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Cassandra Cain had been raised by her father, notorious assassin David Cain, in complete language deprivation. She was never spoken to or taught to speak or read, and as such became adept at interpreting body language, able to deduce complex thoughts and emotions from minute movements. This made her an almost unmatchable fighter, since she could predict where you would strike before you began to move, but also made her completely unable to communicate with other people. When her father had her commit her first murder ([[Harmful to Minors|at the age of six]]), she read the victims dying spasms and understood the horror of killing, and ran away. She wound up in Gotham during the "No Man's Land," when the city had been damaged by an earthquake and formally severed from support or authority of the United State government, and received tutoring and care from Oracle (Barbara Gordon), who had been the ''first'' Batgirl before she was crippled. When they learned of her history, Oracle and Batman adopted her into the Bat-Family and gave her a costume as Batgirl.

* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Cass once wore Barbara's original Batgirl costume in the hopes that it would help her understand why people reacted to her as they did. She looked beautiful in it (As Robin would not stop commenting), but the high-heels proved horribly impractical to fight in, and she tripped while fighting a pair of common muggers. Even Barbara admits that they were a horrible idea, and she explains that she should have done away with them and worn simple boots instead.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Cass is the darkest of all the Bat characters, wearing a costume of ''solid'' black the includes a full-face mask, and frequently terrifies the people she meets even more than Batman. However, she is the one most dedicated to [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|not killing]], and is just as helpful and well-meaning as all the other heroes.

{{quote| '''Cassandra''': Uh-oh. Kill shot. Nothing I can do. Guess I could still... spit on her face.}}

* [[The Empath]]: Non-psychic example: her body-reading skill is so great she can sense what other people are feeling.