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** Bette Kane, who had at that point had been PutOnABus at the start of the Rebirth run of Detective Comics, was planned to make an appearance in ''ComicBook/Batgirls''. The run's cancellation meant to never came to fruition.

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** Bette Kane, who had at that point had been PutOnABus at the start of the Rebirth run of Detective Comics, was planned to make an appearance in ''ComicBook/Batgirls''.''ComicBook/{{Batgirls}}''. The run's cancellation meant to never came to fruition.
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** Bette Kane, who had at that point had been PutOnABus at the start of the Rebirth run of Detective Comics, was planned to make an appearance in ''ComicBook/Batgirls''. The run's cancellation meant to never came to fruition.
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** At the start of the Pre-Crisis Continuity, Barbara was made the first Batgirl. This caused a bit of complications due to Bette being a member of the Titans West. As a result, Wolfman decided to retcon away her times as Batgirl with her participation in the formation of the Titans West being under the mantle of "Flamebird". Bette's history as Batgirl eventually came back with ComicBook/YoungJustice and ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison.''

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* ExiledFromContinuity: The apparent reason as to why Cassandra Cain didn't appear in the New 52 for a long while. Harper Row was her "replacement".

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* ExiledFromContinuity: The apparent reason as to why ExiledFromContinuity:
** In the wake of DC's ''ComicBook/New52'' reboot, former Batgirls [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000
Cassandra Cain didn't appear Cain]] and [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] have been declared off-limits by editorial. Creator/GailSimone pitched a team book that would have starred Stephanie, Bumblebee, Misfit, and Black Alice, but it was not approved, and Steph was subsequently pulled from a scheduled guest appearance in the New ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' comic. Meanwhile, Cass has not been seen or mentioned in ''[[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman Inc]]'', despite the fact that she was one of Bruce's agents (as well as the Batman of China) in the pre-New 52 for a long while. volume.
** Creator/ScottSnyder and Creator/GrantMorrison also have mentioned wanting to use them, but being barred. Those two are also bunched with Donna Troy and pre-New 52 Wally West in the exiled club. This also led to the creation of
Harper Row by Scott Snyder, who was her "replacement".created to be a {{Expy}} of Cass after he was barred from using her.
** Stephanie finally turned up in a cameo in 2014 in ''Batman'' #28, and later as a newly debuted Spoiler in ComicBook/BatmanEternal. Donna Troy (or at least some version of her) was introduced in Meredith & David Finch's run on Wonder Woman. Cassandra returned in ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobinEternal'', while Wally returned in ''ComicBook/DCRebirth''.
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* CreatorsPest: Despite their popularity amongst readers and writers, during the 2000s and 2010s, DC higher-ups and editorial have an open disdain for Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown, ''especially'' Creator/DanDiDio, who outright calls them "toxic" in one interview and would [[ExiledFromContinuity remove them altogether]] when he rebooted the DCU under the ComicBook/New52 (granted, he dislikes most {{Legacy Character}}s in general, so it wasn’t just them). This is allegedly because DC higher-ups prefer Barbara Gordon to be the only Batgirl, unlike the Robins (which was the case even before Cass' creation, as unlike Robin, DC had no plans on anyone taking up the Batgirl mantle after Babs retired the mantle and was paralyzed by The Joker in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', with Cass' creators — Kelley Puckett and Damion Scott — having to fight editorial to have her take up the mantle). This is why they're [[AdaptedOut frequently left out]] of most adaptations, as DC higher-ups have effectively prohibited them from being featured outside of comics.

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