Who is Supergirl? Superman's cousin.

Who is Batgirl? Commissioner Gordon's daughter.

Who is Robin? Bruce Wayne's ward.

Now, people can argue whether there should be a Supergirl, Batgirl, or Robin but my issue was that the originals were eliminated and then it was determined that you had to have these characters, so you got replacements with convoluted origins. Supergirl was, for a while, the protoplasmic artificial lifeform created in a pocket universe who was then merged with a living girl and so on. Batgirl was the daughter of a trained assassin and so on. And who knows with Robin, there's been so many of them.

QUOTE: so you got replacements with convoluted origins.

To me, Batgirl has a Batgirl costume, gadgets and she solves crimes. I'll never understand why the how they came to be matters.

Looks like DC is getting serious, or trying to at least, in making sure deadlnies are kept

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Doesn't that go directly against what Didio told a fellow board member at a con within the last couple of years?

Ed: "DC repeatedly let creators take characters off the rail, kill off old ones to replace with new, sometimes PC namesakes, all the while fracturing their audience AND their brands."

I think trying to "fix" old characters leads to more convolution than simply introducing new characters in familiar roles. 

(And it's really bizarre having this debate with the DC characters given that the ones held up as the "real versions" in most cases aren't even the originals!  (See Batgirl, Hawkman, Flash, Green Lantern, Blue Beetle, etc., etc.)) 

I wonder why Barbara Gordon couldn't be Oracle AND Batgirl? Wouldn't being in a wheelchair be the best possible secret identity for Batgirl?

You could even do the Barbara as a teenager catching a bullet, she becomes Oracle while at the same time recovering from the bullet, but not letting anyone know, and training herself to become Batgirl.

Being shot by the Joker or whatever would certainly create the drive to establish both crime-fighting personaes.

Doesn't that go directly against what Didio told a fellow board member at a con within the last couple of years?

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I was that member, and he called me "naive" for thinking that editors should make creators stay on schedule.