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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: What led to the series dying almost immediately; as it turns out, taking a character who was light and hopeful and making a gritty, dark web series where she's nearly raped in the ''first episode'' is a great way to make the audience lose interest.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: What led to the series dying almost immediately; as it turns out, taking a character who was light and hopeful and making a gritty, dark web series where she's nearly raped in the ''first episode'' is a great way to make the audience lose interest.
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* BrokenBase: The AttemptedRape. Its either not a big deal and just a sign that the series is darker, or it absolutely ruined the first episode and was an example of the overuse of rape on female characters in superhero fiction.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Stephanie Brown, the long-suffering but upbeat EnsembleDarkhorse of the Bat Family, suffers an AttemptedRape and is subsequently rejected by the Bat Family. Suffice to say, once the first episode dropped, any interest in the show from her fanbase dropped ''immediately''.
* BrokenBase: The AttemptedRape.Its It's either not a big deal and just a sign that the series is darker, or it absolutely ruined the first episode and was [[GratuitousRape an example of the overuse of rape on female characters in superhero fiction.fiction]].
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: What led to the series dying almost immediately; as it turns out, taking a character who was light and hopeful and making a gritty, dark web series where she's nearly raped in the ''first episode'' is a great way to make the audience lose interest.
* OvershadowedByControversy: It's safe to say the series is ''mostly'' remembered for the AttemptedRape of an upbeat character and pretty much nothing else.
* UncertainAudience: Certainly; Stephanie Brown's fanbase had been getting kicked in the gut by canon for a while, so the fan series ''should'' have appealed to them, except the AttemptedRape and general gritty nature of the show was completely at odds with her [[Comicbook/Batgirl2009 Batgirl run]] and the kind of story her fanbase would ''want''. Meanwhile, the kind of audiences who'd be interested in a dark and edgy superhero fan series like this would probably not be interested in one about Batgirl, especially not the Batgirl who's market appeal is being cute and funny. This dissonance is likely why the series was cancelled almost immediately.
* BrokenBase: The AttemptedRape.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: What led to the series dying almost immediately; as it turns out, taking a character who was light and hopeful and making a gritty, dark web series where she's nearly raped in the ''first episode'' is a great way to make the audience lose interest.
* OvershadowedByControversy: It's safe to say the series is ''mostly'' remembered for the AttemptedRape of an upbeat character and pretty much nothing else.
* UncertainAudience: Certainly; Stephanie Brown's fanbase had been getting kicked in the gut by canon for a while, so the fan series ''should'' have appealed to them, except the AttemptedRape and general gritty nature of the show was completely at odds with her [[Comicbook/Batgirl2009 Batgirl run]] and the kind of story her fanbase would ''want''. Meanwhile, the kind of audiences who'd be interested in a dark and edgy superhero fan series like this would probably not be interested in one about Batgirl, especially not the Batgirl who's market appeal is being cute and funny. This dissonance is likely why the series was cancelled almost immediately.
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* BrokenBase: The AttemptedRape. Its either not a big deal and just a sign that the series is darker, or it absolutely ruined the first episode and was an example of the overuse of rape on female characters in superhero fiction.
