YMMV / Batgirl (Rebirth)

• Audience-Alienating Era: While it certainly has its defenders, Cecil Castelucci's run is regarded by many fans to be a low point for the character, for reasons ranging from the shoehorned in relationship with Jason Bard, who due to certain actions he committed in this continuity has some Unfortunate Implications when paired with this version of Barbara that aren't fully addressed, a weak payoff to James Gordon Jr. where he unceremoniously commits suicide in the last issue and a hotly debated scene where Babs coldly brushes Dick off for actions committed by him when he was completely amnesiac and then brainwashed in his own Audience-Alienating Era as "Ric".
• Badass Decay: Barbara seemed to be going through it as early as issue #2, when she gets KO'd by one punch in an amateur MMA bout, after failing to land a single hit on her opponent. While Babs has always been one of the least skilled fighters in the Batfamily, she's by no means incompetent and has defeated multiple enemies at once on several occasions, even when she was going through her rough patch at the end of her previous series. Some are bothered not that she lost, but that she lost so easily.
• Base-Breaking Character: Kai in the "Beyond Burnside" arc. Either he was an exciting new potential love interest or he was yet another case of Remember the New Guy? in Barbara's life.
• Broken Base: Fan arguments about Barbara's new "Burnside" Batsuit carry over from her previous series to this one. Some readers love it, some wish she'd get a new suit.
• Growing the Beard: Reception over the "Summer of Lies" arc has been more positive than the first two arcs.
• Les Yay: A little between Barbara and Supergirl during their Lovely Angels team-up in the annual, when Kara gives Babs an overenthusiastic hug and they end up carrying each other bridal style on separate occasions.
• No Yay: The scene where Barbara and Jason Bard kissed elicited reactions like this, considering the way Jason became an asshole in Batman Eternal. That and he framed her father to be put in jail, detonated a bomb at a campaign rally, or when he killed a man in cold blood during a hostage negotiation.
• Strangled by the Red String: Readers were rather annoyed at Kai suddenly returning to Barbara's life to become a love interest. Less so with the "Son of Penguin" arc, due to its Dating Catwoman aspect.

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