"Come on, now. I’m sure you did something at work."
— Commissioner Jim Gordon
Barbara Gordon/Batgirl I / Oracle catches up with her father over coffee and tells him what she did yesterday. Mostly.
Tropes
- A Day in the Limelight: This is an episode focused on Barbara Gordon and it is told from her point of view.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Damian quickly pleads with Babs to override the controls on the Batmobile, but it’s futile.
- Batter Up!: Barbara's "workout" consisted of using a baseball bat to beat up an attacker.
- Blatant Lies: When Babs asks Damian what the note on the Batmobile reads, he fibs. Barbara clearly already knows what the note says, so his effort to lie is utterly useless.Babs: Batman left very clear instructions, Robin. Did you not see the very clear instructions?Note: Damian, you are still too young to drive the Batmobile.Damian: It’s ambiguous.
- Exact Words: Commissioner Gordon doesn't know that his daughter is Oracle. Thus, Babs has to use this trope to tell him about her day without revealing her alias.
- Handicapped Badass: True to character, Babs was able to defeat a man despite being paralyzed.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: After mixing up the banks, almost letting the robbers get away with it, Tim tells Stephanie Brown/Spoiler “Not a word to Batman”. Steph replies “Duh.”
- Locked Out of the Loop: Jim seems to be unaware of his daughter’s double life.
- Metaphorically True: Babs isn’t lying when she recounts yesterday, but she is leaving out a lot.
- Mission Control: As Oracle, Babs serves as this to the Bat Family, acting as both surveillance and a provider of knowledge.
- Seen It All: Jim has according to his introduction text box.
- Working the Same Case: Gordon tells Barbara that his day included a couple of vigilantes stopping a bank robbery, which, unbeknownst to him, was the same event she referred to as helping some people with directions.
