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i wanna grow up to be her 

Batgirl #13

[goatsghost]

cass: i support men’s rights. men’s rights to shut the fuck up

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cinematic 

Batgirl #16

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🥀🌹

Batgirl #17

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Batgirl #23

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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Batgirl #25-26

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Batgirl #45

[lisasnarts]

I don’t kill… but I don’t lose, either.

[vincekris]

Giacomo C

[cassandracaine]

Cassandra Cain in Detective Comics #1049

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Batgirl #47

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Batgirl #48

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Batgirl #58

[mareena]

Here is a list of every appearance of Cassandra Cain as Batgirl in chronological order (that I can think of):

Bolded are Cass’s solo titles. Italicized are AUs.

Batman (Volume 1) #567

Batman: No Man’s Land Gallery 

Detective Comics (Volume 1) #734

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #120

Batman (Volume 1) #569

Batman Chronicles #18 

Catwoman (Volume 2) #72

Azrael: Agent of the Bat #56-57

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #124

Batman: No Man’s Land Secret Files & Origins

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #92

Azrael: Agent of the Bat #60-61

Detective Comics (Volume 1) #741

Batman: Gotham City Secret Files & Origins

Batman: Gotham Knights #2

Batgirl (Volume 1) #1-4 

Batman: Gotham Knights #5

Azrael: Agent of the Bat #66

Batgirl Annual (Volume 1) #1

Batgirl (Volume 1) #5 

Batman: Outlaws Volume 2 1-3*

Batgirl (Volume 1) #6-10*

Batman Volume #586 

Batgirl (Volume 1) #11 

Birds of Prey Volume 1 #27

Catwoman Volume 2 #90

Batgirl (Volume 1) #12-18

Harley Quinn Volume 1 #10-11

Batman Volume 1 #594

Batgirl (Volume 1) #19

Harley Quinn Volume 1 #12 

Batgirl (Volume 1) #20-21

Batman: Orpheus Rising #3

Joker: Last Laugh #1

Batman (Volume 1) #597 

Batgirl (Volume 1) #22

Batman: Orpheus Rising #5

Batgirl (Volume 1) #23-24 

Batman (Volume 1) #600

Batgirl (Volume 1) #25-28

DC First: Batgirl/Joker #1

Batgirl Secret Files & Origins #1

Batgirl (Volume 1) #29

Batman (Volume 1) #605

Batgirl (Volume 1) #30-31 

Batman: Gotham Knights #33 

Batgirl (Volume 1) #31-33 

Batman: Family #2

Batman: Gotham Knights #35

Batgirl (Volume 1) #34

Batman: Family #6-8

Batman: Gotham Knights #36

Batman: Shadow of Tomorrow (Video Game)

Batgirl (Volume 1) #35-40

Nightwing (Volume 2) #81 

Batman: Gotham Knights #42

Birds of Prey: Secret Files & Origins #1

Batgirl (Volume 1) #41-44

Batman: Gotham Knights #45-46

Batman: City of Light #1-2*

Batgirl (Volume 1) #45-46*

Birds of Prey (Volume 1) #61

Batman: Gotham Knights #48

Batman: City of Light #3

Batgirl (Volume 1) #47 

Batman: Gotham Knights #49

Birds of Prey #63

Detective Comics (Volume 1) #790 

Batman: City of Light #4-8*

Batgirl (Volume 1) #48-54*

Detective Comics (Volume 1) #796-797*

Batman (Volume 1) #631-633*

Batman: Gotham Knights #56-57*

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #182-184*

Nightwing (Volume 2) #98*

Detectice Comics #799*

Batgirl v1 (Volume 1) #55-58*

Batman (Volume 1) #635*

Batgirl (Volume 1) #59-64

Batman Allies Secret Files & Origins #1

Batgirl (Volume 1) #55-73

Countdown #36 

Batman & the Outsiders (Volume 2) #2-6 

Gotham Underground #7

Batman & the Outsiders (Volume 2) #2-12*

Batgirl (Volume 2) 1-4*

Batman (Volume 1) #683

Batgirl (Volume 2) #5-6* 

Batman & the Outsiders (Volume 2) #13-14*

Gotham Underground #9

Batman (Volume 1) #686

Batman: Battle for the Cowl #1

Battle for the Cowl: The Network #1

Batman: Battle for the Cowl #3

Batgirl v3 #1

Tiny Titans #33, 39, 43 & 45

Batman: Orphans #2

DC Universe Online (Video Game)

Batgirl: Future’s End #1

*ran simultaneously with adjacent title(s)

If you know of anything else let me know and I’ll add it! Enjoy :)

[getouttaherebatman]

i know Cass is written by a lot of people as the heart of the family with all this emotional sensitivity but i'd like to remind everyone that she is, canonically, an absolute shit-stirrer.

(ID in alt text)

[fantastic-nonsense]

all this discussion about extrajudicial murder and vigilantes killing is making me once again think about Cass Cain breaking a man on death row out of prison because "no one dies tonight...no one" and then having an existential crisis on the nature of "murderers" and their ability to change after encountering the victim's mother, and what her opinion on 'what justice for murderers looks like' means for Cass as someone who has killed

[fantastic-nonsense]

@karlyanalora it's more or less the end of the story, since it's a oneshot. Cass unhappily returns the man to prison, where he's executed (with his last words being "I'm not ready!").

The larger point of the story (and why it was written at all) was that it was an interesting exploration of Cass's trauma and how her past informs her actions in the present: this execution was scheduled to happen on the same day that her own childhood kill took place (note the 8/8 zoom in on the panelset depicting Cass's murder in my original post):

"And so tonight, August 8th, in Upstate Gotham, barring action from the President of the United States himself...Billy Ray Blackwell dies at midnight." -Batgirl (2000) #19

Cass was basically on a one-woman mission to make sure no one in Gotham died that day because she was stuck reliving the guilt of the murder she committed; she stopped an armed robbery, stopped cops from shooting criminals, and then broke into the prison to keep Blackwell from dying. It was less about Blackwell himself or anything he'd done and more about Cass's overwhelming guilt regarding her murder of Faizul as a child and her refusal to allow anyone to die when she had the power to save them, especially on the anniversary of the murder.

She actually pretty clearly makes this delineation in the issue itself:

"You...springing me?" "No." "Then...what?" "Nobody...dies..."

She's fundamentally traumatized from her actions as a child to the point where she swung to the extreme opposite end of the spectrum and basically decided that 'no one dies no matter what they've done.' However, that doesn't mean she thinks murderers should walk free...and ultimately when the woman asks Cass to put him back into the execution chamber, she's forced to decide between dealing with her own guilt and personal trauma and the reality of "people can change but their victims still deserve justice, which in some peoples' eyes (including the justice system) looks like the death penalty." She chooses to allow the execution to go forward, but she's obviously not happy about it:

Cass views wearing the symbol and being Batgirl as her redemption story: she has to believe that murderers can change their stripes for the sake of her own sanity, or she wouldn't be able to live with herself as someone who has killed another person. So when that smashes against the sometimes difficult realities of justice, restitution, and vengeance, it forces her to grapple with difficult moral questions like "how far should you go (and how far do you need to go) to prevent someone from dying? Is simply not killing enough, or do you have to actively prevent killing under any circumstance?" and "What is the proper punishment and restitution for someone who has killed another person?"

We ultimately don't get an answer in this issue, though it's explored and at least halfway answered on several occasions throughout her Batgirl solo. What we're instead left with is a dead man and the image of the sad, traumatized girl who tried to save him (when she had no obligation or reason to) simply because she thinks even murderers are worth saving (even she's worth saving) and no one should die if another person has the power to prevent it.

[fantastic-nonsense]

all this discussion about extrajudicial murder and vigilantes killing is making me once again think about Cass Cain breaking a man on death row out of prison because "no one dies tonight...no one" and then having an existential crisis on the nature of "murderers" and their ability to change after encountering the victim's mother, and what her opinion on 'what justice for murderers looks like' means for Cass as someone who has killed