac14_1.jpg) to this person (http://profnano.org/andy/misc/img/tp_oracle.jpg). After all that, I'm no longer capable of seeing Oracle as the tech queen of the DCU; rather, I see her the same kind of character as Hal Jordan, someone we're supposed to like simply because the writers want us to, with no supporting reason.

I'm sorry if it makes you uncomfortable, but I do want bad things to happen to her, the same way I want them to happen to Green Arrow, Hal Jordan, Ezekial Stane, and other characters I don't like...because that's schadenfreude.